والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ومولانا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه وسهل مآمي الله معلمنا ما ينفعنا وانفعن بما علمتنا وزدنا يا ربنا من فضلك علما واخلاصا وحلما يروي إمامنا يحيا ابن شرف النووي رحمة الله عليه ونفعن الله بإعلومه وبيكم آمين بسنبه عن أبي بكرنس تديق رضي الله عنه وخلمه عبد الله وخلم أبي كوحافا وخلمه عثمان بن عانير ونساء الله وقاموا بخلمه هو وأبوه وأمه صحابا وماذا وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه ومثلا أبوه كوحافا وخلمه وخلمه وخلمه أوباكر السبديق Our Bahkara Siddiq says رضي الله عنه أقدام المشركين ونحن في الغاري وهم على رؤوسنا كانوا تأكدوا إلى المساعدة المشركين من كورايش who were looking for the Prophet and they had decided that he needed to be killed and they were in the cave outside of Makkah, a though and the cave is low and so they were down in the Mushrakeen and walking up high at the mouth of the cave and he said he could see their feet and if they looked down they would see our heads inside the cave because it was extremely small space قلتوا يا رسول الله لو أن أحدهم نظرة تحت قدمة ييلة أبصارنا I said messenger of Allah if one of them just looked down to his own feet he's going to see inside the cave and they're going to catch us so the beloved of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the final messenger to the universe محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم sent to the world to bring compassion sent with the revelation that is still intact until this day the Quran سبحانه وتعالى turns to him in confidence he says what do you think of two people Allah is their third we're okay in the Quran he says Allah سبحانه وتعالى speaks of the incident saying that he said to his companion لا تحزن إن الله معنا don't be anxious don't be worried don't be afraid Allah سبحانه وتعالى is with us if you have a good friend and you're going through a hard time and that person reminds you that you're not alone often times that can really do wonders for your heart but what if Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم turns to you when you're stuck in a tight spot with him and he says don't worry Allah is with us this is the 8th حديث in the chapter 7 of ريادة صلى الله عليه وسلم gardens of the righteous and the chapter is on uncertainty and relying on Allah سبحانه وتعالى here is a lesson in certainty here is a lesson in Tawakwa and we said last week relying on Allah is only the fruit of certainty it's certainty that will get you there and when you feel that you can trust in Allah سبحانه وتعالى and place your affairs in the hands of Allah there's only going to be a piece of heart if you want to get to that place the course to certainty is the one to follow place that certainty and how does certainty increase certainty is a gift first and foremost that's given by Allah you can't snap your fingers you can't buy it off the shelf but if you want it you can get there and the first way to certainty is to engage in your prayers to have moments of intimacy with Allah سبحانه وتعالى to recite the Quran just recite and recite away be with the Quran because you're reciting the words of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there is a lesson they are a salve for the heart that puts the heart at rest if you get anxious reciting the Quran it will bring your heart to a stillness certainty itself comes from يقنى which is to be still not to be fluttering around there are many ways to certainty and there are as many ways to certainty as there are people who need to get there for some it's when they find their dua that they just made being answered something that they've asked for and when it happens they know that this is only from Allah سبحانه وتعالى there are some peculiar people who might even increase in certainty from rational theology but that's a small group sometimes we go to rational theology for the wrong reasons and we don't understand the effect that it's supposed to have the benefit that comes from it making remembrance of Allah سبحانه وتعالى making your occasional supplications being with Allah سبحانه وتعالى as much as possible following the Sunnah of the Prophet السلام and of course going back to the theology understanding who Allah is and who the slave is understanding the difference between the infinite and the finite سبحانه وتعالى يرام عيب و أبي طالب said لو كشفا عني الحجاب لما زدتوا يقنى إذا كانت تقنى بيني و الأنظام كانت تقنى في هذا الموقع لن أصدق أحد أعوى ذلك و كانت already there كانت already there عندما يذهب إلى المحاول أول بكر يذهب فيه أولا رضي الله العبو و يجعله أفضل لكي يأتي من أيضا من سكوربيين أو سنجا أو أيضا من هذه المشاكلة في المدينة يمخلص out his own cloak للمسجر عليه السلام يمخلص out his own cloak لكي يستخدمه كي يستخدمه كما يستخدمه لكي يستخدمه لكي يستخدمه بحقا في الأران و عندما يجب على التحديق و يستخدمه بحقا و not because he's afraid for himself but he's worried for the messenger of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the Sahaba used to say روحي في داكة يا رسول الله أو في داكة يعني may my soul be sacrificed for you or messenger of Allah or may my parents be sacrificed for you and for an Arab to say such a thing he said بيأبي أنت و أمي يا رسول الله أو في داكة أمي و أمي يا رسول الله for an Arab to say such a thing is a huge thing indeed for anyone to say such a thing for the most part but the Arabs everything that they are their entire identity comes singularly from their parents in that way so it's a big deal for them to say that but here look at Awul Bakr is afraid for the messenger he just left his family with absolutely nothing okay except Allah and his messenger which is Allah which is absolutely everything they say قلوا سعيد في جفل فارا right فارا is like a wild mule in the desert and for some reason it was a big deal to catch a wild mule right but the Arabs had a saying that if you get this فارا animal while you're hunting you've got everything right so they'll say even about something is something as great as this right everything is in this right that's effectively what that saying is so he left everything to them but nothing and Awul Khawatha is still not a Muslim yet he comes to the door and he say your father he's not taking care of you he's irresponsible he's chasing after this Muhammad عليه الصلاة و السلام I'll bet he didn't leave you anything and what does Asma do right she's no Awul Khawatha was blind come here Jiddi come here grandfather and he takes them to where Awul Bakr used to keep the money and she piled up a whole bunch of sand under the carpet where they used to keep all of the money and put his hand there and he said okay well at least he left you with something right that's better than nothing and later Awul Khawatha would become a Muslim at the special invitation of Rasool الله عليه وسلم because of his concern for Awul Bakr and wanting to see his companion be happy but look at this hem that Awul Bakr has he's having this hem or this concern for someone other than himself he's able to put himself aside here for Rasool الله عليه وسلم which of course is the right and many of us would not find such a problem were we there inshallah we hope and it's okay to hope and it's okay to dream about being there with the messenger عليه السلام there's no such thing is needing to you know scold yourself about saying I wish that I was there with the prophet عليه السلام