is fully informed of our debate, our concerns and our commitment to the vulnerable people of the Mediterranean. Johann Lamont Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to assess and sustain the levels of support staff in schools. Minister Alasdair Allan This is a matter for education authorities as the employment of teachers and support staff, along with recruitment practices, are ultimately a matter for individual local authorities who have the statutory duty for education expenditure and are responsible for providing a complement of staff, which meets the needs of each of their schools and their pupils in light of the resources available. Johann Lamont Thank you. I am sure that the minister appreciates that access to education is about more than teachers, books and buildings. Will he acknowledge the importance of learning support, behaviour support, classroom assistance, personal assistance, admin staff, attendant staff, all those support staff who are ensuring that children have a real opportunity to learn and to allow teachers to focus on their teaching? Although I hear what the minister says about the local authorities responsibility, he shares my concern of anecdotal evidence that there are now fewer support staff with heavier burdens with a consequence for real equality of opportunity within our schools. Will he commit to at least taking a proper view of what is happening around support staff and work with local authorities to ensure that those supports are there so that all our children can learn to their potential? Johann Lamont The Government has commitment to ensuring that our schools are staffed well. That lies behind some of the circumstances that the Government has taken around the number of teaching staff across Scotland. We recognise the importance of support staff, not least for those with additional needs and learning needs. In the face of the statistics that show an increase in the requirements there, the Scottish Government works hard with local authorities to ensure that those needs are met. Margaret Mitchell The Scottish Government has set clear expectations of all public bodies that community engagement is a key part of its function. Local policing and local accountability are fundamental to policing in Scotland. Police Scotland's annual policing plan, which was launched just last week, set out clear examples of the real and vital role that they play in our local communities. That includes examples of where our police service works closely with local communities and partners, not only in solving crime but, importantly, in preventing it taking place. Police reform has seen an almost 150 per cent increase in the number of local elected members scrutinising the police service across Scotland and shaping local delivery. Across Scotland, around 360 local councils now attend local policing committees compared to 146 local councils prior to the creation of Police Scotland. Local policing and local accountability remain fundamental to policing in Scotland. Each of the 14 Police Scotland command divisions have a local commander who works with the council, communities and local partners to help shape and deliver policing through 353 world-level policing plans covering every local community in Scotland. Margaret Mitchell I thank the cabinet secretary for that very comprehensive answer, but does he recognise and value the excellent prevention work and local intelligence provided by crime prevention panels and does he agree that the proposal to cut their budgets and remove police officers' support at their meetings is a retrograde step? As I have said out to the member, the national annual policing plan sets out a range of measures that the Police Scotland intent to take followed over the course of the next year in working with local partners in making sure that they deliver effective policing. As I have mentioned, a key part of that is around prevention action as well. I have no doubt that, if the member has concerns about the way in which Police Scotland is operating in partnership with some of the local crime prevention bodies, she will be more than willing to engage with them directly and how she feels that that could be further improved. Likewise, I am always open to suggestions from members on how they feel that those matters can be better addressed, but she can be assured that Police Scotland recognises the importance of local engagement and working with other partners in the local community to deliver effective policing within those local communities. Patricia Ferguson I thank the minister for the answer that he has just given. In the course of correspondence recently with the chief constable, I ascertained that the chief constable himself will conduct a review of the opening times of police stations following on from the closure and curtailment of many of those last year. I wonder if the minister would join me in urging the chief constable to ensure that community councils and other community groups are not just able to take part in that consultation but are positively encouraged to take part in that consultation and to understand that their views are critical in understanding the effect that those changes have had in local communities. Michael Russell Local engagement is an important part of policing at a local community level. I would expect Police Scotland to engage with a range of stakeholders who have an interest in how they operate at a local level. As the member has stated, she is already engaged with the chief constable on that matter. It may be that the member will also wish to pursue the issue with the Scottish Police Authority, who has the oversight function of how our police go about those particular matters and how the chief constable handles those particular matters. However, I would recognise the points that the member has raised that it is extremely important that all of those stakeholders who may be viewed on those particular issues are given the opportunity to participate in that discussion. I would encourage the member to continue to support those organisations who may wish to express her view on those matters. Graham Dey To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provides local authorities and the purposes for which self-directed support may be used. Maureen Watt Self-directed support is a rights-based approach that enables eligible individuals, their families and carers, flexibility, choice and control of their care and support in order to meet their health and social care outcomes. The Social Care Self-Directed Support Scotland Act 2013 is accompanied by statutory guidance, which was launched in April 2014. That guidance supports local authorities to take an approach where personal needs are assessed as part of a collaborative conversation. If eligibility for support by the local authority is agreed, a care and support plan will be developed that is based on what the person wants to achieve their personal outcomes. The person also has choice and control over how the care and support is delivered. Graham Dey Can I ask the minister what common sense flexibility can be deployed in this regard? I do so in relation to a situation that a constituent of mine finds themselves in, where they want to use SDS to fund a course in applied behaviour analysis therapy in the hope that that will help their child communicate thereby easing the considerable difficulties that the family face, providing respite from those challenges and, in turn, ensuring that the child perhaps has a more productive educational experience than at present. Could such a use of SDS be permissible? Minister, while flexibility and creativity are essential to making the best use of support within available budgets, local authorities provide social care and support to children and families as part of a wider policy and practice framework of getting it right for every child. The local authority has a duty under the social care act 2013 to offer flexibility and choices in relation to a child's care and support. However, the member may wish to direct his constituent, if they have not already done so, to contact the Angus or Dundee carer centres for information and support regarding access to self-directed support. Jointly, those organisations have been awarded 143,000 for 2015-16 from the Scottish Government's support in the right direction fund to ensure that people of Scotland have access to high-quality information support and advocacy services. To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with the implementation of the