Welcome to this session of seminar. The first speaker this morning is Professor Ilyashenko, he's Professor Moscow and in Cornell, and he will speak on limit cycle from Poincaré to nowadays. The problem given F to find the functions fx of t that satisfy this equation. On the other hand, they are subject of geometry. At any point in the xt plane, we have a direction, a straight line with the slope given by this function. And an equivalent problem is to plot the curves that are tangent to these directions. This geometrical interpretation was well known in the time of Poincaré, but Poincaré was the first to say that differential equations are in fact a branch of geometry. At his time, it was already well known that for majority of the right-hand sides, the explicit formulas for the solutions simply cannot be found. And therefore, Poincaré said that the differential equations should be studied by the right-hand sides directly. The picture like this is called phase portrait, splitting of the plane to the orbits of the differential equation. And Poincaré was the first to plot the phase portraits of differential equations near the singular points. This is, if f is, say, a ratio of two polynomials, a singular point is a common zero of these polynomials. These are the famous pictures that Poincaré obtained. They are called saddle node, focus and center, following Poincaré. And together with the geometric theory of normal forms, Poincaré established, sorry, the geometric theory of differential equations. Poincaré established the theory of normal forms. The paradigm is the following. We cannot solve the equation well, but probably we can find a coordinate change in such a way that the equation will be drastically simplified and in new coordinates it will become solvable. For instance, the previous pictures were plotted in bad coordinates. If you find good coordinates, they become linear, and you may solve the equation and plot the explicit phase portraits. There is a deep theory behind this statement. And Poincaré himself has found an appropriate coordinate change not for all the differential equations in the collection above, but for so-called non-resonant, whatever it means, nodes, and fozzi. These phase portraits, after an analytic change of coordinates, become linear and maybe easily studied. Only 60 years later, Ziegel found an appropriate statement of the theorem about the linearization of a saddle and what is a normal form for a center was understood only in the 80s in the last century. Closed orbits on the plane of such equations are cycles. If there are no other cycles in the vicinity of the orbit, they are called limit cycles. And Poincaré was the first to introduce this geometrical object and he said that limit cycles like torches enlightened the way to the understanding of the phase portraits of the differential equations. At this spot I should confess that I quote Poincaré not from his texts but from the quotations by other people. So if I should be a historian, I should write attributed to Poincaré at this spot, but allow me to be not too much accurate. Here is a limit cycle and Poincaré introduced a very simple map yet not considered beforehand. You take a cross section, you consider orbits emerges from the points of this cross section and the point of the first return. You get a map, a self-map of an interval into itself and you may say very much about the behavior of the solutions of the differential equation near the limit cycle. Just studying this first return Poincaré map. For instance, if you have other limit cycles nearby I did not plot them. Then you will have another fixed point of the Poincaré map. If the map is analytic then this is the graph of the Poincaré map. This is identity and this is the graph itself. If the vector field is analytic, if the differential equation is analytic then the Poincaré map also is analytic and by classical theorems from complex analysis it may have only a finite number of fixed points. So as a trivial consequence of the very concept of the Poincaré mapping one may say that for an analytic vector field I will show this picture later limit cycles cannot accumulate to a closed orbit. As limit cycles are very important then sort of a hunt for limit cycles makes sense. And Poincaré made the first steps in this direction. He considered, let us first look at the left domain. There is a domain and an analysis in which the vector field in the plane is pointing inward. And no singular points are allowed in this domain. This is the data. What is inside is obscure at the first glance. Poincaré claims that there is a closed orbit inside such a domain. If the vector field is analytic then this closed orbit is... there is a limit cycle inside this domain. This theorem is called Poincaré-Bindixon theorem. For a long time I thought that Ivor-Bindixon was a student of Poincaré. Not at all. He was an independent mathematician brought up in Sweden and he just gave a rigorous proof of the previous theorem that Poincaré simply sketched. Bindixon in 1901 wrote a memoir about the differential equations and it was called precisely in the same way as the famous memoir by Poincaré sur le courbe define par le casier aux différences. In his memoir there are several chapters. The first one is dedicated to the Poincaré-Bindixon theorem and the other four or five chapters are dedicated to a theorem which was born but not became completely mature in the Bindixon's memoir. A lot of authors continued it and they are listed here and the Bindixon's theorem claims that however complicated the limit point might... the singular point might be after a finite number of so-called desingularizations it may be split to simpler ones. First of all you should require that the differential equation is analytic and the singular point is complex isolated. Secondly, simpler singular points are from the previous list of settles, nodes, force centers and one extra example should be added. It is so-called saddle node. The example of the differential equation is here and all these points are elementary singular points. You take a complicated singular point, you may a polar blow up, you pass to polar coordinates, you paste in a circle instead of the singular point and you get a simpler picture. In my example the simpler picture, the elementary singular points appear in one time and when you have this picture it is easy to study the original one via the projection. Another quotation from Poincare that I like much is that the truth is born as a paradox and dies as a triviality. The Poincare, the desingularization theorem was not proved in the memoir by Bindixon and first several people gave a complete proof and then Van der Neissen gave a simple proof and only at the beginning of this century the Bindixon theorem, the desingularization theorem was included in the textbooks and at this spot we may say that it becomes sort of a triviality. Now let us pass to the major problem in the field to the Hilbert 16th problem. In the year 1900 Hilbert stated his famous mathematical problems and the second part of the Hilbert 16th problem what may be said about the number and location of limit cycles of a polynomial vector field of degree n. In this interpretation f is a ratio of two polynomials of degree n and we ask what is the maximal