I like your interpretation of the Okay, yeah, go for it going as you know be and welcome back to something that is not Naruto. You can Anytime what's up guys? We are back with a brand new video. We are with something brand new and someone brand new you guys can not you can Not finish.  We're doing an attack on tiny week out of episodes one through sixteen We've seen them already because I had already started it and then like a ton of you requested I do this series. So I brought along Willie who's pretty new to anime. This is what this is your second anime This is my third. So I watched I watched one piece four times. I've watched bleach twice We're gonna just get basically started with like the very the very concept of attack on Titan What do you think so far just in general pretty bug bug bug you what do you think of Aaron the the main character? Hey, oh Aaron. I don't like the way they spell his name same with the Erwin the commander Everyone could have like a way cooler name like yeah, like I'm strong So what do you think?  Yeah All right, what about Mikasa and Armin Aaron's to Aaron's to amigos Armin is a little But I feel like he's gonna grow on me. He's gonna grow on me Wait, I even said we're set. I said this for recording I feel like he's gonna like grow to be really strong But then I feel like he's gonna have some dramatic death or something because I don't think he's gonna be strong I think he's gonna be weak and that's why we care about him Like like yeah, yeah, yeah, but like I can't imagine him being buff I don't think they could get rid of Mikasa because she has like that balance with with Aaron Willie thinks that Mikasa and Aaron are gonna have relationship. I've argued that it's like a brother sister thing I said bratty sis should hit them up to kind of transition into that Transition Aaron being a Titan kind of threw me for a loop because I felt like that happened really early on like I If that had happened I expected it to kind of happen more later in the series because that's a pretty big deal But it's like a big plot point. I think they paced it pretty well. Do you I mean this I think the show Honestly, I think it was pretty slow pace at the start Like I was like I thought everything was cool. I thought like the ODM or whatever and like the scouts and everything It was a cool concept. Yeah, but like when they showed him as a Titan. I was like, yeah, that's a good time Yeah, I didn't think it's too fast. It is it's a pretty quickly paced show Like I mean episode one it starts out with like the whole like raid on the city But then it drags that out a little bit. We see like the colossal Titan What was like the charging one? I think it was the armored Titan like the running back type Yeah sprinting so we know there's like a certain specials heightens What was your theory in relation to Aaron's dad because that's like a big plot point is right now where we are in the series They're taking the key They're trying to get back to Aaron's house in the very far city and get to the basement Okay, listen, I have a theory too, but I wanted to hear yours first listen to me here All right.  I know I Okay, so listen, you know how they showed those flashbacks of Aaron's dad He was like stay down. I'm gonna hit you with like this sedation thing. Yeah, that's not sedation. Oh, that that's Yo, I didn't even think about that. I think in the basement.  Okay. Okay, you know how Dudes take steroids and then they can't get hard. No, you lost me so hard. Why do you think Titans don't have genitals? So you think that's interconnected to the juice. What's called the juice? Okay in retrospect juice My theory was kind of connected to that. I didn't go as in depth on like the like whatever the juice is that was put into Aaron that I think that's pretty good though That that's that makes a lot of sense. Honestly, we've seen some shots of like the government, you know Like these like really high higher ups We've only seen it a little bit especially in the courtroom whenever the guy decided Aaron's fate and he eventually went with the scouts I've been the chess guy. Yes I feel like the government is involved in terms of like creating the Titans like in that sort of way like they They use them they manipulate them They create like the colossal and that's their way of kind of keeping an iron grip on like society Like never letting anyone like get anywhere near where they are in life. You know I'm saying it's a pretty It's a really remember all like the little hints that they're like, yeah, cuz even though okay Remember when they were trying to take back that was a trust Remember the commander was like this is a good move because either way if humans die, we have less people to feed Yeah, so I think both could be like playing it Maybe the government uses this and they've been like kind of they like recruit people make them into Titans And then those Titans are the ones that go in and do the dirty work for the government I think that's a pretty solid theory. I think it could really really hold up I guess we'll see whenever we watch through the rest. It's also true because remember when he was on the the Not the bridge. What is it the wall? Yeah talking to them. They said that they said that someone made Titans They did say yeah, they did because they because he was talking about how like the races were like before when humanity was like Yeah, and races and you know white black whatever yeah, then they were like Titans were put in because they wanted to Form an enemy for people to fight against instead of themselves instead of themselves So they create they create their own little like like they create a simulation battle between the humans and the Titans So that no one ever comes anywhere near the government or the higher ups in society I think that's why it's been showing these shots of them like here and there little bits of teases of how Different life is for them in comparison to the people that are fighting on the front lines people that are living against the Titans I also think that theory is supported because whenever they were they had Sonny and Bean those two Titans And they were trying to figure out stuff about them.  