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This is so excited. What is up my beautiful babes? How are we doing today? You are looking extra fine. Yes, you are. So I was scrolling through the good old gram today and I found this video of a guy with dreadlocks down to here Cutting them off Getting this beautiful new haircut.  You you need to see this. You really do. It's crazy By the way, if you haven't checked out my live your extra life hoodie yet, what are you doing? Fandroid.co slash Brad, you know, all right. So up first we have Thomas Chirpa He is about to cut his long Dreads off and I'm ready for this transformation. Give it to me. Give it to me, Thomas. Ah Oh My god Did you just see those dreads? I feel like down to his knees Ten years of dreads.  Why do I like this so much?  I'm here. I'm here. I Love a good transformation. Oh my god. He already looks so good Wow Must be crazy getting your hair washed for like the first time in forever For ten years. He probably hasn't washed his scalp. Oh my god. He looks so good What a change. I'm shook Yeah Wow, this barber is so talented. I'm so happy for him. You look so good That was insane. Oh girl. Let's move on. Let's watch another one. All right now We got miss Leah lay. She is about to comb all of her dreads out and give herself a little makeover She has a lot it looks so cute on her though. I love dreads I really do I wanted dreads. I'm sorry. I'm stopping the video.  Let me know down below if I should get platinum blonde dreadlocks I'd probably get so My god, she's take every single one out individually. I mean like obviously, but like whoa Her hair is probably so healthy She's really pretty hair 20 minutes 20 minutes for one.  I'm obsessed. I Want to do this for somebody This looks so satisfying. I'm sorry daddy Hi Who knew that face was under all those dreadlocks? I didn't but now I do and hi Wow, he looks so good Queen you look so much better without dreadlocks like what are you guys one last video? Well, we got some more a majorly long dreadlocks and he's about to get a completely different haircut. Let's watch it This is by Barber shop connect. I should those are beautiful dreadlocks though. There's no going back Wow, he's an amazing head of hair. That is some thick hair, honey. Oh my god He looks so good That was amazing Okay, so whoa, those were some major Transformations they all looked completely different without their dreadlocks Like they looked cool before but I have to say after they just looked so much more like clean and gorgeous But I do love love dreadlocks And I totally always wanted to get faux dreadlocks done in my hair and today's Instagram shadow Goes to Ashley. This is her Instagram name and this is what she looks like What's up, Ashley? She says hey Brad. I've been watching your channel for a little while now and I'm hooked I've been wanting to cut my hair and try a new style for a while But I'm not sure what to do my family does not want me to cut it. What should I do? So first of all your hair already looks stunning and gorge and I really I do love it long But I think it would be so much more of a look If you cut it maybe like to your shoulders are a little bit below your shoulders And you know if your family doesn't want you to do it Who cares just go chop it off. Don't tell them and be like girl I'm just living my extra life calm down. Your family is gonna love it They don't know it yet, but they're going to love it So Ashley seriously cut your shorter it maybe like highlight it more it'll look amazing Definitely do it girl. And if you are new here, you know, it'll be really really really cool for the both of us If you hit that subscribe button and then you hit the like button You're really cool. So don't forget to shop my merch at fanjoy.co Slash Brad. Thank you all so much for watching today Don't forget to live your extra life and I will see you all next time. Peace


Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm on a class 150. I'm at Buxton, but it's still got the first great western Moquetz on it's one that's been transferred to northern. So we've arrived here at Buxton and today We're going to go to the miniature railway in the park in Buxton, but before that a few things I want to show you railway wise and about the town Still got seven four signals, which of course. I really like here are some 150s for you and Just here that where the building houses now. This is where peak rail was originally They had a museum here you could get up on steam train have a little ride But then they moved to Rowsley and over there used to be Buxton diesel depot I'm just going to show you some bits around the station It was once a much larger station than it is today. I'll talk about that in a moment it's quite a nice mural all along this fence and Then we're going to head down through the town centre and we're going to go and Visit the miniature railway in Buxton. Now if you have a look here, there's just rather nice Tiled mural so where are we we're here the railway station which opened in 1863 We're making our way To the park here. This is where the miniature railway is on the way. I'm going to show you things like the Royal Crescent and the Opera House