number, for instance, of limit cycles. Or another form, another specification of this question is it true that the number of limit cycles for a polynomial differential equation is finite. The maximal number of limit cycles is called the Hilbert number. It is denoted by h of n and nobody knows yet whether this number exists. Even now we do not know whether h of 2 exists. So the Hilbert 16th problem second part is one of the most persistent problems in the famous Hilbert's list. In 1923 Dulac published a large memoir where he stated the following theorem a polynomial vector field may have but a finite number of limit cycles. The first step of the proof is to start with a contradiction, with a contraposition. Suppose that there is an infinite number of limit cycles. A polynomial vector field may be extended to the real projective plane before the situation is compact and these limit cycles have to accumulate somewhere. They cannot accumulate to a closed orbit by analyticity of the Poincaré map and this is a simple argument that I explained. Now one should prove that they cannot accumulate a so-called polycycle, a separatrix polygon. You have singular points and the solutions that together form an analytic curve through the point they are called separatrices. So this polygon is formed by singular points and they are separatrices. And one should prove that the limit cycles cannot accumulate to a separatrix polygon. Dulac's proof has three steps. The first step is using the desingularization theorem by Bendixon. At that time it was quite a non-trivial fact and Dulac paid much attention to it. Then Dulac studies so-called Dulac's maps that I will show in the next picture and then studies their compositions. The Dulac's map occurs only near saddles and saddle nodes. The geometric picture is almost similar but the simplest example for the saddle is a power Dulac map, x comes to x to the lambda and for the saddle node the simplest example is exponential. x comes to the exponential of negative 1 over x. So-called flat map. All the derivatives at 0 are 0. So Dulac studied these maps. Ignore the lower lines right now. For a while I stopped with the Dulac's problem and switched to the applications of limit cycles. I want to tell you a few words about Russian mathematicians of the generation born at the very beginning of the 20th century and one of them is Russian mathematician and physicist Alexander Andronov who was one of the first to understand that auto oscillations in physical devices are modeled by limit cycles. So you have some physical device, radio device for instance and it works in a stable regime. The external power for instance is constant and nevertheless oscillations occur inside. What is the mathematical model for that? Andronov understood that the mathematical model is the Poincare limit cycle. Andronov have done two great things besides. First he decided to work not in one of the major centres, one of the capitals in Russia but rather to create a mathematical school in another city, Nizhny Novgorod and the mathematical school is now very strong and well known. Also he was one of the founding fathers of the bifurcation theory. For instance he was the first to investigate the appearance of a limit cycle from a singular point and when the parameter in the family that he investigated achieved a critical value and the singular point was ready to generate a limit cycle Andronov said that the singular point is pregnant by a limit cycle. Another person whom I want to mention is Ivan Petrovsky who was a rector of Moscow State University in the last 22 years of his life and who attacked both parts of the Hilbert XVI problem. I mentioned 10,000 of good deeds that he have done. This is an estimate of one of the scientists of his generation. The fact is that in his time there were two parts of the scientific community. One was, as one may say, ideologically faithful and another was talented. There was an intersection but it was not too big and Petrovsky was a center in the Moscow University of the second community and these thousands of good deeds are lives of talented people who were not ideologically faithful but whom he allowed to realize themselves and to work in the academic world. A few words about the first part of the Hilbert XVI problem. This first part deals with something also algebraic. This is now not a differential equation with a polynomial right hand side but rather a polynomial itself and its level curves. The first unsolved question in the Hilbert's time in this domain was the following. Consider a polynomial of degree 6. It was well known that it cannot have more than 12 closed components of the level curve. This is one level curve of the polynomial. 12 ovals in total, one outside and 11 inside. Stating his problem, Hilbert claimed that he can prove that the picture that I showed here is impossible. But the first rigorous proof was given by Petrovsky in 1938. The tool that Petrovsky was, was the following. Complexify the problem. He extended the problem to the complex domain. He worked in the complex domain and then he got an answer for the real problem. Together with his young student Evgeny Landis, Petrovsky enterpised an attack to the second part of the Hilbert's problem. The strategy was the same. To complexify the problem, to study the problem in the complex domain and then to get an answer for the real case. Landis at that time returned up to Moscow State University after six years of war. He was a soldier for six years. He miraculously came back alive and he immediately started the scientific work even as the student of the first year. Together with Petrovsky, they succeeded to make first steps in the theory of complex polynomial fluctuations. But their result, published in 1955, was disproved in 1963. The following very interesting persistence problem was claimed to be solved in their paper. But it was not in fact solved and it is not solved even up to now. The question is the following. Suppose that the right hand side of the equation depends on some parameters and the equation has a limit cycle. We begin to change the parameters. It is very easy to construct a situation when the limit cycle will disappear. It happens like with the roots of the square polynomial of the quadratic polynomial of the square equation. They may pass to the complex domain. But the limit cycle disappears from the real plane yet preserves in the complex domain. So the question is, is there a domain in the parameter space through the boundary of which it is impossible to extend the complex limit cycle when you change the parameters? The answer is still unknown. And this was a gap in the Petrovsky-Landes solution. In 1981, as well, the du Lac's result was disproved. Freddie du Mortier giving lectures in Brazil in 1977 claimed that he doubts whether the proof is complete. Robert Mussu in 1981 sent a letter with a question, colleagues, what do you think on the du Lac's proof? And at that time, I was ready to point the fatal error in the du Lac's investigations. Let me explain in a few words where the error was. As you remember, there were three parts. The singularization, which is okay and even simplified at the new time. Study of du Lac's map for settles and saddle nodes. Du Lac made important progress in this study. But his study was in the C infinite category instead of analytic. And this was insufficient. And in the study of the compositions, du Lac made a fatal error. In this picture, I present a schematic history of our knowledge about limit cycles. This is not a face portrait, yet this is a time axis. And this graph is the rate of our knowledge about limit cycles and the Hilbert-16 problem. P is Poincare, H is Hilbert, D is the du Lac's theorem of 23. P L is Petrovsky-Landes, the theorems of 55 and 57 when we thought that the 16th Hilbert problem is solved. Then after the disproval of their work, we have a fall down.  