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-351- Slander of Aisha (RA) [REVISITED (3)]
SLANDER OF AISHA (RA)
by Shaikh Abdullah Faisal
06.30.2012 (Evening Dars)
NOTES typed by AT21
Edited and Formatted by AT21 and AT7
This story was mentioned in Qur'an and Sunnah
-and came when Sahabah migrated from Makkah to Madina
-this was a great fitna for the Prophet (SAW) because his family was slandered
-this hurt the entire family
Allah said when He (SWT) loves you; He (SWT) tests you
-the more He (SWT) loves you, the more He (SWT) tests you
-so the pious are tested more than others
ALLAH 'tala has the ability to make a bad situation become good
-such as when Yusuf's brothers dumped him into the well
-but eventually he saved Egypt from starvation
-THE SATANIC VERSES (a book by Salman Rushdie)
-the writer sought fame and fortune but through his book, many reverted to Islam
The Rasool (SAW) cast lots when he was going on a journey;
-whichever wife's name came up, he took on the journey
-Aisha's name came up so he took her on the journey to the Battle of Banu Mustaliq
Narrated By 'Aisha: Whenever the Prophet intended to proceed on a journey, he used to draw lots amongst his wives and would take the one upon whom the lot fell. Once, before setting out for Jihad, he drew lots amongst us and the lot came to me; so I went with the Prophet; and that happened after the revelation of the Verse Hijab (i.e. veiling). [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 4, Book 52, Hadith #130]
LESSONS FROM THE SLANDER OF AISHA (RA)
1. THE RASOOL (SAW) DIDN'T SHOW FAVORITISM
2. A WOMAN IS ALLOWED TO GO TO BATTLEFIELD IF SHE HAS PERMISSION OF AMEER
-the Rasool (SAW) was the Commander-in-Chief at this battle
-he was Aisha's ameer
3. AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE CAN BE VERY SUCCESSFUL IF THE WOMAN IS NOT FORCED
-these are more successful than love marriages
-Aisha's marriage was arranged and it was successful;
-she was very happy in her marriage
4. IT IS NOT THE SUNNAH TO RETURN HOME AT NIGHT
-The Prophet (SAW) didn't like to go back home at night,
-so his army camped outside of Madina
-he usually did this for 2 reasons:
1. So the wife could make herself up and be presentable to her husband
2. So he wouldn't wake up those that are sleeping
Aisha was riding on top of the camel in her hawdaj
-she was wearing hijab and niqab and went to answer the 'call of nature'
-those who were responsible to put the hawdaj back on top of the camel,
-mistakenly thought she was inside of it
-the men made this mistake because in those times, women were not overweight,
-so they thought she was in her hawdaj
Aisha was delayed going back to the hawdaj because she lost a necklace
-and was looking for it (it belonged to Asma)
-she didn't condemn the brothers who left her behind
5. WE SHOULD ALWAYS MAKE EXCUSES FOR OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS
Hamdun al-Qassar (one of the great early Muslims) said, "If a friend among your friends errs, make seventy excuses for them. If your hearts are unable to do this, then know that the shortcoming is in your own selves." [related by al-Bayhaqi in 'Shu'ab al-Eman' (13/504) No. 10684]
Jafar bin Muhammad (rh) said: "If you find see something you don't like in a brother, try to find 1-70 excuses for him. And if you can't find an excuse, say 'There might be an excuse, but I don't know it. [related by al-Bayhaqi in 'Shu'ab al-Eman' (10/559) No. 7991]
'A'isha reported that the Prophet (SAW) said, "Overlook the slips of respected people." [al-Bukhari in 'Adab al-Mufrad' No. 465, al-Nasa'i in 'al-Sunan al-Kubra' (6/468) No. 7253]
Ibn Abbas said: "When you feel the need to mention your companion's faults, remember your own." [al-Adab al-Mufrad al-Bukhari (p. 120) No. 328]
6. RETURN SOME THING THAT YOU BORROWED; AN AMAANA (trust)
Verily! Allah commands that you should render back the trusts to those, to whom they are due; and that when you judge between men, you judge with justice. Verily, how excellent is the teaching which He (Allah) gives you! Truly, Allah is Ever All Hearer, All Seer. (An-Nisa 4:58)
So Aisha was delayed searching for the necklace that she borrowed from her sister, Asma
-only Muslims w/ taqwa return an amaana
The scholars said Aisha wasn't fat; she was slim
-to have a big belly is a sign of a munafiq
Ibn Umar (RA) reported that the Prophet (SAW) said, "The disbeliever eats in seven intestines while the believer eats in one intestine.' [al-Bukhari (5393) and Muslim (2060)]
Miqdam ibn Ma'dikarib (RA) reported that he heard Allah's Messenger say, "A man does not fill a vessel worse than his belly. Enough for the son of Adam are a few morsels to keep his back straight. But, if it is unavoidable then let him apportion one third for his food, one-third for his drink and one-third for his breath." [Sunan Tirmidhi (4/590) No. 2380, Sunan Ibn Majah (4/448) No. 3349, Musnad Ahmad (4/132) No. 17225]
-we can't make takfir on people with big bellies because this hypocrisy is minor not major
7. MINIMIZE OUR INTERACTION W/ THE OPPOSITE GENDER TO REDUCE FITNAA
When the hawdaj left Aisha (RA), she didn't panic; she slept under a tree
-this means she had tawakkul because she was sleeping on the battlefield
8. BE COOL, CALM AND COLLECTED
9. DON'T BE QUICK TO BLAME OTHERS FOR MISTAKES
Aisha didn't blame her Muslim brothers for leaving her behind
-this shows you her noble character
-when Safwan bin al-Muattal saw Aisha left behind, he said:
-Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji'oon
-because this is our dua when we lose something or someone
-Safwan had to decide whether to wait w/ her or deliver her to the Prophet (SAW)
-he chose to return her to the Rasool (pbuh) and this was the better decision
...Safwan bin Mu'attal As-Sulami Adh-Dhakwani was behind the army and reached my abode in the morning. When he saw a sleeping person, he came to me, and he used to see me before veiling. So, I got up when I heard him saying, "Inna lil-lah-wa inna ilaihi rajiun (We are for Allah, and we will return to Him)." He made his camel knell down. He got down from his camel, and put his leg on the front legs of the camel and then I rode and sat over it. Safwan set out walking, leading the camel by the rope till we reached the army who had halted to take rest at midday… [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 3, Book 48, Hadith #829]
10. DO NOT ABANDON YOUR MUSLIM BROTHERS OR SISTERS WHEN THEY ARE IN NEED
When Safwan returned w/ Aisha on the back of his camel,
-the hypocrites of Madina started a rumor
-that they stayed behind to indulge in an intimate relationship
-Abdullah ibn Ubai started this slander (he fanned flames of fitna)
-hypocrites have a well-oiled propaganda machine to slander believers
Abdullah ibn Ubai didn't like the Prophet
-his name was King Salool before the prophet came to Madina
-but this stopped after that, so he carried a permanent grudge against the prophet
-he didn't abandon hypocrisy and carried a personal vendetta against the Prophet (SAW)
-and to accuse a woman of having an affair, disgraces her husband, as well
11. SOME PEOPLE SLANDER YOUR FAMILY TO GET BACK AT YOU
Narrated Umm Ruman: Who was 'Aisha's mother: While I was with 'Aisha, 'Aisha got fever, whereupon the Prophet said, "Probably her fever is caused by the story related by the people (about her)." I said, "Yes." Then 'Aisha sat up and said, My example and your example is similar to that of Jacob and his sons:--'Nay, but your minds have made up a tale. So (for me) patience is most fitting. It is Allah (alone) Whose help can be sought against that which you assert.' [12:18] [Sahih Bukhari, Book 60, Hadith #213]
After the battlefield, Aisha got fever (some thought she got this because of the slander)
-she noticed that the behavior of the prophet changed toward her;
-he became cold towards her and she didn't know why
-she asked permission to go stay w/ her mother and he let her go
-the Prophet (SAW) didn't discuss the slander w/ her until she recovered from her sickness
...My sickness was aggravated, and when I returned home, Allah's Apostle came to me, and after greeting he said, 'How is that (girl)?' I requested him to allow me to go to my parents. I wanted then to be sure of the news through them I Allah's Apostle allowed me, and I went to my parents and asked my mother,... [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 3, Book 48, Hadith #829]
12. WHEN SOMEONE IS SICK, THIS IS NOT THE PROPER TIME TO DISCUSS A PERSONAL / SERIOUS MATTER
13. HAVE SABR AND DON'T RUSH TO PASS A JUDGMENT
-the Rasool waited to discuss the slander w/ her
Narrated Yunus bin Yazid: I heard Az-Zuhri saying, "I heard 'Urwa bin Az-Zubair. Said bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Alqama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah each narrating part of the narrative concerning 'Aisha the wife of the Prophet. 'Aisha said: When I and Um Mistah were returning, Um Mistah stumbled by treading on the end of her robe, and on that she said, 'May Mistah be ruined.' I said, 'You have said a bad thing, you curse a man who took part in the battle of Badr!." Az-Zuhri then narrated the narration of the Lie (forged against 'Aisha). [Sahih Bukhari, Book 59, Hadith #359]
One day, Aisha went out w/ Umm Mistah and she stumbled on her abaya and fell
-then Umm Mistah said "May Allah curse Mistah"
-Aisha defended Mistah (he was a cousin of Abu Bakr)
-he was poor but he was a mujahid and a strong Muslim
-when Aisha heard what the people were saying about her (from Umm Mistah), she fainted
To accuse someone of having an affair - you need 4 people to see the [pen] in the ink
-only then can you accuse someone of having an affair
-if you do this, you receive 80 lashes for being a slanderer
14. A REAL MUSLIM CAN FALL INTO A REAL / BIG SIN
-Mistah was a brave mujahid
-when the people accused Aisha of having an affair HE SMILED
-this is ALL he did and that was enough to be guilty of participating in the slander