disclosure scheme for domestic abuse Scotland, which was piloted in Aberdeen and Ayrshire. Cabinet Secretary, Michael Matheson? The disclosure scheme for domestic abuse Scotland is currently still being piloted. The six-month pilots in Aberdeen and Ayrshire will formally end on Sunday 31 May and will be independently evaluated by the University of Glasgow. I can confirm that the schemes will continue to operate in Aberdeen and Ayrshire pending the outcome of the evaluation. I am optimistic that the learning from those pilots will support a roll-out across Scotland, while the practical implementation of the scheme is for Police Scotland to determine and taking forward. The Scottish Government will of course continue to work with them and to support this work going forward. Presiding Officer, those two pilots are very welcome, but in the rest of the United Kingdom, this scheme was rolled out on International Women's Day 2014, bringing huge help and support to potentially vulnerable partners. How soon can we provide the same degree of protection to potential victims across the whole of Scotland? I am sure that the member would recognise that it was important to make sure that we had a scheme that was fit for purpose and suitable to the Scottish justice system, which is why the two pilots were established in the first place and why the independent evaluation is also going to be taking place to assess their effectiveness. As I said, I am optimistic about being able to take it forward on a national basis, and the chief constable has also stated that he is optimistic that he can be able to do that once he has the findings from the independent evaluation and for that to be taken forward on a quick basis. I can assure the member that we are keen to see the project and the pilots being taken forward on a national basis, but once we have the evaluation, we will then be able to determine the final timescale for that to be taken forward. Question 5, Shir Stevenson. Do we ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with North Connect's £2 billion power scheme between Aberdeenshire and Scandinavia? An application for planning permission has been made by North Connect KS to Aberdeenshire Council, which relates to a converter station for the proposed link to Norway. The application was received by the council on 14 April, and a public consultation will run until 21 May. It would not be appropriate to comment on a live planning application. I thank the cabinet secretary for his answer. Within the limitations of a live planning application, does the minister welcome that that will draw significantly on green energy developments, both in Scotland and Norway, and that we will need to see similar cross-country initiatives if we are going to meet electricity demand in Scotland and we should be encouraging more investment in renewable energy projects? On the policy questions that Mr Stevenson raises, I agree wholeheartedly. There is a necessity for us to increase interconnection and transmission upgrade activity. There is a generic process that is inherent in changing the sources of power generation upon which we rely. The Government has taken forward a number of sustained investments in the renewable energy sector and taken the policy initiatives to enable the renewable energy sector to thrive within Scotland, and we look forward to taking policy decisions that enable us to continue that activity in the years to come. To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints Police Scotland has received from five residents regarding police response and call-out times since services were moved from the five control centre to Bilston Glen. As the member is aware, the Police Scotland review of contact command and control across the country has been on-going since early last year. That has been a phased approach with the latest stage being the transfer of operation from Gunrothys to Bilston Glen in March. Police Scotland has been engaged with local authorities, local partnerships and unions on the impact of the change. Issues surrounding performance at the Bilston Glen control centre have been raised previously in this chamber, and the First Minister committed to looking into those matters. That has been done, and Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority have taken direct action to address any issues surrounding the operation at Bilston Glen. I have also met Police Scotland and I have been given assurance that the situation at Bilston Glen is now much improved and that appropriate steps have been taken to ensure that the public continue to receive a high-quality service. Alex Rowley. I thank the minister for his answer. Some three weeks ago, in my constituency in the town of Cowanbyth, a group of pensioners were terrified in their own homes as a result of the antisocial behaviour when they called the Bilston Glen centre and reported that, among other things that were happening, a wheelie bin had been set on fire. They were told to police do not put out fires. It turned out, and it is now being confirmed, that it was regrettable that the chief of superintendences that calls received at police control room had not been logged correctly and local officers were not dispatched. The police never came. Is that acceptable? In short, no, it is not acceptable. Police Scotland recognises that there have been some challenges around Bilston Glen. That is why they have taken robust action in order to address those particular issues. That is why I am receiving reports on a weekly basis now from Police Scotland around the performance at Bilston Glen. I want to make sure that the public can be reassured that when they make a call to 101 that they get the type of response and service that they should expect to receive from Police Scotland and the measures that Police Scotland is now putting in place will help to ensure that. From the recent information that I have received from Police Scotland, there is a clear level of improvement being achieved in that, but I can assure the member that robust measures are being taken in order to address any of the types of issues that his constituents have experienced. I ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making in ensuring that the ambulance and health services on the island of Mull meet the needs and expectations of the local community, as expressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport at a meeting in March 2015. The Scottish Government is facilitating engagement between NHS Highland and the Scottish Ambulance Service to ensure that the healthcare needs of the Mull community are met. Both boards were encouraged during the meeting to work together in designing a multidisciplinary approach and in designing a sustainable solution for the community. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for that response. She is aware, as her predecessor was at a previous meeting in October, that there is deeply satisfaction on Mull with the Scottish Ambulance Service and that the fact that there have been commitments that have not been met is immensely regrettable. Will the minister agree to meet me and the community again to make sure that, while the progress that the Highland Health Board has made and the encouragement that she has given for further progress to both boards is extremely valuable, that the Scottish Ambulance Service has not yet come up to the mark? First, I recognise the concerns that Mike Russell outlines. The Scottish Ambulance Service is currently working on an options appraisal and is working with the community council to develop this. The Ambulance Service is planning for community engagements to be carried out at the end of this month to discuss the options. They are currently in the process of finalising dates but anticipate that the options appraisal should take place in July. Officials are being kept up to date on this process, who are in turn keeping me up to date and are in regular communication with the Ambulance Service to ensure that the work is progressing. In answer to Mike Russell directly, I am happy to meet him and others, as he sees fit, to discuss the outcomes of the option appraisal process. To ask the Scottish Government when its review of out-of-hours primary care services will be published. A national review of primary care out-of-hours services was announced on 30 January by myself. Professor Sir Lewis Ritchie is leading the review and has been asked to report recommendations to me by the end of September. I would like to thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Can