because you wouldn't be able to match up and keep up if you saw Rasool الله عليه وسلم right you would change your condition from beginning to end you'd be fine and Allah سبحانه وتعالى show us Rasool الله عليه وسلم in our dreams and most important in what we need is intercession on the inevitable day of judgment at the end of times سبحان الله but still there is this understanding of empathy being able to be concerned for another that has nothing to do with the benefit that you're going to accrue for yourself being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes and think about the world and life from the perspective of another person this is incredibly important this is incredibly important society cannot continue we can't survive unless there's a certain number of people around us who know how to think of to take themselves out of themselves for a moment because we know we want the whole world to orbit around ourselves as individuals but to take oneself out of oneself for a moment and think about what the world must look like from the shoes of another and that can take a lot of effort these others come from where they come from cultures neighborhoods circumstances that one of us may never have seen before but something even more important for us to consider when thinking about the eyes of another or seeing the eyes the world through the eyes of another is that we really don't know where people come from often times and we should be careful about assuming because Allah سبحانه وتعاله will just show us over and over again how wrong we can be about our assumptions so if we have enough self-awareness to know that we can have to be careful not to assume we can understand the otherness of the other what then is there to do if we want to be a person of compassion because there is no compassion without empathy listen as our parents and grandparents said Allah didn't give you two ears for no reason right and one mouth right so shut the one mouth and open the two ears and just listen to people and learn so Allah that's what your soul exists for your soul exists to learn your soul exists to learn your soul is nourished by learning enriching deepening in meaning the world of meaning is beyond the world of physical things physical things or even the letters of words are just vessels that convey or carry meaning that is available to human souls because it's only human souls that can access meaning that's why your soul exists MashaAllah What do you think of two people Allah is their third and the ninth حليث from أم المؤمنين أم سليما و اسمها هندو بنت أبي أمية حذايفة المخزومية سأم سليما Right was from snheer رضي الله و نبي صلى الله عليه وسلم كان إذا خرج من بيته قال بسم الله توقلت على الله سيئة نحن يمكننا أن نذهب through many reasons why the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام had many wives or and we can become very creative in coming up with reasons right and we all heard the different reasons and justifications for the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام having multiple wives and so on or we could just use Akam's razor and look at the immediate benefits of us we find out about all aspects of what he's doing in his home in his most private moments سبحان الله and they are the ones who convey this to us they are علماء they are scholars she says that the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام when he would leave his house he would say بسم الله توقلت على الله he makes a positive declaration that he is relying on Allah I rely on Allah not oh Allah make me of the people who trust you enough to rely on you خلاص it's a done deal so confident right and for the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام the reliance on Allah for him is an open book it's clear his day that's where he's at he would not think otherwise like we saw when the man stands over him with his own sword in his hand ready to strike him and everyone around him to sleep under the trees he says who's going to protect you from me now and he says Allah is and it shocked the man so much that he dropped the sword but for us when we walk out of the house and we say بسم الله توقلت على الله right and we make that statement we're reinforcing it to ourselves and making a claim to Allah سبحانه وتعالى of confidence that both we have to live up to but we also declare our commitment to Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the certainty and confidence that he will have our back when we leave the home that day بسم الله I rely on Allah by the name of Allah I rely on Allah اللهم إمي أعوذ بك and أضلا أو أضل أو الله I seek refuge in you that I go astray or I lead others astray well there's another facet of them that not only am I concerned about myself but I don't want to do damage to others as well أو أزل أو أزل or here أضل أو أضل that I go astray or I'm led astray by another أو أزل أو أزل that I slip up or someone causes me to slip and fall or slip and fall because there's different ways of slipping and falling right someone might slip and fall and scrape their knee and someone might slip and fall and lose everything they hold dear Allah protect us Allah protect us from those who might do us harm intentionally or unintentionally and protect us from ourselves and the harm that we might do to ourselves intentionally or unintentionally أو أضل أو أضل that I oppress another person or another person oppresses me أو أجهل أو يجهل عليها or that I there's two ways to understand this that I do something out of ignorance or fall into ignorance of something that I need to know or people misunderstand me that I fall into misunderstanding or misunderstand something that I need to know or I am misunderstood by others and then there's the alternative meaning of جهل in Arabic which is I lose my temper that I lose my temper or someone lose their temper with me both of them can work here and both of them and both of those situations come from ignorance now Allah سبحان الله it's a beautiful dua حديث number 10 عن أنس رلي الله عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من قال يعني إذا خبجا من بيسيه بسمي الله يتوكل تو على الله أنس قبلي مادك who worked in the house of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said that the messenger of Allah عليه صلى الله عليه وسلم said whoever says when leaving his house بسمي الله by the name of Allah I rely on Allah ولا حولا ولا خوة إلا بالله and there is no ability or strength except from Allah يقادوا له it will be said to him by the angels you have been guided you have been taken care of or sufficed and you have been protected وتنح عنه الشيطان and the shaitan will stay away from him will get out of his way really what it means will move over as he walks through the Torah God يا ربن who doesn't need that نعم وكفيته وكوفيته ووقيته ما شاء الله حديث number 11 also on anis رضي الله عنه قال كان أخواني على عهد النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم وكان أحدهما يأتي النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم والآخر يحترف there were two brothers during the time of the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام one of them would come and learn from the messenger the prophet and the other would make a living working in the markets فشكل ما احترف أفاه للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم so the one who worked in the