He's in actually the Titans But who's controlling the Titans dude Jack? I'm not gonna lie when I came on the show I thought we were just gonna be reading fanfiction Creating fanfiction. I I did not expect the big brain is that's going on I feel like if we're right everybody's gonna be like, oh you guys have seen the show If we're actually right, I'm sorry, but my brain is just expanded in like multitudes. It's just yeah It's what it is five had so yeah That's I think the Sonny and Bean thing kind of supports that too because they could have like sent in someone because maybe something Could have been found out by dissecting these Titans and they could have found out like these were government officials in some sort of way Is there anything else you want to add before we start the series coach? So today we're having this video to kind of give our thoughts on the series so far before we start the series on I believe Tuesday for patreon Thursday Thursday for YouTube. It was guys. That's it for this I just wanted to give our thoughts introduce you to William. You can find his channel link down below He does Call of Duty content all the time anime. He does anime now. He's been consumed We will see you for the attack on Titan series. I'm playing on three episodes a week We may up the pace may slow down the pace depends how it goes. We will see you there Hope you enjoy subscribe if you're new and you excited Willie If you don't put my clip of me reacting to the girl deep-throat in the bread, I am unsubscribing I want it in the video. Oh, she is deep-throat in that bread


Je vais vous montrer dans cette démarche comment l'STM32 trust vous aide dans l'implémentation de la communication sécuritaire dans votre device. Nous allons utiliser deux bords NFC-bord communiquant au NFC et STM32-L476-Nucléo-bord. Nous allons les attaquer ensemble pour travailler comme un dévice, comme ça, pressé et c'est OK. C'est le dévice qu'on va démontrer. Nous avons un USB plug-in ici qui nous permet de poursuivre le dévice et aussi de l'outre-traces. Je vais plug-in ce dévice à la PC. Ici. C'est là. La prochaine étape est d'éloigner une application à l'intérieur. Cette application, j'ai construit en utilisant un exemple qu'on donne sur ST.com. Après construire, nous avons une grande binary que nous avons besoin d'éloigner à l'arrivée. Pour l'éloigner, j'ai juste besoin d'un drag-and-drop d'un virtual drive créé par le ST-Link ici, de l'explorer. Et ensuite, il sera flash sur l'arrivée. La application va automatiquement commencer et nous verrons les traces sur le terminal. La première des traces sont les traces sur le Secure Boot. Donc, l'ASB-SFU, la main propose est de vérifier l'authenticité de l'application. Donc, il va vérifier la signature de l'application et ensuite, si tout est bien, il va lancer l'application. Le dévice est dans un state virgent. Il est en train d'experter avec le premier dévice. Alors, let's take the smartphone. So, you should have installed the application that is associated to this demo. Here, when I put the smartphone near the NFC tag, the application is starting automatically and then I press the arrow and the pairing is starting automatically. And then you can see in the traces the full pairing process that is ongoing. Once this is done, no other smartphone can connect to this device. This is the point of the pairing. The pairing itself is just basically an exchange of public key. The device sends its public key to the smartphone and the smartphone sends its public key to the device. And once they have stored this public key, they can establish a secure link thanks to cryptographic operation. And all these cryptographic operations are done inside the secure engine that is provided in the SBSFU. You can add your own secure service inside and so you can add everything you want to implement your secure communication for your device. The use of the asymmetric cryptography allows this pairing process to avoid sending in the air any secret. One feature of this application is the transmission of a GPG image from the device to the smartphone. So I press on the read and decrypt image. So the device is sending encrypted GPG image to the smartphone. Next point is secure firmware update. You need first to have something to update. So you have your application and you want to update it because you want to put a new feature. So you generate a new application, a new binary. And thanks to SBSFU scripts, you generate an update image that is encrypted and signed. And so you can send it through internet to un secure world. Nobody can do anything with it thanks to the signature. And it cannot read the content because it's encrypted. So let's do it. So I put back the smartphone on the device. Now they are connected. And I press encrypt and upgrade. And I select user app v2. And this starts uploading the v2 firmware that is encrypted. The downloading is done by the application itself and the application is actually writing this firmware in a spare part of the flash of the device. And once it's done, here it's done, the device is rebooting. And so we can see in the traces that the device has restarted. And we can see that the new application is installed. The signature is checked, it is decrypted. SBSFU is swapping the old firmware and the new firmware. Once this is done, the SBSFU is rechecking everything is OK and launching the new firmware. Once it's done, we can put back the mobile phone on the device and check again the read and decrypt image. The purpose of this update was to change this image. So it's a new picture and just to show you there was an update that was done. In a nutshell, with this demo, you can experience yourself the Secure Boot, Secure Firmware update provided by the SBSFU. And thanks to the framework that is provided inside to secure the services, implement your own protocol to secure the communication with your devices.