I ask her her view of how local health boards own consultations on out-of-hours services will complement the national strategy and place concern in East Cobride, Scotland's largest town, on the record that the local health board is considering taking any out-of-hours services away from East Cobride? The national review for primary care out-of-hours services will report recommendations designed to reflect the findings of the review and recognise that responsibility for design, implementation and management of out-of-hours services ultimately remains the responsibility of NHS health boards. Recommendations will be in the form of guidance. However, I would expect any proposals for redesign of out-of-hours services from any board to be in line with that guidance. To ask the Scottish Government whether Barnett consequentials arising from a mansion tax could help the NHS in Scotland meet its waiting-time guarantee. The Government has passed on health resource consequentials in full since 2010-11 and allocates funding in line with its priorities. Additional consequentials would be dealt with in that way. We have committed to increasing the revenue budget of our NHS in real terms for the remainder of this Parliament and for each and every year of the next Parliament, too. Thank you to the cabinet secretary for that response. Of course, the Scottish Government's central policy at this election is to end the provision of consequentials due to its policy of full fiscal autonomy, ending the pooling and sharing of resources and scrapping. The Barnett formula is the most aggressive example of nationalism. Mr Smith, can I get a question? It is the most aggressive example of nationalism in this campaign, the SNP's policy to call our nosies to spite our face. I say to Drew Smith in the gentlest of terms that that is quote the IFS, because I know that Drew Smith and the Labour Party like to quote the IFS. So listen to what the IFS analysis of the manifestos have concluded. They have concluded that real spending on the NHS in England in 2019-20, compared to 2014-50, would be £8.7 billion higher under the SNP plans. It is very clear, Presiding Officer, that if Scots want the NHS to have the money that they need for the NHS, they have to vote SNP tomorrow to deliver it.


From the ARIA Resort in Las Vegas, it's theCUBE.  Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We are at AWS ReInvent 2018. We got to get a number. I don't know how many people are here, but Vegas is packed. I think it's in six different venues tonight. We're at the ARIA at the hub with the AWS Marketplace and Service catalog experience kicking everything off. We're excited to be joined by Cube alumni last time we saw him. I think it was in San Francisco Summit 2017. Carl Kruppitzer, the CEO of ThingLogix. Carl, great to see you. Thank you. It's great to be here. So I think you were saying before we turned the cameras on, you came early days. This whole piece here was not even as big as the room we're in. Right, well we were part of the service launch for IoT and that was just a few years ago and it's exponentially bigger. Yeah, just the expo. This is not even the expo floor, right? And this is bigger than what we had originally. So excited to see it grow. So IoT keeps growing, growing, growing. That's all we hear about in industrial IoT. We did the industrial IoT launch with GE back in better days for them. Huge opportunity, really seeing a lot of momentum. What are some of the observations you're seeing actually out in the marketplace? You know, it's interesting. When we first started with the IoT service, with service offering for AWS, there was a lot of proof of concepts going on. A lot of people kind of hacking their way through understanding what IoT is and how it could impact their business. And I think we've gotten to the point now where we're seeing more production rollouts with very considerate business drivers behind it. Right. I think it's funny. You're talking about doing some research for this thing. You guys are really specific. I love it. It's not Greenfield projects, you know. Has specific design objectives, has specific KPIs, has specific kind of ideas about what the functionality you want before you just kind of jump into the IoT space with two feet. Right, right. Yeah, we strongly discourage companies from just jumping in with both feet just because, right? It's an expensive undertaking IoT and it has the potential to really change your business for the better if you do it well. Where are you seeing the most uptake or maybe that surprises you the most in these early days, kind of industry-wise? We see a lot of creative use cases starting to come up, but kind of that secondary use of data and one of the things that we've, we kind of describe our customers having a life cycle of IoT, right? They come in to solve a specific problem with us, which is usually a scalability or a go-to-market issue. And then, very quickly, they kind of get to the art of the possible, like what can we do next? And we see a lot of companies really getting creative with the way they do things, from charging, using RFID tags in Sub-Saharan Africa for water to solar power and things like that. It's interesting to see companies that didn't exist a few years ago and couldn't have existed a few years ago really kind of getting a lot of traction, right? It's funny, we did an interview with Zebra Sports a few years ago, actually, now. And they're the ones that sold our RFID technology that put the pads and the shoulder pads for all the NFL players, they're on the refs, they're in the balls. It is such a cool way to apply an old technology to a new application and then really open up this completely different kind of consumer experience in watching sports when you've got all this additional data about how fast are they running and what's their acceleration. I think they had one example where they showed a guy on an interception, they had the little line tracker before he'd gotten all the way back in, it was a pick six. It's unbelievable. Our Middle Eastern group is actually doing a pilot right now for camel racing. So we're doing telemetry attached to the camels that are running around the tracks, we're getting speed and heart rate and those sorts of things. So it's everywhere, right? I love it, camel racing. So we're here at AWS Marketplace Experience. So tell us a little bit about how's it working with AWS, kind of the marketplace fit within your entire kind of go-to-market strategy. Well, so for us, the marketplace is really key to our go-to-market strategy, right? I mean, we're a small company and we, our sales team is really kind of focused on helping customers solve problems and the marketplace really offers us the ability to not have to deal with a lot of the infrastructure things of servicing a customer, right? They can go there, they can self sign up, they can implement the platform, our technology platform on their own and then billing is taken off of our plate, right? So it's not something that we have to have a bunch of resources dedicated to. Right. Is there still this big services component though that you still have to come in to help them, as you say, kind of define nice projects and good KPIs and kind of good places to start or do they oftentimes on a marketplace purchase, just go off to the races on their own? So it's a combination, right? If companies are looking to solve a specific problem with an IoT platform like Foundry, it's definitely a self-implementable thing and it's becoming more and more self-implementable, right? Foundry really deploys into a customer's account using CloudFormation and CloudFormation templates allow us to kind of create these customized solutions that can then be deployed, right? So it's, we're getting a combination of both. Yeah. And I would imagine it's taking you in all kinds of markets that you just don't, you just don't have the manpower to cover when you have a distribution partner. Right. Yeah, it's made things a lot faster for us to be able to spin up vertical solutions or specific offerings for a particular large customer. Marketplace can take care of all of the infrastructure around that. All right, so what are you looking for here at Reinvent 2018? You've been coming to these things for a while. I know Andy's tweeting out his keynote is ready. They had the chicken wing contest I think last night at midnight, too late for me, I didn't make it. Well for us, I mean some of the more exciting things that are out there are the emergence of