market complained to the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام about his brother and he said لعلك ترزق به maybe the success that you have in your work and the money that you bring in to take care of your family and to provide for him and his family as well maybe that success you have and that money you get comes to you because of what he's doing not what you're doing because we also believe that there is no power there is no ability and there is no power except from Allah SWT Allah is the رزاق Allah is the sustainer it's just that we expect to find the sustenance of Allah SWT where we put in effort and work if you want Allah SWT to provide for you if you want provision first you ask of the one who provides and then you go out and make an effort and you work but the Tawfiq comes from Allah look at the world some people do all the right things and they put in all of the efforts and they sweat and they put in years they never get that promotion or they never get that career path that they were looking for and other people don't really do much of anything at all and all of a sudden everything goes right for them it's Khan precision Ihsan doing excellence making an effort whoever goes to sleep at night worn out and exhausted from the work of his own hand her own hand goes to sleep at night forgiven by Allah SWT if you want this and you get it if Allah has put you in a different situation with a different calling maybe you have a different set of circumstances but ultimately we get into jannah not by our own efforts but by the Rahmah of Allah it's just that you expect to find the Rahmah of Allah where you stick to your ibadat and your devotions and you do right by Allah we are healed when we get sick by Allah SWT not by the medicine and not by the doctors but where you expect to find the healing of Allah SWT is where you respect the nature of his sunnah or his ways of setting up the universe and you take yourself to the medication and you take yourself to the specialist care but ultimately as a believer you know that Allah is the only power and the only creator who brings about change or sustains in the universe and the same here with our provision we make our best efforts and then we know that Allah SWT is in charge of the results and he said to him you complain that he's just sitting all day learning from in the masjid but maybe the food that you're able to bring home to put in your family's mouth only comes to you because of what he's doing because at the end of the day we also need barakah but these people thought on a whole different metaphysical level they thought about the world and the reality of the universe at a more realistic level than the way we think we're all wrapped up in the Protestant work ethic industrialization corporatization and all of these what is it? radical capitalism heartless capitalism that would trample over souls to make a dollar or send souls out to be destroyed while they destroy other souls in order to maintain different economic positions in the universe or in the world Allah SWT Allah gave us our sustenance الحمد لله that is we have time I believe before we start do we have any questions or anything like this say it our entire point about like hard work doesn't guarantee success is it still is it a bad need where you expect to find success so the Sunni right puts in the hard work and figures out how to do the right hard work and makes all of that effort but witnesses that the reward the results will ultimately come from Allah SWT but it doesn't mean that we dismiss hard work it's a مشهد إيماني هنما نضعITE we can blame ourselves for if we figure out that we could have done things differently or better and we learn from our mistakes right we work as if it is this hard work that is going to bring about the result but because, that's what it looks like to Benny Adams it looks like it's the work that you put in or maybe luck huh لكن بصحة أن يكون في مكان right وطريقة و وطريقة و بصحة لكن نحن نظر أن العالمية يكون أكبر من ذلك و نرى هذا التحالين توجد تحالين بين العمل و نحن المستحيلين لكنه يكون شيء الذي نظر with our hearts and no with our hearts لكن هل أنتم قبل؟ أعتقد أن when doing hard work, is it a bad idea that you want to try to be the best at what you're doing, like you want to be the best basketball player or academic or engineer, as part of your need for working really hard that you want to be known as, what do you want to be great at what you're doing with them or one of the best? أعتقد أن هناك خطأة في ما نفعل, يجب أن نفعل ما يجب أن نفعل with the إتقان and the precision with which we do it. ثم هناك خطأة. Who is number one and who is number two? يجب أن نفعل. Some of that is harmless, so long as it's not hurting anyone. So long as it's not hurting anyone, if people have the ambition to be out there performing highly in their particular career or work of choice, that's natural to people but can they be ethical while they do it? نعم. ثم يجب أن يجب أن نفعل. And then seeking after the fame and the fame, these things come naturally. الله سبحانه وتعالى يجب أن نفعل to who he wills and he will often give it to people who aren't seeking it. نعم. يجب أن نفعل it for itself or for its own rights, for the adulation that we might receive in return. نفهم هذا and we can be compassionate with a person who is suffering through these needs. That's an important perspective on it. But still, there's an emptiness there if people feel that they're not whole until they have the adulation of people around them. And that emptiness needs healing. سبحانه وتعالى. But Allah سبحانه وتعالى grants true recognition to whoever he wills. سين الشيخ مولا رمضان من بلطان in the south of Turkey, you know, went to Damascus in exile and he was a Shafi-i-Faqih and taught many other disciplines. He was the father of Dr. Sa'id Ramadana Bulti who became a world renowned extremely, the Mormons used to bring him here to America to their conferences. And all over the world he was recognized and he raised generations of incredible thinkers Islamically with the tools of traditional and grounded Islam. And he showed how they could operate in the contemporary world. شيخ مولا did not want Dr. Sa'id to be famous. He didn't want him to become known because he saw that there was going to be a lot of trouble from that.  