And we are on the level approximately the same as at the beginning. Then there was some accumulation of information. Yet there are some branches that grew up, which are normal forms. This is not an institute, this is infinitesimal Hilbert problem. This is analytic fallations, resurgent functions by Eccl. These are bifurcation, these are functional moduli, these are nonlinear stocks phenomena. These are restricted version of the Hilbert's problem. Some way up was due to Eccl and myself when the du Lac's problem was solved. So a few words about these developments, probably I will skip some. I will probably skip the infinitesimal Hilbert problem in details. The problem is the following. We have an integrable polynomial differential equation epsilon equals zero. And we add a polynomial differential form or a polynomial vector field multiplied by epsilon. This equation is integrable, all the solutions are form families of closed curves, different families. And the question is how many limit cycles may be generated under this perturbation? The answer is related to the number of zeros of this integral. It is the infinitesimal Hilbert problem. Find an explicit bound for this number. And this problem was very recently solved by Yakovian-Kanovykov and Benjaminin. So we have sort of a first number in the theory of limit cycles. You have some problem about polynomial differential equations with the restriction to the degree. And you have some upper bound related to the number of limit cycles. Now there is another problem that may be called Hilbert-Arnold problem. This is the following problem. You take a separatrix polygon, a polycycle, and you perturb it. The question is how many limit cycles may occur? The problem is stated not in the polynomial context, but rather in a new context related with the philosophy of general position. You take a generic family of smooth vector fields. Instead of the degree of the polynomials, you consider the number of the parameters. The larger is the number of the parameters, the more complicated is the polycycle that may occur in a typical k-parameter family. And the question is how many limit cycles may be generated from this polycycle? It appears that if the parameter is, if the polycycle has only elementary singular points, then the answer may be given. And the final result is by Vadim Kaloshin with this explicit estimate. It is another explicit number related to the problem of the number of limit cycles, once again in a particular problem. There is an intensive program developed almost 20 years. From now, Demortier, Sari and Rousseau tried to prove the existence of H of 2. The existence of this number would follow from the following statement. Any polycycle, any separatrix polygon that occurs in the family of quadratic vector fields, that is vector fields with degree 2 polynomials in the right hand side, some polycycles may occur in this family. If you prove that any of them may generate only a finite number of limit cycles, then by simple arguments you are done and the existence of H of 2 will be proved. So, they listed 121 different classes of polycycles and in the past almost 20 years, more than 80 of them were resolved but about 30 are not yet studied. I will show you one very, very simple, probably not too much expected picture that will show you what specific cases are not yet studied. You can easily write a linear vector field whose face curves are circles. You just erase this bracket and this is a very simple classical equation. Then you multiply this linear vector field by a linear function and you get a straight line of singular points. This is a quadratic vector field. You can very easily plot the face portrait, no problem about that. But any of the closed continuums here, this one with this red singular point, this one arc of a circle in the segment of singular points and there is a continuum of such sets. Any set of this kind may generate a limit cycle under perturbation and the finiteness of the number of limit cycles generated is not proved in this case. There is another branch on the picture that I have shown, complex polynomial fluctuations and I only want to stress that the persistence problem for complex limit cycles which is in this domain is still unsolved. There are some important news in the theory of normal forms. Nonlinear stokes phenomena is related to this and it is mostly related to so-called parabolic fixed points. We start with a conformal map like this by a formal coordinate change without taking care about the convergence of series. We can reduce it to this normal form but the normalizing series are divergent and a new class of normal forms appears. Namely, the normalizing series is asymptotic to a holomorphic map which has singularity at zero. It is defined in a sector with the singular point on a boundary. In this sector, the map may be transformed to the normal form. In another sector, it also may be transformed to the normal form and this couple of normalizing maps is called normalizing co-chain and this is an important new element in the theory. The moduli of analytic classification are the transition functions between these two maps. They are a Calvaronian moduli. And normalizing co-chains appear in the study of saddle nodes produced by Martinet and Ramiz. And I show you once again the same picture which Dulac investigated. The analytic version of the description of the Dulac map for the saddles brings us to so-called almost regular germs, some special class of analytic maps. And the study of the Dulac map for saddle nodes brings us to functional co-chains that I have described right now. In the beginning of 90s, the following finite terms for limit cycles were proved. A polynomial vector field in the plane have but a finite number of limit cycles, exactly what Dulac claimed. And limit cycles of an analytic vector field in the plane cannot accumulate to a polycycle of this field. Once again, let us return to three steps that Dulac have made. The singularization, it stays as it was and is even simplified. The description of the Dulac map requires quite new tools and these tools were developed in the 80s by the people whom I list here. And the last step is composition of the Dulac maps. It is a very difficult part and it is mostly the problem to be solved in the proof. Let us say a few words about further results. Murtada published a preprint, not yet published in any journal, with the statement that a hyperbolic polycycle of an analytic vector field may generate but a finite number of limit cycles via a perturbation in the domain of analytic vector fields. So hyperbolicity means that all the singular points are hyperbolic settles on this polycycle. Probably