Muhammad West – Jabir RA
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The speakers discuss the importance of Jabir's hadith during the internet age and his involvement in various movement. They also touch upon Jabir's new nickname, grandson, and the origin of the waqd. The conversation shifts to Jabir's new nickname, grandson, and the importance of not letting a young man marry another woman. The conversation ends with a discussion about a gamble where a male partner is offered a donut and the partner refusing to donut again. The conversation also touches on Jabir's family and the origin of the waqd.
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There's something.
We begin by praising
and all those who follow his sun until
the end of time. May Allah bless us
to be amongst them. Mean, walhamdulillah.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant,
our Hijaj, Hajj, Maqbool, Maqbool,
May Allah grant him to return safely. May
Allah subhanahu wa'ala grant all acts of Ibadah
to be accepted. Ameen. And we wish all
of you that you
had a blessed, happy Eid Mubarak.
May Allah subhanahu wa'ala accept from
us all our deeds of goodness during the
first 10 days of the hija,
and grant that the year ahead be a
much better year for the Ummah. Ameen.
Today's story time,
can relax the story, so I'm gonna say
it's and it's on
a specific Sahabi, a Sahabi which you must
have heard many times, Anjabir in Anjabir. Right?
You've heard Anjabir.
He's one of the most prolific narrators of
hadith.
Jabir radiAllan is one of the companions who've
narrated the most hadith. In fact, there are
7 who narrated over a 1000 hadith of
the Nabi Sultan.
And it's amazing none of these 7 did
the Nabi Sultan
say to them, listen, sit here, take this
hadith, write it down, narrate it. They just
narrated it by being in his companionship, being
next to him,
observing, listening,
7, you'll find all of them are young.
They were all very, very young in the
time of the Nabi Salam.
Anas, for example,
when the Nabi passed away, he was 16.
When he when the Nabi died, son of
a sallam, Anas only spent 10 years from
6 to 16. Aisha, we know, was a
young lady when she married the Nabi sun.
Jabir is is also a very young man,
basically a boy, and his whole life as
a youth he spent with an Nabi
and then his whole life afterwards would be
to narrate hadith. Now why why did I
select Jabir? Two things. Two reasons why.
We are in youth month, and I want
to show
how the Nabi Islam inspires
an ordinary young companion
to be so motivated, to love the Nabi
so much that I'm going to spend every
day with him, memorize and learn hadith for
the rest of my life.
How did the Nabi so much change this
man's heart? And why I chose him also
to show you
Jabir radiya allan of the hadith that he
narrates,
it was actually a long introduction to the
man,
is that he narrates perhaps the most important
hadith about Hajj.
All the little bits you know about Hajj,
you know parts of a very long hadith,
hadith, Jabir narrates this hadith. And I won't
go into the depths of the hadith, but
just to show you no one narrated the
complete Hajj of the Rabi Salam like Jabir
did. And so I start the first hadith
I mentioned of Jabir.
Jabir is now an old man. He's blind.
And one of the great great grandsons of
the Nabi sun comes to visit
him, and he says, my uncle, you know,
is is honoring this old man. Jabir is
our old man, and he says, I'm from
the descendants, Jafar Saliq's father. Jafar, the great
Jafar Saliq is there. Right? The great great
grandson. And
and Jabir takes the face of this Ahlubayt
Ahlubayt and he hugs him and he says,
like, you know, family
And so he says Jabir says, my son,
ask me what do you want to know?
So the young the boy says, sujabir, tell
me about the Hajj of my grandfather. I
want to know how the Nabi'sulam made Hajj.
So now the hadith begins. Sujabir smiles. He's
blind and he smiling, and he, like, puts
his hands up 9. He says, for 9
years, no Hajj. We were in Madinah. The
Quraysh didn't allow us. Then
in 10th year of the Hijra, there'll be
some announce
I'm going for Hajj,
and everybody responds. This is the real Rasool's
travels into us. Rasool's sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is going Hajj, so everybody said we're gonna
go with. And so when the announcement went,
everyone was so excited.
At that time, Jabir was, like, maybe 20
years old. So he's now a young man.
He's now thinking back 50 years in in
the past. And he said
and this is I'm not gonna go through
all the details, but he said, when the
announcement was given and we went to the
mikar to put on our I Haram, the
rabies I was with the Rabi sallallahu alaihi
wasallam, and when I looked up,
I just saw people.