So We're gonna do that. I just want to introduce you to a friend of mine first. It's this guy here always say hello to him He's so cool He's made out of bits of old railway Stuff so we got like this is a ground signal. We've got various other bits all welded together He's a really cool guy. So if you ever come to Buxton make sure you say hello to him We're now going to head up here. There's one thing. I simply cannot show you Or cannot come to Buxton without showing you. Sorry And that is just at the end of the platform. I'm a big fan of it. So I need it. I'm going to show it to you and that is The window here always been a big fan of the window at Buxton station Now there was actually once an overall roof here Over the whole station and the station was also twice its size but more of that in a moment Another thing in front of the fan window There's a quite a cool little Japanese garden. It's really a bit of an unusual railway station That guy fishing looks a bit angry. There's an old railway sleeper there There's the class 150s. I do like 150s Well, I like sprinters really just because they're now some of the older DMUs on the network So I'm always enjoy a trip on any kind of sprinter, but especially 150s I just enjoy a trip on anyway. We're now going to leave the railway station We're heading towards the opera house. We're not going into the opera house. We're going to go into the building next door So oh, but there is also something else to do with the railway station I want to show you before we leave and that's here. We go into the ticket office Here in the ticket office Is a rather cool model of Buxton station I think it's really nice. We have this model here. You can see how it would have looked with the overall roof There's a LMS loco. So this is how the station you can see the fan window in the background If I needed it up to position of the 150 in the further background So this is how the station would have looked Now, um, there's also some double o-gauge models here. I particularly like it They've got a model of liander because when I first came to Buxton on steam train liander Hold that rail tour If you have a look around here at the fan window you can see some various other old vehicles Now There was actually two ones. It was like a twin station. If you have a look on that picture there You can see how there were two Fan windows and the area around here was the station forecore. So if we head out here This is now the station forecourt. So there had been a mirror image just there now If we look at the fan window You can see the fan window there The other one would have been See what that Just there where that bloke in the blue thing is Um And where it's all covered in ivy now, but that was the other fan window So this would have been a forecourt and there were two Terminal sets of platforms each with a fan window. I'm going to head down there now down to the town centre And we're eventually going to get to the miniature railway So I've just come down from the railway station now just there you can see a water crane now that is when Peak rail was based here at buxton, but then they moved to a current site down at rousely Now if we look around here, you can see that really quite a spectacular viaduct towering above buxton That is the old peak line Currently goes up as far as hind though and I went on the one and only rail tour they've ever done With steam up there since the end of 60s. What we're going to do now I'm going to run into waitrose and grab a coffee and then we're going to go and explore buxton properly So I've been to waitrose that building over there. That is the palace hotel That's subject to a different video putting a link in now. I've now come to the university This is an amazing building. You can't see it. There's a huge dome. So I'm going to quickly show you inside It's actually a campus of darby university, but it is possibly One of the most amazing buildings you'll see it was originally a hospital If you look says devonshire hospital because it was built by the duchess devonshire who lives at chatsworth That's another place we should go and visit one day. So we go in here through this door. It's one of these funny doors It's amazing. Oh, it's nice and warm. What you're about to see I'll just see you can see what the building looks like. I'll show you on that picture So we've just come in through those doors. Oh, we're gonna see this dome So this is what it looks like inside. Look at it. It's amazing. Can you imagine studying in a place like this? That's something funny is going to happen in a moment As I walk into the middle My voice will start echoing and everything I say you'll be able to hear a split second later So can you hear that now? I'm speaking now and you can hear it repeating myself So that's quite funny. I can't clap because I'm holding a camera a bit. I tell you what's this See the noise it makes It's so strange. I won't keep doing it for the whole night. But just look at this building. It's amazing I just think it must have been amazing to study somewhere like that and that's right up to the ceiling Um, it's a really cool building. It's rare to see it this quite normally There's an event on or something