And nor is it very bias and شيخ مولا was very, very bias, very humble, but confident, right. And courageous, but he didn't want Dr. Sa'id to become famous. The interesting thing about Dr. Sa'id though, he didn't want to be famous either. He loved writing and he wanted to write his books. To his dying day, right, all he cared about was getting time to write. Especially even before he retired. And but the thing is, is that he never pursued the means to fame. He never looked for it. He never desired it, but it came to him anyway. You know, Allah gives it recognition to who He wants. And being able to see that and deal with it is a part of spiritual maturity. Anyone else? Okay. باب الاسكي قاما. Chapter 8. The Chapter of Uprightness in Deen Religion. الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran فَسْتَطِمْ كَمَا وُمِرْتْ سبحانه وتعالى Be upright as you are commanded. Of course the Prophet ﷺ famously says شَيَّبَتْسْلِ الْهُودِ وَأَخَوَاتُ وَهَابِ نعم The Chapter of Who'd in the Quran and the other chapters that contain this verse caused my hair to turn white. When Allah سبحانه وتعالى commanded be upright as you are commanded. When Allah سبحانه وتعالى said that in the Quran which is a very frightening thing. Yeah. الله مرزقنا الاسكي قاما. الله مرزقنا رضاق. الله سبحانه وتعالى says also about استقامة or uprightness in religion إن الذين قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا. Those who said our Lord is Allah and then were upright تتنزلوا عليهم الملائكة The angels will come down upon them. Will be with them. الله تخافوا. That you not fear. That you not be sad. وَأَبَأْ شِيْرُوا And that you take good tidings بالجنة. That the garden will be yours. التي كنتم تعدون. That you were promised. نحن أولياء كون. The angels say to them We are your allies. We're standing beside you. في الحياة الدنيا وفي الآخرة. In this life and the next. ولكم فيها ما تشتهي أنفسكم And you have there in that next life what your souls desire. ولكم فيها ما تدعون And you will have anything that you ask for. نضولاً A gift من غفول الرحيم From an ever forgiving ever gentle God. اللهم رزقنا. Allah make us one of those people. اللهم make us one of those people. With all the conditions that are required to be one of those people. The full package deal we're asking. And that's not hard for him to do. Even against our own wishes. Or the wishes of our own egos. Make it happen. Even if it means rubbing our noses in the dirt the arrow said. Make it happen. We can make dua against our own desires. Against ourselves. Because we know what ourselves would like to do. We know what ourselves want. But we know what our haqa knows what's better. So sometimes you can do an end run on your ego. By putting it in situations that stuff happens that it may not choose for itself. And we can also ask Allah to be gentle with us in the process. It doesn't hurt. Verily those who say Our Lord is Allah and then our uprights there is no fear for them. And they will not be saddened. They will be the company of the garden. They will be the last thing in there forever. A reward for what they used to do. A reward for what they used to do. A reward for what they used to work. So there is that if that the affirmation of work that went on but the reward and an affirmation of a reward but that reward comes from Allah who gives us the wishes. We ask Allah to make us of those whose work He's pleased with. Enough to make us of those who He rewards. Not of those people who do all types of righteous deeds and righteous works but Allah is still not pleased with them. Because they are two different things. They are two different things. Allah protect us from ourselves. يا ربي And the first hadith of the chapter وعنا بعمر وقيل أبي عمرت سوفيان بني عبد الله ربي الله عنه قال قلت يا رسول الله قل لي في الإسلام قولا لا أسأل عنه أحدا غيرك قل لي حيث عن الإسلام أنني لم أستطيع أن أعلم من أحد أخر than you. وقل قل أمنت بالله ثم أستقم قلت أنا أعتقد في الله وقلت لهم سبحان الله سبحان الله but uprightness is a process and a project it has so many dimensions there's the uprightness of the body there's the uprightness of the heart there's the uprightness of the minds and all of them have multiple dimensions and it's a life's project and we have to work for it we have to long for it we have to know that we want it with certainty and ask Allah for success in it but know the only one that is perfect is Allah SWT in an absolute sense and the only one after Allah SWT that has perfection in a qualified sense is the messenger we never arrive to perfection we just get closer to it incrementally and we want to be vigilant in having that مراقبة that we looked at in earlier chapters مراقبة of Allah SWT knowing that he sees us in مراقبة of ourselves looking for where we can improve and do better we ask Allah SWT that tomorrow is better than yesterday we ask Allah SWT that our tomorrow is better than our yesterday and so and so's tomorrow or is more like so and so's today or than our yesterday right? at least it wasn't like so and so it's us and Allah we have to stop looking and seeing what the other people are doing it's us and Allah and I have a journey to Allah and so and so has a journey to Allah and they're not linked they're not the same until one of us is the other or one of us asks the other for help and then they might link up and decouple right? uncouple right? from here to there and so on but the choices that I make are my choices and sometimes they impact others or have to do with others but at the end of the day the narrative in the story is mine and sometimes you find someone and there are also gifts from Allah سبحانه وتعالى provision Zad بلا to get you to where you need to get to the second hadith of the chapter عن أبي هريرة رضي الله وقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قاربوا وسددوا وعلموا أنه لينجوا وعهدوا منكم بعمني this hadith is the qualifier of all of the things that came before this is the chapter of uprightness and religion it's not a situation where you snap your fingers and after this everyone is supposed to be perfect and we're going to sit there like this on the sidelines and see who passes and give a pass to and who doesn't no one's sitting there with the cards holding up the cards at the end and see how many points you got on dancing with the stars or dancing with the Muslims even though it feels like a dance way too often and there's a lot of judges be upright meaning work in this process and develop this that's the destination where you're going and it's not for us to judge who's gotten there or not because ultimately we don't know what's inside people's hearts we don't know that this person is nowhere close and we don't know that this person has their foot in the door of jannah only Allah SWT knows this and what are we doing looking over at this and looking over at that but because we know of ourselves that we fall short we shouldn't also become delusional that it would sure be better if maybe we could switch up the teachings of the Dean of Islam and make them different make them more in harmony with what my particular ego wants and the egos of my friends now or say that إستقامة is not an objective to be achieved let's just say that إستقامة is something that is amazing and beautiful and serene and razzine and has its razzana huh and I fall short إن شاء الله because I love it and I love its true people and I wish to be there and I want to move in that direction rather than say that that's just not an objective it is an objective and the believer is the one who wants to get there سبحان الله we don't snap our fingers and then everybody is perfect expected to be perfect أبو حوريرا says that the messenger سلام قاربو و سددو get as close as you can and try to be as precise and correct as you can make an effort to get as close to the mark as you can huh and know that not a single one of you will be in salvation by his own works by his own عمل by her own efforts it's a gift from Allah سبحانه و تعالى that he gives to who he wants but if that's the gift that you want is being free and clear at the after the end of time or after the end of your moment on the face of the earth then the place where you expect to find it is in making a sincere effort to do as well by Allah as you can and another narration that's attributed to the messenger he says travel to Allah even if broken and crippled