All the 100 a 100000 people. Wherever I
looked? I've never seen so many people in
my life. We are standing at the mikat,
and then Nabi
was stood up on his camels that we
could all see him, and he now mentioned
I'm entering the state of Ihram, and we
all followed as he did, and we now
we all entered Ihram. And he was saying
and Jabir is nostalgic, and he says, those
those were the good old days. The Nabi's
was still alive and the Quran was still
being Allah was still revealing a revelation.
He's like, the good old days. And just
as we entered the in our ihram, Abu
Bakr comes running to the Nabi Salam.
Abu Bakr said, you Rasoolah, I've got a
problem.
What's the problem? My wife just went into
labor.
Abu Bakr's wife, she's heavily pregnant. She's going
on Hajj. She goes into labor at the
mikat. What must she do now with Ihram?
So now the Rabbi Musa says she also
must enter the ihram. The lady in hide
also enters the ihram. She just hussles herself
like everybody else and everything is fine. Okay.
So now we learn something about Hajj. And
then Jabri said we all made the talbiyah
It was such a wonderful vibe. Everyone is
making talbiyah. And some people had a different
type of talbiyah, and the Rabi Islam did
not stop them. They added,
They added little bits of extra adkar.
Jabir said he did not stop anybody. But
the Talbiyah that you know, the
one we know is the one that Nabi
Musa recited. He only recited that one, which
means that's the best one. He only recited
that.
Again,
Jabir is sticking to the Nabi Salam like
like glue, and he's he's learning these details.
How does the Nabi Salam make a 20
year old, a young man so keen? We'll
get to that. That's the whole point of
the Khudba, Insha'Allah.
So now Jabir says we came to Makkah,
and we performed our, umrah, tawaf, and sah.
We performed the umrah for those who who
were alright. And then when we're done with
Umrah, again, a tidbit of Hajj here. When
we were done,
the rabbi comes says there is a new
type of Hajj now.
Allah revealed to me there's a new type
of Hajj.
In this Hajj,
for those of you who have not brought
your Qurban animal with you from Madinah,
now that you're done with Umrah, you exit
your ihram. It's called tamattu hajj.
Before this, the type of hajj is you
arrive in Makkah in ihram and you stay
in ihram until Arafah. So if you arrive
2, 3 weeks before the time, you stay
in I Haram the whole time. This is
this is how Hajj used to be. Then
a reason says now there's a new time.
So there's a once the Harbin even said,
you Rasoolullah, is it just this year or
forever? So the reason why this is till
kiyama. This is the night of Hajj now.
That this is how we're gonna make Hajj.
And if I can come back and if
I'm going if Allah allows me, inshallah, to
come back next year, I will do that.
However,
if you
brought your animal with you to Makkah, you
came with your animal from South Africa, you
put him in the Emirates flight, you brought
your sheep with you, you cannot exit your
Haram. So all those who came with sheep,
you must stay in haram till at the
end of Hajj. As for the rest of
you, exit the haram, and it's better for
you. It's the better like, you know, it's
gonna be discouraging.
Allah Allah had the Nabi salam, of course,
understood
that this was for the Ummah.
One way we could say the obviously, the
better Hajj would be to stay in haram
for 3 weeks, but now tambatu is better
because it's the sunnah. And then Nabi said,
this is the sunnah,
but I'm going to stay longer because I
brought my animal with me. Okay? So he
did the long one, the the difficult one,
but he said next year, insha'Allah, when I
come, I won't bring my animal. Yeah. Amazing.
Right? And so now everyone is going out
of their Haram,
Uqut, and now Jabir adds a little bit
to the questioner. Remember, this is the great
grandson of Said
Ali. And so then he said, and you
know what? Your dad your great Said Ali
wasn't with us from Medina. He was coming
from Yemen. He was on an expedition. He
came from Yemen. And when he arrived in
Makkah, he performed his Umrah, and he comes
to your great grandmother Fatima, and he finds
her with normal clothes. And he says,
So he just said, Fatima is saying,
my dad told me that we exit the
Haram in all of this. And said, Nala
says, oh, I'm not I'm not sure about
this thing. I'm first gonna speak to the
Nabi Salam. And so he says, is it
true we can exit our Haram? So the
Nabi says to Said Nayeli, yes, you can.