At Appalachian Wireless, all smartphones are 50-100% off retail pricing for back-to-school. This includes all smartphones, so don't be tardy. Don't miss the bus. Get to Appalachian Wireless today. Two-year agreement required excludes outright purchase and advantage plans, while supplies last. Fishpond Lake near Jenkins is one of Letcher County's premier recreation spots. And for the third year running, it's also been home to a unique event that helps kick off festival season here in Letcher County. The third annual Glow on the Pond Kayak event was held Saturday at Letcher County's Fishpond Lake near Jenkins.  This is the biggest one we've had. We had actually registered, we had 28 kayakers this year. And with the festival people that were involved in it, we had 35 kayaks on the water. And all of them were awesome this year. We had anything from flamingos all the way up to the big Christmas bear and had a pirate ship. You know, just people really went outside the box this year and done a whole lot of different things and we really enjoyed it. The event has grown every year since its inception and organizers hope that growth continues. You know, we went from having 10 boats the first year to 35 this year in three years. That's a huge growth. You know, so we're going to do it again next year and maybe we can top it again. So everybody loves it. We had probably 150 spectators or more and we had a, you know, the soccer team was here, set them refreshments this year and everybody had a great time. Glow on the pond also makes possible the Mountain Heritage Festival held each year in late September in Weizberg. It helps pay for the whole festival. There's nothing, no one thing that I can tell you that it'll pay for a power bill. It just is spread out throughout the festival. That festival, you know, it probably costs close to $30,000 for that week to put that festival on and, you know, we're all volunteers and we're out trying to get sponsorship and then we have a little fundraiser of things and that's what this is for. The Glow on the Pond event is organized by the Mountain Heritage Festival Committee. Reporting from Fishpond Lake, Chris Anderson, EKB News.


Hello everyone, welcome to another video I thought I'd do a little sit-down video for you all because I haven't actually sat down and chatted to you It's just like in a chill setting for a long time. It's always been Activism activism hate comments this and that so I thought I'd just you know Give you a little bit of update. Oh at where I'm at and also I want to talk about something that happened at an event last weekend And I was at an event organized by their animal activists Australia So it was a three-day activist event and we did a lot of activism You would have seen if you've been following my videos and stuff like that So first off, I've been going really well this week has been quite a big week for me I had a very big weekend in Melbourne and I Didn't stop. I didn't stop So had a really big weekend in Melbourne late nights lots of filming lots of activism very worked up and When I got back to Adelaide, I didn't stop. I didn't have a rest. I made videos I kept making videos two videos a day Facebook videos which take a lot of time and a lot of effort Responding to comments and it was just a very very big week and It paid off it really paid off sometimes you can go through a very Hard week, you know very hard week putting in the effort putting in the work mental stress You're putting in the physical exertion and sometimes at the detriment of your own health But it paid off and I'll tell you why I got an email this morning from Challenge 22 and they said they said that my link signed up 192 people. So 192 people try and veganism in one week Now that is a big milestone for me I haven't signed up that many people by myself and this doesn't include all the seeds I planted the people that don't sign up the Effect that you have the impact you have just can't be measured But this is a okay type of measurement. I felt like wow all that effort I put in all that physical exertion that emotional exertion You know paid off and that was the reward. You know, I don't know how many animals that lives that has saved I think it's like a thousand animals per person per year if some of these stay on on the vegan lifestyle Which if you do challenge 22 the probability of you staying on the vegan lifestyle is a lot higher because all your questions have been answered You have less excuses. They've showed you what to eat. You know, you can do it for 22 days So it's an amazing resource challenge 22 great But that's not what this is about it is kind of what it's about because of my emotional exertion how to pay off And this is what I want to talk about with you guys as an activist You're gonna have moments that affect you profoundly and emotionally especially if you're doing what us guys are doing Outreach on the streets Vigils facing what the animals are going through, you know bearing witness The amazing activists that go in and get footage that are never there anonymous. They'll never be known This can put a very heavy emotional burden on you if you don't find a way to channel that you're gonna self destruct It's gonna really affect you. It's gonna weigh you down and you're gonna feel helpless now How do I help feelings of helplessness? I'll tell you something that happened on the weekend? I did a vigil. It