this is one of the major statements claimed. And I want to conclude with pointing the major open problems that remain in the field. Is it correct that the Hilbert number exists? That is, is it correct that there is a uniform upper bound for the number of limit cycles for any polynomial vector field of degree n in the plane? The upper bound should depend on n only. The question is still open, even for n equal to as I said. Another more difficult problem is everybody believes that this upper bound exists. Give this upper bound. Smale simplified this problem, these two problems, and he suggested to consider the family of Lienar equations. A lot of questions are much more simple for this equation than for the general polynomial equation. The Lienar equation has this form. Only one polynomial of one variable is in the right-hand side. Still we do not know the answer. So at this spot I stop. Thank you. Thank you very much, Professor Yasheng Fu for wonderful lecture. Are there any questions, comments? Thank you. I have a question and a comment, both historical. First you said that Andronov was a founder of bifurcation theory. I would rather say that it's Poincaré. Already in his thesis in 1879, there is a proof, I think, independent of Viastras of the Viastras preparation theorem, which is fundamental in bifurcation theory, and there are many studies of bifurcation in Poincaré's celestial mechanics, for example, works. The question is, I thought, but I never saw the picture that Zhukovsky, before Poincaré, had drawn the pictures of saddles and foci and so on. So maybe you can comment on this. I never heard about the pictures drawn by Zhukovsky and I did not compare the times. Thank you. About the return map, Poincaré certainly was knowing the Kronecker index and Kronecker used, before Poincaré in some sense, the Poincaré map from his index. Jean-Marie is recalling me that Jean-Marie Ginou from Toulon found unpublished, at least unknown, conferences of Poincaré. I don't remember some school of electricity, I don't remember exactly, on the use of limit cycles in electricity and so on, which were earlier than the application you mentioned also. And his thesis is about this question. Arnold liked to say that the school of Mandelstam and Andronov did not use what Poincaré had done, so it is parallel to what you say. Could you come back to the finiteness theorems for... I'm here. Could you come back to the finiteness theorems for HN? I didn't understand why they don't apply the existence of HN. I must have missed some steps. What place do you... The finiteness theorems that were towards the end. The statement of the finiteness theorem, they are at the very end. Here they are. Is it what you want to see? Yes. So these theorems are proven? Yes. But then... Oh, no, okay, I get it. Thank you. There is a book published by École in 92, and another one by myself in 91. Okay, thank you. Another question? Yes, so to add a comment to what I've said, so it's in some lectures of Poincaré at the École Supérieure, they post a telegraph that in one of his chapters, when he was dealing with radio problem, Poincaré explicitly connected the singing arc coupled to an oscillating electrical system which was used before the triode in radio. He connected it to a second-order equation which is essentially of Lienard type, but without explicitly the structure of the nonlinear part. He kept it. So he had made the link between his limit cycle concept and the self-association in a radio system. Already, I think it is in 1908. This has been recently discovered. Unfortunately, in contrast with the other lectures of Poincaré at this École de Petite, this is not included in his complete work, which are so less completed than expected. Well, I guess that Russian school was not well aware of what was going on. Yeah, but it's normal. Nobody was aware. Yeah. Other questions or comments? Also, we thank you once more very much. Thank you.


Salaamu Alaykum I want to sincerely thank Ustadah Hussein and Imam Dawud Yassin because they made my job so much easier mashaAllah it was the perfect prelude into this workshop because when we think about all of the aspirations that we want to accomplish me myself I have four boys mashaAllah I work and I love doing community projects whether it be with kids or women in building sisterhood so I realized that coming into Ramadan I always felt like I was in survival mode and I was tired of it I said how can I shift gears and make myself thrive during this time how can I be inspired by all of these amazing lectures these inspirational talks and turn it into a reality within our lives so alhamdulillah I I've studied the corporate business strategies and I've also my passion is analytical tefsir so tying in a lot of these concepts that we've learned I formulated a lot of the worksheets in this workbook so you're going to hear a lot of the repetition of what they've already mashaAllah brought us to but in formats that we can interpret them into our lives and organize ourselves so you're going to see worksheets you're going to see tips and tricks you're going to have checklists and resource sheets everything at your disposal inshAllah so I'm just going to keep go through this and that so the first thing I like to do is I like to have a stop and reflect what does your typical daily schedule look like on a consistent basis some of you guys might be work some parents some might be students what does your daily schedule look like when you stop and you break that down can you think about those items on your daily schedule that are absolutely necessary tasks can you think of things that you can break down in that schedule that might not be necessary and then for the things that are absolutely necessary do you think that we can find ways to enhance it so that we can better utilize our time like imam do just spoke about maybe simplifying our meals I mean cooking is something that we all have to do but do we have to spend two hours creating feasts that most times we're not going to be able to eat after we break our fast so being conscious and reflecting on what we have to do what's necessary for us on a daily basis and then putting the steps in place so that we can shorten that time that it's committed from us is just something good to get into the habit of doing on a consistent basis just keep reflecting on that so one thing I like to say is for some of the unnecessary tasks that we do what are some unnecessary tasks that you guys can anybody in the audience shout some out can you think of any social media is a very big one that's a very big big one for many people these days so in my I bad the swap section it just again has you reflecting so if you are in social media and you become overloaded as a say said maybe set some time limits for yourself you know instead of being on there for two hours say I'm only going to give myself 30 minutes or you can try and go the whole month without it other alternatives are there are amazing speakers and people to follow that give you inspirational Ramadan tips that get you engaged that listening you can recite Quran together listen to help you kind of keep you in line so utilize the resources that you have to your benefits and then there's lots of other options for example if you are somebody who likes