How do I deal with peer pressure? | Today I Thought | English
We are all faced with peer pressure in our lives. It is an unfortunate consequence of an un-Islamic society.
Yet, how do we deal with peer...
We are all faced with peer pressure in our lives. It is an unfortunate consequence of an un-Islamic society.
Yet, how do we deal with peer pressure?
Sister Zaynab Barakat helps us deal with one of the hardest parts of growing up: peer pressure.
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Hajj is a symbol of monotheism and spirituality - Leader Hajj Message...
In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and may Allah’s blessings be...
In the Name of Allah, the All-beneficent, the All-merciful.
All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the worlds and may Allah’s blessings be upon our Master, Muhammad al-Mustafa and his immaculate Family and his elect Companions.
As a symbol of Islamic unity and honour and the emblem of monotheism and spirituality, the Holy Ka’bah, during the Hajj season, is host to the ardent and hopeful hearts, who come hurrying from all over the world to the birthplace of Islam in response to the call of the Glorious Lord. At this time, the Islamic Ummah can have a bird’s eye view of its own great extent and diversity, seen through the eyes of its envoys who gather here from all over the world, and be witness to the profound faith that rules over the hearts of the followers of the True Religion, and appreciate its great and peerless heritage.
This self-discovery of the Ummah enables us as Muslims to become aware of the position which is worthy of them in the world, today and tomorrow, and to keep moving towards it.
The expanding wave of Islamic awakening in the world today is a reality that heralds a bright future for the Islamic Ummah. This powerful surge started three decades ago with the victory of the Islamic Revolution and establishment of the system of the Islamic Republic. Our great Ummah has continued to march ahead non-stop, removing the obstacles from its way and conquering new fronts. The sophisticated stratagems of the global Arrogance and its costly maneuvers aimed at countering Islam are also a consequence of these victories.
The extensive propaganda of the enemy to spread Islamophobia, its offhand efforts to create discord among Muslim sects, to incite sectarian prejudices, to bring about pseudo-confrontations between the Sunnis and the Shi’ah, to create disunity between Islamic states and to aggravate their differences, to change them into hostility and unsolvable conflicts, its employment of intelligence and espionage outfits to propagate corruption and immorality amongst the youth—all these are nervous and bewildered responses to the steady and firm advances of the Islamic Ummah towards awakening, honour and freedom.
Today the Zionist regime is no more the undefeatable monster of 30 years ago. The United States and the West are also no more the unquestionable decision-makers of the Middle East that they were two decades ago. Contrary to the situation that existed ten years ago, the nuclear know-how and other complex technologies are no longer considered inaccessible daydreams for Muslim nations of the region. Today the Palestinian nation is an acknowledged paragon of resistance, the Lebanese nation has single-handedly demolished the fake awesomeness of the Zionist regime and emerged as the victor of the 33-day war, and the Iranian nation is at the vanguard of the movement towards the looming peaks.
Today the arrogant United States, the self-styled commandant of the Islamic region and the real sponsor of the Zionist regime, is bogged down in the quagmire of its own making in Afghanistan. As a result of all its crimes against the people of Iraq, it is in the course of becoming isolated in that country. It is hated more than ever before in disaster-stricken Pakistan. Today, the influence of the anti-Islamic front which since the past two centuries has acted as a despotic overlord over Islamic nations and states and plundered their resources, is receding before the heroic resistance of the Muslim nations.
On the opposite side, the wave of Islamic awakening is steadily advancing and growing in depth day by day.
On the one hand, this hopeful and promising situation should inspire us, the Muslim nations, to keep marching ahead towards the desirable future with ever greater confidence. On the other hand, the past lessons and experience should make us more vigilant than ever before. This general imperative undoubtedly calls for greater commitment from religious scholars, political leaders, intellectuals and youth than the others and requires them to be at the vanguard of the struggle.