She spoke the truth.
And then the rabbi asked Say Nayeli, what
is your what was your niya when you
entered the Haram?
So Say Nayeli said,
my niyyah. I said, Allah, I entered the
ihram to emulate whatever the nabi's on. Whatever
his ihram is is my ihram. So the
nabi says, Well, then you're gonna stay with
me in ihram. We're gonna stay together now
in ihram for a week or so. So
then Jabir mentions, so say now Ali stayed
in ihram, Fatima was not in ihram. So
he's adding this little bit because it's your
family members.
Right. Then the he mentions the day of
Tarawiyah came the day before Arafa. Those who
were not in hiram, entered hiram. We went
to Mina. We stayed there. Nothing happened. No
jama'at, and then we got ready for Arafa.
So then Jabir mentions that Nabi salallam
got to Arafa
before the door time,
and there was a habit of the Quraysh.
The Quraysh had this practice that they would
stand outside Arafah
and the rest of the people would enter
Arafah. Why? Because the Quraysh said, we are
already Allah's people.
We are the chosen people. You filthy people
need to get your sins forgiven at Arafah.
We stand chosen people. You filthy people need
to get your sins forgiven at Arafa. We
stand outside. And the Quraysh, those who just
recently
embraced Islam, they were sure that Nabi's was
gonna do the same because he pauses outside
Arafa. He stops just outside Arafa and he
waits. So they're, oh, okay. This is a
Quraysh thing still, but the minute the waqf
of the word came in, the Nabi Muslim
stepped into Arafa. Why did he do this?
To show the whole Ummah. Wukuf begins
deliberately. I'm showing you the Wukuf of Arafa
begins the minute it is the word time.
Everything he did was fiqh. Then he stood
in a place Jabir says he stood on
a prominent place, the mount an elevated place,
and he gave that amazing khutbah that we
all know. An Arab is not better than
Arab. A white person is not better than
a black person. Your money is sacred like
this place. That amazing khutbah that we know,
he gave that khutbah.
And then he performed the word and Asr
together.
He made the salah together.
Then Jabir says the Nabi sun found a
spot. He faced the qiblah, and he just
stayed there the whole day in du'a. We
spoke about this last week. The Nabi Islam
just stood and made intense du'a until sunset.
When the sun had set, the Nabi joined
8 years now.
Alafa is finished. The Nabi
joined on a camel with Usama, another we
should all know again. Usama, another young young
man, Usama,
the adopted son of the Nabi's, Zayd, that's
his son. We should all know these names.
They're very important names. I know the only
Usama you know is Osama bin Laden. This
is
bin Laden. Usama
this is like the grandson of the Nabi.
So Usama's nickname was Hebun Nabi, Usama the
Beloved of Nabi. This is Usama. So Usama
now gets a ride with the Nabi Muslim.
They're sharing a camel. And the Nabi Muslim
says to everyone, and subhanAllah, it's one of
the things we've missed on Hajj. After Arafah,
Arafah, he made us twist
slowly.
Think easy. Don't rush. Don't rush.
And those who've been on Hajj, you know,
when you leave Arafah, it's like a a
a a a mad traffic jam. He said
slowly, and they went very slowly to Mus'alifa
to the point where Usama said the waqd
is going out. We're gonna miss Maghrib. We
didn't make Maghrib happen. He said, Maghrib. He
said, don't worry. We're gonna make Maghrib and
Ishay together in Mus'alifah.
We got to Mus'alifah Jabez says, we made
Maghrib and Ishay, then Abidim sleep. No Tajid.
Nothing.
Okay. We woke up the next day, Fajr
time, and we went to Mina.
And, of course, there's lot of details in
here. I'm just extracting a few things. On
the way, there's a nice tidbit that Jabir
adds, now that Rabi Islam is on that
camel with his cousin, another younger cousin called
Fadl. Now someone else is is sharing a
camel with an Rabi Salam, al Fadl. And
Jairus said that al Fadl was a young
man, and he was a handsome guy. And
then a group of ladies came to the
rabbi's salam to ask him a question.
They're still in iharam. They just came from
Arafa, and while they're talking, the lafisun noticed
Fadl is looking at these ladies.