Narrated By Uqbah ibn Amir: The Prophet (SAW) said: "He who sees something which should be kept hidden and conceals it will be like one who has brought to life a girl buried alive." [Abu Dawood (4/273, No. 4891), al-Hakim (4/426, No. 8162), al-Bayhaqi (8/331, No. 17387), Sunan Kubra Nasa'i (4/307, No. 7281), At-Tabarani (17/319, No. 883)
When Aisha went to do nature, she could not pass anything out because her body was numb
-she cried till her lungs almost ruptured
15. VERBAL ABUSE IS DEADLIER THAN PHYSICAL ABUSE
-if you spank a wife wrongfully, this is physical abuse
-if you call your wife a name, this is deadlier than physical abuse
16. THE GREAT STATUS OF THE PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF BADR
Narrated By 'Ubaidullah bin Abi Rafi: I heard 'Ali saying, "...Allah's Apostle, said, "Hatib has told you the truth." Umar said, O Allah's Apostle! Allow me to chop off the head of this hypocrite." Allah's Apostle said, "Hatib participated in the battle of Badr, and who knows, perhaps Allah has already looked at the Badr warriors and said, 'Do whatever you like, for I have forgiven you." [al-Bukhari (3007) and Muslim (2494)]
-the 313 Sahabah who fought there will be in Paradise
-Aisha had knowledge of fiqh ul waaqi because she knew who would be there in Paradise
17. WE LEARN THE TAQWAH OF THE FEMALE SAHABAH
-Umm Mistah didn't take sides with her son;
-she took Aisha's side; she instinctively knew Aisha didn't have an affair
18. PARENTS CAN CURSE KIDS [and this will come to pass]
Abu Hurayrah (RA) reported that Allah's Messenger said, "Three prayers are surely answered: the supplication of the oppressed, the supplication of the traveler, and the supplication of the father for his son." [Sunan Tirmidhi (5/502) No. 3448, Sunan Ibn Majah (5/30) No. 3862, Musnad Ahmad (2/258) No. 7501, Sunan Abu Dawud (2/89) No. 1536]
-the dua of the father is always answered, as well as dua of traveler and oppressed
19. PAIN AND SORROW CAN CAUSE YOUR BODY TO BECOME NUMB/ILL
-many people develop brain tumors, high blood pressure and cancer from depression
-during the crises, Aisha went to stay w/ her mother, Umm Ruman
20. IN THE MIDST OF A CRISES, YOU NEED YOUR FAMILY
-she asked her mother, "Why did you keep the slander away from me?"
-but Aisha was sick w/ fever after the battle,
-so it wouldn't be wise to tell her while she was sick
-Aisha was the last to know of this rumor of the affair
-her mother said to her 'you are young, beautiful and noble
-and you've excelled in your faith'
-people are always jealous when you excel in your faith
21. WHENEVER A YOUNG GIRL FACES A CRISES, SHE NEEDS AN OLDER WOMAN TO COMFORT HER and GIVE HER ADVICE (naseeha)
-a 20 year old woman had a crises in her marriage; s
-he might need to sit w/ a 50 year old woman for advice
22. EVERY WOMAN NEEDS A GOOD RELATIONSHIP w/ HER MOTHER
...Usama bin Zaid told Allah's Apostle of what he knew about the innocence of his wife and of his affection he kept for her. He said, "O Allah's Apostle! She is your wife, and we do not know anything about her except good." But 'Ali bin Abi Talib said, "O Allah's Apostle! Allah does not impose restrictions on you; and there are plenty of women other than her. If you however, ask (her) slave girl, she will tell you the truth."...[Sahih Bukhari, Vol 6, Book 60, Hadith #274]
Buraira said, "I cannot accuse her of any defect except that she is still a young girl who sleeps, neglecting her family's dough which the domestic goats come to eat (i.e. she was too simpleminded to deceive her husband)." [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 3, Book 48, Hadith #805]
The Prophet (SAW) approached Ali bin Abi Talib who said there're many other woman
-but Usaama bin Zaid said keep your wife
-Aisha's slave girl (maid) said she knew nothing defective in Aisha's character
-she said Aisha was too simple-minded to have an affair
-if a woman doesn't know how to plot and scheme, she will get caught having an affair
-it's easy to know if a woman had an affair:
-the husband can shine a light on her under garment
-this will expose any semen on the garment
Ali had said to the prophet that Allah 'tala didn't put any restrictions on him
-so historians write that Aisha carried a permanent grudge against Ali bin Abi Talib
-the Rasool approached a Sahabah, who was maybe 16 years old,
-for advice (Usaama) and also Ali who was almost 30 years old
23. WHEN YOU'RE A LEADER OF AN UMMAH AND YOU'RE CONFRONTED w/ A CRISES, YOU NEED TO TURN TO YOUR LOVED ONES FOR ADVICE
24. WHEN YOU HURT THE WIFE, YOU AUTOMATICALLY HURT THE HUSBAND
Abdullah ibn Ubai had a permanent vendetta against the Rasool for taking away his kingdom
-he thought by slandering Aisha, he'd get back at the Prophet
Allah's Apostle said, 'Who will support me to punish that person ('Abdullah bin Ubai bin Salul) who has hurt me by slandering the reputation of my family? By Allah, I know nothing about my family but good, and they have accused a person about whom I know nothing except good, and he never entered my house except in my company.' [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 3, Book 48, Hadith #829]
-the Rasool gave a khutba in the masjid and asked who would help him punish the slanderer
-he said Safwan never entered my house when I was not there
-so he testified in favour of the one accused of having an affair w/ Aisha
Fatimah bint Qays went to the Prophet seeking marital advice when both Mu'awiya Ibin Abu Sufyan and Abu Jahm had proposed to her. The Prophet told her, "Mu'awiya is stingy and tight fisted) and Abu Jahm beats his women." So marry Usamah instead. [Sahih Muslim (2/1114) No. 1480, Sunan Abu Dawud (2/285) No. 2284, Sunan Tirmidhi (3/440) No. 1134, Sunan An-Nasa'i (6/75) No. 3245]
-when Fatima bint Qays got a proposal from Muawiya and Abu Jahm,
-he was able to give advice because he was very close to his Sahabah
-he suggests Usamah because he knew the character of the other two for marriage
Sad bin Muadh Al-Ansari got up and said, "O Allah's Apostle! By Allah, I will relieve you from him. If he be from the tribe of (Bani) Al-Aus, then I will chop his head off; and if he be from our brethren, the Khazraj, then you give us your order and we will obey it." On that, Sad bin 'Ubada got up, and he was the chief of the Khazraj, and before this incident he had been a pious man but he was incited by his zeal for his tribe. He said to Sad (bin Muadh), "By Allah the Eternal, you have told a lie! You shall not kill him and you will never be able to kill him!" On that, Usaid bin Hudair, the cousin of Sad (bin Muadh) got up and said to Sad bin 'Ubada "You are a liar! By Allah the Eternal, we will surely kill him; and you are a hypocrite defending the hypocrites!" So the two tribes of Al-Aus and Al-Khazraj got excited till they were on the point of fighting with each other while Allah's Apostle was standing on the pulpit. [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 6, Book 60, Hadith #274]
-tempers flared and rose when Abdullah ibn Ubai (who stated the rumor)
-from Khazraj tribe stood up
-Aisha heard this and said the asabiyya (racism/tribalism)
-came back from the days of jaahiliyyah
-Usaid got very upset and called Sad a liar ... and called him a hypocrite
-the Sahabah, we see, called each other names (they are human, as we are)
-that day, the asabiyya got the better of Sad
25. THE SHAITAN RUNS IN OUR VEINS THE WAY BLOOD RUNS IN OUR VEINS
Narrated By 'Ali bin Al-Husain: From Safiya, the Prophet's wife, The wives of the Prophet were with him in the mosque (while he was in Itikaf) and then they departed and the Prophet said to Safiya bint Huyai, "Don't hurry up, for I shall accompany you," (and her dwelling was in the house of Usama). The Prophet went out and in the meantime two Ansari men met him and they looked at the Prophet and passed by. The Prophet said to them, "Come here. She is (my wife) Safiya bint Huyai." They replied, "Subhan Allah, (How dare we think of evil) O Allah's Apostle! (we never expect anything bad from you)." The Prophet replied, "Satan circulates in the human being as blood circulates in the body, and I was afraid lest Satan might insert an evil thought in your minds." [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 3, Book 33, Hadith #254]
4 THINGS THE UMMAH OF MUHAMMAD WILL NEVER ABANDON:
-boasting, casting dispersions, seeking rain from the stars, and wailing over the dead
Abu Malik al-Ashari narrated the Prophet (SAW) said: "There are four matters of jaahiliyyah that exist among my ummah and they will not give them up: boasting about one's forefathers, casting aspersions upon people's lineages, seeking rain by the stars and wailing for the dead." [Sahih Muslim (Vol. 2 pg. 644) No. 934]]
The Rasool (SAW) quieted the Sahabah down because their behavior
-was hurting him and Aisha
-to call someone a hypocrite is worse than calling them a kaafir
Allah said:
Verily, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths (grade) of the Fire; no helper will you find for them. (An-Nisa 4:145)
Slandering a pious Muslimah is one of the 7 MAJOR SINS
Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet (SAW), said, "Avoid the seven fatal sins." They said, "Messenger of Allah, what are they?" He said, "Associating with Allah, sorcery, killing a soul which Allah has forbidden, except by legal right, consuming usury, consuming the property of an orphan, fleeing on the day of battle and slandering unthinking chaste believing women." [al-Bukhari (2766) and Muslim (89)]
26. THE SHAITAN HAS THE ABILITY TO USE ASABIYYAH TO BREAK UP THE UMMAH
-asabiyya is translated as 'clannishness' (tribalism/ racism)
One of Aisha's friends from the Ansars came to Aisha and cried w/ her in Aisha's home
...On that day I kept on weeping so much that neither did my tears stop, nor could I sleep. In the morning my parents were with me, and I had wept for two nights and a day without sleeping and with incessant tears till they thought that my liver would burst with weeping. While they were with me and I was weeping, an Ansari woman asked permission to see me. I admitted her and she sat and started weeping with me...[Sahih Bukhari, Vol 6, Book 60, Hadith #274]
-the million dollar question is: why did she come and cry w/ her?