to watch the TV and movies during your downtime there are so many really positive lectures Islamic movies inspirational positive shows that you can gravitate towards during this month just to make your time a little bit more productive and enhanced inshallah gonna let you guys just read through that and we'll keep going inshallah one of the thing that was mentioned a lot is food preparation it's the effects that our food has on us so one of the biggest concepts I've learned is that within ourselves we have to learn how to balance the different parts of who we are so we have the mind the body and then the heart so our mind is kind of like our intellectual goals those aspirations our heart are those emotional connections or as it says at those purification elements of the heart and then our bodies are our physical needs our physical parts I want you guys to think when you are extremely hungry can you go and maybe ace that exam not usually what about if you heard some really bad sad news that have you has you physically in anguish like what I'm sorry that has you emotionally in anguish what happens to your physical energy levels a lot of times they're down so being conscious of what it takes as an individual to be productive in all elements is understanding all these different parts of our self so one of the things I like to say is for our physical selves being conscious of the types of food that we put into our body and the effects it has on us is important subhanAllah in our prophetic sunnah there are so many foods that are mentioned and when we think about these foods we look and we see all of their health benefits like subhanAllah I get goosebumps thinking about that because what we're taught in our sunnah is not just lessons to yeah okay that's a yummy treat subhanAllah there are so much wisdom and benefits to us as individuals if we are eating a lot of you know deep fried oreos chicken all this heavy stuff are we going to have the energies to get to tarawih if we want to set a goal that every night we're getting to tarawih we're going to pray qiam what are some of the practical steps that we can put in place to actually achieve those goals so food is a really big one a lot of people say well I like my food you know it's my tradition it's my culture and that's absolutely true and necessary it's a positive thing so instead of just throwing out the tradition keep the tradition but refine the recipes there are a lot of healthy alternatives to some of the heavier elements in our recipes that taste just as good take just as much time but we'll have a different effect on our energy levels so I go through quite a few and you guys can get the idea inshallah so me personally for Ramadan I don't want to make it about food I don't want to spend honestly any of my time in the kitchen preparing cooking and cleaning up after it a lot of us know how much time that can take so personally what I've done I was um a family of six I would cook and prepare all of my meals for three months one month prior to Ramadan one month for the month of Ramadan and then one month after so that everything was done that I didn't have to think about worry about food at all so this is one of my those was one of my family's personal uh one of the things that and excuse me that helped enhance my time during Ramadan the most because when we actually like that schedule I told you guys to think about where all of our time goes on a daily basis a lot of it ends up going to food so it would take me maybe six seven days of hard work but then three months of not thinking about it so I go through a lot of different tips and tricks on food preparation in here and a lot of the myths that people have so typically at these type of workshops I will actually have had food provided and people would eat and enjoy ahead of time so that you guys can have the energy for this long lecture and discussion but what I don't tell them is all of the food is actually freezer meals and then after they've eaten it they're like what no because knowing the little tips and tricks and actually trying and giving it a chance you realize that there's not much of a difference and then you kind of gravitate your diet and you make good choices based on that so imagine lots of soups stews chilies um and if you don't want to actually have fully cooked meals then just focus on one part of it just marinate your meats that by itself think about it if we had instead of marinating one different kind of meat every single day we marinated maybe five pounds of it and had it over the course of a few days does that not simplify and save time in the long run save with cleanliness we'll just throw it all in the food processor wash it one time so subhanAllah these little tips and tricks really help us maximize our time and food prep is a very big helpful one now we don't we don't have as much time we have about one week left for Ramadan so a couple sisters asked me well we only have one week left how much food prep can we actually get done in one week you can get a lot done every day this week for the next maybe six seven days double your meals you're cooking anyway just double it and freeze one then you'll have at least six seven days worth of meals for those days where you want to make sure you get to tarawih you want to make sure you do qiam but you want to make sure that your family is being fed another option would again just do meat marination get all of that out of the way pick one day and do all your food prep these little tips and tricks help for me personally i i'm not quite at the extreme level martial arts imam dood but i will only do smoothies for breakfast i'll do a date smoothie with bananas every day for so hot and honestly that makes me feel full it gives me the energy levels and after Ramadan with this healthy meal preparation i leave it feeling so revived physically so subhanAllah it's not like the rahmah that Ramadan is it's not supposed to be a burden on us if we actually go into it with the right mindset we feel all of its benefits even its physical benefits so so yeah there's lots of tips and tricks here one thing i got i get asked a lot is well we live in these smaller places especially in california how can we have the freezer space so i i get into all of that you can just get freezer bags you can freeze them flat and you can stack 10 20 meals easily even in the smallest of freezers and depending on the size of your family like you guys will adjust and you can figure out what works best for you inshallah you also save money you guys buying food in bulk buying meats and vegetables in bulk actually helps you save it in the long run so you'll have more money to donate for silica inshallah here i just go through a quick recipe renovation of like a healthy kind of meal prep idea for one day in Ramadan in the workbook because i told you there's an accompanying workbook inshallah you'll find lots of different tools to help you maximize on it so you have the sahur or menu plan the dinner if thought menu plan and then the grocery lists and then to help you assist you with if you do decide to go with freezer meals what's in your freezer to just know what you have and then organize yourself accordingly so the one reason i did the grocery list for every single week of Ramadan because again