serverless, right? It's really, we can see serverless, all of those AWS services really taking off. Right. But there's also the Sumerian, the AR, VR is really kind of exploding. So for us it's really about, this is a great place for us to see the direction that AWS is heading and then make sure that our offering and our technology is layered on top of that appropriately. And what are you hearing from your customers about Edge, right? All the talk about Edge and there's some, I think going about, how does Edge work with cloud? To me, it's like two completely separate technology applications depending on what you're trying to accomplish. But as kind of the buzzword Edge gets beyond the buzz and actually starts to be implemented, what are you kind of seeing and how's that working together with some of the services that Amazon's got? I mean Edge architectures are an important component to a solution, especially solutions that require real-time data processing and decision-making at the shop floor, whatever you have. AWS has taken very big strides toward creating service offerings and products down at the Edge that interface well with the cloud. So for us, our perspective on it is that the Edge is really a reflection of the business logic and the processes and things that we define and build for a customer. Because ultimately those Edge processes have to feed the enterprise processes, which is what we really focus on, right? How do we get machine data into enterprise systems? So Edge technology for us is definitely a consideration and when we build our technology solutions, we look at Edge as a component of that architecture and we try to meet the needs of the customer specific use case when it comes to Edge solutions. Yeah, it's not killing the cloud, you said that, silly.  It's not slowing down this thing. All right, Carl, thanks for taking a few minutes and have a great re-invent. Yeah, thank you. Hydrate, hydrate, they say hydrate. He's Carl and Jeff, you're watching theCUBE. We're at AWS Marketplace and Service Catalog Experience. We're at the Aria and the Quad, stop on by. Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.


I'm interested in learning more about machine learning and my first foray into that was through a guide I found online called Machine Learning for Artists and there's a whole bunch of different tutorials on machine learning here but one that I found that I was interested in is called Picks to Picks. Picks to Picks you may have seen through this image to image demo that was circulating around on the internet where you draw a picture of a cat and it tries to interpret your image as a cat. In this guide you can see kind of how they're taking an input photo and a target photo and then they're able to colorize these images in the style of the source photo and there's a lot of other things you can do with that, satellite photos from Google map tiles. So I just wanted to see if I could do something similar and this is more a tutorial on the process of getting images into the format you need them to be for Picks to Picks than a tutorial on machine learning itself because one of the things that this tutorial doesn't cover is how to get your own set of images and if you want a really well trained model you need a lot of images. So this is what I decided to do I found this quick draw database from Google where they ask people to draw a picture of various things like planes or ambulances or angels etc. They have over 50 million drawings so there's a huge data set and it's publicly available on GCP, find links to it. I go to the quick draw data set full simplified and I was searching for fish and so you can see this fish.ndjson file shows up and it's 50 megabytes. Now the important thing to know is this is JSON data it's not images so what you get is a huge JSON file with all your data. So this is what that JSON file looks like and you can see here in this drawing key it's just a gigantic array of coordinates and that is the coordinates every time someone put their pen down drew a line and then picked it up so you could actually recreate the drawing of each person's fish but we don't need that we just need the images. So the next thing that I found was this command line interface from Mike Bostock that allows you to convert Andy JSON to regular JSON and the reason we want to do that is so that we can try to reconstruct these images in a format that we can save out. Someone else made a really great tool which allows you to view these this quick draw data as an SVG and if I were to copy this code and swap out this JSON file for whatever JSON file I had created with the Andy JSON command line interface I can view my own set of drawings and then in order to download those drawings I could just copy this SVG save it in a file save you know faces dot SVG and then I could open up that file in a program like illustrator and see all of my faces. These are the fish that I downloaded and you can see they're all kind of roughly aligned the trick here one they come in pretty small so I wanted to get them to a size that was about 256 by 256 which is the size that Pix2Pix needs. I wanted to make sure that my grid was of a size that allowed all of these images to be self-contained what we don't want is anyone particular drawing you know sort of crossing over a grid line because then what we're later going to do is slice these images up programmatically so that we don't have to you know copy and paste and save out each image separately so we're going to be using image magic for that this is going to tell me okay I need to make slices of images that are 350 by 350 pixels. Once you have that run image magic and so I've saved this out as fish.gif and if you have image magic installed you can run this command and I'll post all this code but to convert this one image crop in a 30 by 19 grid so there's 30 columns in this image and 19 rows yours may differ but that's what I set up so 30 by 19 repage a join and save them out into a directory and you can call this whatever but I called it the tile directory and then this is your enumerator so one two three four five six etc so once that's done you'll have a directory here called Tiled and it will contain all your images after you've got all your tiled images what you want to do is resize them to 256 by 256 so this is the code in image magic to do that we're just running a for loop and we're saying for all the images in Tiled directory that end in .gif convert them resize to 256 by 256 and keep their original name and extension and we're putting those in the size directory so here's my sized directory and you can see I've got all these fish images all right so now that we have a fish we need to find photos of fish that we want to copy the style of and train our model on I found this in internet archive book image library and it has all kinds of really cool illustrations it'd be great to be able to just bulk download all of these and so I found a chrome extension there's a lot of them out there but this was actually the only one I could get to recognize images from Flickr by Vlad Sadev so I downloaded extension and if I were to use it on this page you can see it recognizes all of these photos and then you just select the ones that you want and click download so you can see here this is what I downloaded as far as fish and they're all different sized images they're all 640 pixels wide those but what we need to do is get those to be square and eventually down to 256 by 256 pixels here I've got some instructions for how to size those images appropriately again we're going to be using image magic first thing that we want to do is sample the background color and the way we're going to do that is just sample the very first pixel and resize the canvas and fill the new space with that color so that's done with this command for saying this is our image in color space RGB format pixel and then we say convert background equals that color this gravity center means we're going to be resizing from the center so if we had say a 256 pixel image it would expand outward from the center and fill that new area with our background color so because these were 640 pixel images we use this extent 640 by 640 and we're just giving a file name of fish dash T is the the iterator so one two three four five six dot extension and in this case that extension is JPEG so once we've got these to be square we want to size them down to 256 by 256 so that's that process now the next thing we need to do is we need to get pics to pics to train itself on