was sort of like a spontaneous vigil at a pig slaughterhouse first thing I want to get out of the way people say that vigils don't work now I've signed up 192 people to challenge 22 this week this vigil video went semi viral got 500,000 views reached a million people Okay, a profound video that planted many seeds many seeds. Okay. Now. This is the power of vigils. So that's that Completely refuted whoever wants to say that but At this vigil I I had a very emotional reaction now That's not like me usually I tell people to respond and don't react which I'll get into too But I had an emotional reaction because the police arrived and they wouldn't let us stop trucks anymore And they formed a line in front of us and I was frustrated I was frustrated because the police weren't interested in making it safe for us The police were interested in protecting the industry and stopping us from filming the pigs Okay, that's all they were interested in so it made me frustrated And then the pigs started screaming really really loud now I don't know if the slaughterhouse workers were in there tormenting the pigs more because they they knew protestors without the front which My friend Rob said to me and I think that that might have been true because they stuck for this 15 minute period They were screaming really really desperately now I had an emotional reaction and I vented that to the police if you watch the video There's a YouTube version which I'll link down below and you should watch it like it hasn't had many views Something happened where it got at the view count got stopped But I recommend you watch it and you see what actually happened I vented it to the police and I was very worked up I might not have shown it but in my heart and in my body was very worked up I had adrenaline Okay, it affected me a lot to the next day. I was doing outreach. Okay? I was doing outreach with anonymous something happened someone walked past and they said something Insensitive right and they it was just stupid like he looked at the screens talked to his mate And he said and he yelled out to the activist artist ate a salami stick and he laughed and I didn't let him get away with it Usually I would usually which I Always would tell other activists, you know respond to your motion Don't react and need jerk reaction and always remain positive calm and logical But this guy I don't think he was gonna respond to that and I didn't think of that anyway I just walked up and I said do you think that that's funny? I did swear I said do you think what's on that screen is funny?  Would you think that's funny? No, I love my dog and I said well What makes you think that I'm making fun of this animal cruelty is funny He goes what do you like them? Do you care about them pigs? I said, yeah, they're my friends and I said to him grow up It was a little bit more animated than that. I was swearing I was worked up and this guy I don't know if he would have responded to Logical calm so chronic questioning anyway, but what I did to him is I rattled him up a little bit and he won't forget that I don't think that's not the point of whether that type of activism is effective I always adhere to I try to as much as I can adhere to my calm logical polite So cratic method, but I'll let my emotions get in the way. Okay, which is what I Invite most activists to to put to the side now I kind of lost it there But the thing is I could have went to this vigil been emotionally affected by it not had no channel Just this kept it in but I channeled it and I ventured to the police and I made a really good video that reached a lot of people Now this guy who said something about the salami stick.  It's okay to get in these situations that make you feel sad Make you feel angry But if you don't channel these feelings of sadness and anger and these feelings of helplessness Into something positive you're going to burn out as an activist You're not going to be able to sustain yourself and I don't want anyone to that to happen to anyone Okay, I want you to make sure that you grab these emotions and you channel them into some positive outreach where you convert Someone to veganism or you inspire someone to be an activist and this is what's going to help you long term this guy this Interaction I'll post right now It was surmising on the cake to a very emotional weekend and also the week that nearly broke me mentally I've got a hundred ninety two sign-ups on my challenge 22 link, which is just amazing so many animals lives saved So thank you very much. It's my little update video and I'll leave you with this Okay, that's a dare-and-shoot. You know what happens when they can't produce any more milk Good guess. Yeah, they get usually second grade hamburger meat because their bodies are just So run down So they use them for second grade cuts the egg industry is Quite horrific to The males can't lay eggs So they separate them Okay, you know the males go happy farm where they get to live out their lives No, they get macerated in a big blender on the first day of life usually Yeah A baby chick can recognize their siblings nearly instantly when they're born So imagine being separated from your brother or sister and then they're going into a macerator females They lay eggs till they can't lay eggs anymore So they usually forced to lay 300 eggs when usually that's about 15 to 20 Okay, when they can't lay eggs anymore Go to the