Narrated by An-Nu'man bin Bashir: The Prophet (SAW) said: "The likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion is that of one body; when one part of it suffers, the rest of the body joins it in staying awake and suffering fever." [al-Bukhaari (6011) and Muslim (2586)]
27. WHEN YOU HURT ONE MEMBER OF THE UMMAH, YOU HURT THE WHOLE UMMAH
-do you think Shaikh (there in Jamaica) would be affected alone,
-if he was accused of slander, being a gay or pedophile
-no! Many of the ummah would be hurt by these accusations
-this is why the friend from the Ansars came to cry w/ her because she felt Aisha's pain
When Aisha was crying at home, the Rasool saw her and spoke to her
-by giving SALAAM first
Narrated By Az-Zuhri: Urwa bin Az-Zubair, Said bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Al-Qama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah related the narration of 'Aisha, the wife the Prophet, when the slanderers had said about her what they had said and Allah later declared her innocence. Each of them related a part of the narration (wherein) the Prophet said (to 'Aisha). "If you are innocent, then Allah will declare your innocence: but if you have committed a sin, then ask for Allah's Forgiveness and repent to him." 'Aisha said, "By Allah, I find no example for my case except that of Joseph's father (when he said), 'So (for me) patience is most fitting.' "Then Allah revealed the ten Verses: "Verily those who spread the slander are a gang amongst you..." (24.11) [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 6, Book 60, Hadith #212]
28. GIVE SALAAMS FIRST BEFORE SPEAKING TO SOMEONE
29. BE SLOW TO ACCUSE SOMEONE AND BE SWIFT TO FORGIVE
-Aisha told her father to tell the Rasool that she did not commit adultery
-her father refused and said he preferred not to speak
-she asked her mother and the mother said WHAT CAN I SAY TO THE RASOOL?
-because he gets revelation from Allah 'tala every day
So, when they despaired of him, they held a conference in private. The eldest among them said: "Know you not that your father did take an oath from you in Allah's Name, and before this you did fail in your duty with Yusuf (Joseph)? Therefore I will not leave this land until my father permits me, or Allah decides my case (by releasing Benjamin) and He is the Best of the judges. (Yusuf 12:80)
Narrated Umm Ruman: Who was 'Aisha's mother: While I was with 'Aisha, 'Aisha got fever, whereupon the Prophet said, "Probably her fever is caused by the story related by the people (about her)." I said, "Yes." Then 'Aisha sat up and said, "My example and your example is similar to that of Jacob and his sons:--'Nay, but your minds have made up a tale. So (for me) patience is most fitting. It is Allah (alone) Whose help can be sought against that which you assert.' (Surah 12.18) (Bukhari Book #60, Hadith #213)
30. WHEN YOU'RE FACED w/ A CRISES, SEEK OUT AN AYAH FROM QUR'AN TO GUIDE and COMFORT YOU AT ALL TIMES
And they brought his shirt stained with false blood. He said: "Nay, but your own selves have made up a tale. So (for me) patience is most fitting. And it is Allah (Alone) Whose help can be sought against that (lie) which you describe." (Yusuf 12:18)
There is not a moving (living) creature on earth, nor a bird that flies with its two wings, but are communities like you. We have neglected nothing in the Book, then unto their Lord they (all) shall be gathered. (Al-An'am 6:38)
QUESTION: If You Lose Your Child, Brother, Sister Or Death In Your Family, Which Ayah Will You Use To Comfort Yourself?
And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sābirin (the patient ones, etc.). (Al-Baqarah 2:155)
Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return." (Al-Baqarah 2:156)
-so when we have crises, we pray Inna lillahi wa inna illahi raji'oon
That was a nation who has passed away. They shall receive the reward of what they earned and you of what you earn. And you will not be asked of what they used to do. (Al-Baqarah 2:134)
Hasan al Basri used this ayah to shut up the person
-trying to indulge him in the fitna of Mu'awiya and Ali (RA)
31. NO ONE CAN CLEAR YOUR NAME EXCEPT ALLAH 'TALA
-Aisha knew no one could clear her name except Allah 'tala
-if you accuse a Muslim of being gay or not a Muslim,
-Allah 'tala will not forgive you until that person forgives you
-so if you make hajj and you haven't been forgiven,
-you're only making hajj to give it away on Judgment Day
-we are at the MERCY of the people we slander
Abu Huraira (RA) narrated the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: "Whoever has wronged his brother with regard to his honour or something, let him ask him for forgiveness before the time when there will be neither dinar nor dirham, and if he has any good deeds it will be taken from him in proportion to the wrong he did, and if he does not have any good deeds (hasanaat), some of the other person's evil deeds (sayi'aat) will be taken and given to him to bear." [Sahih Bukhari (3/129) No. 2449]
-we can't pay people off on Judgment Day w/ paper currency;
-the only currency He (SWT) accepts are PIOUS DEEDS
That Day shall a man flee from his brother, ('Abasa 80:34)
And from his mother and his father, ('Abasa 80:35)
And from his wife and his children. ('Abasa 80:36)
Everyman, that Day, will have enough to make him careless of others. ('Abasa 80:37)
Some faces that Day, will be bright (true believers of Islāmic Monotheism). ('Abasa 80:38)
On Judgment Day, we won't even want to give one Ramadan to our mother
-we will want to keep all our good deeds for ourselves
It took one month before Allah revealed Aisha's innocence
Verily! Those who brought forth the slander (against 'Aishah the wife of the Prophet SAW) are a group among you. Consider it not a bad thing for you. Nay, it is good for you. Unto every man among them will be paid that which he had earned of the sin, and as for him among them who had the greater share therein, his will be a great torment. (An-Nur 24:11)
Narrated 'Aisha: (when the slanderers said what they said about her): I went to my bed knowing at that time that I was innocent and that Allah would reveal my innocence, but by Allah, I never thought that Allah would reveal in my favor a revelation which would be recited, for I considered myself too unimportant to be talked about by Allah in the Divine Revelation that was to be recited. So Allah revealed the ten Verses (of Surat-an-Nur). 'Those who brought a false charge........' (24.11-20) (Bukhari, Book 93, Hadith #635)
WHY DID ALLAH 'TALA SAY THIS IS A GOOD THING, NOT A BAD THING?