but since I've come here when there isn't an event more do just go upstairs and See the building from above what it won't echo there because it only echoes when you're in the middle Then what we're going to do we're going to carry on down through the town center And um, we're going to go and have a look at a few more landmarks in buxton before we finally Finish at the miniature railway that we've come here to see. So here we are upstairs now Look at this all these columns never counted them but just So many of them there must be 60-odd columns. So that's where we were when we were making the noise. I think this is It's just such an amazing building and be amazing to study here Anyway, I'm now gonna head out. We're gonna go look at the crescent next. So Let's carry on our exploration of buxton So I've just come up from buxton town center And still see the railway station just over there And I wanted to show you on my way to the miniature railway is buxton's royal crescent And this is why buxton is quite often known as bath of the north because it has A royal crescent like bath does It's under restoration at the moment and they're also Restoring some of the baths so buxton can relive up to its name as a spa town So it's it really is a very pleasant place to visit But obviously in my books, it's made more exciting the fact that we've got a miniature railway we can head to So I'm now going to carry on walking along here. I've got one more place I want to show you before we get to the miniature railway So we've now come down from the royal crescent and we are heading up towards the opera house And the pavilion gardens, which is it's building here now. There's one bit I particularly like there's some indoor Gardens, which um, I think are really pleasant. You're probably just already hear the horn of the train. I just heard So we're nearly at the miniature railway We've come to buxton to visit today So if we're going to here If it's kind of like um, it's a lot warmer inside If it's created an atmosphere where more Plants are done I think this is really nice If it and obviously I can't show it to your camera, but it's a lot warmer in here Than it is outside And um, I just think it's a really nice place to walk through. So we're going to go up here now And and we're going to head out the other side to where the railway is. So there's even a pond an indoor pond with fish inside it And just see Maybe don't know how well you can see that but they're they're all fishing the pond um We're now going to carry on through here And um, we're going to go outside to where the railway is So we're just Going through these doors That way there's um a cafe and there's a pub and various other things And then we come out here and you can see the whole of the pavilion gardens Well, I've just had a very enjoyable trip on the train.  It'll be coming round again. Um, just crossing the river over there So we'll see the train pass again in a moment. Um And um, I'm now going to head back to the station So if you're ever in buxton or darbyshire area do come and visit this railway or even if you're in manchester Do jump on the train down to buxton and have a ride on this really pleasant little railway And um, you can spend time in the park and the pavilion gardens over there. Here comes the train He's coming back again now. So it really is worth a visit. So um, please do feel free to like subscribe comment Tell your friends about henry's adventures and about this railway Thank you very much for watching and goodbye


I begin in Allah's name, the beneficent, the merciful. Allah swt in the second chapter, which is the last verse, 286, is a very profound verse. Of course, the entire Quran is profound, but this is very interesting discussion we need to have in order to understand the function and why we exist on this earth and what do we need to do. Allah swt in the second chapter, 286, is a very profound verse. Translation. Allah does not impose upon any soul a duty, but to what they can handle, but to their ability. For it is the benefit of this soul of what it has earned and upon it what it has lost. Meaning, when you commit good, it's for you. When you commit evil, it's for you. And then there's a dua. As you know, this last verse has many qunud duas. We use it in qunud, but it's a dua. Meaning, Allah is teaching us how to worship, to believe, and to be the Muslims we are supposed to do, to be through the dua. He says, Our Lord, do not punish us if we forget or make a mistake. Meaning, Allah is merciful. He's telling us to tell Him not to punish us if we forget or make a mistake. Our Lord, do not lay on us a burden as you did lay on those before us. Meaning, there were those who had a lot of burdens which maybe to my back I cannot handle. Our Lord, do not impose upon us that which we do not have the strength to bear. Meaning, don't give me a trial that I can't bear. And pardon us. Grant us protection. Have mercy on us. You are our patron, so help us against the troublemakers, the unbelieving people. Now, this is a beautiful dua and it sets a standard for what you and I need to understand. First and foremost, the verse says, This is a very profound fundamental verse in the Quran. That Allah does not put a burden on any being more than it can handle. So even for a dog, even for a cat, even for an insect, Allah puts a burden on it just what it can handle. You and I have been given greater burdens because we are stronger. We are wiser. We are more intelligent. We can control our environments. We can predict the futures. We can plan our futures. And we can store for our futures. And we can learn from the past. So Allah says, So this is a huge conversation in the sense that when we look around people, there are those who are very intelligent, very capable of achieving high levels of success. And then there are those who are less intelligent. So we ask what will happen to the less intelligent one?  