He's in ihram, but he's staring at these
girls. They're pretty.
And the lafisun doesn't say anything to Fadl.
He just moves his face to one side.
And after a minute, Fadl looks again, and
the rabbi moves his face again. So Jabez
just adds that 2, 3 times, but not
once. The rabbi says,
You are on Arafa, you yeah. Father, what's
wrong with you? He just moves his face
politely.
Not now. Not not it's not the time.
This is Araf. This is Hajj
Haram. And so,
this then he said Jabez said, we came
to Mina. The Nabi Muslim threw the Jamarat.
He Qurbaned. In one narration, the Nabi Muslim
says, I'm on behalf of Muhammad and
my family and the whole and those of
my ummah who don't have a Qurban. And
and he Qurbaned a 100 cheap on the
day of of of of Eid. 100 cheap.
And then he put on normal clothes out
of Ihram, and then he went to Makkah
to perform tawaf and sai. And just the
last part the Jabid adds, when he got
to the Haram,
he saw his own family, the Banu Hashimis
tribe. Their job was to take the water
out of the Zamzam well and to give
it to the Hajis.
And when the Ravisan comes to them, he
says, yeah, I wish
if I could, I would jump in the
well with you guys and do do this
because it's my family who is doing it.
But if I did this now, the whole
Ummah will make it a part of Hajj.
Everybody will then have to go and take
something out.
He knows, and this shows you he's fiqh.
He's not talking about 10,000, a 100,000. He's
he knows a time is gonna come we're
gonna have 5,000,000 people here. All of them
can't go and give it some some. So
I'm not going to do it, but I
wish I could. In another hadith, he also
mentions, I'm standing here, but the whole thing
is Arafa. Don't fight for the spot where
I'm standing. His fiqh of understanding
the ummah is going to be. Now all
of this was intro to this man Jabir.
How do you get a young person
to be so
in love with an Nabi salalahu alaihi wa
sallam that he sticks to him so completely?
Jabir radiallan is is is from the Ansari.
He's from the Sahaba of Madinah. He was
also from Makkah. And when the Nabi's made
Hijra,
Jabir's dad dies in the battle of Uhud.
Jabir's father passes away in battle of Uhud
and leaves behind Jabir is the only boy
in the house. He's got 9 sisters and
debt. His dad leaves him with debt. In
fact, his dad told him, I don't want
you to fight in battle. I have death.
You have young sisters. You if you you're
the only person that must keep things together.
And the only thing Jabez dad leaves leaves
him with is a crookie of a camel,
an old camel, basically, on the verge of
a half dead camel. That's the only position
he has.
So now
Jabir tells us now now we skip to
another hadith. Jabir tells us, I was always
with Anabis on the battle,
I was on many battles with Anabis. I
was always there.
And one of the first battles he attended
now he's a boy of 15, 16. He
says, I was on the battle with the
Nabi Salam, and we were on our way
back to Madinah, and all I had was
this junk camel, camel, this camel that is
so old.
And I have these deaths, and I have
these sisters, so he's really down and out.
He's quite depressed.
And the camel was so weak, it was
falling behind, and like he almost gave up
trying to keep up with the army. He's
like, Carlos, I can't keep up. I'm just
gonna go 20. The rest of you can
go 60. I'm just going to fall behind,
and I'll get there when I get there.
And he's really, really despondent. And he said,
I was like this, and, you know, as
you're on the camel, you eventually dose in
and dose out. And when he sort of
woke up, he saw the Nabi standing next
to him. So the Nabi salalam
slowed down from the main
palaton or the main part of the army,
and he slows down because he noticed, ah,
one of my companions is falling behind.
And so the rabbi goes side by side
to this 14 year old boy, 13 year
old boy, and he says the reason he
greets him and says, why are you so
sad?
What's wrong? I can see you.
You're down. You're quite miserable. What's wrong?
And now Javed lets it out. My dad
died in Uhud, and I've got 9 sisters,
and I've got no money, and I have
debts, and this camel is the only thing
I have, and look how slow it is.
And now Javed is complaining. So then I
says, okay. Put the camel down. I'm gonna
do some mechanic work here. And then Rabi
says, taps the camel, and Jabir says, this
camel becomes
a Ferrari.