these photos and we do that by combining our drawing with our photo and we're going to use it I'm going to just do a hundred of these images and so my command to do that is for I in one to a hundred do montage and then we're going to take images from the size directory so fish dash I that gift and then from the size directory of just our regular fish so we're combining these drawings with these photos we're tiling them two columns by one row and the geometry is 512 by 256 or essentially two times 256 pixels and then we're going to save it into the montage directory and call it fish dash I that's what I end up with what pics to pics is going to try and do is it's going to train itself to say that this drawing represents this fish this drawing represents this fish etc and we're going to define a number of epochs or iterations to run the model through for each image so once we've downloaded pics to pics we just go into the directory containing this pics to pics dot py file mode train in pic directory is our montage directory output directory is our model directory which direction a to b means that we're training a images to become b if our direction was b to a we would be training these photos to become these drawings and these are those epochs or epochs I'm not sure how to say it we're going to train each image through the model a hundred times it's not really enough to get good results in our image set of a hundred images is not nearly big enough to get great results but this does take a while even even at a hundred epochs with a hundred images it took me about 30 minutes to train my MacBook Pro and it's it's really processor intensive so once we have that we end up with this model directory and it's just got all the code that we need in order to create our training set here's all the data about 680 megabytes now we need to use pics to pics to run a new set of images through that model and so in order to do that we need to create a training set and the training set will essentially be new drawings paired with a blank image on the right so we need to do montage again to combine some of these drawings with just an empty white square and so the way that we do that is we run another loop in my case I'm just saying for I in 101 to 200 so we say convert them fish 101 102 etc. gift our gravity is going to be coming from the west so we want our image anchored on the left side and the white space to be on the right background white type true color that makes sure that when we convert these to JPEG they're not in a grayscale color mode because see the photos have an RGB value but these gifts are just black and white so this true color converts them to an RGB color space essentially extent is again 512 by 256 and we'll put them in the training directory so once we do that here's our training set and now we can pass that through our models we go back to our directory containing this pics to pics dot py mode is test input directory train output directory I'm going to say is Jen and the checkpoint is our model directory so that's just going to pass everything through the model and once we do that we get this Shen folder and it creates an HTML file and all of our images and if we open that HTML file in our browser you get something like this I actually kind of switch some things around so that you could see each phase side by side these samples are not the ones that model was trained on because it it runs through those epochs so it trains itself on all sorts of combinations of these images and these photos this is just kind of a way to see things side by side and you can see our output we get some pretty crazy looking fish again it's not going to be perfect photo realistic rendering but that's kind of what I'm interested in I'm interested in the weird things that come about through machine learning trying to interpret our photos and images in our world anyway I'll post this tutorial online and include a link with the video so that you can copy all the code and do this yourself and 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سبینہ جانتے ہیں۔ بہت ملیقہ ہے۔ وہ اس میں بہت ملیقہ ہوتا ہے۔ لیکن وہ اسے دوروں پہنچنے میں آنسا نہیں ہو جائیں۔ لہذا ان کیا کہ اسلم بہت ہم ہمیں ہمینوں کو ہماری پرارے کیا کہتا ہے؟ آپ کی اättیارت پرارے کے ساتھ کیا ہے۔ آپ کو آپ کو یہ بھی ملیقہ ہوتا ہے۔ سبحان اللہ When I pray, I must pray with my heart. That heart needs to be cleansed. A lot of people pray but their heart is not cleansed. It means there is something wrong with this prayer of yours. There is definitely something wrong with the prayer. The reason is if you prayed correctly to Allah, it would clean your heart, it would soften your heart. You would learn to love the rest of the creatures of Allah, starting with mankind. So if you are compassionate to other human beings, it means your prayer is in order. But if you are not, there is something wrong with your prayer. He or she who is linked to his maker, definitely a better person. To the rest of the creatures of the same maker. Remember that. So when we become horrible to those whom we live with, there is something wrong with our link with Allah. With our link with our own maker. When we are horrible to our parents, to our children, to our brothers and sisters, to our uncles and aunts, to our in-laws, to our relatives. When we are not patient with them, when we are not tolerant with them. When we are not patient with them, when we are not tolerant of their different ways and habits sometimes. It could mean we have a problem with ourselves. And this is why my brothers and sisters life is a struggle to become a better person.  So keep on working, keep on trying harder. Keep on perfecting your relationship with the rest of mankind. Sometimes people come to me complaining. Complaining about their children. You know my son, he is disobedient. But to be honest with you, sometimes it's the parents who don't treat their children correctly.   So as much as we say be obedient or be kind to your parents, we have to tell the parents to be merciful to their children to understand what their children want and what Allah wants and how to strike a balance between the two. If we all had perfect children from the beginning, what was the point of us being in their lives. We have to help them, we have to help them grow up, understand things, looking at things from a certain angle, certain perspective, being able to get along with other people, understanding that not everything you want you are going to get. But the problem with the parents is that at times we don't understand that this is actually a child who belongs first to Allah and then Allah has given me the chance to say that the child temporarily belongs to me too. Ultimately our children belong to Allah. He made them in the first place he gave them to us. May Allah bless those without children with children. May Allah bless those who don't have children with children. Say Ameen. Mashallah. But at the same time those who do have children, those children are Allah's. They belong to Allah. You have them for a moment for a short period of time. He can take them away before you. Or He can take them away in infancy, childhood, teenage or a little bit later. That is Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ And it's His decision. It goes to show that He is the owner. He is the one who owns you and I. When I'm going to return to Him, it's His decision. At the same time, whether or not I will have children is His decision. So Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ has kept rules and regulations for us. I want to speak about something very important today. Many of us are searching for happiness. Many of us are searching for contentment. Contentment lies in adopting what the Almighty says we should be adopting. Never be selfish. When you are selfish, you cannot be content. Remember that. When you are selfish, you cannot be happy. When you reach out to others, you become happy. When you see the smile on the face of your daughter-in-law. That's when the mother-in-law will be content and vice versa. Sorry to give you that example. When you see the smile on the face of the orphan, that is when you will be happy. The orphan happens to be a child perhaps even of your own brother who may have passed away. The orphan happens to be a child whom you are connected to. Many of us, when a father passes away leaving behind little girls for example. We tend to usurp their wealth. We cheat the women. We cheat the little girls. What about the inheritance, the estate, the estate of the deceased. Whereas