shopping happens to be one of the bigger items that takes our time so if we have a grocery list and we know what we're going into the store to buy we're going to be fast and we're going to be efficient we're also not going to be going into the store hungry buying a bunch of things that we don't need both unhealthy and wasteful so organizing that grocery list going and being disciplined to only get what's on there really helps us stay focused for our goals inshallah and as we said we really don't want to spend Ramadan with a lot of waste alhamdulillah we are fasting during the day and we have to be aware of our physical capacities and oftentimes we can't eat as much as our minds are tricking us into thinking we can because we're fasting so planning now while you are not fasting helps kind of visualize that so as again imam doed mashaAllah said we want to welcome Ramadan as a guest if we have guests coming into our house we go through and we do the deepest cleaning we're scrubbing we're organizing we're getting everything ready and prepared we are so excited that these people are coming into our homes our personal spaces well with Ramadan coming Ramadan is our guest so i would highly recommend going through a nice deep clean prior to Ramadan these are all steps that you can do before Ramadan so that when you come into it you come into it the mindset like okay this is my environment this is fresh set up a little prayer space for yourself have a mashaAllah put on your mushaaf your tasbih have all your adhqa in one place place it really helps you kind of get into the right mind space to best utilize your environment and then the other thing is you know you've gotten a little bit of a head start for aid so it helps alhamdulillah obviously we're still gonna have the everyday daily cleaning but doing that deep cleaning you know it really makes a big difference i like to use that example you know when we are getting ready to cook and we go into the kitchen if it's messy do we want to clean do we want to cook i mean nobody wants that so with Ramadan coming make sure your environment is welcoming of it and so this is also kind of the fun element if if you especially if you have kids decorate there are a lot of simple affordable ways to decorate the house which i saw a bunch of decorations outside by the vendors if you guys want to take even a simpler route and just grab some inshallah but this the the sheets that i have just help you kind of give you that checklist remember things that you might not necessarily have remembered oh another huge time saver so one year it was Ramadan and it was the last 10 nights of Ramadan and i was like oh my goodness i have to go buy gifts i need to eat clothes for my kids what am i gonna do so naturally what do we do we get in the car and we go to the mall while i was there i was shocked i mean i shouldn't be shocked i was there but it was filled with muslimin like every single store i saw so many i there were probably more muslims in the mall that time than anybody else and i kept thinking i was like this is the last 10 nights of Ramadan this is precious time and we're spending it in the mall so subhanAllah we have one week left if the only thing you do is prepare for aid get the outfits done get the decorations done get all the gifts done now imagine that's one less thing to spend your during your last 10 nights inshallah so again yeah lots of organizers to help you guys remember and so you don't forget anyone the next big thing that i found really helped save time for me as i mentioned i have four young boys and alhamdulillah these days there are so many products and people that inspire us to engage a love of learning with our kids especially during Ramadan so when i began my kids are a little bit older now but when i began many years ago there wasn't as many things that we had available to us so i wanted to make sure that Ramadan wasn't spent just you know depriving ourselves of food and then sticking the kids in front of the tv for long periods of time just because we were exhausted so what i decided to do was help organize my time and activities for the kids in advance so again prior to Ramadan this is another thing you guys can start planning from now so everybody likes taco tuesday right how about tefseer tuesdays get your family in the habit of getting these fun activities together grab Ramadan or islamic themed books you know there are so many actually amazing islamic games as well that they can play and be entertained with during this month that have positive islamic values so knowing these things and doing a little bit of time and research maybe purchasing them in advance or planning your own activities you know this is the time to do it alhamdulillah and then again the calendar and the planner just helped you find it all in one place and i know sometimes we just get to those points we're working we're exhausted and we will use the screens it's inevitable there are going to be those moments where we are feeling exhausted so what i highly suggest in those moments is have yourself a youtube playlist with positive Ramadan content for kids we have the things that feature ismail husna the names of Allah we have beautiful islamic nashids we have all of these different things again to enhance our Ramadan experience but also being mindful of our physical limitations and our emotional you know pushing points so utilize the resources that we have just prep it now so that when you're in Ramadan you're not like scrambling wait is that a good content is that a good thing you have something already gravitated towards your children or your family's needs your siblings needs you can be get the hasnath for helping family out so inshallah it's just something to be reflective of and and to help in your planning inshallah so now we've thought about everyone else what about our spiritual goals what about ourselves do we want to finish a Quran khutma this month do we want to memorize new du'ats do we want to um be more involved in the communities and help with the endeavors that they've already started and facilitated you know writing down your daily routine your daily goals will help kind of keep yourself on track so again when you're tired and you need some kind of inspiration you can go back like oh i wanted to do that today and again if if you need to there are a lot of amazing resources online and virtually where they have 30 days of beautiful content to follow along with so that's why i always add the links because we can use technology to our benefit inshallah especially during Ramadan so to help you set your spiritual goals i have a ton of content alhamdulillah so i told you i'm very big about intellectual goals emotional goals and then also physical goals so for um kind of reflecting on the type of different types of ibadah or worship it's just it's very helpful so in here you'll find tons of reflection and writing prompts to get you thinking about all the different elements of our religion it teaches you how to read doesn't teach you it guides you on how we can read hadith and then not just read it as it is but learn how to interpret it within ourselves and what the lessons we can benefit from and start actually implementing within our lives inshallah and then it's just positive guides to