So fast I couldn't even it not only
caught up with the army, it went
right front. It's now leading the pack. I
had to struggle
to keep this camel in place. The Rabi
Saba will beat up this camel and now
it's so the Rabi is like, oh, Masha'allah,
the camel is good now. And now the
Nabi says to
him, give me the camel. It's a good
camel now. Right? Nice. I want it. Give
it to me.
So Jabir now, it's beautiful in the hadith.
Jabir is speaking from his perspective. He says,
I couldn't. This is the only thing I
have. My only property is this thing. I
have debts. And I
said I said, no. I can't. I
can't give you this. This is the only
thing I have, but you can have it.
You can one
nation is here. You can have it. You
can lend it. You can have it. And
the Nabi said, no. No. No. Sell it
to me. I want to buy it.
And Jabir says, we're back and forth
almost, like, 25 times. And Abhishek says, may
Allah have mercy on you, Jabir. I wanna
buy it. Send it to me. And, eventually,
Jabir said he's so insistent. I said, okay.
Fine. If you insist,
you can sell it. I'll I'll sell
it to you. So now they enter
a a negotiation. So then I'm just, okay.
I'm gonna give you R1 for the camel,
1 dirham. It's like
a a useless price.
I also chose you the adab of I
mean, he still knew. A Sahabi, the more
senior ones would not negotiate like this. So
Jabin said, no. That's too little for a
camel, You Rasulullah.
Whereas Abu Bakr, he would say, you know,
you can ride my back, You Rasulullah.
But he's a young man. He's like like
our youth today. Said, no, You Rasulullah, Rasulullah's
too little. I don't care you Rasulullah, but
this is too little for a camel.
So it's okay too. And now they negotiate
negotiate. Eventually, it gets to a price where
Jabir says, okay. I'm happy with that price.
So then Abhisam actually asked him, are you
happy with this price, Jabir? And he said,
yes. And in this, there's a a fiqh
rulings, subhanahu, must do business.
Hadith that says, you should buy and sell
things so that both parties feel comfort in
their hearts. You must check. Are you really
happy with us? You you good. The jobs
are good. But he says he has I
have a condition.
You mustn't take the camel now. Otherwise, I'm
gonna have to walk to Madinah. Let me
it to Madinah first, then you can have
the camel. So I said, okay. No problem.
It shows you also you can put additional
clauses.
In every fiqh book, this hadith is there.
Nothing to do with the camel, but is
you can add a clause into a transaction.
So now Jabez says, okay. I'm gonna ride
the camel to Madinah,
and he starts off galloping again. And Jose,
where are you going? Why are you so
quick?
Come back. What's going on? So Jabbi, you
Rasoolullah, I just got married before the battle.
I'm still in my honeymoon phase. So I'm
excited to go home,
you know. This gamble was slow.
So then I said, no. No. No. No.
Don't do that. Let the ladies know you're
coming so that the one who hasn't combed
her hair, she can brush her hair, she
hasn't washed her hair, she hasn't let's come
tomorrow. Let the news go first so she
can prepare herself for you. Don't come on
her, and she's she's not all disheveled and
all of that.
And the Nabi's asked him now they're chatting
again. Now this is not this is Rasulullah,
but he's talking man to man, sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam. Did you marry a a young
lady like yourself or older lady? I like
him to talk. So he said, no, Rasoolallah.
I married a previously widowed lady, an aunt
almost like a auntie.
So so why? You should have married someone
your age. You make her happy. She makes
you happy. You can laugh and play. Meaning,
there's mook and there's a compatibility. It's important.
It would have been
more appropriate
for a young man to marry a young
lady. So just listen to what Jabri says.
Says, no, you Rasulullah,
my dad left us me with 9 younger
sisters. Like, they're all useless young girls. I
didn't wanna marry another useless young girl. That's
not going to I married an auntie who
can teach them and take care of them.
And so then Abi Islam says,
you made a good choice. And here he
says, no. That's good. That's right. I approve.
That was the right thing to do. I
married a a woman.
I have too many cute young girls to
deal with. I married a woman. So then
I was okay. So now, Jabri I went
back to Madinah,
and I told my uncle I met my
uncle and I told him about I I
sold the camel to the Nabi Salam, and
the uncle, how could you do it? That's
the only property we have. What's wrong with
you? Blah blah blah.