Allah has given them a share. The brothers sometimes are unfair to their own sisters. The uncles are unfair to their nieces sometimes. So if a person wants to be happy himself. Fulfill the rights of these little orphans. If Allah tells you through the blessed lips of Muhammadﷺ. Of the importance of looking after these orphans. And how you can earn paradise through fulfilling the rights of widows and orphans. Then obviously we need to take it seriously. The prophetﷺ says. My self and the one who looks after the orphans will be like this in paradise. And he showed the two fingers bringing them together. So if you are going to look after the orphans. You will definitely be a person who is happy. If you are selfish you won't be happy. So I want you every one of you and my self included. To put a smile on the face of someone else every single day. A person who may be connected to you. Your spouse to start with. Imagine. Think up ways of making your husband smile. Think up ways of making your wife smile. Mashallah. Think up a way an idea. Even if it means to take the microphone away from the MC. If she smiled I've achieved. By the will of Allahﷺ. Think up ways of making your children smile. Think up ways of making your parents smile. Subhanallah. Many of us probably lost. We are lost for ideas. No. Sometimes if you don't know how to make them smile. Break into a smile yourself and see what happens. Subhanallah. Just break into a smile. And they will start smiling back at you. Mashallah. تبارک اللہ. That's what it is. So Allah has kept a smile contagious. Because you don't have to say things. Sometimes you can do something. And you don't have to do something complex. You can do something very very simple. To make them smile. But the problem is we've become selfish. It's all about myself. I'm searching for happiness. Happiness lies in making others happy. That's where happiness lies. We are sad because we make everyone depressed. They are upset because of us. We block their lives. We stop the good things they want. And then how do we expect good things to come to us. Right. Reach out to others. Do something for them.  Use it to help people. It should not only be about yourself. The reason why so many people are depressed on earth today. Is because we are all living for ourselves. We want to earn. We don't want to reach out with our earnings. Our time is for ourselves. We come home from a long day at work. And we spend our time on the mobile phone.  Have been waiting for you all day. Sometimes more than a day depending on how you work.  You're doing what? Nothing. That phone can be set aside. Set aside your phones for two hours every day. Set it aside. A lot of you might say I can't do that. Well for one hour, set it aside. Switch it off. Put it on flight mode. And you know what? You'll enjoy a beautiful journey without even going out of your house. You will be talking to those you're supposed to be talking with. You'll write it down. Or make a mental note of it. Switch your phones off for one hour inside the house. When you are with your family members. Switch it off. Not because you want to hide something illicit. No ho. No ho. It should be for the right reasons. The reason is you would like to communicate with people you're supposed to be talking to. If you died there and then they would be responsible. You make sure you are given a decent burial. So this is why we say people are depressed because they've become selfish. That's what it is. When I earn, it's about me. That's it. This is my money. I want to save up for my things. Take out a little bit. Give it to a charity. Take out a little bit. Reach out to those who don't have anything. Take out a little bit. Give it as a gift to someone. Give a little bit of pocket money to your child. Making sure that you've taught the child how to spend. And I'm not saying a large amount. I'm not saying give your child a large amount so that he or she gets spoiled in a way that tomorrow when you don't have it. They turn to haram means to earn it. But I'm definitely saying once in a while they deserve to be spoiled. Subhanallah. Don't be selfish. Go out and greet people. Go out. We heard a few moments ago about how the ROU team goes out to give hampers to the poor. Well join them once at least once. And guess what bring some hampers yourself. Contribute financially and then go out with them. See how you feel. When you see homeless people living under the bridges and the flyovers of your own city for example. Living in ghettos and slums who don't even have food. And you've given them one meal once only once you've reached out to them with a meal. Trust me you will smile for a long time. It will bring about a feeling within you that humanity will return to you. That's something a lot of us have lost. To do good is not difficult. But we need to think about it. Be in good company and you will notice how you feel good because that good company will remind you about reaching out to others. Today my brothers and sisters they are so many of us. Do you agree? Many. Mashallah. You've come out in large numbers by the will of Allah Subhanahu و تعالیٰ. There is a sickness. We won't greet anyone unless we know them. That's a problem. The brothers as well as the sisters. We go to the house of Allah. We don't greet people unless we know them. Or unless they are someone big. The who's who you know. The wealth like I always say. We greet the money not the person. And the evidence of it is when they don't have money they no longer greet it. I saw people incline towards those who have wealth. They incline towards them. Hey. How are you doing man? That's because he has those $20. The minute it's gone. No more greeting. You walk right past the uncle even if he greets you. No more response. No reply. Forget about greeting. When people greet us we don't bother replying. Who? Greeting me? Me? And the sister says yes I greeted you. No? And you just carry on. Mistake. I think you've mistaken identity. It's a sign of the hour. You know that? Where people will only greet because they know. We are taught to greet everyone. Greet them. Smile at them. Those you don't know. You could make their day. You don't know how depressed someone might be by greeting them. By smiling at them. By acknowledging them. You may help them. And as a result the almighty will help you. But the problem is we don't think this way. We're selfish. I've got a problem. I'm stressed myself. Why should I greet the people? Well you want to destress? Greet them. Greet the people. Smile at them. They won't even dream that you have a problem. They will think MashaAllah this person's life is so beautiful. They've got time to smile. Well they will start smiling too. They will forget about their problem for a little while. And guess what? Through that and the blessings of the good deed that you have done. We call it baraka. Through the baraka of that beautiful deed. You will be able to achieve that happiness and taste it. We might hear what I'm saying today. But trust me you're going to go back home 10 o'clock tonight. And with your own family members you're going to sulk once again. For what? Why?  Make a difference. Change things in the house. Call everyone. Sit them down and tell them from now on. We're going to greet each other. When I was young and up to this day. I would greet my parents before I go to bed. If they're there. Assalamu alaikum and I'm gone to bed. When I get up first thing in the morning. Assalamu alaikum I greet my parents. But the new generation no way. They're not bothered about greeting their parents. They will duck and dive and hide.  Only God knows what they're doing. Where is all this gone? Where are the etiquettes gone? The problem is with us. They don't see us doing it. Or we haven't taught them since they were young. But learn to greet even those in your own home. The greeting in Islam as you heard a little bit earlier. From Sheikh Musleh. This greeting is absolutely important. Assalam. So start with it in your own home. Greet the people every time you enter. Whenever you come back home. And every time you want to go to bed. And whenever you get up. Greet, say things. It's a prayer. It's a powerful prayer. And smile and be good. And learn not to be lazy. Lazyness makes you depressed. Did you know that?  You don't even want to turn off the light. So now we're in the room. And I'm telling my son to turn the light off. And he's saying but you turn the light off. And we're looking at each other.  