-because when you're slandered in the dunya,
-the slanderer has to give you all their good deeds in the aakhira
On the authority of 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (RA), who said: The Messenger of Allah (SAW) narrated to us: By Allah, other than whom there is no god, verily one of you behaves like the people of Paradise until there is but an arm's length between him and it, and that which is written overtakes him and so he behaves like the people of the Hell-fire and thus he enters it; and one of you behaves like the people of Hell-fire until there is but an arm's length between him and it, and that which has been written overtakes him and so he behaves like the people of Paradise and thus he enters it. [al-Bukhari (6594) and Muslim (2643)]
-if they have no pious deeds, then they take away all your sins
Narrated Abu Musa (RA) Allah's Messenger (SAW) said: On the Day of Resurrection, my Ummah (nation) will be gathered into three groups. one sort will enter Paradise without rendering an account (of their deeds). Another sort will be reckoned an easy account and admitted into Paradise. Yet another sort will come bearing on their backs heaps of sins like great mountains. Allah will ask the angels though He knows best about them: Who are these people? They will reply: They are humble slaves of yours. He will say: Unload the sins from them and put the same over the Jews and Christians; then let the humble slaves get into Paradise by virtue of My Mercy. [Mustadrak al-Haakim (1/126) No. 193, Dhahabi mentions that this narration from Haakim is upon the conditions of al-Bukhari and Muslim]
Circumcision was banned in Germany; they want to ban halal meat in Holland,
-they banned the niqab in France
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germanys-jews-and-muslims-outraged-as-circumcision-is-ruled-to-cause-bodily-harm-and-infringe-childs-rights-7893302.html
-but they let you have affairs and ban polygamy
-the Germans want to see how far they can push the Muslims
-but the Muslim can go to another country for the circumcision
32. THE RASOOL WAS BASHAR w/ EMOTIONS JUST LIKE US
-he cried when his son died (and said he loved his son)
Narrated By Anas bin Malik: We went with Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) to the blacksmith Abu Saif, and he was the husband of the wet-nurse of Ibrahim (the son of the Prophet). Allah's Apostle took Ibrahim and kissed him and smelled him and later we entered Abu Saif's house and at that time Ibrahim was in his last breath and the eyes of Allah's Apostle (p.b.u.h) started shedding tears. 'Abdur Rahman bin 'Auf said, "O Allah's Apostle, even you are weeping!" He said, "O Ibn 'Auf, this is mercy." Then he wept more and said, "The eyes are shedding tears and the heart is grieved, and we will not say except what pleases our Lord, O Ibrahim! Indeed we are grieved by your separation." [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 2, Book 23, Hadith #390]
-he didn't want to see Wahshi's face again because he killed his uncle Hamza
-Aisha didn't realise she was so important as to reveal her innocence in 10 ayahs of Qur'an
33. SOMETIMES TO DELAY A MATTER IS WISE
Aisha further said: Allah's Apostle also asked Zainab bint Jaysh about my case. He said, "O Zainab! What have you seen?" She replied, "O Allah's Apostle! I protect my hearing and my sight (by refraining from telling lies). I know nothing but good (about Aisha)." Of all the wives of Allah's Apostle, it was Zainab who aspired to receive from him the same favor as I used to receive, yet, Allah saved her (from telling lies) because of her piety. But her sister, Hamna, kept on fighting on her behalf so she was destroyed as were those who invented and spread the slander. [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 6, Book 60, Hadith #274]
Aisha said that Zaynab bint Jaysh was her biggest rival among the wives of the Rasool
-but Zaynab said she knew nothing about Aisha but what is good
-look at the piety of Zaynab!
-her taqwa is what saved her
-this is why they are called THE MOTHER OF THE BELIEVERS
Women of today:
-If they are in polygamy and hypocrites slandered the co-wife,
-the wife would say I BELIEVE THEM, DIVORCE HER, SHE IS NOT GOOD
-SOME women of today wouldn't defend their co-wife
Ibn Umar (RA) narrated the Prophet (SAW) said: "The Dajjal will come to this pond in Marriqanaat (a valley in Madina). Most of the people who follow the Dajjal will be women till a man has to use rope to tie up his mother, daughter, sister and aunt out of fear that they will leave the home to follow the Dajjal. Then Allah will grant victory to the Muslims over the Dajjal so the Muslims will kill the Dajjal and his party who will be the Jews. The Jews will run behind a tree and a stone to hide from the Muslims and the tree and the stone will call out 'O Muslim a Jew is behind me so come and kill him.'" [Musnad Ahmad (2/67) No. 5353 and Tabarani in 'al-Mu'jam al-Kabir' (12/307) No. 13197]
34. OUR TAQWAH SAVES US FROM BEING DESTROYED AND HUMILIATED
Who Are The 3 People Who Were Flogged For The Slander?
1 MISTAH
2 HAMNA BINT JAYSH
3 HASAN IBN THAABIT
35. POLYGAMY IS NOT A WAR
-Aisha's co-wife took her side
-the women of today, SOME OF THEM, do not have taqwa
Ibn Mas'ood narrated that the Prophet (SAW) said: "Allah has decreed jealousy for women and jihad for men, so whoever bears that with patience out of faith and in the hope of reward will have a reward like that of a martyr." [al-Tabarani in 'al-Mu'jam al-Kabir' (10/87) No. 10040]
36. DON'T INTERFERE IN THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS
-Hamna slandered Aisha thinking she was helping her sister
-but her sister didn't see polygamy as a war
37. THE QUR'AN WAS REVEALED IN STAGES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT THE PROPHET FACED and DIDN'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO TILL THE REVELATION
-the kuffaar of Makkah complained because the Qur'an was not revealed all at once
38. WHEN ALLAH LOVES US, HE (SWT) TEST US
Mus'ab ibn Sa'd reported on the authority of his father that he asked, "O Messenger of Allah, which people will face trials most?" He said, "The Prophets, then the likes, then the likes. A man is tried according to his religion. If he is firm on his religion then the trial is severe and if he is soft in observing his religions then he is tried according to his religion. Then, the trial does not remove from the slave till he walks over earth having no sin on him." [Sunan Tirmidhi (4/601) No. 2398, Sunan Ibn Majah (5/152) No. 4023, Musnad Ahmad (1/185) No. 1607]
-PROPHET IBRAHIM DUMPED IN THE FIRE
-PROPHET YUSUF DUMPED IN A WELL
The Rasool (SAW) flogged his sister in law (Hamna) so no one is above the law
39. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW IN THE ISLAMIC STATE
Ibn Kathir in al Bidayah al Nihaya, Volume 4 page 160 writes the following: "Then he (prophet) went to the people and addressed and then recited what Allah revealed in Quran, then he ordered that Mastah bin Uthatha Hasaan bin Thaabit, Hamna bint Jaysh to be punished because they were among those who spread the allegation of adultery."
Why Was Mistah Flogged?
-all he did was SMILE when Aisha was being slandered in his company
-he didn't slander her
-but he didn't defend her so he also received 80 lashes
-you can be guilty of a crime just by SMILING
-you can become a kaafir just by smiling,
-such as if someone slanders the Rasool (pbuh) and you smile (you become a kaafir then)
Narrated By Uqbah ibn Amir: The Prophet (SAW) said: "He who sees something which should be kept hidden and conceals it will be like one who has brought to life a girl buried alive." [Abu Dawood (4/273, No. 4891), al-Hakim (4/426, No. 8162), al-Bayhaqi (8/331, No. 17387), Sunan Kubra Nasa'i (4/307, No. 7281), At-Tabarani (17/319, No. 883)]
WHY WASN'T THE MUNAFIQH WHO STARTED THE SLANDER FLOGGED?
WHY WERE ONLY THE MUSLIMS FLOGGED?
He flogged the Muslims so they would be purified on Judgment Day
-and won't be asked about the IFK on this day
-but it's impossible to purify a munafiq, so no need to flog them
Narrated By Az-Zuhri: I heard 'Urwa bin Az-Zubair, Said bin Al-Musaiyab, 'Alqama bin Waqqas and 'Ubaidullah bin 'Abdullah bin 'Uqba relating from 'Aisha, the wife of the Prophet the narration of the people (i.e. the liars) who spread the slander against her and they said what they said, and how Allah revealed her innocence. Each of them related to me a portion of that narration. (They said that 'Aisha said), ''Then Allah revealed the ten Verses starting with: 'Verily! Those who spread the slander...' (24.11-21) All these verses were in proof of my innocence. Abu Bakr As-Siddiq who used to provide for Mistah some financial aid because of his relation to him, said, "By Allah, I will never give anything (in charity) to Mistah, after what he has said about 'Aisha" Then Allah revealed: 'And let not those among you who are good and are wealthy swear not to give (any sort of help) to their kins men...' (24.22) On that, Abu Bakr said, "Yes, by Allah, I like that Allah should forgive me." and then resumed giving Mistah the aid he used to give him and said, "By Allah! I will never withhold it from him." [Sahih Bukhari, Vol 8, Book 78, Hadith #670]
Mistah was a cousin of Abu Bakr and he was poor
-so Abu Bakr supported him financially
-after the slander he refused to give him anymore financial help
-but Allah said in 24:22 not to withhold help to the kinsmen
And let not those among you who are blessed with graces and wealth swear not to give (any sort of help) to their kinsmen, Al-Masākīn (the poor), and those who left their homes for Allah's Cause. Let them pardon and forgive. Do you not love that Allah should forgive you? And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (An-Nur 24:22)
-we're to pardon and forgive
-then Abu Bakr forgave Mistah because he wanted Allah 'tala to also forgive him
40. WHEN SOMEONE IS DOWN, DO NOT KICK THEM; GIVE THEM A HAND TO PULL THEM UP
41. WHEN YOU BORROW SOMETHING, MAKE SURE YOU GIVE IT BACK
Anas Ibn Malik (RA) narrated the Messenger of Allah (SAW) has never preached us without saying: "There is no faith for the one who has no amanah (trust) and no religion for the one who does not keep his promises." [Musnad Ahmad (3/135) No. 12406, al-Sunan al-Kubra al-Bayhaqi (9/387) No. 18851]
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Esther McVey: Now that May's Brexit deal has been voted down, we need to win back trust. Here's how.