The clear and living message of the Noble Qur’an is addressed to us:
You are the best nation ever brought forth for mankind: you bid what is right and forbid what is wrong, and have faith in Allah. (3:110)
In this majestic address the Islamic Ummah is declared as one which has been brought forth for the sake of humanity. The aim of its birth is the good of mankind and its deliverance.
Its major duty is to urge what is good and to forbid evil while maintaining unshakeable faith in God. There is no ‘right thing’ (ma’ruf) more significant than rescuing nations from the satanic claws of the global Arrogance, and there is no ‘wrong thing’ (munkar) uglier than dependence on the Arrogant and servitude to them.
Today the major duties of the elite of the Islamic Ummah is to provide help to the Palestinian nation and the besieged people of Gaza, to sympathize and provide assistance to the nations of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Kashmir, to engage in struggle and resistance against the aggressions of the United States and the Zionist regime, to safeguard the solidarity of Muslims and stop tainted hands and mercenary voices that try to damage this unity, to spread awakening and the sense of responsibility and commitment among Muslim youth throughout Islamic communities.
The glorious spectacle and stage of Hajj provides us with an opportunity for the fulfillment of these duties and summons us to intensify and redouble our resolution and efforts.
Peace and Allah’s mercy be upon you!
Sayyid Ali Hussaini Khamenei
1 Dhul Hijjah, 1431
(8 Nov., 2010)
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Cracking Stuxnet - A 21st-century cyber weapon against Iran - Ralph...
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more...
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.
The idea behind the Stuxnet computer worm is actually quite simple. We don't want Iran to get the Bomb. Their major asset for developing nuclear weapons is the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. The gray boxes that you see, these are real-time control systems. Now if we manage to compromise these systems that control drive speeds and valves, we can actually cause a lot of problems with the centrifuge. The gray boxes don't run Windows software; they are a completely different technology. But if we manage to place a good Windows virus on a notebook that is used by a maintenance engineer to configure this gray box, then we are in business. And this is the plot behind Stuxnet.
So we start with a Windows dropper. The payload goes onto the gray box, damages the centrifuge, and the Iranian nuclear program is delayed -- mission accomplished. That's easy, huh? I want to tell you how we found that out. When we started our research on Stuxnet six months ago, it was completely unknown what the purpose of this thing was. The only thing that was known is very, very complex on the Windows part, the dropper part, used multiple zero-day vulnerabilities. And it seemed to want to do something with these gray boxes, these real-time control systems. So that got our attention, and we started a lab project where we infected our environment with Stuxnet and checked this thing out. And then some very funny things happened. Stuxnet behaved like a lab rat that didn't like our cheese -- sniffed, but didn't want to eat. Didn't make sense to me. And after we experimented with different flavors of cheese, I realized, well, this is a directed attack. It's completely directed. The dropper is prowling actively on the gray box if a specific configuration is found, and even if the actual program that it's trying to infect is actually running on that target. And if not, Stuxnet does nothing.
So that really got my attention, and we started to work on this nearly around the clock, because I thought, well, we don't know what the target is. It could be, let's say for example, a U.S. power plant, or a chemical plant in Germany. So we better find out what the target is soon. So we extracted and decompiled the attack code, and we discovered that it's structured in two digital bombs -- a smaller one and a bigger one. And we also saw that they are very professionally engineered by people who obviously had all insider information. They knew all the bits and bites that they had to attack. They probably even know the shoe size of the operator. So they know everything.
And if you have heard that the dropper of Stuxnet is complex and high-tech, let me tell you this: the payload is rocket science. It's way above everything that we have ever seen before. Here you see a sample of this actual attack code. We are talking about -- round about 15,000 lines of code. Looks pretty much like old-style assembly language. And I want to tell you how we were able to make sense out of this code. So what we were looking for is first of all is system function calls, because we know what they do.
And then we were looking for timers and data structures and trying to relate them to the real world -- to potential real world targets. So we do need target theories that we can prove or disprove. In order to get target theories, we remember that it's definitely hardcore sabotage, it must be a high-value target, and it is most likely located in Iran, because that's where most of the infections had been reported. Now you don't find several thousand targets in that area. It basically boils down to the Bushehr nuclear power plant and to the Natanz fuel enrichment plant.