be reflective for example having better khushu in our prayer we're all at different levels so each thing is just meant to help us improve so when we leave Ramadan we're feeling like we are one step ahead of where we were coming into it inshallah so like i said there's going to also be tons of helpful resource sheets so i like to call this uh also it's not just preparing for Ramadan but it's also what i like to use as my ibadah binder like it has everything easily accessible for me so if i'm going to the masjid i want i'll just grab it and go so it has ismail husna in it it has written in arabic the transliteration and the meaning it has adhqaad and the helpful benefits of them it has all the different types of dots that you can utilize throughout the month and daily kindness challenges or good deed challenges so that we can give on to others as ustadah husay said we are a community we are a religion that really emphasizes being there for one another in our community so setting those daily goals for ourselves is really important as well such as surat al rahim maintaining family ties so there's a checklist to kind of help you remind remind yourself hey you know what let me call them you know we have long commutes how can we utilize our commutes better we can call family member we can listen to quran we do our mourning of god subhanAllah we have lots of opportunities so these will just help guide you and facilitate it one of the things that i love to do um especially with for younger kids and yourself is if you're looking to uh to memorize some dots for Ramadan what i like to do is i like to copy it maybe on card stock paper and then i'll cut it out and i'll tape it into the area where it's most relevant so when i was earlier when i was still learning and and getting familiarized with certain da'a for example the da'a for traveling every time i got in the car i printed it out and i put it on my dashboard so when i got there i was like oh oh yeah i have to say that da'a and then the repetition of continuously saying it helps you memorize it alhamdulillah so do this with any kind of da'a that you're wanting to incorporate you know the one where you're looking into the mirror when you're leaving the house there are so many beneficial ones that we can kind of incorporate into our day one thing i want to mention before i go on is you know Ramadan is alhamdulillah a prime time to fast but it's not only about the fasting there are many people that can't fast for different reasons whether it be for females being incapable at certain times sickness or age so like i said there are tons of checklist organizers and calculators in here um for physical goals uh exercise for me is is very important for my emotional state of being so being self-aware as sada has said has taught me that i need to release some of my energy sometimes so i have to kind of incorporate times for physical exercise for my emotional intellectual goals so one of the ways that i kind of advise this if during Ramadan um there are actually tips and tricks within it but one of the ways that i advise too if you feel like you don't have time is simple little tricks like if you're going to go to tarawiyah park far intentionally park far you'll find better parking spaces and then that walk to tarawiyah would do your health a lot of good inshallah so little things like that it's just reframing every act that we do consciously to give us the best chance to accomplish our goals so another thing that i highly advise is um vitamins you know understanding what our bodies might be lacking especially during Ramadan when we aren't eating sometimes the most balanced diets you know we might need a little bit of additional help for me personally with my gut health probiotics changed my Ramadan's i was always feeling sick and weighed down then when i started taking probiotics consistently throughout Ramadan it really enhanced experience i felt more energy i was able to get through it without feeling sick so subhanAllah vitamins you know speak with your doctors speak with a nutritionist alhamdulillah see what your body might need to give you that little boost of energy as well um yeah it also gives lots of tips for Quran khutma how to organize if tars because you know we will most likely have if tars during Ramadan um so if you do it just being organized it really helps assist with that and then if you are going to miss fast you don't want to you know lose track of the days that you didn't fast so there's a nice organizer in there for that as well um it also discussed the different types of zikah and sadaqa it gives you tips and tricks for how to finish a Quran within the month of Ramadan for example if you only read four pages a day i'm sorry not a day per sula with each of your five salas you finish a khutma in the month you finish completing the recitation of the entire Quran inshaAllah so now we have all of these goals set for ourselves where do we find the time we talked about like the little tips and tricks to kind of enter it into our lives but how do we give ourselves bigger blocks of time during Ramadan for this i give two options because as individuals we are going to gravitate our own personal growth in different ways so it's important to have different options available to us so i have the weekly schedule which is a block calendar and then we also have the schedule tied to salah so when the block calendar with the block calendar what you can do is you can write in the time frame throughout your day and then block out all the times that you know that you can't do something for example you're at work you're in class you're at a kids activity then when the free time blocks that you see plug it in as if it is work we wouldn't miss work one day say oh i don't feel like going to work no we make the time for it Ramadan is four weeks long so if we plug in those ibadda times those times of worship within our calendar we should be as consistent with them as we would our normal work schedule or our kids activities or any other type of event in our lives so holding ourselves accountable in that manner really helps us stay in line and focused the second one is our schedule tied to salah so a lot of times making something turning something into a habit becomes easier if we connect it with something that we're already doing so like i said for myself i'm a very physical person so i wanted to incorporate more exercise in my life but i had very young kids so i couldn't think how can i find that balance for myself so what i did was every time i was giving them a bath i would be in the bathroom right there watching them making sure they were safe but then i would do crunches or i would do something physical like some kind of exercise while i'm sitting there letting them play have a little bit of fun but i disciplined myself that way and so every time they were giving a bath i got myself so consistently uh i tied it so consistently to that that it became like a routine we can do that same concept with our abadagals tied to our salah so our salahs are something that grounds us it reminds us throughout the day to remember Allah so when we're doing that and we're taking the time out for prayer we can add something additionally into that we can add our Quran recitation in there we can add our