Mashallah. Electricity bull I'd rather pay. But I wouldn't like to turn off that light. Why we're both lazy. I mean Allah forgive us. I hope you don't think I'm talking about myself. But anyway. It happens in our homes. We become lazy. No one wants to get up. You know to make the coffee for example. And I'm not saying it's just the job of a female. No. The males too sometimes need to get up and do something. You can make the waffles can't you? On a Sunday morning. You can make the eggs and the breakfast on a Sunday morning. Can't you? Look at them. No nodding. No nothing. No acknowledgement. Allahu Akbar. Come on. Can't you make eggs? Can you not make eggs? Oh Mashallah. Now they're saying yes. Don't worry you're on TV. They're going to see who said yes and who didn't. You're in trouble. You better know how to make eggs by the will of Allah. I'm sure you do. But we become lazy. It's laziness. When you are selfless. You contribute to that home. It becomes a home of happiness because we smile and we plan to smile on the faces of others in the way that that smile just doesn't want to go. This is what I mean. Subhanallah. Once in a while. Do things. Spoil the people. Those you live with to start with. And that's when you'll be able to do it with others. What is the point of someone who wants to put a smile on the rest of the world. But there's no smile on the faces of their own family members. You're helping the world to solve the world's problems by trying to help everyone else. But in your own home you need help. Start off at home. The best of those who are best at home first and then everywhere else. Don't be from among those who are hypocritical. Don't be from among those who procrastinate. That's another problem. You leave things. Okay. I want to do this but I'll do it. It's okay. It's very early. It's actually only nine o'clock now. I can do that. Maybe we'll see. Guess what will happen before you know it. You'll be off to bed. You'll be sleeping. And then leave it for tomorrow. And tomorrow never comes. Do you know that? So when you want to do things do it now. Be lazy. Don't be lazy. Do it now. Get up and do something. Make a change. You make it now. This is why we say when you want to change. When you want to repent to the Almighty. You never ever say I will do it on Friday. I will do it when Ramadan starts. I will do it at the end of the year. I will do it when I go for Hajj. You may never see that Hajj. You may never see that Ramadan. I will do it now and here. I want to repent to the Almighty. I want to quit my bad ways and habits. Happiness is snatched away through sin. When you transgress against the commands of the Almighty. Your happiness is gone. When you transgress. Your happiness is gone. You don't know why am I not happy. It's because you're sinning every day. A person who's on drugs. Trust me they lead a very very depressed life. The only time they might feel a little bit high. Is exactly when they're high. That's it. And once that high is no more. You can tell them goodbye. It's depressing. It is. It's very sad. And it's a false feeling of happiness. But in actual fact it is a sadness. It is a depressive condition. So all these sins that you'd like to give up. Give them up now. And don't say you know what it might be so difficult. And it might this if you have faith and conviction. Nothing is difficult. You do it and trust me in no time. You will feel so happy. You will feel content. You will gain your family once again. You will gain your happiness once again. Things will start becoming in order. It will take a little bit of time. Be patient. But Allah will guide you. If you want to do things for the right reasons. You will find the right solutions coming in your direction. You know the result of your action will be positive. Rather than negative. My brothers and sisters. These are just a few life skills. These are a few tips. But they are taken from your faith. From Islam. Did you know that Muhammadﷺ has taught us all of this. And much more than all of this. He's taught us not to be lazy. Not to procrastinate. He's taught us to reach out to people. To greet people. To smile. To create a positive vibe around you. Not negative. Anything happens and you look at the worst scenario. When you look at people see the good in them. Weakness with us. We see the bad in people. You see a sister. You've had two problems with her. That's it. You put a cross next to her name. You don't want to see her. You see a brother. You've had two issues with him. That's it. It's the end of everything. Put a cross on him. No. Yes. There may be some people who are bad company. Bad influence. You've had many bad experiences. You will greet. You will respond to a greeting. You may not want to associate more with them. Because they have negative vibes or a negative vibe around them in that sense. There are people who perhaps are very depressing. You may want to stay away but the initial greeting is important. And that olive branch is of utmost importance. What I mean here is if you have had an issue you should always be open minded to be able to solve the matter if possible. Give them the opportunity. And I'm not saying that you need to give up what is right in order to solve the problem. No. You don't give up what's right. But you try and discuss it to be able to solve the matter if possible. Most cases we will be able to solve the matter. Sometimes we won't. Sometimes you might want to distance yourself. But remember my brothers and sisters many of us have problems for petty reasons. We look at the negative of a situation and we become depressed. Look at the positives. So many things that happen in our lives that seem to be negative actually have been the most positive things that have ever happened in our lives. I know of people who've been diagnosed with sickness and illness. May Allah grant us all cure. I mean and they come up and say I'm so sad. I'm so depressed and you know you have a chat with them. You talk to them and you remind them. And one of the questions is did you use to pray five times a day before you were sick. No. I didn't. Now that you've been diagnosed. Do you pray five times a day. Yes. Well then that's something positive. How can it be. Well you pray you call out to the Almighty. Don't you. Yes. And sometimes if you haven't yet done that if you haven't yet turned your you know turned away from your bad. If you haven't yet turned away from your bad habits perhaps the Almighty might keep you in that condition. A little bit longer. It softened your heart. You became closer to your family. You saw these are the people dedicated. They are serving me. They are pushing me on a wheelchair for example. They are feeding me for example. They care for me. And when you become cured ultimately and finally. Your relationship improved.  Your relationship with Allah Almighty has improved. So this is why when you look at the positives that came out of it they are far more.  When they see the reward of the patients that they bore through their lives on the day of judgment.  Subhan Allah. Right now we won't understand that.  You want it to be cured like now. My brothers and sisters. We are blessed with so much. Take a look at what you have. You have a lot. And the way to look at what you have is by looking at those who don't have. Take a look at the refugees. Who are trying to save themselves from being bombed. They jump into a little boat. Something that you wouldn't even use. And they want to cross the Mediterranean without much food. Without much clothing. Most of them don't even make it. A lot of them don't make it. What made them do that?  Right now they being sent back. And what about us? We're just sitting here relaxed but we're still complaining. Complaining about everything. I've got these shoes you know. But I wanted Adidas. Come on. Other people don't even have shoes. And you will be fortunate enough to buy what you want as well. But the only time you will be able to give thanks to Allah is when you really sit and ponder over what exactly you have. In comparison to those who don't have. They don't have anything sometimes. Nothing. And some of them are so happy and delighted even without anything. Look at some of the children in the refugee camps. And how they are smiling. They are playing games not on iPads. And not on Android devices. Not on playstations. They are playing games on the floor. You know the hopscotch. When we were kids we used to play hopscotch. And they are smiling and happy. You tell your children 4 years old hopscotch. They will look at you and think it's some form of an ice cream. They won't even know what you're talking about. And if you tell them we were so excited when we were kids. Let's go out. I'll draw it for you on the sand. And we'll be hopping. They will wonder are you crazy. Are you mad. But those my age and perhaps a little bit older would know exactly what I'm talking about. Because the delight. The happiness. The joy that we achieved by just jumping hopping. You know I recall my little sisters used to actually skip.  