So I told my assistant, "Get me a list of all centrifuge and power plant experts from our client base." And I phoned them up and picked their brain in an effort to match their expertise with what we found in code and data. And that worked pretty well. So we were able to associate the small digital warhead with the rotor control. The rotor is that moving part within the centrifuge, that black object that you see. And if you manipulate the speed of this rotor, you are actually able to crack the rotor and eventually even have the centrifuge explode. What we also saw is that the goal of the attack was really to do it slowly and creepy -- obviously in an effort to drive maintenance engineers crazy, that they would not be able to figure this out quickly.
The big digital warhead -- we had a shot at this by looking very closely at data and data structures. So for example, the number 164 really stands out in that code; you can't overlook it. I started to research scientific literature on how these centrifuges are actually built in Natanz and found they are structured in what is called a cascade, and each cascade holds 164 centrifuges. So that made sense, it was a match.
And it even got better. These centrifuges in Iran are subdivided into 15, what is called, stages. And guess what we found in the attack code? An almost identical structure. So again, that was a real good match. And this gave us very high confidence for what we were looking at. Now don't get me wrong here, it didn't go like this. These results have been obtained over several weeks of really hard labor. And we often went into just a dead-end and had to recover.
Anyway, so we figured out that both digital warheads were actually aiming at one and the same target, but from different angles. The small warhead is taking one cascade, and spinning up the rotors and slowing them down, and the big warhead is talking to six cascades and manipulating valves. So in all, we are very confident that we have actually determined what the target is. It is Natanz, and it is only Natanz. So we don't have to worry that other targets might be hit by Stuxnet.
Here's some very cool stuff that we saw -- really knocked my socks off. Down there is the gray box, and on the top you see the centrifuges. Now what this thing does is it intercepts the input values from sensors -- so for example, from pressure sensors and vibration sensors -- and it provides legitimate code, which is still running during the attack, with fake input data. And as a matter of fact, this fake input data is actually prerecorded by Stuxnet. So it's just like from the Hollywood movies where during the heist, the observation camera is fed with prerecorded video. That's cool, huh?
The idea here is obviously not only to fool the operators in the control room. It actually is much more dangerous and aggressive. The idea is to circumvent a digital safety system. We need digital safety systems where a human operator could not act quick enough. So for example, in a power plant, when your big steam turbine gets too over speed, you must open relief valves within a millisecond. Obviously, this cannot be done by a human operator. So this is where we need digital safety systems. And when they are compromised, then real bad things can happen. Your plant can blow up. And neither your operators nor your safety system will notice it. That's scary.
But it gets worse. And this is very important, what I'm going to say. Think about this. This attack is generic. It doesn't have anything to do, in specifics, with centrifuges, with uranium enrichment. So it would work as well, for example, in a power plant or in an automobile factory. It is generic. And you don't have -- as an attacker -- you don't have to deliver this payload by a USB stick, as we saw it in the case of Stuxnet. You could also use conventional worm technology for spreading. Just spread it as wide as possible. And if you do that, what you end up with is a cyber weapon of mass destruction. That's the consequence that we have to face. So unfortunately, the biggest number of targets for such attacks are not in the Middle East. They're in the United States and Europe and in Japan. So all of the green areas, these are your target-rich environments. We have to face the consequences, and we better start to prepare right now.
Thanks.
(Applause)
Chris Anderson: I've got a question. Ralph, it's been quite widely reported that people assume that Mossad is the main entity behind this. Is that your opinion?
Ralph Langner: Okay, you really want to hear that? Yeah. Okay. My opinion is that the Mossad is involved, but that the leading force is not Israel. So the leading force behind that is the cyber superpower. There is only one, and that's the United States -- fortunately, fortunately. Because otherwise, our problems would even be bigger.
CA: Thank you for scaring the living daylights out of us. Thank you Ralph.