adhqar or like we said you can sit at Allah and maintaining family ties doing positive things subhanAllah so we can tie it to our salahs just to help instill within ourselves that habit so now we're in Ramadan and we want to make sure that all of these amazing goals we've set for ourselves are actually being attained what i've provided was a daily check in for yourself so every day of Ramadan we have our salah tracker we have our fasting tracker where you are in the Quran and then some points for reflection so we have like a daily Quran jam so what i highly recommend don't just read recite the Quran definitely recite it inshaAllah but try and learn its interpretation when we do that we reflect on its meaning we have a deeper connection with it and we're more inspired to continuously read on a daily basis leaving Ramadan inshaAllah also again we are a community that thinks of others so trying to do a good deed every single day a kindness for others and reflecting on that so we can continuously add more of that on a daily basis is a really positive thing now we have so many pressures we have so much going on in our lives how can we keep our emotions in check how can we help self-regulate ourselves so on a daily basis i give less stress less tips so every day is a different tip to help you find yourself and ground yourself just so that on a consistent basis we can become more aware when we are feeling emotionally imbalanced and we can put the steps in place to help self-regulate ourselves then of course Sadaqan Zaka Ramadan is the best time to do our yearly Zaka and Alhamdulillah if we put in that amount especially the last 10 nights it again keeps us on track and keeps us giving inshaAllah purifying our well and then just for those who are especially i love this one i used to love doing it with my kids and i love it for myself i like having trivia challenges but islamically themed trivia challenges because like Imam Doad said we want to kind of make this like our religion engaging and and interesting so by having some funner elements for our kids making it interesting it just helps us stay on track then also reflection section setting exercise goals for ourselves making sure we're drinking enough water so that we are feeling energized and then also the healthy food or dates of the day now we have little less than a week left to Ramadan this is the last part how can we kind of take everything all of our goals all of our aspirations and how can we break it into a to-do list for ourselves don't think that tomorrow you're going to be able to sit there and get everything done and done and you're going to be miraculously prepared for Ramadan no you have a week left every day set for yourself compartmentalize your tasks into easy digestible amounts so that you're not feeling overburdened or overstressed prior to welcoming and coming into Ramadan inshaAllah and again one thing that i love to emphasize is utilize the resources in our community mashaAllah we have a wealth of knowledge we have amazing food vendors we have so much available to us that if we just consciously realize everything that we have and then utilize them in those times where we are feeling exhausted alhamdulillah we're giving back to our community but at the same time we're helping ourselves so being mindful of that is um just something i like to promote and then this is the final slide inshaAllah leaving uh we were talking predominantly about preparing for Ramadan but i also really want us to get into the habit of okay what how can i take what i've done and how i've benefited in Ramadan and how can i move it forward so one of the best things is just to kind of find balance within ourselves by setting goals in the different parts of who we are so their mind our body and our heart are different types of goals that we can set for ourselves and then inshaAllah we can turn these things into habits and next Ramadan we'll just keep adding and adding and adding inshaAllah so alhamdulillah i think i've talked quite a bit i wanted to ask if you guys had any questions any feedback reflections is there like a soft soft copy version of this book i'm sorry what a soft copy version of printable copy um there's not but it's available on amazon and etsy and uh we have it on the vendor store outside the physical book or the soft copy uh the physical okay thank you so much inshaAllah no problem any other comments questions reflections salam alaikum thank you for sharing they seem like really beneficial tips especially the time saving in the kitchen one um so i had a question so i know you talked a bit about women who might not be fasting during Ramadan so i'm breastfeeding uh this Ramadan i don't think i'll be able to fast do you have any advice specifically for breastfeeding mothers um on how to make the most of this Ramadan because we won't be fasting i feel like i'll miss out on a lot of um feeling you know spiritually in touch with the month yeah alhamdulillah this was something i feel like is very prominent in our community is like we kind of tie all of our spiritual connection to the ritualistic aspects of worship but subhanAllah like wassad hussein was saying there are so many emotional connections between our religion so uh in the work in the workbook we talk about adhqar going over ism adhasna names of Allah you know really connecting with the different parts of our religion setting intellectual goals for ourselves donating and volunteering your time at the communities i know you have a new born so it might be a little bit more difficult with your time but just being a part of these experiences don't feel like just because you're not fasting that you can't be engaged you can't be a part of these type of things and then there are so many goals that you can set for yourself that i've gone over and there are worksheets for it that aren't tied to fasting so um one thing that i used to do because i have four boys alhamdulillah was um i would set a lot of my memorization goals during Ramadan um so i would um do my morning adhqar try and memorize dots and memorize a lot of the Quran as much of the Quran as i could during those times where i wasn't fasting so at least i felt like i had that connection with the Quran when i couldn't feel like my physical connection with the fasting was there um and as well even although you're you're a breastfeeding you could still do all of the the Salahs and the Sunnah Salahs um maybe take turns if it's possible with your spouse to go to tarawih to be engaged in that congregation with the community it really does help your morale um as as a as a mom a new mom alhamdulillah and then definitely halakha and lectures i really want to thank mcc for hosting thank you brother Munir for all of your efforts alhamdulillah and imam dowod and usadah say for contributing alhamdulillah um imam yeah he left okay khalas inshaAllah i really wanted him to finish with the dua but mashaAllah they both finished their sections with the dua so um i'll just close off and alhamdulillah juzak la khayron again i pray that we all make it to Ramadan i pray we benefit from this month anything that you may have benefited from today is from Allah swt anything that was wrong or incorrect is solely from me inshaAllah


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