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The fallout from Parliament's rejection of the Meaningful Vote on the Prime Minister's Brexit deal continues, but what is clear is that something has gone very wrong in our politics. As most of this this site's readers know, I resigned from the Cabinet over the deal. And in my resignation letter, I wrote about the danger of trust being lost. As a political class, we have stretched public trust to the limit in recent years but, if we now fail to honour the biggest democratic vote in our history, we risk severing trust entirely.
Parliament is awash with competing views about what needs to happen next. What is most startling is how most of these views have nothing to do with implementing the will of the people, and expose just how out of touch that political class is.
For a majority of Labour MPs, in particular ,this is about overturning a result they have never accepted. They believe people were too stupid to make an informed decision about how the EU affects their lives. Amidst the metropolitan bubble, they have convinced themselves that people across the country are clamouring to listen to their betters, and do as they are told in a second referendum. This view is deluded – and if they ever managed to block Brexit it could genuinely break politics as we know it.
However, it is the Conservatives who are most in danger of severing trust with the voters and suffering the consequences. We are the party in office – the party that introduced the referendum, and the party whose members predominantly support sovereignty and exiting the EU. We should take no false comfort in whatever polls might predict the election result to be when all trust has been lost. Not even the economic destruction threatened by the Marxist alternative might be enough to save us.
The Withdrawal Agreement falls short of delivering what people voted for, but it is the compromises doing the rounds that have the potential really to pour petrol on the fire. The current deal would leave us tied to the EU and their its indefinitely. So how is an alternative such as Norway Plus or Common Market 2.0, which look even less like Brexit, a potential solution? Not to mention that delivering either could only be achieved with the collusion of Labour MPs. What is worse is that at the heart of these developments is not what is best for the country, or genuinely delivering on the votes of 17.4 million people, but rather getting politicians out of a muddle of their own creation.
After the resounding rejection of the deal, the Prime Minister now needs to go back to the EU to get a better deal – fundamentally, to ensure the removal of the backstop, and that the payment of the £39 billion gains us a future trade deal along the lines outlined by Donald Tusk back in March 2018, sometimes referred to as Canada Plus.
At the same time, so that the EU can be in no doubt of our Government's will to deliver for the people, and for our Party to live up to our general election manifesto commitment that 'no deal is better than a bad deal', we need to show how we would spend that £39 billion at home if we left without a deal; reveal to the public all the no deal preparations already done by the civil service; explain what World Trade Organisations rules are, and set out the side deals we need to secure.
We also need to look at a 'no deal transition period' just like the kind we had for a 'deal transition period' – i.e: a payment for a period of time whereby we and the EU adjust to the changes ahead of us. This would continue as already planned until Dec 2020. We are good neighbours, and seek to remain as such.
What we can't do is shackle ourselves to a bad deal simply to get Brexit over and done with because politicians think the effort of coming out of the EU is too much hard work. Nor can we keep the public in the dark about our options post-29th March, simply because politicians don't want change. Change is inevitable – and preparations and planning are the solution. For the idea that somehow things will move on and people will forget what they voted for in the biggest referendum of a life time is fantasy. Let me assure my colleagues that if we break the public trust on something as big as this we will not be easily forgiven.
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Western Wind: Mass by John Taverner & Court Music for Henry VIII
Henry VIII, Hugh Aston, John Taverner, William Cornysh
Andrew Parrott
Taverner Choir & Players
Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players turn to music of their namesake alongside works by his contemporary King Henry VIII, an exceptionally musical monarch, and two composers of the previous generation, William Cornysh and Hugh Ashton. With Taverner's Western Wind mass as its corner-stone, this recording takes its lead from the unashamedly secular character of that work and ventures beyond the chapel door to explore the parallel world of courtly vernacular song and instrumental music.
anon. (early 16th c)
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— Taverner's cantus firmus
Uri Smilansky (recorder)
2. Kyrie (Rex sempiterne) (1:46)
Taverner Choir
John Taverner (c1490–1545)
3. Gloria [Mass 'The Western Wynde' (a4)] (6:37)
4. My lady Careys dompe (2:18)
Steven Devine (harpsichord)
Taverner
5. Credo [Mass 'The Western Wynde' (a4)] (7:07)
Henry VIII (1491–1547)
6. If love now reynyd (II) (a3) (1:36)
Taverner Consort (mute cornett, 2 sackbuts)
7. Preface (Sursum corda / Vere dignum) (1:41)
Charles Daniels (tenor), Taverner Choir
8. Sanctus [Mass 'The Western Wynde' (a4)] (7:28)
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10. Agnus [Mass 'The Western Wynde' (a4)] (7:26)
anon. (?late 15th c)
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William Cornysh the younger (†1523)
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anon. (arr. A.P.)
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Apple's Jimmy Iovine hints at radical Apple streaming TV service
Monday, August 10, 2015 11:26 am Monday, August 10, 2015 16 Comments
"Apple's Jimmy Iovine thinks curation will drive success not only in streaming music, but in television, too," Tom Huddleston, Jr. reports for Fortune.
"That's what Iovine, the legendary music producer who cofounded Interscope Records and Beats and now works on Apple's new streaming music service, told Wired in an interview published Friday," Huddleston, Jr. reports. "'Curation is a big thing to us, and no one is going to be able to catch us or do it better,' Iovine told Wired, speaking of music before switching to television: 'We all know one thing, we all have different television delivery systems, don't we all wish that the delivery systems were better, as far as curation and service?'"
Read more in the full article here.
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Monday, August 10, 2015 at 11:38 am
Let's get it done we are holding our breath. Want to eliminate Comcast cable by year end. That's the plan.
Monday, August 10, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Does Mr. Lovine pronounce his name Low Vine or Lowv Inn?
Yeah. I want him picking my TV shows. This is just getting worse.
macnificentseven48
I had heard there were hundreds of people doing music curation, not Iovine by himself. I don't really care. I've got more than enough decent stuff to watch and don't need any more than what already have.
Scotty F
Why would any intelligent human being want anyone else picking their music or their television programming for them? That's just mindless bullshit. An entire generation of people who can't think for themselves. They are nothing but sheep.
McKinlay
Excuse me, curation? Curation of Hollywood drivel, HBO schlock? Whose curation, Jimmy Lovine's? Content not curation!
iTunes needs content, not more special deals between distributors, shuffling movies on and off services and pretending to have exclusives for two months. iTunes just needs to get the content, pay the creators not the middle muddlers, and give us truly worldwide content not region specific distribution.
Lash Canino
Curated TV works like this:
Watch this crap…then watch this crap…Watch this crap…then watch this crap…Watch this crap…then watch this crap…Watch this crap…then watch this crap…
KingMel
That's interesting…regular, non-curated TV works exactly the same 😉
If you've never listened to a really well run radio station in which the Music Director and Program Director as a team pick only great music you are missing a great experience. Corporate ownership of radio put the Sales guy in charge and Steve Jobs had a lot to say about that. When the decisions about WHAT a thing is is dictated by the money first, quality declines inevitably. Curation is an art since it involves taste and intelligence. Iovine is no dummy. So stop judging something before it arrives. By picking film and television experts, people who can tell the difference between a classic episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show and something from The Honeymooners that should be forgotten, they save you an enormous amount of time. People living in the age of blogs have lost sight of the value of their own time. How much dreck do you REALLY want to wade through to find something of value. If your life has so little in it that you spend 10 hours a day glued to a screen you don't really have a life. I want smart people, people whose job it is to RECOMMEND content more likely to be good. If you are Beatle's fan do you want to spend time listening to "What's the New MaryJane" or Side one of the White Album? Even great artists produce work that is less worthy. Save me time Apple.. Tell me what is good. I can find the crap if I want to.. nobody is preventing that.. but if I hear from you that you think that five tracks from the new Sia album at worth a listen.. I'm going to give that more consideration.
No, "they" can "curate" all they like but good curation shouldn't be tied the delivery mechanism—they can only curate what they can sell/stream. That is "taste" formation in a restricted sand box. No different than FM radio or MTV in the day.
When it comes to movies and TV some of the best content isn't getting to us via iTunes, its leaking out via elitist Film "festivals" , direct to BlueRay, silly arthouse distribution companies that constrain distribution to "open" streaming platforms. Curate all you want but some of the best stuff never gets to iTunes, that's the issue.
The day a "DJ" can select (ahem curate) any track/film/show s/he wants beyond iTunes rights then it can become an alternate discovery vehicle. We should be able to stumble around and find our own tracks as well as check out what Trent Reznor's into, but with full access to the entire catalog not the balkanized morass we have now.
The next step in the media revolution is to shed the control exercised by distributors and their anointed arbiters of taste. I should be to be able to watch the original Danish-Swedish* version of "The Bridge" in iTunes and not be restricted to only the FX derivative version.