huh another narration says don't wait for good health because waiting for good health is like being suspended without any action or being jobless or unemployed right right get to Allah as you are don't say I'm not ready yet don't say when I turn 40 right don't say right let's get to look at it such and such right don't say these things just do what you can and if all you can do is when you wake up in the morning is to just look at the ceiling and say that's something that's all you can do just don't let the rope between and Allah be severed huh don't give up don't get cynical cynicism is huh what is it in cardiac medicine when part of the heart you get the jelta whatever that is I think it's a stroke or something like that right you get the jelta and part of the heart remains like hard and knotted up cynicism is the same thing right part of the heart dies with cynicism don't let yourself fall into cynicism right because it's loss of hope I never give up on Allah huh because Allah doesn't give up on you and that's a gift that deserves a little bit of shukr they said in response to the Messenger of Allah وَلَا أَنْتَيَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ and that you either you won't get into jannah by your actions and he said وَلَا أَنَا and not me either unless Allah سبحانه وتعالى يتغمّدني برحمة unless he covers me envelops me in his mercy huh from him and his bounty now سبحانه وتعالى يمام النووي رحمة الله عليه says getting near is مقاربة in this way is an intention a resolve or to intend in a direction involve extremism or utterly falling short to the point of not caring at all and said that being precise is is being upright and hitting the targets what is said did is aimed for the center for the right aim for exactly what you're firing toward yeah صلى الله عليه وسلم what time is it yeah what's that 9 o'clock so we stop with 10 minutes to go and we're at the opening of the 9th chapter


All right, good afternoon and welcome on back here this Thursday, August 12th, shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern time. And as always this time of the day, at least welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Great to see all of our students and trial members alike, including Christopher Norman, Cathy, Kathleen, Donnie, Lori, Bobby, William, Ray, and all of us likewise inside the Cyber Group Trading Room. If you're joining us today on social media, Facebook Live or YouTube, welcome on back. So without further ado, we'll start off with the stock on the screen here, the SESN trade. Hey, it was pushing up really nicely throughout the whole day, not only from the morning where it broke out from like 410-ish, popped up to a first high of the day right under 450, ended up breaking that high later on. And it's been smooth sailing since, maybe one or two tiny shapes and pulling back down now after it broke out over five. Maybe I shouldn't use the word break out as much. I mean, it broke over the iceberg or five. There is a big resistance that Fausto is watching with a bunch of us in a webinar just earlier. But, you know, hey, it broke over that resistance. That doesn't guarantee continuation right out the gate. You know, hopefully we'll see this re-break five coming up in the next hour and a half from now and see it move higher. So, you know, for right now easily enough, we'll start by putting this SESN trade just on our list, right? But I'll tell you otherwise, though, we're kind of finishing up earning season here inside the Cyber Group Room and really all together. But, you know, inside our trading room, we've been following stocks all throughout the week that have been coming out with earnings reports like Fubo and AMC, XCLA, JMIA. Today, we ended up seeing a couple more come out. Clove Health or Clover, CLOV. Stock's pretty choppy right now. But this stock was moving up really nicely early in the pre-market. It seemed as if this stock would just only continue to keep on moving up. If not right out the gate, then perhaps within the first 10, 15 minutes, you'll see that move. Well, this top off happened right around 9 o'clock. So, to say it was trending up into the open, not exactly the right verbiage. This stock was trending down. But with that, it only continued to drop off after. There was very little buying opportunities on this trade after the market opened up. Ended up providing us a fantastic short once it broke below the 950 level and dropped all the way down towards practically 850. Ended up bottoming out right around $8.60, $8.58. And from there, made its real bouncer squeeze back up. But even now, the stock's relatively choppy. I reckon it's holding over support right now, right over 910, 906. That price or those prices were really important from earlier today. So if it holds over that, perhaps there's a chance that this could run up into the close. Just, I think for the amount of volume that this stock has traded altogether, 130 plus million shares, it went down back up. It's just choppy. I'll come back to this at the end. I'm not fully sold on putting this on our afternoon list to see this make a clean move up. But if it doesn't move today, then definitely keep it in mind for tomorrow, no matter what. This always has been a sideless stock clover. So if it doesn't move today, then definitely keep it in mind for tomorrow morning that is Palantir. Another stock that came out with earnings this morning. This one ended up playing to our liking a lot better than that clove did, meaning that with good earnings, you would have expected the stock to move up at some point after the market opened up on clove. It took a little while for that stock to bounce. On the PLTR trade, that bounce came a lot sooner. Ended up breaking below the 24 level. I think it hit a low of the day like 2360 or 2362. This isn't the pat myself on the back. Honestly, this is more to say. I left so much money on the table on this trade, folks. But the point of this story here is to tell you how preparation can pay off. So I wrote this earlier today. I was saying, be careful around the 24 level. You want to make sure if this breaks over 24 to see the same type of buying or similar buying that we had here early in pre-market. I ended up getting in this trade not at 24. I actually got in at the next level below that point. I practically got in off the low of the day. I was in basically from 2362 or 2361 itself. I saw another level down below from pre-market. I took a chance on a half-sized position. Ended up flying all the way up. I ended up getting out at 2415, 2412. I thought it was going to come back down and shake a bit, but damn, I should have stayed in that trade. Ended up blasting over 24, moving all the way up towards the high of the day 2576. It got really dicey and shaky, though, as it was pushing up, though, off.  