You will notice that by the standards of the Quran in a quick summary, a person of less intelligence in the sense of their capacity can occupy the same level of paradise as the one with the higher capacity of intelligence as human being. This might come as a shock to some of us, but this is the principle of adalat, the principle of justice in the sense that the way Allah creates. You'll find in our societies there are those who are extremely intelligent and they're able to lead societies. They're able to discover secrets that the average human being cannot. The taqlif, meaning the burden on that person or those kinds of persons, should be the ones to lead. And if they don't lead, and if they do not discover, and if they do not change their societies in more positive ways, then they stand to be punished because they were given the capacity to do something which they did not utilize. By the same token, the individual who is unable to lead, the individual who is incapable of seeing the bigger picture, they just don't have the capacity, Allah will not punish them for not doing it. So the Quran is setting a foundation. What you and I need to do in our lives is to recognize and realize what is our potential. What is our potential? Should I become a leader? Should I be in a position? What should I be doing for Allah? I'm a soldier on the battlefield. Should I be on the front lines? Should I be the nurse? Should I be the general? You see, should I be the regional, you know, the local commander? What's my position? It's like in work, you know, when you hire employees, you interview them, you hire them for different positions, but over time through experience and dealing with that employee or employees, the owner of the HR department can decide where this individual fits best in the business because they start to see their potential through experience. So Allah SWT has put that as an injunction upon us that we should recognize ourselves. You see, the nafs, as you know, is mentioned in three positions. There is nafs-e-ammara, nafs-e-lawama, and nafs-e-l-mutba'innah, three levels. In between there are more, but the three main levels the Quran talks about. Nafs-e-ammara is the material self, the selfish self that does not consider the world as a partner. And the nafs-e-ammara unique characteristic is I am not the problem, I am the solution, and everything outside of me is the problem. Classic example are children. When they are hungry, they can scream at three in the morning, they're telling the mother, I am not the problem, I am hungry, and you will get out of your bed and you will feed me.  Now is it bad? No, no, it's instinctual. The child needs to have that quality. They say if the baby doesn't cry, the mother will not know when to feed it. Because the crying is a sign of a child on its ability and its means of communication. That's why amazing when a baby is born, if it's silent we slap it to make sure it starts to cry. Because it's a sign, okay, it's communicating. So the irony of nafs-e-ammara though is that there are people in their 20s and in their 30s, they're still in nafs-e-ammara. They're in their 50s, 60s, 70s, to the point of their death, they're still in nafs-e-ammara. What is nafs-e-ammara? Nafs-e-ammara states the world is mine, I am the universe, and the problem is outside, very important to understand. That's nafs-e-ammara in the generic sense. Nafs-e-ammara is mentioned in surah Yusuf. The self has a desire to deviate, except by the mercy of God. Here, by the way, deviation is deep. Ammaratun bisu doesn't only mean deviation, it means consciousness. The second level, Allah mentions in Surat Qiyamah. Surat Qiyamah. La'uqusimu bin nafsil lawama. Allah swears by the self-accusing soul. The self-accusing soul is the one who realizes that they are potentially the problem and therefore they are potentially the solution. You start to introspect. You start to look at yourself as to how much of a ripple and waves am I causing in the universe rather than blaming the world in causing waves and ripple. That second level brothers and sisters, subhan Allah, if you and I and inshallah we will, if and when we reach that stage, we will have achieved much greatness. If you study psychology, you'll find human beings who are the biggest troublemakers are the ones who are in a state of denial. Where they are finger pointers, I've seen that by the way, even in day-to-day practices in business, even at the schools, parents will come and say the school is bad, the weather is bad, the books are bad, the surrounding is bad, the teachers are bad, everybody is bad.  