And they used to jump this way and that way. And this way and that way. And compete with each other. And that was like sort of the in thing early morning we wanted to do that. And in the afternoon we wanted to do that. And today it's become so different. We're still not happy. Imagine. We're still not happy. Why? Something is grossly wrong. Something is grossly wrong. May Allah SWT grant us an understanding. What is wrong? What is wrong is the heart. The heart has become clouded. It is not cleansed in the real way. We don't have a feeling for one another anymore. We don't talk to one another anymore. We don't speak to one another. And when we speak we have an attitude. We have an attitude. You're speaking to your spouse. Say some good words. Say some sweet words. Say some beautiful words. And attract them with your ways of talking. Some of us in our marriages we chase our spouses away because of the way we speak. Learn how to talk. Say things in a beautiful way. The way you talk to others sometimes outside. You know when you're walking in the mall and suddenly something happens you break a glass in a store for example. How do you talk to the people? I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. That's how you would say things. What did you do? You made an expression. You wanted to perhaps strike a chord in the heart of the person you're talking to. And you apologized. But in our own homes no expressions, no apologies. We're not interested in striking any chord. It's like you know what come here. I want to show you what you did. Relax. Subhanahu و تعالیٰ قرant us that relaxation. May Allah help us in a way that we can smile. We can also address the people in our own homes who've broken things the way we would like to be addressed when we break things elsewhere. Think about how you talk. Think about the expression on your face. This is the problem sometimes. We say I've got a clean heart. But the way we say it is so ugly. It's a dirty way of saying it. I've got a clean heart. If you think I've got a dirty heart. You've got a look at the expression on your face. So scary. Come on. May Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ قرant us. What I've told you today is very simple. But I promise you we will still go home and not practice upon it. And that's why we're not getting anywhere. We're not happy. We still want to achieve that happiness. We don't want to develop a link with Allah. We don't want to develop a link with the rest of the creation of Allah. We don't want to help out. We don't want to smile. We don't want to reach out to people. We still won't greet people we don't know. We will walk out of this stadium today. And we still won't greet people. Only those we know.  To smile at them. To make them feel happy. We have a problem even in the must did. Can I tell you what happens? You have the brothers who are regular goers for prayers. They go regularly. Sometimes and even the sisters some of them who are you know fulfilling their prayers and so on. When a person walks in sometimes who's not usually there or who doesn't look. Who doesn't look like what we would have expected a person who prays to look. I don't even know what that's supposed to be but a person doesn't look like us.  They're not welcome here. If you are welcoming to someone who's coming to the must did for the first time in their lives. Wallahi that could just be your ticket to paradise. A few days ago I was in Malaysia. And someone actually told me that they entered a place of worship. A place of worship. A must did to pray. And they were not properly dressed. They were you know not looking like a Muslim should be looking. And their life changed because the people welcomed this person. And said oh you're most welcome and smiled. And made them feel at home. And I'm busy thinking wow while listening to this. Those people this could be their ticket to paradise. You change somebody's life. But when they come even for a religious talk sometimes. Religious talk in the must did or elsewhere. And you have people sometimes who've come there just to listen to what's happening. The way we treat them. The way we look at them. We make them feel like you're not welcome here. What are you doing here. If that's the case you've just snatched your own happiness away. That's what you've done. But smile at them. Make them feel happy. The next time you will see them in a better condition. The next time you might see them somewhere else maybe at the beach. You might see them in a condition where you need help. And they came to help you because they remembered you from somewhere. But we've stopped doing this. This is why I challenge you today. As you're out. Please greet the people. Talk to them. Smile at them. Say one or two nice things. Oh how are you what's happening. Don't embarrass. Don't ask questions that's going to turn people away. How much do you earn my sister. He said ask a few questions. I want to know how much do you earn. How much do I earn. Where do you work. You don't need to know where I work. All these questions are known as excess. That which is going to chase people away. You don't need to know anything. Sister. How much do you weigh. Come on weigh. That's the last thing you ask a woman. In fact nowadays the men are becoming conscious of it. Allah forgive us. So when I say ask a few questions I mean how are you doing. Mashallah I'm so glad to see you here. Did you enjoy the talk. Mashallah what are the points you thought were good man. Or you don't need to ask what are the points you thought were good. But you can say I thought it was okay. I thought it was you know this point was good. And that point was good. And I'm going to work on that. By saying that you've already made someone feel a sense of identity. I'm a human being. They might think the same points you raised are valid for themselves. At the end of the day we're human beings. But the difficulty is okay we heard it was a good talk. We'll go home and we'll say it was a good talk. And a week later we'll say it was a good talk. And when we come back next year we'll say last year was a good talk. But nothing happened. Your life didn't change. Nothing happened to you. Zero. If that's the case we're getting nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. But even if you don't tell people it was a good talk. But your life has changed. People will know it was a good talk. Because they've seen that it has impacted on my life. Sometimes we want to see a speaker. Oh I want to see this person. I really desperately want to see that sheikh. And that's sheikh. For what? What's the purpose? Why? What's the big deal? Well if that's going to change your life because you're going to hear a good word. And you're going to seize the opportunity to be shaken. Then indeed it was worth it. But if not and it was just ought to become famous. Taking a selfie with the sheikh for example making me famous. What's the point? Like they say some people are known in the heavens and not known on earth. No one knows about them. But the angels know them very well because of the good they do. And others are well known on earth. But they're not known in the heavens because they've done nothing grand. May Allah ﷻ not make us from the latter. So my brothers and sisters I'd like to continue tomorrow on a different note altogether. I want to speak tomorrow about gaining closeness to Allah ﷻ And achieving forgiveness of Allah ﷻ And having hope in the mercy of Allah ﷻ Because that is a beautiful topic. We all want hope. We all want to feel that Allah ﷻ loves us. There is a way to do that. There is a way to achieve that. But for now I'd like you to reach out to the rest of the creatures of Allah ﷻ Starting with human beings.  ہم جمین پردائس بات ہم جو لوگ سکتے ہیں۔ دیکھیں دنوی ہم کلنے کی حیرت کے لئے ، مرحان اللہ سبحان الحوا ٹعالہ اسارا سمجھے ، کسی جس کے ساتھ پر س ایک بائتا ہیں ، اور مرحان اللہ سبحان الحوا ٹعالہ اسارا سمجھا ، نصہ ہم کے وحوار구요. ان کے لئے دی لینا چاہتے ہیں ان کے لئے ہمینہوں luggage لے اور مر اللہ سبحانہ وتعالر بھی ہم آپ کے دردی ہمارے لوگوں میں فلائی کر لکتا ہے اور مر اللہ سبحانہ وتعالر