You would have expected a bit of consolidation around 2450 or maybe even under from pre-market levels, but it kept going up. But for as much as it went up, you saw the shakes. They did come into play here later on, but it contained itself. It managed this trend up towards the high. And right now, like the clove trade, just given the amount of volume the stock has traded across the whole day, I wouldn't expect for there to be as much movement comparative to what we had from earlier on this morning. If there is a level to watch on this trade, I would say it would be right off 25. I know one of our students, Donny, called out a big iceberg order just a moment ago. You could see the volume spike here. I'll put this on the side, too. I'll come back to this like I will with clove. If this ends up blasting over 25 during this meeting, I'll jump right to it and perhaps we'll put it on our list at that point. So those are the main two coming off of earnings. I don't think space was earnings from last night or today. I think they already reported. But we only continued to see them drop off early in pre-market. This is just another stock that was on our morning watch list here today and only continued to drop off again. So it took a little while, but it ended up breaking lower later on, right around 2640, 2635-ish, and since it's just been smooth sailing, like I had said. So yeah, this space trade, definitely more interested given that it's closer to its low of the day, still trending down nicely. It does seem as if, and I could tell this from two different manners here, it looks like there was a lot of volume filled exactly at 212 Eastern time, but I'm going to shoot from the hip and say a lot of that was filled right from 2575. Just looking at the histogram here on the matrix. I could try and go back through the tape. I don't think it's going to let me go back that far. It will not. But I would assume that given that we have a lot of volume that was already filled off 2575 for that to be a smaller, more interim resistance. And right now, it's basically there now. So if you're short on this trade already, you need this to hold and drop off much sooner than later. If you're looking for a dead cap balance, this could be a level to watch, but if it snaps right back below it, be careful. So, yes, space. I don't mind putting this on the main list for right now, space trade. All right, so we did trade a couple of other stocks from today, PBTS. We have the AHPI stock on the pre-market list open. It was also one. Let me go to open here quickly. I would have went to that as we go down from top to bottom in a moment. But I may as well talk about this open trade because, as you could see, it is running back up really nicely. It was trending up all throughout the day and heading into this afternoon. So, obviously, we had our focus on this going into this meeting. And now that it's back over 18 or at least testing 18 again, perhaps we could begin to see a higher low build and then to see another shot up here. So, the open trade just wanted to mention, we would have found this anyway, number six on the gainers list. Just put this on our list tip. All right, so we got three so far to start this list. And what we'll do now is go from top to bottom. The PBTS trade, not on our list. It doesn't seem like it will be at least. But stock ended up making a nice little pop after the market opened up. A lot of consolidation in the pre-market trading hours. But once the market opened up, it took off. Ended up making a nice pop from $175 up towards practically $225. Basically, false broke it going into the afternoon and came back down. So, it's just very choppy. I'm not really too interested in this yet for the afternoon. But I know a couple of us were able to get in off the market open here within the first five to 10 minutes. This took off really nicely. All right, what's this, folks? Why is IEC up right now? I want you to tell me. We talked about this in this afternoon meeting. Probably last week it was. Lose track of my days every now and then. But what's the news on the stock? Why are we not trading it? Jason says buy out. I would assume. I have not checked Benzinga Pro, but I say it all the time here where if you happen to see a stock gapping up in pre-market, if it's trading a ton of volume and the stock is completely utterly flat, I would bet my life savings on buy out. So, it was earnings. IEC electronics, quarter three EPS misses. The sales miss also. But trading higher after the company reported a merger deal with creation technologies for $15.35 in cash per share. There we go. All right, so we keep it going here. X1. Interesting name. I guess stock ended up popping going into the early parts of the afternoon, ended up making this nice run-up. It looks like going back into the beginning of this year. Normally, I would just be very quick and say, yeah, we traded that stock back then. I really don't remember us ever calling out X1, to be honest with you. So, we're not really too familiar with this stock. This stock has traded several days over a million shares, three, five million shared days. So, maybe we did call it down. I forgot. I highly doubt that though. It's to say that given that we are relatively unfamiliar with this trade, I wish it had more volume on the book. If this had a much more liquid order book, I would be more interested in it. Like this NAOV trade. So, Mitch Conner, welcome back, Mitch on our YouTube stream. He ended up just calling out the NAOV stock right now. So, nice call out from Mitch. We'll definitely put that on our list here, the NAOV. And we had this on our list yesterday or the day before. I know we had this on our afternoon list at one point this week, or maybe last week. Hell, it's almost like every day or every other day. NAOV is going to be on our watch list. I'm scrolling up on our chat board right now. I actually put this on our afternoon list a week ago from today. So, August 5th, this was on our afternoon list, and it was on our list sporadically, but stock's pushing up pretty nicely, a little choppy minute by minute, but steady trend up off the lows. And, Mitch, I don't know if you see that there, but you got a 59, 60,000 share iceberg order right at $3.20. So, I would assume for that to be your major resistance there. Alright, so good call from Mitch. Alright, so let's see what else we got. Open and SCSM. I mean, both of those are already on our watch list here. There's open, broke out over 18, so not much of a need for a higher low yet, when this is just blasting on up, right? SCSM back to five. Do I just call this meeting as is, folks? Do we just call the meeting? We got four stocks right now. That's it. I'm pretty content. No, we got to go through more. We got to see if there's more opportunities. Who knows? You might have the SCSN, dud out later, and that not provide as much opportunity. I mean, it's a good start, that's for sure. Patrick asking the X1 trade, can that be easily confused with U1? Yeah, I mean, with anyone with traders dyslexia like myself, for sure. I mean, just go back to the KNBE trade. I'm slightly embarrassed that this even happened, but it's just the case. We saw this stock run up today, and I swear to you for the life of me, I thought this stock was not KNBE. I thought it was KNEE as in knee. I was making a joke, saying we got the stock eyes, we got the stock ears, now we got the stock knee. Traders dyslexia certainly exists, Patrick, that's for sure. All right, so we keep it going. I don't want to confuse anyone, though, with all these tongue twister stocks, so we're not going to go into that really. I'm going to confuse myself more. AMTX pushing up a little bit, made higher lows, has yet to break out over 11 again, but spreads aren't bad. It's only trading about 2,000, 2,500 shares per minute, which is pretty bad, so we'll pass. AMRN, Ameren back in play.  