(Applause)
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[18 May 13] Refugee situation worsening in Syrian war - English
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, political commentator, Detroit, about the issue of Syrian refugees as a consequence of...
Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, political commentator, Detroit, about the issue of Syrian refugees as a consequence of the foreign-backed invasion of the country.
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Dua Mashlool - Arabic with English translation (HD)
It is also known as Dua al-Shab al-Ma’khuh bi Dhanbih and is cited in the Muhaj al-Dawat as well as in Kaf’ami’s works. This supplication was...
It is also known as Dua al-Shab al-Ma’khuh bi Dhanbih and is cited in the Muhaj al-Dawat as well as in Kaf’ami’s works. This supplication was taught by the commander of the faithful, Ali ibn Abu Talib (as), to a youth who suffered from paralysis as a consequence of sinful conduct towards his father. On reciting this supplication, he saw in a dream the Holy Prophet (saawa) who stroked his body with his hand and said to him, Keep chanting God’s greatest Name, and you will fare well. On waking up, he found himself healed.
In the report cited in Muhaj al-Da’awat it is stated that one should not recite this prayer without being in the state of wudhu (ritual purity).
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Am I Ready for Marriage? | Shaykh Salim Yusufali | English
What are some of the conditions that are necessary for a young adult to become married?
What does intellectual maturity mean?
And what is...
What are some of the conditions that are necessary for a young adult to become married?
What does intellectual maturity mean?
And what is financial maturity and is it limited to just the person getting married?
Should one delay marriage when the basic and necessary conditions for marriage are met by a young adult?
And are things such as race, older age, an advanced degree, a high paying job, or a large savings deposit, necessary prerequisites for marriage?
At what age do the traditions of the Ahl al-Bayt (A) encourage us to get married? Is there a specific age?
Finally, what happens to a parent if a young adult is at marriageable age and a parent doesn\\\'t marry them off, and in consequence the young adult commits a sin related to not being married?
Shaykh Salim Yusufali answers in this Scholar Clip, which is a must watch for every parent with youth that are close to marriageable age and any youth thinking about the right time to take that beautiful spiritual step and get married.
#IslamicPulse #ScholarClips #Allah #Quran #AhlulBayt #Islam #Youth #Marriage #Spouse #Husband #Wife #Family #Parenting #Parent #Betrothal #Engagement #Nikah
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[197] Hadith Explanation by Imam Khamenei | Satisfying People While...
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei narrates and explains a tradition stated by the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), where his...
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei narrates and explains a tradition stated by the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), where his eminence (S) speaks about the consequences of \\\"Satisfying People While Angering Allah\\\".
What is the chain of narration of this particular tradition explained by Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei?
What are the various kinds of ways that one can anger Allah, while trying to satisfy the people?
And finally, besides incurring the wrath of Allah, what is a consequence of satisfying people, while angering Allah?
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei expounds upon the wise words of the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), explaining to us what happens when we satisfy people, but anger Allah.\\\'
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[198] Hadith Explanation by Imam Khamenei | The Combination of...
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei narrates and explains a tradition stated by the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), where his...
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei narrates and explains a tradition stated by the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), where his eminence (S) speaks about the results of \\\"The Combination of Forbearance and Knowledge\\\".
Yet, what is the most virtuous of combinations?
What is the correct definition of forbearance?
What is a practical example of forbearance?
How should a person act when they are angered?
And on the other hand, how should a person act when they are elated?
What is an unintended consequence of knowledge?
Finally, what is the result of the combination of forbearance with knowledge?
Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei expounds upon the wise words of the Messenger of Allah, the holy Prophet Muhammad (S), explaining to us what happens when we combine forbearance with knowledge.
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Was Ashura A Time-Constrained Exceptional Instance? | IP Talk Show |...
Our condolences to all the believers, all across the world, wherever they are, upon the holy months of Muharram and Safar.
This year, countless...
Our condolences to all the believers, all across the world, wherever they are, upon the holy months of Muharram and Safar.