* Yes I know I can watch it on Hulu, but I'd like to buy it… thats my point—choice.
jwsc01
Thank you for your voice of reason. I thought the anti curation crowd on this thread had lost its collective mind. Who the hell has time to wade through all the garbage out there? Intelligent curation could make a big difference by directing me to content I might be interested in.
Listening to Iovine talk or even reading his words and hearing his voice is my head is like nails on a chalkboard.
His creds aside, I wonder how Steve Jobs would have felt about Mr. Iovine?
Just seems like a really, really odd fit with Apple.
(Blabber Mouth)
Jeff.L
Steve Jobs and Jimmy Iovine worked together repeatedly as Jobs was creating iTunes in 2003.
http://www.cnet.com/news/beats-iovine-when-you-met-steve-jobs-you-found-the-party/
solafide
It will likely be many years before Canada sees an Apple content offering.
One area of content that I would love to see revolutionized – the news. I would love to see actual journalism instead of the endless commentary of opinions about the polls about people's opinions of someone's opinion of something. While it is impossible to remove all of the journalist's own views, prejudices and worldview – it would be nice to see someone actually try to uncover facts and present them clearly. One of the legacies of postmodernism – the denial that there is anything such as objective truth, has left us with news which is not news – no search for truth (yes, the truth is out there….). We have been left with News as entertainment feeding different audiences propaganda that suits and reinforces the viewer's own views (right or left). How about some real journalistic expose of the corrupt relationship between Wall Street and Washington – show us a list of all congressperson's and senator's meetings with lobbyists and whether they received campaign funds from them, and whether their opinion and vote changed in accordance afterwards, for example. And the American couch potato (bred to perfection over many years), says, "But facts are so boring, and it hurts to think that much – tell me why all my views are right, and pass the chips…".
yojimbo007
It is not about curation !…. Curation does not fit TV.
It is about a powerful and flexible content search and channel creation technology.
And its coming …..;)
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"Facts Are in the Eye of the Beholder," Says Roger Stone, Trump Confidant
Roger Stone is one of four Trump associates reportedly under scrutiny for ties to Russia. He spoke to The Intercept about these allegations and his complicated views on "truth."
Mattathias Schwartz
March 6 2017, 6:26 p.m.
The history of the 2016 election is up for grabs. Vying for posterity are two competing myths. One is the Russian conspiracy that elevated Donald Trump into the White House. The other is the "deep state" conspiracy that is laboring to bring him down. The first relies on secret evidence; the second on naked speculation and paranoid hand waving. Each myth has a few bits of fact dangling behind it; both are currently impossible to verify or refute.
Roger Stone, the longtime Republican operative and bon vivant, has dealt in this epistemological netherworld for decades. He now has a starring role in the Russia-Trump narrative, as one of four Trump associates reportedly under scrutiny for their ties to Russia, and the only one who spoke openly during the campaign about contact with WikiLeaks. Over the weekend, Trump attempted to seize the offensive, accusing Obama of tapping Trump Tower phone lines. After an Obama spokesperson issued a denial, Stone flew off the handle.
Just nothing better than calling out liberal jerk offs on Twitter. We won, you lost. You're done!
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) March 5, 2017
Total horseshit from the CIA controlled Washington Post pic.twitter.com/qYlz84XWjS
Stone had especially harsh words for two women, calling Republican commentator Ana Navarro "fat" and "stupid" and one of his online critics a "stupid, ignorant, ugly bitch." The latter tweet, which Stone deleted, came after Stone said he had a "perfectly legal back channel to Assange." (In a Monday email, Stone wrote that "My tweet re. Navarro is only the truth." Regarding his links to Assange, "I didn't admit it—I ANNOUNCED it. Assange does NOT work for the Russians and no one has proved otherwise.") Indeed, Stone announced during a speech last August that he had "communicated with Assange." "I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation," he continued. "But there's no telling what the October surprise might be."
By that time, WikiLeaks had already released thousands of emails from inside the Democratic National Committee, sowing discord during the party's convention in Philadelphia. Stone's prediction turned out to be a pretty good one. In October, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of additional emails from the account of Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta.
That Stone, a longtime associate of Trump, would brag about ties to WikiLeaks will come as no surprise to those who have followed his long career as a bridge between respectable politicians and the shady saboteurs (or "ratfuckers," as they were once known) who can deliver campaign knockout blows. Stone began his political career in Washington on the less reputable margins of the Nixon administration. In 1980, he co-founded the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, which advised several Republican presidential candidates as well as corporations and foreign states. An early profile of Stone by Jacob Weisberg from this period pokes fun at Stone's "self-generated image as a kingmaker," while noting that the 32-year-old was pulling down a salary of $450,000 a year.
As a policy adviser, Stone has set himself up as an emissary of the white working class, advising candidates to focus on fiscal conservatism and a strong, conflict-averse military, while avoiding strong stances on thorny social issues like gay marriage and abortion. As a tactician, Stone has deployed a variety of unorthodox methods, including disinformation and threats. Stone once undertook a paid smear campaign against Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, during which someone calling from Stone's number left a message on the voicemail of Spitzer's father threatening an official subpoena. "There's not a goddamn thing your phony, psycho, piece-of-shit son can do about it," said the voice, which "does sound eerily like me," Stone later said, in an interview with the filmmaker Alex Gibney.
Stone's lobbying partner Paul Manafort went on to serve as Donald Trump's second campaign manager during the 2016 presidential race. Manafort resigned under a cloud following reports that he took millions of dollars from a pro-Putin party in Ukraine. Stone, by his own account, had been talking to Trump about a possible presidential run as early as 1988. Manafort, like Stone, is now among the four Trump advisers whose communications and finances are reportedly under scrutiny as part of a federal investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Stone's new campaign book, "The Making of the President 2016," rehashes the campaign season while gently reminding the reader how early, and how often, Roger Stone was in the room. The preface begins by attributing Trump's victory to the talent, energy, and foresight of Donald Trump himself. It ends with a story of Stone claiming credit for inadvertently saving Trump's life by delaying him from what turned out to be a fatal helicopter crash. Stone attributes this providential event to cosmic forces. "I know that his life was spared to save our Republic," he writes.
Like Stone, Trump has a genius for controlling the narrative through repetition. Two appendices document the memes that Stone set into motion on Trump's behalf. There is a chronology of the "Clinton Rape Tee," a riff on the Obama/Hope poster, and an impressive list of online traffic statistics relating to Danney Williams, who has long insisted that he is Bill Clinton's secret love child. The claim was proven to be false in 1999, but, as Stone writes about the Obama birth certificate controversy, one can keep "fanning the flames of uncertainty." In the case of Williams, Stone has attacked the validity of an old DNA test and promised that a paternity suit would be filed sometime in the future. Stone claims that the Danny Williams meme, supported by a hip-hop video and a targeted Facebook campaign, suppressed the African-American vote in key battleground states. "Truth is not enough," Stone writes. "It'd be nice if it were, but that's not the world in which we live. People are busy and have a lot of distractions … attaching truth to something else, especially humor or shock, makes it stick."
Truth, in other words, doesn't stand a chance in a click-hungry traffic-driven media environment.
Stone and I spoke by phone twice, on February 26 and March 2. This interview is compiled from both conversations. It has been edited and condensed for clarity.
What is your current role in the Trump administration?
First and foremost, I am a Trump supporter. I am a Trump friend. I'm a writer, and I express myself best in a memo. I understand how to write a short, pithy, and topical memo. I prefer to share my advice that way. I have no official role whatsoever, other than Trump supporter and friend. And of course, I have to politically kibitz from time to time.
What does the kibitzing entail?
Generally, I think communications between the president and myself should remain private. But my views are well known. You can find them on Twitter. For example, one cannot oppose federal power and cite states' rights on the transgender bathroom issue, and then turn around say that you support states' rights to legalize medical marijuana, and then turn around and say that you're going to crack down on states that legalize recreational marijuana. There's an intellectual inconsistency there. It is also harmful to the Trump coalition. Although a lot of anti-marijuana conservatives voted for Donald Trump, it's not their motivating issue. On the other hand, for a lot of young voters and libertarian voters in the Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Gary Johnson realm, this is the issue for them. They voted for Trump based on his assurances about states' rights. Lastly, legal marijuana is a regulated, billion-dollar business. If you crack down on the three states that have passed recreational marijuana, you'll lose roughly 200,000 jobs. States and counties will go bankrupt because they've already budgeted the tax revenue. So that's an example of the kind of issue about which I'd be happy to share my opinion with the president.
How does Donald Trump consume information? How does he think through issues and make decisions?
Trump likes to be verbally briefed, after which he asks a number of very tough questions. And he doesn't always make a decision. He takes it on the wing and says, "OK, I'll think about it." He does read. But if you're writing for him, you need to get to the point — right to the basic facts. He is — at least during the period when I was involved on a daily basis — he was never particularly net-savvy. He would often have the top 10 news stories that were on the net printed out and put in a pile. Then he would read them first thing in the morning. Often, he will either write questions at the bottom of your memo, for you to respond to. Or he will say, "I have questions, call me on this."
What do you make of his use of Twitter?