So AMRN has been on our side list on and off over the years, so we're very familiar with this stock. The stock has great liquidity, great spread consistently tight, right now has been pushing up really well up until now. You know what, I am a little curious just to check. It doesn't make me buy or sell at a specific time or price, but I just want to check out if there's any news on this trade, AMRN. So it was earnings-based, well, no, scratch that, that was from August 5th. August 5th, Thursday, AMRN did earnings, but I don't really see any other headline out for this trade. I was just curious, that's fine, but yeah, for right now, AMRN, I don't mind putting this on our list. Hopefully there's another run to it, if not today, then perhaps we'll check in with it tomorrow, but perhaps this will be the higher low point, then we'll see it squeezed back up. All right, SELB also at the high is kind of low volume per minute. I know though, I know is not. This stock is really strong right now, trading about 34 to 36,000 shares per minute on average. Just look at this trend right now as it bounced from 930-ish all the way back up to the high. You could see the iceberg order on the ask at 10 bucks, an 83-84,000 share seller. So definitely this is on our list. This gets put near the top, if anything, the I&O trade. Geez, so Norman, you really weren't just saying S-E-N-S just to kid around, were you? We're talking about the tongue twister stocks, right? And we have S-E-S-N already on our watch list. You can see this S-E-N-S is still, this one's also pushing up. Man, just make sure you know what stock you're trading. That's all, but both seem to be more level one. Holy smokes. S-E-S-N, just make sure that these are two separate stocks here, right? S-E-S-N, S-E-N-S. I'll tell you what, Fausto's got worse traders dyslexia than me. Thank God, he's not doing this meeting. All right, so we keep it going here. The clove trade just flat and choppy. I'll be interested in this tomorrow, definitely. PLTR, same thing. You know, if this could break over 25 later, say, different story, but it doesn't seem like it wants to do it just yet. Ray, this one we have traded over this week, and otherwise it's a familiar name here and there, but stocks at the highs, it's really slow, but you know, perhaps we'll see this make one final push. There hasn't been a whole lot of volume traded above 17. If anything, there hasn't really been a whole lot of volume traded at 17. Really, 1690 shows more volume traded off of throughout the consolidation earlier than there was at 17 here. But yeah, given the trend up, you know, kind of like the AMR end trade, I'll put this kind of near the bottom of our list, you know, at least in terms of the trend up looks nice. And you know, with just with the last hour left in the day, that's where you really want to see, you know, one more push. So it's good time. It's good, you know, good place, good time. Hopefully we'll see this make a more volatile push. All right, to round up the gainer side here, and I will say at this time, because the spy is up up in a way, we would find more typically on the gainer side on a day like today than we would on the loser. So see if there's anything else, fossil little choppy here. It's at the highs, but again, there might be a lot of stocks at the highs. We're not going to put everyone on there. Cano, C-A-N-O. Not a whole lot there. All right, I guess we'll go over to losers, I guess. I mean, at the same point, like I said before, number 49 is up 8 plus percent. So folks, if there's anything that you see that's up more than like even 5 percent that I didn't look at, just type it in the chat board. Let me know. G-O-C-O here. I mean, the higher trade H-Y-R-E from yesterday, that was like practically at the lows when we were putting this on our list going into the afternoon. It didn't really make that big push, but today it did and actually it's right near the lows again. So maybe we'll come back to this one also, but going back to the Joco stock, down 41 plus percent, shortable at the lows, and this one has really good liquidity. The higher trade did not yesterday. That was pretty thin. So yeah, I like the stock, the Joco as long as it's shortable and still dropping off. I think also all-time lows, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. All right, so we keep it going. We'll skim through the losers list here at this point pretty quick, but damn, there's actually a lot that's down really big. I mean, the top 20 are down just about 20 percent, each of them. Root is near the low, dropped off quite a bit and very similar to the Joco trade, good liquidity, 20,700 share order on the bid and growing at 535. So yeah, this will make the cut for right now, tradable down big. Let's see if this can keep going. VRM, maybe it got a little egg on my face with saying that we wouldn't find as much on the loser side than we would on the gainers, huh? Aht, this one's at the low of the day too. This one's also shortable. This stock had a reverse split probably a month ago or just about. So it's actually pretty interesting because, kind of check to see, but is this stock all-time lows? Yeah, it looks like this stock's at all-time lows too.  It looks like the low here and factoring in the reverse split, 1270. This is at 1337 today. It hit a low of the day or this month rather, I'm on a monthly chart, but still relatively close to all-time lows altogether on the Aht trade. So I'll slip it on here too. All right, now at this point I'll tell you everything else is hard to borrow or, you know, kind of just low volume or washed up. So I think that rounds out the loser's list. Folks, if there's anything else like I had said that is up or down more than 5%, just type it in the chat board. Let me know. From Dan F., the AMC trade. Yeah, up 7% plus percent. So like I had said, there are going to be plenty that were up that I didn't find across the top 50. But yeah, AMC getting a really nice push here. It'll be hard to not put this on our list.  Well, from the morning, yeah, but it's like flat now. From Patrick, does it seem XBIO will hit the opening bell print price again? What's the print price at Patrick? I forgot. I don't have it on me. Is it 382? 