What what can I do? I sold it.
He he insisted.
He goes to his wife and he tells
her the same story and she said, If
this is what the Nabi Muslim asked you,
go and obey. Go to the Masjid and
go and give him the camel.
So when the when Jabal gets to the
to the Masjid, defines the Nabi Smoothi, and
he says, you Rasoolah. Yeah. I've brought you
the camel.
And the Nabi says to Bilal, oh Bilal,
pay Jabal the amount and add a little
bit more. Also, another business ruling, if you
wanted to, you can tip. No problem. So
with the reba and all that, we never
think about these things. Is it the reba
when I tip the guy 10%? No. You
can give more if you want to, the
seller, the the the buyer. So he said,
Obilah, give Jabir and add a little tip
there. So Jabir takes the money,
and he leaves. And the rabbi says, yeah,
Jabir, come back. Do you really think I'm
gonna take your camel from you?
You the money is for you and the
camel is for you. He
saw.
Number 1, the leader sees this is young
boy, not one of the senior guys,
and sad, despondent. It would have been so
easy for him to hear, here's a chick,
but it would not have had the impact
that it had. This whole back and forth
teasing me, playing around, sell me the camel
and negotiating
to make me feel like I'm really having
a 1 on 1 with the Namib and
that he's always with an alaihis salam. His
heart changed that day that I'm going to
stick with this man. This is my hero.
This is my hero.
And, so how we can spend so I
mean, a 1,000
plus hadith, we're not gonna mention all of
it, but we conclude with one beautiful
hadith about Jabir
and the Nabi's Salam. Jabir says that at
the back of the trench now they were
digging the trench, and we were going through
a type of a famine.
And everybody was hungry and starving. It was
very, very difficult.
And then the Nabi Sun was in the
trench with us. He's digging. And as he's
breaking the rocks, I saw something I could
not bear. He had a stone wrapped around
his abdomen to to keep from the hunger,
and I couldn't take this. So I rushed
back home to my wife, that same wife
that that Jabir spoke with this this lady,
and he said, my wife, you know, I
know things are tough. Is there anything that
we can make a supper and I can
invite the Nabi salalam?
So she said, you know, we only have
the small little goat
and some dough. I can make bread. And
then she says, Jabesh, listen. There's only enough
for 2, 3 people. Not the whole Jama'ah.
Not the whole Tablikh Jama'ah can come. So
tell the Nabi Salam so she's a big
lady. Don't put me in the eyes. Invite
the Nabi Salam and 1 or 2 people
maybe, but that's all we have. Jabi is
no problem. And he goes back to the
Nabi and he whispers,
my wife is inviting you for supper
and maybe 1 or 2 people.
And the Nabi
wife. It wasn't me. It wasn't me. I
was in trouble.
And then Rabi says, Jabi, tell your wife
not to dish out the food. Wait till
I get there. I'll dish out the food.
And so Rabi says comes the house and
he tells the suhaba, everyone is hungry. They
all queue. He says, no. You must queue
now. It's like a it's like, really? You
can imagine the the fact that the suhaba,
Abu Bakr Umrah, they must stand in a
queue waiting for food. It shows you a
hungry reward. And so the rabbi said, I
will dish. And he start dishing. He takes
10 at a time. He dishes and dishes
and dishes. And Jahabir says the food is
not going up. It just remains. And they
asked Sahaba Asma, how many people came to
us that day? It's
well well over a 1000 people.
10 came in and then 10 batches of
10. And by the time that we're done,
the nabi's made and what was left, there
was enough for us, for our neighbors, and
leftovers for the next few days.
Allahu Akbar.
What's beautiful
is just the mannerism of the Nabi Salam
in taking a young man
who had no care about hadith and all
I mean, he's a pious man, but
to transform him in just one moment in
his life to become one of the most
important that is every Hajji on earth makes
Hajj according to that hadith of Jabir.
Ask Allah
to grant us, the level of iman to
emulate them and to follow the sunnah of
Nabi Salam, insha'Allah. So I'll go ahead and
just one announcement. Next week on youth day,
we have our Dura, and we'll have a
few young youngsters that will sleep over in
the masjid, and we'll have a few programs,
and we would like to contribute,