slaughterhouse Horrific they learn from videos like if you show a video of a chicken eating out a red bowl The chickens that watch it will eat not from the yellow bowl from the red bowl to they learn from videos They're really smart at a young age Either way, even if they weren't intelligent It's still wrong to do that to an animal that can't that can feel pain and suffer But they the fact is birds these birds are intelligent So the car so the cows so You're doing this to raise awareness We are trying to get the public which is used to say When you're at the supermarket, am I going to pay for them to go to these places? So by buying eggs by buying milk buying meat You're saying do this to animals for me so I can eat them without you These industries don't exist Different meat substitutes are coconut milk rice milk almond milk. We've got vegan cheese We've got everything we need All right, do a little bit of searching around it's fine The milk aisle has got 20 plant-based milks to choose from Arm and milk rice milk if you don't like rice milk try soy if you don't like soy try almond But why do we have to take the babies?  It's their mother's milk So that's why we're here. We're just saying hey, can you guys Make a cruelty-free choice at the supermarket. They'll listen Let's do these animals go to slaughter Anyway, this is a card right right seek the truth Little bit of information on there, but on the back type that in you can do a challenge 22 days, I feel fantastic. I lost all this weight. Wow. I'm not contributing to this cruelty I'm going to continue doing it or you know all my hair fell out I died of protein deficiency I need my meat whatever at least you tried and you know that it's doable, right and How unnecessary this really is you'll realize vegan cheese might be a dollar or two All right, but it doesn't have the past blood Cruelty, you know, it feels good knowing hey, you know, it's just cheese I'm making a good choice here the burgers You know, there might be five bucks for a pack of burgers or some vegan hot dogs might be about seven bucks They might be a bit expensive, but you can eat rice beans potatoes Dahl, you know curries chickpeas all that stuff bread you can be cheap vegan So chicken rice is the cheapest food for calorie on earth. It's vegan. You know I'm saying so potatoes cheapest cheapest foods of us fruit and vegetable are But you know you can get all the good stuff, too. If you want ice cream get ice cream Vegan ice cream so good down Sign up right type that in this is my drink so you all know how many people have signed up for that You


All right, let's play this in full first, what is it you want Barry? What do you want? You you want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down.  All right So my impressions would be a that I like it was pretty like the characters always cool to see this reanimated I think generally I have two questions for you That would be one. What are your thoughts?  What are your thoughts on this is just me there's always kind of a thing that I'm Looking for but again, it's not it's always a bit of a destructive note Because it it asks for changes like bigger changes suppose if I scrub through right the main thing I'm seeing is that the character is pretty much always here in his box the biggest contrast is from Going up here to being up straight here, right? So you got that contrast there what if Again, it's a big if what if He would be Standing and I know I can I can see I rolls already, but imagine Standing is it starts standing with with a turn into a sit-down or If you start here, what is it you want Barry? What do you want you you want them or maybe you start Just globally moved over this way same poses and he is hunched over but maybe potentially even a bit more and a bit more three-quarter to us to get a bigger sea curve and What is it you want Barry and on this he would be Straight up because he's more tense. That's my awesome drawing by the way three and a half years of art school This is my result. I love it So imagine he's hunched over and then because he's more tense He's like, what do you want?  You want the moon like use that to to have him then Almost because it's a very complicated note here, but almost lean over Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down I'll just throw a lasso and pull it down and then it then it's more that he's kind of He's kind of like like that No, it is with his buckets. I know it's tricky was then the bucket would be too far away But then I'm it's just something where You know where he's almost like that Or the opposite I mean, you know just to throw out something even more confusing. What if he starts all? Relax this way. It may be even one arm up or one leg or maybe even both legs And I move my tool here. Hold on This is you one Barry and you might be able to say that as he's here.  