No. Your bad? No. Potentially your bad? No, impossible. There's nothing wrong with me. That state is a very ignorant state. We call that compound ignorance.  That's the worst state to be by the way.   So we know our boundaries. So we know what to do with it. But when there is this compound ignorance, it's darkness upon darkness, that is where shaitan works the most effectively. He fools societies under that condition. If you look in the time of Imam Ali, as you know when he took the reins of power, you find that there were three groups he battled with. Three groups that challenged his position. Three groups that were unhappy that he became the commander, although Allah appointed him already. The willi of Amir al-Mu'mineen was appointed already. It doesn't matter if the entire human race rejects him. It's irrelevant. It's like if we reject Allah, it doesn't make anything different. But you find that there was one group known as the Khawaraj. They were a group of Munafiqeen. Today the ISIS type, the al-Qaeda type. Compound ignorance. They are so ignorant that levels of ignorance are at so many layers that if you say anything, it can and will be used against you. And to talk to them is very, very difficult. It all depends on their mood. On what side of the bed they woke up on. But they look very pious. In fact, in Nahrawan, when Imam Ali was fighting them, the soldiers on Imam's side were stunned as to how pious the other side looked. They looked very religious. But Imam says, don't be fooled by that. They're living in intense ignorance. They use religion to hold on, but they use the same religion to destroy the very thing they hold on to. And they say, ignorance is so dangerous. The Prophet said, the more sick quality of a human being is when they're in a state of jahiliya. Ignorance. How do you get out of ignorance? You have to introspect. You have to gauge. If you look at the law of nature, our young generations, when they're growing up, you will find that they are more loyal to their friends than to anybody else. They're more loyal to their friends than their parents. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. At that moment, the reason is not because they don't honor the parents. They're in that growth stage where they're reflecting upon themselves through people of the same group. They're in a state of self discovery. So teenagers and preteens, adolescents are in that stage of getting to know themselves. And they see adults and parents as their future. But at the present, they don't know who they are. They want to know. They look at themselves in the mirror and they want to know, am I normal? I have these habits, you know? I have certain habits. Is it normal? I don't know. And then you find they start to imprint and they start to copy friends. So there is always within the group of friends, if you study human social behavior, there's always one who's a trendsetter. In a group, you'll always find somebody in that group setting decisions, dictating where the group is going to go and what they're going to do. They're basically the mind and the emotion of the whole group. When I deal with kids and teenagers, even adults, I keep a careful eye on the trendsetter. Those are the captains of the group. Even when we have our kids at the camp and the groups come in, I watch who's the leader? Who's the one who sets the trends? Because that's the one you've got to watch the most. The rest will just follow. It's the trendsetter who can create trouble and it's the trendsetter that can bring harmony. How do you get to the trendsetter? How do you get to the captain of that group? You see? So that's another aspect of this conversation. But all those who follow, follow because they need some identity. They need some validation. They want security. If you ever want to really, really put a child in a precarious situation in a very uncomfortable situation, it's when their friends drop them. They no longer talk to them. It's like they were left in the middle of the desert. Mom can come and hug them. Dad will hug them. But deep down, somebody of their own kind has violated them and they will have a scar in them. That's why it's very important for us to maneuver and manage how our children develop their self-worth. You find children who have committed suicide, sadly, due to cyberbullying. They've never met the other person. But they have bashed them, called them ugly. They called them names, put them in bad situations, or taken videos that they edited and made them look bad and it went viral. And they could never reclaim their honor again because now it's spreading out in the cyber world and Reddit has copied it and it's waiting to be pulled forever. You know how dangerous that is? This is why Qura'an says, Do not backbite.  