376. I don't know. It's just too flat right now. I'm not even close to being interested in this trade. Either way, long or short. Cyber from Keshe, too expensive. And Keshe, I know that you're one of our trial members perhaps even joining us from today's event with Fausto and Tom Busby. If so, welcome aboard. And that's the same for any of us joining us this week. But if you are a trial member joining us, and especially from Fausto and Tom's event just today, you haven't gone through any of the classes that we teach yet. So you need to make sure you go through those classes first, because this stock is way too expensive for us to consider as a day trade. $145, but not only that, the liquidity is terrible in the stock. So if you're thinking of it as a swing trade, I like that it's at the highs, but we're trying to find stocks that are more within our wheelhouse in terms of price. Normally, 1 to 30, we have students here that trade much cheaper than that, like 1 to 10, 1 to 5. So the AMRN, like Frank called out, that's already on our list. I thought it was looking pretty good, although it's starting to stall out. Perhaps you could say making a higher low, and if so, that can make for a higher high later on. That would make for a nice trade. Got ALT at the high of the day, just got a private chat right now on the ALT. And with that, perhaps I look at AHPI, but AHPI not doing a whole lot there. All right, go back to ALT, perhaps. Spreads are good. Huge iceberg order on the ask, $110,000 share iceberg at 12. If that breaks, this thing's off to the racetracks. And you have a gap fill to work with there as well. I like this stock. I'm going to put it on our list, and it's more based on the fact that we have resistance at 12 and really good volume on the book altogether. So I got to yank my own leash here and take a step back because I put too many stocks on our watch list at this point. We got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Oh no, no, no, no. And just about 13. All right, folks. That just about rounds it up for me. Going back to YouTube really quickly, a couple questions from us there. Is PBTS going to the moon or what? Can I be honest with you? It doesn't look like it. I hate to be the bearer of bad news there. But it hasn't totally dumped off. So there's a chance.  But the way it looks right now, not really looking that pretty. I certainly hope I'm wrong with that. I don't like being right with predictions like that. I like being wrong. And at least at that point, we could try and jump in on the trade if it gives us the chance. From Petrator on YouTube, what do you think about FSR? Still looks weak. I agree on that. It still looks weak for sure. And we thought that this stock would make for a nice run today. If not yesterday when the news came out, Morgan Stanley ended up doing some big upgrade on them. Oh, that was back from Tuesday. But from Tuesday this week, they had a $40 price target. And even further, there's a reason why they slipped it in the headline. They said that there was a bull case scenario for Fisker for 90 bucks as in 9-0. So clearly that headline was meant to try and pump up the stock. I mean, it ended up pushing up a little bit on that Tuesday, but since it's only dropped down. So not really that tradeable for this afternoon. Just no trend to it. But if you're short on it, perhaps you'll see continuation going into the afternoon or going into Friday. AVXL from Keshe, more within our price range, that's for sure. And pushing up over 8.5%. So that is not a bad call. The reason I'm not going to focus on this as much, here's the thing. Look how spotty this chart is. I call it spotty because obviously the spots, but that means points of inactivity. Points of inactivity. So I'm not a fan of seeing that as well. That means that the volume could really drop off suddenly. The stock right now is only trading 1,300 shares for every minute on average. That's very light. I wouldn't want to focus on this when the open trade is still ripping up, like Petrator said on YouTube. So you know what, folks? We've got a Schmorgiesburg of stocks to work with here going into the final hour. So I'm going to leave it at that for all of us on social media, Facebook Live and YouTube. I did not do this from yesterday. So I always like to do this. But if you have any personal trading questions you would like to ask me, feel more than free to do so. My email is right there, Josh at ctutrading.com. Otherwise, make sure to hit the like, subscribe notification icon right on our YouTube channel, that being youtube.com slash cyber trading you. Otherwise, if you've yet to join us live inside our trading room like Keshe or Frank or a couple of other trial members joining us here, Christopher M, feel free to do so by going right down to the link on the banner below of that stream there just to get yourself started. All right. So for all of us there right now, like Bonnie and Leda and Patrick and like I had said, Keshe and Christopher, everyone else alike, I'll speak to you folks coming up pretty shortly. I'll be back on the mic right around 3.30 Eastern. Take care.


Aaron Boone just said that he thought you you threw the belt ball fairly well today. How do you evaluate the outing? Yeah, I thought I threw the ball pretty well like like you said, but you know They did a good job of getting guys on base to start innings. I think it was Kiermeyer that got it going twice for him To lead off an inning and then they moved him over got him in You know, I was able to limit the damage a little bit But just the fact that you know you get a runner on base with nobody out You know, it's tough to put up a zero after that. So good job by them to get someone on move him over get him in You know, I really would have loved to have gotten us through that sixth inning there, but it didn't happen. So That's probably the only real downside to me is just wasn't able to give the bullpen a little more length How much pressure do you feel knowing that the offense isn't producing right now? And and if you give up a run you you may not that might be it essentially Yeah, I don't know.   So Yeah, I mean I'm confident we'll pull through but You know right now with how it's going. I needed to definitely put up a few more zeros Dave Lennon, please Jameson based on Meadows reaction. He certainly didn't think he got that pitch I know he pitching here You just have a kind of a sinking feeling in your gut when it when you see a ball go out to the right field like that Yeah, I don't have too much experience still pitching here But I thought there was a good chance that ball is going to be caught somewhere around the warning track But you know, I missed my spot. That's not where I wanted to throw the pitch to Meadows anyway So I kind of had it coming. I guess you miss a spot across the plate on a on a breaking ball to him That's that's not good news. He hits kind of that like middle and middle down breaking ball pretty well So, you know, I've watched Meadows play a good amount and I know he hits that pitch well So Wish it would have stayed in the yard, but at the same time I guess that's what I get for missing my spot And also Jameson but these with the raise it seems like it is a grind Pitching of these guys because when guys get on base, you know, they're always moving guys over You know when you have a guy on third you're really bearing down That doesn't feel like that does it feel like a grind kind of going through these guys? Yeah, they play a good hard team game I mean they're not there They do a lot of things like really well throughout the lineup I think they've got a mix of speed good mix a right-handed and left-handed hitters mix of power mix of contact mix of Patience with some aggressive guys. So they throw a bunch of different looks at you And I think they're one of the few teams in the league too that like from at bat to at bat You'll find them looking in different areas in the strike zone or looking for different pitches Like they just adjust really well to what you're doing and what your strengths are that day. So Yeah, it's it's a grind. They're a tough lineup I think if I go out there with this stuff I had today against a lot of other teams I think the results would probably be a good amount better