Let me back up to your question. As I say in the book, I think this was the first election in which finally the mainstream media lost their monopoly on the dissemination of political information. Now, they have to share the marketplace. This is largely based on a technological advance, as we move from television sets to handheld devices. You can still watch CBS on your handheld device, but you've got to go through the internet to get it. When you get to the internet, it doesn't take you long to figure out that there are more, and better, news outlets. You have choice.
The cost of reaching a large audience has plummeted.
Exactly. Scoff at the politics of Infowars and Alex Jones if you wish. He's reaching between 12 and 15 million people every week.
I wanted to ask about Alex Jones. You've become a regular guest on his show and a sort of emissary between him and the more traditional Republican Party. Now, you're a familiar figure on the American scene. You were profiled by the New Yorker. You've advised presidents. Alex Jones has also been around for a while, and he's put out a lot of wild stuff, conspiracy theories about Operation Jade Helm, FEMA Camps, crisis actors in Sandy Hook. Does any of that bother you?
First of all, I really like Alex Jones. I think he's a patriot whose heart is in the right place. Because I appear on Infowars, that does not mean of course that I agree with him on every issue. Just as when I appear on CNN, that doesn't mean I agree with Wolf Blitzer on everything. I do agree with him on many things. I have not written or read on all these issues. To this day, I don't know what a chemtrail is. But he's entitled to these views. Obviously, his audience, which is large, is not turned off by his alternative views. They're turned on by them. On the issues of immigration and American sovereignty and personal freedom and civil liberties, I agree with him. Jones's impact within the Republican primaries is very understated. Literally millions of people are watching him on multiple platforms.
I understand that as an audience-mover, he's a phenomenon.
It's a massive audience. And these people are Republican primary voters. More precisely, they are Republican activists. They go out and encourage other people to vote in Republican primaries. It would be a mistake to underestimate the importance of the Alex Jones constituency when Alex Jones was up against the Republican establishment and he needed to attract new people.
But is there any risk if millions of people listen to one of these shows and decide that FEMA has a secret plan to put them into camps?
Is there any risk in people seeing the president of United States say that they can keep their health care plan if they like their health care plan? Is there any risk in the president of the United States saying, "Read my lips, no new taxes"? Those are disinformation. I don't want to say disinformation as well, because I'm unfamiliar with the FEMA camp report that you're talking about. I haven't read it. Don't know it. But, you know, caveat emptor. Let the consumer decide what they choose to believe and who they choose to believe.
That certainly seemed to be BuzzFeed's attitude when they explained why they published the Trump dossier.
Exactly. And by the way, I never attacked them for publishing the dossier. I attacked John McCain for passing it on, when it was rife with typos and so obviously a fraud. I've seen this same exact memo four times. Somebody has always been peddling this since the beginning of the presidential campaign. They get no takers. Because anybody who thinks about this would understand that given Trump's level of sophistication, if not paranoia, and his love of privacy, if for no other reason than to preserve the element of surprise, and his germophobia — the whole thing is absurd! Zero chance that he would party with a bunch of prostitutes involving urine.
What about these reports that you were in contact with Russian intelligence? Why are law enforcement sources risking their credibility with New York Times reporters and claiming that they have collected evidence under a FISA warrant showing that this is true?
If there is a FISA warrant and my emails and text messages and presumably phone calls have been under surveillance for over a year — all on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, as the FISA court is widely understood to be a rubber stamp for the government — then that is an outrageous violation of my civil liberties on the basis of no evidence. They may learn many, many things. Obviously my communications are private and intensely personal. But I'll tell you what they'll also learn. I have not been in touch with any Russians. There is nothing there, regarding the Russians, to see. So ultimately, it will prove my point. This meme begins at the instant Donald Trump said that if the Russians have Hillary Clinton's missing emails, they should release them. From that point on, Trump-is-in-bed-with-Putin becomes a talking point of the Clinton campaign, and their allies in the Obama administration, who include the people in the intelligence agencies, who are, after all, political appointees at the top, second, and third levels.
In October, you made a couple of statements that seemed to predict future leaks coming out against Clinton from Julian Assange.
I've addressed this ad nauseum, in the book and elsewhere. We have a mutual friend. My friend communicates with Assange and he communicates with me. He told me that WikiLeaks has devastating information on Hillary and they'll start unloading it the first week in October. That's it. In fact, early in October, Assange announced that he'd be releasing something in the beginning of the week for the next 10 weeks. And he does. And it's devastating. And it's all about Hillary. The implication that I had some role or some inside knowledge of precisely the timing and the substance of what Assange and WikiLeaks were going to do is false. Or that I had any input to it, that's false. I merely said what I had learned, and I reported it at my own website. It's a big jump from there to "Stone knew everything in advance." And yes, I did in August say that Podesta's time in the barrel would come. That was based on my own research into Podesta. None of that information came from WikiLeaks. The idea that I was foreshadowing the hacking of Podesta's email is false.
Has anyone from federal law enforcement reached out to you as part of an investigation?
No. I would be happy to cooperate with any balanced and impartial investigation by the federal government. But just the disclosure of the FISA warrant is a felony. Just as the disclosure of the surveillance of Gen. Flynn is a felony. So, the leakers at the agency, presumably, beneath the director, are breaking the law. The president is justified in being angry about this.
People broke the law to tell the New York Times that there was an investigation into classified content in Hillary Clinton's emails. Those were felonies as well, right?
Probably right. But let's recognize that these agencies are not monolithic. At the top level, you have Obama appointees. At the bottom level, you have honest men and women who are trying to do their duty and have their own views. I suspect there is always an internal struggle and sometimes there are leaks against the leadership, when an agent feels that the agency is covering up a crime, he might leak that. But as Glenn Greenwald said recently in a headline, that's a justifiable crime.
Greenwald was writing about leaking against Trump.
I understand why they're doing it. That doesn't make it less illegal. That's all I'm saying.
When an issue like Russia becomes this politicized, how can a president come up with a policy? Is there any way to clear the water?
That's the point of this exercise. There is an effort by those in the government who favor the status quo as far as Russia is concerned, with a continued Cold War, to put the president in a straitjacket so that he can't make any change in policy if he wishes to. Anybody who thinks Trump is going to go limp about politics in the region doesn't understand him. His position may be more nuanced, but I don't think that he is going to roll back any punitive measures against Russia. He is not in Putin's pocket.
Here's what I don't understand. You talk about the neocons who want war and make Trump sound like a Rand Paul-style isolationist, but then I hear him talk about totally obliterating ISIS and taking a much harder line.
He's left with no choice. ISIS is a loose end. They have to be dealt with. The reason we have them is adventurism by previous administrations. Trump's call to rebuild our strength and be a deterrent sounds to me like Barry Goldwater. Peace through strength is not a neocon slogan. I don't think Trump is an isolationist. He's a non-interventionist.
Earlier you said that Alex Jones has the right to say what he wants to say. Is there anything wrong with Trump using the bully pulpit to call the media "enemies of the people?"
Trump is a truth-teller. He calls it as he sees it. He's not wrong. This is the politics of polarization, which got Nixon re-elected in 1972 with 49 states. This is pointing out to the people the difference between the regular people and the elites, and how they lie. How they push a false narrative. How big media is in bed with big government and the establishment in the two-party duopoly. They're invested in the status quo. Yeah, I think that's all fair commentary, but —
— but is it different when the president says it?
I think the president is precisely the one who should say it. This is an example of leadership. To those who say this is divisive, well, we're tired of polite. We're tired of the phoniness of Washington in which politicians say things because they're politically correct, things that they know are not true. Trump is not going to do that.
It's not the divisiveness. It's more like this guy takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and then sets about talking down most of the values enshrined in the First Amendment by attacking the notion that people can say whatever they want.
I don't think he's calling for them to be censored. It's the left that is calling for the censorship of those who they decide are fake news.
But when the president calls someone an "enemy," isn't he calling for heavier sanctions than mere censorship? When the head of the largest military apparatus in the world calls someone an enemy of the people … that's a military term, right?
That's an unfair extrapolation of what he said. He didn't mention censorship. He didn't mention actions against them. He does have the right to say: "Don't believe them." And that's really what he's saying. "Don't believe these people."
So the military connotation was not his intent?
At the juncture that the president or his administration advocates censorship, that's when they lose me. I'm outraged now by the attempts to censor my webpage, my YouTube feed, my Twitter feed. Twitter has me on some kind of logarithmic slowdown. The number of retweets has dropped. I have 150,000 followers, but I can't get verified. There are other people passing themselves off as Roger Stone and I still can't get verified. Not that I care, but this is just an example of the games being played. I'm against censorship, period. Let everybody have access to the market. I'm outraged by the attempts to censor me and my allies just as I would be outraged by any attempt to censor the president's critics. [ed. — The Intercept has contacted Twitter regarding both of Stone's claims and will update this post with any response.]
Do you have any predictions for how Trump's coalition will evolve over the next election cycle?
It depends on whether the president is true to those who elected him. I would have to admit, candidly, when I see this many people from Goldman Sachs in the house, that I find it mildly disturbing. When I see all these quislings from the Republican National Committee on the staff and then people wonder why the place is leaking like a sieve. But in the end, I put my faith in the president.