It's disgusting, but we do that. Why do we do that? This is a discussion in itself. Our children, when you see them, many of them, they lack confidence. Fathers come to me and mother says, My son doesn't want to pray. He stopped believing in God. He doesn't. I said stop, there must be a reason. Every child is born pure. Allah creates everyone pure and beautiful. This child must have been victimized somewhere. Something must have struck them. And therefore they took it to heart in a serious way. And it is building in their subconscious and in their unconscious. And what it's doing is that it's manipulating them. And if you plug that, think about the potential of a child was massive and it just got stumped to a smaller potential. You know how debilitating that is? The taqlif capacity was debilitated because we looked down upon. I have met children who sadly, and we must take lesson on it. It's very depressing when I hear this. It's because of ignorance. Because jahlia. You want to see the damages of jahlia? You go into the nuclear family of every society and you will see somebody's hurting somebody. And if you talk to them, they don't mean it. Exactly. Because jahlia will destroy. And you don't know why you've destroyed it. This girl comes crying to me. She is extremely overweight. She says, brother, you know why I'm like this? From childhood, my father always called me ugly. Since the day I was born, he never wanted to spend time with me. And he's called me ugly. And I looked at her for the first time. I said, if you want to put a knife in somebody's heart and rub it, you do that. How would a father say that? Because of jahlia. And then we come and say, my child doesn't want to do this. By the way, I'm not blaming the parents. It could be outside forces. It could be something that we didn't even pay attention to. It could be out school. It could be the school the child is going to.  You know the kind of subtle bullying that takes place? It starts from very subtle smirks. But it adds up. Eventually it leads to violence. Literally grabbing the child, putting their heads in the toilet, smashing their heads, and they can't say a word because they're afraid the bully will bully them more. Should they say that? All of this bala is upon us. We cause it.  It's humans who harm themselves. So we have an obligation in this month of Ramadan. When Allah says, We don't spend much time to understand that the Quran has vociferously with incredible amount of force told us, Do not bully. These verses, verses 11 and 12 of Surah Hujurat, which is Surah number 49, Read it. Make it an article of faith to recite it. All our young brothers and sisters should read it. Walk it, talk it. Have zero tolerance for any form of bullying because you are stunned. You're stunning the growth of this nafs that needs to reach nafs al-matima inna. When I see children that don't want to pray, they don't want to fast, they've lost faith, or they don't want to come to the masjid or to the centers, you see.  We find in some places, Masha'Allah, it's a big vibrant young generation and some communities, it's just the old generation. Why? What went wrong? Oh, you know the young children, they're so excited to do other things. I said, Walt Disney figured it out.  Five-year-olds, oh, forget it. Can't even talk to them. Two minutes. I said, well, Walt Disney was a genius then because he's got these kids glued for hours and they don't even blink. You call them by name, they say, don't call me, I'm busy. So how is a child able to focus for so many hours? Because Disney knows how to present it. Although the story may be silly sometimes, but they know how to present it. We within our religion, we become very archaic. Or we say, ossified sometimes. We're the rituals that are good, do not get discussed as to why they're good and we are so judgmental and we bicker on petty issues. But in the same breath, we say, our religion is the best. And the child sitting on the sideline says, wait a minute, if it's the best, how come you guys can't get it straight? How come we're all fighting? And how come we are bickering on petty little issues? And how come we have so many assassinations of characters taking place within the same religion, all in the name of Allah, in the name of Rasulullah, in the name of Sohail Bey, and we say, Ya Hussain. How? This apathy stunts the growth of the nafs. It prevents it. It's very important for you and I to manage this child's growth and to give it maximum potential. The prophets say the child has three periods. Zero to seven, they are the princes. Let them ask you any question, talk to them, maneuver them, show them the rules. But don't punish them. Look at them, converse with them. But there's an achlach on how you raise a child. These are no rambunctious. They're very hyper, they can't sit. They're not hyper because it's the genetics. And then of course the doctors are ever so willing to prescribe it as ADHD and give them all kinds of anti, you know, these drugs and drug companies are just raking in the billions and the trillions.  Oh yeah, I was an ADHD child. I am an ADHD. I met a kid who says, I'm an ADHD.  Oh, the doctors told me. How? Well, you know, I'm an ADHD. So that's it. Throw some drugs at you. Brand them, put them in a box, ship them out. This is society today. And here's the problem. What you and I are failing to understand is that if we do not reach this properly there is a monster in the room. It's called the elephant. Do you know in the United States every week there are shootings in school? 