This year, countless millions across the world once again proudly commemorated the mission of Imam Husayn ibn Ali (A) and most eagerly mourned over the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (A), and his family members and companions who accompanied his eminence into the divine hands of martyrdom as they stood up for Truth and Justice against the overwhelming forces of evil and falsehood.
Yet, what is another distortion in the narrative of Ashura and Karbala that can have disastrous consequences for the mission of Imam Husayn (A)?
And was the movement of Imam Sajjad (A), Imam Baqir (A), Imam Sadiq (A), and all the other Imams (A), a continuation of the movement of Imam Husayn (A)?
What does Shaheed Murtaza Mutahhari say is a direct danger and consequence of considering the event of Ashura to be a one-time exceptional instance?
What is the wrong notion of Taqiyya and what are its consequences?
And what is the correct notion of Taqiyya?
Are we allowed to let Islam be destroyed in order to protect and preserve our wealth, property, families, and even our lives?
What has been and still is one of the primary historic missions of the Shias of Imam Husayn (A)?
What do the present-day mourning processions conducted in places of the world such as Nigeria, Qatif, Yemen, Bahrain, and Kashmir teach us?
Finally, what are the dangers of considering Ashura to simply be a time-constrained exceptional instance in the history of the Muslims?
In order to answer these questions and more, we humbly invited Sayyid Muhammad Hashemi from the Islamic Republic of Iran to answer for us, \\\"Was Ashura A Time-Constrained Exceptional Instance?\\\"
Salutations be upon Husayn!
Salutations be upon Ali ibne Husayn!
Salutations be upon the children of Husayn!
Salutations be upon the companions of Husayn!
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[85] Eat Less, Wear Simple, Love Allah | Ayatollah Misbah-Yazdi | Farsi...
How does a person act when they like or love someone?
And with this answer in mind, how do we act when we are in the presence of Allah; such as...
How does a person act when they like or love someone?
And with this answer in mind, how do we act when we are in the presence of Allah; such as during our 5 daily Salat?
What does eating less food or wearing simple clothes have to do with the love for Allah?
Is it wrong to have love for Allah, and yet, want to eat good food and wear nice clothes?
Still, what is an unintended consequence of wearing nice clothes and eating good food, in regards to our love for Allah?
And what does it mean to have Shirk, when talking about having the love for Allah in one\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s heart?
Finally, what are the signs that you love Allah? And why should one \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Eat Less, Wear Simple, Love Allah\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\".
The late Ayatollah Misbah-Yazdi (R) provides us with a short, but profound lesson on the basics of loving Allah.
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Be A True Shia! | Shaheed Arif al-Husayni | Urdu Sub English
What are some qualities that Shaheed Arif al-Husayni says a Shia must have?
If we are united on the goals of Shia Islam, then why would there be...
What are some qualities that Shaheed Arif al-Husayni says a Shia must have?
If we are united on the goals of Shia Islam, then why would there be any disunity among us?
And finally, if a 100 people live in a place, at what place should the Shia be when it comes to Taqwa?
If we claim to be a Shia of Ahlulbayt (A) but our actions show otherwise, what would be the potential consequence?
The esteemed Shaheed Arif al-Husayni speaks about how we must all \\\\\\\"Be A True Shia!\\\\\\\".
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The Revenge For the Blood of Emad Moghniyyah | Imam Khamenei & Haj...
What did the esteemed Leader say when the israeli\\\\\\\'s thought that they had the Islamic Republic under control as a consequence of the nuclear...
What did the esteemed Leader say when the israeli\\\\\\\'s thought that they had the Islamic Republic under control as a consequence of the nuclear deal?
And at that time, how many years, at max, did the Leader say israel had?
And during that time frame, will the Zionist entity have any peace of mind?
And finally, what does Shaheed Haj Qasem say is the minimum revenge and penalty for the murder and assassination of Emad Moghniyyah?
Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, and Shaheed Haj Qasem Soleimani speak about \\\\\\\"The Revenge For the Blood of Emad Moghniyyah\\\\\\\".
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