You've talked about the "deep state." Why is it that when the intelligence community is leaking about Flynn's Russia contacts, that is the work of the deep state, but when the FBI leaks about Hillary's emails, that isn't the deep state? Is there a difference?
Because the people who I suspect are leaking against the president are running these agencies and have authority. The leaks that have come out against Hillary are coming from the middle and lower levels of the agencies from people who see a political cover-up and want to thwart it. They are not the deep state. They don't run anything. They just have information. They may have a political view, but they are not running the agency. They have no influence beyond their obtaining, or having access to, information.
They had enough influence to get Comey to put out that letter before the election.
Comey had no choice. The NYPD had and has a copy of the 650,000 emails. Comey's statement, days before the election, that there's nothing in there, is a bald-faced lie. This is just supposition, but I think the FBI director looked at the content and said they're going to hang me if I don't do something.
My colleague Jon Schwarz has asked this question: Why doesn't Trump just declassify everything we have about his supposed Russia contacts and those of members of his campaign, just to put the matter at rest?
Not the worst idea I've ever heard. Perfectly OK with me.
How are you thinking about the controversy over Attorney General Jeff Sessions's statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he didn't meet with any Russians?
I think it's conceivable that he misunderstood the question, that he thought he was being asked if he had spoken to any Russian contact about the campaign and therefore he thought a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador in which politics was not in any way the subject — he was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — would not pertain. That's just a guess. It's still immaterial. The Trump campaign didn't have any contact with the Russians, wasn't infiltrated with the Russians, didn't get any help from the Russians. They call me a dirty trickster? This is the greatest Democratic dirty trick of all. This all dates to a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point. There's no beef. There's no proof. Because it didn't happen.
It does seem like the Trump transition was in touch with the Russians at some point. Are there reasons for that that might be innocuous?
First of all, that would be after the election. Secondarily, I don't know that that's improper. The new administration is going to have to have some relationship and communication with the Russians. It looked to me like Gen. Flynn's call was for the purposes of setting up a phone call between the presidents of the two countries. That appears to be perfectly appropriate and within his job description. I have no idea why he misled the vice president about it.
Could there be reasons for contact with the Russians, during the campaign, before the election, that would not necessarily be inappropriate?
None come to mind. There's no reason. There just isn't any reason. Why would you do that? Congresswoman Maxine Waters said the Russians fed Trump the line "Crooked Hillary." Bullshit. Donald Trump came up with Crooked Hillary. As he did Lyin' Ted. As he did Little Marco. [ed. — In fact, Waters questioned whether that had happened, and gave it as an example of collusion that would be an impeachable offense.]
So all these members of the Senate Intelligence Committee who say that the FBI does have evidence of contact between the Russian government and the Trump campaign — is that all made up?
Let's see it. Yes. I'm calling them out. I say, it's not true. Let's see the proof. Again, they may have been told that by some of the intelligence agencies but where's the beef? Where's the proof? Again, the New York Times specifically says, emails, records of financial transactions, and transcripts of phone calls. Produce them! Where are they! Let's settle this once and for all. [ed. — The Times reported that federal agencies had obtained "intercepted communications and financial transactions" from the Trump campaign as part of their investigation, and that "intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House."]
You said this intermediary with WikiLeaks was a mutual friend and an American journalist. Is there anything else you can share about that contact?
No. But given that it is true, if you reject the idea that WikiLeaks works for the Russians, what difference would it make? I would have every right to communicate directly or indirectly with WikiLeaks. I believe Assange when he says he doesn't work for any nation-state. He doesn't work for the Russians.
I guess it comes down to this: At what point does contact equal coordination? Or is it just meeting with people and talking?
You write for a website. I write for a website. Your job is to go out and ask questions. Seek information. That's also my job. That's what I do. I'm a best-selling author. I have a website with thousands of people reading it every day. And I have no official role in the Trump campaign. And I'm not on the Trump payroll.
Is it accurate that you did have an official role prior to August?
Yes. I was a consultant for three months — June, July, and August.
And you were paid for that period of time.
Given all that, why not just talk to Assange directly?
I never made any attempt to do so.
You said you heard that there might be leaks coming. But knowing everything about you, and the hard work that you've done to get clients elected in the past, wouldn't it be reasonable for people to guess that if you were in touch with Assange, you would try to coordinate the timing of these releases? Why not do that?
But why would anyone believe that I had any reasonable ability to do so? Assange's goal is not the election of Donald Trump. I would have no influence with him. Why would I have any reason to believe that he is interested in advice or coordination?
Actually, some have suggested that Assange's goal was to elect Donald Trump, given the content of the WikiLeaks releases and their timing.
People are entitled to believe whatever they want. They're certainly entitled to believe that I might try to do that. I just didn't. Again, just like you don't divulge the identity of your sources, I have no compulsion or requirement to divulge the identity of mine. A good source told me accurately that he had learned from WikiLeaks, that he had learned from Assange, that they had devastating political information on Hillary Clinton that they would begin to disclose in October. That's the sum total of what I knew. I never sent any message back.
In the book's appendix, you cite traffic figures for the propagation of the meme around Danney Williams, who continues to claim that he is Bill Clinton's secret love child.
Frankly, I think anybody who has seen the multiple videos will say that Danney and his mother and his aunt make a pretty compelling argument. Remember, this isn't a court of law. This is the court of public opinion. Obviously, many African-American voters believe that Danney is Bill's son. As I show in the book, in the places targeted [with the Williams meme by the Trump campaign], African-American voter participation was down overall, and Clinton's share was off from her national averages.
If those voters believe it's true, does it matter whether it's true?
The point is, it is true. I believe it's true. And I believe it will be proven. For anybody who says "you are spreading disinformation," I just don't agree with that. I think I am spreading the truth.
In the book, you say that the truth gets lost with the car keys sometimes, that it doesn't quite stick on its own. What is truth to you, given all this evidence flying back and forth and people's beliefs being so malleable? How do you think of the truth?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? It's a question that can't be answered. Facts are, obviously, in the eye of the beholder. You have an obligation to make a compelling case. Caveat emptor. Let the consumer decide what he or she believes or doesn't believe based on how compelling a case you put forward for your point of view.
That sounds like a relativist position.
But that's what campaigns are about. Obama claims that he created jobs. His opponents claim that he didn't.
It seems that with each subsequent election cycle, there is less political reality outside of the campaign.
The voters have always made the decision. Lyndon Johnson said we weren't going any further into Vietnam. He got elected. What did he do? He went further into Vietnam. Franklin Roosevelt said he wasn't going to send your sons or daughters into any foreign war. Except that he did, shortly after winning the election.
Jeff Sessions says that he didn't meet with any Russians. Then it turns out that he did. You say you didn't meet with any Russians. And you're saying that we should trust you on that.
Well, I'm saying that it will ultimately be proven that I didn't.
Again, couldn't President Trump prove exactly that by ordering that these records be declassified?
I don't think there's anything to declassify. That's the point. As we discussed earlier, if the FISA court really did issue a secret warrant for my communications over a year ago, that's an outrageous violation of my right to privacy. But I can sleep at night because I know those records will show no contact with anybody or anything Russian.
Top photo: Roger Stone speaks to the media at Trump Tower on Dec. 6, 2016, in New York City.
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The Forbidden City is usually the first stop for foreign visitors to China. Thousands of people pour through its gates every day, stopping to rub the round gilded knobs on the doors on the way. The Chinese believe doing this brings them good luck.
Forbidden City. Even the name exudes an aura of mystery. Today it's known as the Palace Museum or GuGong in Mandarin. But for 500 years, it was off limits to the common Chinese people, which is how it got its name.
Forbidden City Once Home to Emperors
The Forbidden City dates back to the 15th century, and has been home to 24 Ming and Qhing dynasty emperors. The last emperor to live there was Pu Yu, who was both crowned and then abdicated by the time he was six years old. Bernardo Bertolucci's film, The Last Emperor, is about Pu Yi's life. Much of it takes place in the Forbidden City. It is an excellent film for visitors to watch before they come to Beijing.
The Forbidden City has been destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries. Much of what's there today is post 18th century.
The Forbidden City is ranked among the top five palaces in the world, along with Versailles in Paris, Buckingham Palace in London, the White House in Washington, D.C., and the Kremlin in Moscow. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Forbidden City Has Almost 10,000 Rooms
The Forbidden City has almost 10,000 rooms, most of which are forbidden to the public. Most people follow a straight line from south to north. This means crowds at the main halls can be so bad, many visitors are not able to get close enough to see what they contain. Buildings along the side have historical displays such as calligraphy, paintings and porcelain. As they get fewer visitors, exploring them is one way to avoid the crowds but still have the Forbidden City experience.
The Forbidden City is located across the street from Tian'anmen Square. Many tourists visit both on the same day.
The Forbidden City is located at once was the very center of Beijing. The south entrance on Chang'an Avenue is the main entrance. It also is the only entrance where one can rent audio tours of the museum. The tape is narrated by British actor Roger Moore, who starred as James Bond in several of those movies. It opens at 8:30 a.m. daily; admission is 60 yuan (about US $8)/ Tour buses hit the Forbidden City in the morning, so visitors who wait until the afternoon may be able to avoid some of the crowds.
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