hanif hayes: say it for me. phillip calvert: chirrin. hanif hayes: churn? children, like kids.n gullah geechee. now the language is actually being taught at harvard. ona. una. so is that one or you? that's you. i don't know how i know that. i think it's because it's just in me. i was getting pretty good at the language, but there's one gullah geechee tradition i was hungry to learn. all right, what have we got to do? teach me teach me about the-- low. low. country. boil. how long has this recipe been around? this recipe been around since before i was born because they brought it from africa. they brought it from africa. africa over here. you think the people that was enslaved was cooking this? oh, yeah. they live off of the river with the oysters and crabs and the shrimp. phillip calvert: drop. drop. hanif hayes: don't burn yourself. i ain't burning myself. all right. i'm going to need somebody to hold that pan for me. ok? phillip calvert: i got the pan. i'm holding it. oh, i smell it. hanif hayes: there you go. you know what to do. i'm teaching you right. you know the things.

have two esteemed guests representing the scholarly class, we're lucky to have with us sheikh ahmed hanifaffairs. brothers, salam alaikum and welcome to the show. now if i could... perhaps start first with youna and the molud of the prophet muhammad. now how are some of the ways that muslims can celebrate this molid? bismillahirrahmanirrahim, um, that's a very good question, and um, i don't think it has a really definite answer, and i think the reason for this is the fact that the um, the celebration of mauloud, is something that is particularly aspect of... muslim culture, you know, it doesn't, it isn't related to the sunnah, you know, um, but um, or you don't have any kind of precedent in the quran for this, um, but um, it is an expression of the love of the of muslim communities for the holy prophet sallallah, and um, you know, just like for example, when you love somebody, you commemorate things about them, you you celebrate their birthday, if they passed away, you commemorate their passing. way and things like that, you remember them, i think you different muslim communities have evo

the zionist regime is currently fighting it is very intense in the cities of sidi rut and the poet hanif. the zionist kan network also reported the death of several other soldiers of this regime in the conflict with palestinian fighters. one of these soldiers is eli geisenberg, one of the senior commanders. according to the report of channel 12 of the zionist regime, another senior commander along with several other soldiers have been captured by the resistance forces. before this, the official sources of the army and police of the zionist regime had confirmed the death of 42 soldiers and 40 police forces of this regime. the police commissioner of the zionist regime also announced the disappearance of a number of soldiers. number the total number of dead zionists has been announced at 75, but the zionist regime's radio announced an hour ago, quoting a high-ranking official of this regime: the number of israeli victims is unbearable and is much higher than the announced figures. rocket attacks on the settlements around the gaza strip continue. the zionist media published pictures of exten

especially in self-defense. joining us today on the show are two very special guests, we have sheikh ahmed hanif in the studio of me, he's a favorite of the show, and he's one of our few honorable scholars that graduated from the islamic seminary in kom, lectures in the uk and is unapologetic in his islamic duty of condemning the oppression of palestine and join. us on skype is brother reza kosim, academic and spokesman for the islamic human rights commission. brother reza campaigns muslim civil rights in the uk and across the world. thank you so much both of you for joining me. if i can start with you, when it comes warfare and islam, some people would say that, actually, if you look at the history of islam, there's a lot of wars. maybe is, does islam desire us to go into battle or is it something that we should avoid possible? bismillahirrahmanirrahim, warfare. is uh seen as a necessary evil in islam, you know there's a verse in the holy quran where it says fitna or creating uh insecurity and and and strife is worse than fighting, which which indicates that fighting itself or warf itself, you

live now to omaha with hanif sufizada, a policy analyst at the center for afghanistan studies at theso much forjoining us. it sounds extraordinary, bearing in mind the numbers involved and the length of time they have been told they have to leave the country, so perhaps you could give us the background and the lead up to this. i think this is a very hasty and un—calculated decision because there are a lot of variables involved in this. it is not easy to say that the afghans who are not document it will leave the country in less than a month. this should have been in discussion with the unhcr and the outgoing government itself and the pakistani authorities and they should work it out how they can do this under conditions of safety and dignity, that is the most important thing for all afghans and other people who are living in pakistan. it will have repercussions for afghanistan and for pakistan in terms of the economic situation. the afghans who are living in pakistan bring a lot of money in terms of businesses and there are tribal relations between the cross borders. my relations bet