52 weeks a year. Every week. Yesterday? Today? Today, the shooting took place in Texas. Fort Myers. 10 people killed. 10 kids and now adults kids. The shooting. You've got one side of the divide in Washington arguing by the NRA that guns are good for you. We're a very democratic nation but you've got to hold a gun like the Wild Wild West because you don't know who's going to attack you in the democratic country because we're very civil. And it's not enough to have a gun.  Like what happened in Vegas. And we'll argue it's needed. Very important. And there's a direct research showing that the Australians gave up their guns. Crimes went down. But no. There's a billion dollar industry out there. Like the arms industry. Well, we've got to go and divide nations. Yemen is being bombed every single day by the United States and Saudi Arabia and everybody's silent about it. But we're very democratic. We care for humanity. In Gaza, people are being bombed left, right and center. But we're arguing about border dispute. This thing is a border dispute. There are no borders. The borders are much narrower than what you think they are. But no one's talking. Our children are watching all this hypocrisy. And they're confused. They're angry. And all he takes is a little YouTube video to trigger you. And the kid starts amassing guns because they can get it for very easy. And then they've got anger with the teacher. I'm in Columbine from what I understand. The kid was dating a girl and he said no to him and said, okay, I'm going to shoot you now. I mean, is that how it works? Why are our children holding guns and killing? Can you imagine going to school where you have to go through metal detectors and you got policemen all around like a prison? What kind of an educational institution are we going to become in the future? All of this is because we have stopped looking at the nuffs. We have proposed an idea of compound ignorance as the status quo of society. And we do not want to discuss such matters. Religion has become a place where we come and recycle our faiths. But this minimal conversation is to the values. And I deal with so many youth in the world today. And adults who come to me and say I'm at borderline agnostic, I'm an atheist or I'm losing faith or I stop praying I'm still a Muslim. I don't know. I'm not convinced blah blah blah blah blah. And I look at them and I say, you know, I'm not going to blame anybody. Maybe I'm not vocal enough. Maybe I need to be better. 100 times better. No doubt. But between us, this blessed month of Ramadan is a gift of Allah to solve this problem. People don't realize that when we get together and have your ta'a together and we recite dua'a left at ta'a and we have discussions and we fasted the whole day and you encourage this child to hold on to your free will. There is value in this. You are somebody. You are ugly. You are not fat.  I have zero tolerance for people who look down on others. I have zero tolerance for people who bully others. It's haram. Allah says you are committing a grave sin stopping the growth of a child. Today our children lack that confidence.  You are very important. You are somebody.   That's the deen of Allah. In these nights of Ramadan let's have dialogue.  They sit down. They are not fidgety. We need thousands like them. Sisters were sitting in the front. Thousands like them. That's what we need. Research shows human progression is when people sit and discuss. A Harvard professor was talking in Australia talking about principles of life and majority of the audience were university students. They were glued to this professor. Glueed. Pin drop silence. It's amazing. Pin drop silence. And as the professor is talking he is talking about politics, about societal rules. What are the moral arguments? What should we do as a society? What are the limits? And why do we have problems in politics the way we have with the presidency and so on? And he is discussing this and I am watching this you could hear pin drop silence and everybody is raising their hand oh we follow you, we listen to you Harvard professor, well known professor and they asked him what is the solution to the problems of our society? He said from the simplest perspective of research it shows when we get together and discuss such matters we become less deviant. What happens then is by law of nature we become introspective. I love when parents come to me even adults that brother we heard this lecture yours or somebody we got in the car it was a 30 minute drive but we discussed that lecture we asked each other what was the best part about the lecture what was the part that didn't make sense so that we have a dialogue he says our children have become very intelligent just through these conversations it's these gatherings these are the practical approaches to reaching nafs al lawama Allah said I swear by the self-accusing soul not in a negative accusation positive accusation how can I make me better how can I stop me being a problem not the one where you say I'm horrible I'm terrible I'm going to hell you know I'm damaged goods I'm ugly I'm dumb I'm depressed leave me alone I want to kill myself no those are not within the jurisdiction of deen when you and I hold on to the rope of Allah but there are many people in that stage why because no one gives them hope hope is to say by the way hope is the rope of Allah the day you and I lose hope we're finished so I conclude tonight there are three stages I'll talk about it from this verse I'll speak about it tomorrow in greater detail you will see that this killing that's taking place rampantly they can have all the conversations in congress they won't solve it they won't because when they stopped having discussions in schools and they turned towards an economic system that the impulsive nature of society is what makes the most money then you get an impulsive society that will damage you a society that sits and converses and questions existence and says why do I have problems can I solve it you know when children talk about God many parents say children come to you and say brother can I ask you a question can you convince me about God I do believe it don't get me wrong I said how much do you believe it I said because your father told you your mother told you the sheikh told you I said that's good you're going to yourself you're going to go and research it you're going to ask question you're going to find Allah because he's closer to us than a jugular vein Allah says we are closer to you than your jugular vein let's encourage each other converse dialogue and there is no dumb question ask it you will be surprised that the law of nature and when children hold on adults become the role models of Haq children love it if there's one thing you and I are looking for it's tranquility through security that means we're looking for people with confidence in order to have security in order to have tranquility and there are many fake ones out there that pretend to have security that pretend to have tranquility and then the drug abuse starts in communities 60-70% of our young generations are already smoking weed marijuana it's one of the most dangerous substances you can take it causes shrinkage of the brain tetrahydroconabinol actually causes your brain to shrink it causes you to be addicted but they come through medicinal values sure it has medicinal values but we all understand through the basic protocols that a physician needs to describe this direction not just freebie where you go to a supermarket and just pick up how many kilos you want or how many pounds of this stuff you want and the question you and I must ask as I leave this question to us all why is the world so eager to do it you know in the town I come from the shisha bars are packed on weekends packed it's smoky loud you get dizzy secondhand smoke with Hubble bubble that's the scientific name of shisha is more dangerous than the one of smoking let alone the one of smoking and they're hanging out there bouncing their heads all night and you're thinking that's a professional his $100,000 car is parked outside why is he here oh I'm too stressed I need to destress and the owners of those places are making millions and there's a rise in pancreatic cancer directly related to this kind of problem but doesn't anyone care because there's no solution to the problem we're all cycling ourselves to become rich and powerful and secure but there's no goal in it it's cyclical so it becomes empty the more you buy the more you do it's empty Allah says when you have zikr of Allah you have eternity you have goals you love this world but the year after is better it's perpetual and forever but how can it be forever without Allah so Allah says when you do my zikr then your souls will come at rest and when you keep practicing I conclude inshallah we will become who is the Fajr the Fajr return to your Lord radiatan maradiyah what an expression radiatan maradiyah there's one thing to be satisfied meaning Allah is so pleased that this human being took their potential to the maximum they maximized their intelligence and wisdom they avoided the suppression they avoided the bullying they avoided the fault finding they saw the blessings of Allah and they took it to its maximum you can see that whether it's now an earthquake or a solid ground they don't care because they're holding on to the rope of Allah Allah says come back well pleased enter among the believers enter paradise because that is why you were created for salawat ala Muhammad wa al Muhammad my time is up inshallah we'll continue this conversation tomorrow this is a problem that needs to be carefully reflected on but as a summary let us all start at the dining tables if you go for salah you sit together circle get together talk discuss have something to say whether it's an opinion a political opinion anything have something to say even if you're wrong get into it it's healthy peace be upon you all I'd like to wish you all Ramadan Mubarak thank you for the very powerful speech as we get ready for the prayers inshallah just two quick announcements one is that there is live broadcast of the program for every night and the link you can find it on the website IEC's website there's a link and you can also share with family and friends also the DVDs of the movie Muhammad Rasulullah which was 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