What do you want? Then what do you want like just on that little quiet one? Maybe maybe pushes himself up a bit more on that on that arm, right? And maybe he can bring then one leg down And my mission you must be on the phone here and I'm killing all of this here with the bucket But you you want the moon? You want the moon and then you end up here Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down Maybe that's maybe that's a thought because right now did again just to go back He's mostly stuck in here and I'm trying to loosen it up where it might start here and here or with you know Standing sitting down into this is just there's a bit more interesting contrast in the in the body poses Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down And it's almost like do we need this because you haven't It reinforces that you watch this TV and Probably has popcorn right we can see it at the end But it's such a thing at the end that is it if we lose it is it that much of a big deal there? I think I think we could lose it if we sacrifice it for more contrasting poses What is it you and the second thing is what the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down So I'm assuming Just say the word is to me. You have two things going on a He says the line Just say the word and he's upset and like yeah, they're very dismissive But at the same time as he says this it seems like he's also thinking about the TV And he just sees something that is now more important to him in the discussion and it's I don't know I don't know if that's a bit Conflicting right there and then his expression and the smile seems I don't hear that in the voice Well, maybe I guess Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down I know there's still more frustration in there that this seems a bit of a weird Weird expression doesn't quite match the tone to me But I understand that he's not invested in that conversation anymore And then does that It's a bit tricky my main thing would be just to break up the things. I like the poses. This is it's a nice pose So clear your color silhouette All that stuff is cool. I like to lean over with the body like all that stuff is cool. I'm not saying it's bad I'm just looking for ways to make this a bit more interesting. It seems just a bit simplified subjectively for me a bit too simple where we could push The posing more to kind of a reflect his mood a bit more But again give us a bit more contrast and and complexity especially here You got one thing going on in the leg It doesn't have to be that you know The character has to move all the time and everything has to be moving this could be completely valid shot So that's why it's to me. It's less of a note. It's more for question Are you okay with doing this? Are you willing to explore this or you do want to or do you want to keep it like this and Refine the animation based on what's there because again in this, you know for people that are listening It's I don't want to animate through The person here. I don't want to force my notes on there This is all still their shots and if I wait, this is your shot So I don't want to dictate things if that's what you want to do. I can help you with this These are just my thoughts on that It's all you know all your keep this every pushing the eating factor a bit more But I want to hear your thoughts email me your thought process and ideas of What he sees and if that's what if that's if I'm reading this correctly This because this would happen what because he suddenly hear something or there's something maybe a bigger flash on a TV that that catches his attention and then You know, it's such a big take to just say the word the word And I don't know if that it feels like say the word is that not how to the audio is that A delivery with that move based on the audio is that a the word a surprise take of what he's seen like with that is anticipation of hey That's something cool on TV Which again could be slightly conflicting anyway, I feel like I'm rambling so instead of giving you You know crazy Crazy notes on you know in terms of animation. I do want to clarify some things in terms of just broader poses and ideas So I'm gonna leave it at that and you can let me know through email and we can continue. All right. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


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Hello and welcome to my e-lecture on phonation. Central to the production of speech is the larynx. It controls and modifies the pulmotic airstream. It produces additional types of airstream, and depending on the state of the glottis, it generates phonation. So these aspects constitute the focus of our e-lecture, where we will first look at the structure and the function of the larynx. Then we will see how we can model the central aspects of phonation. And last but not least, we will look at the role of the larynx in speech. Let us look at the structure of the larynx first. The larynx consists of a number of cartilages which are interconnected by complex joints. And move about these joints by means of muscular and ligamental force. Let us study the anatomical details from various angles. Seen from the front, as you can see over here, the most prominent piece of the larynx is the thyroid cartilage. Part of it forms Adam's apple, which you can see even from the outside. The horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone, here at the top, lies on top of the larynx, elevating the larynx during swallowing and speech. Additionally, we can see the epiglottis over here on top. And of course, the trachea down here, with the cricoid cartilage on top. If we turn around the larynx and use the rear view, we can additionally see the arytenoids, the cartilages to which the vocal folds are attached. The sagatal view nicely exhibits the position of the arytenoid cartilages, which you can see here on the left, and part of the vocal folds or vocal cords over here. The vocal folds are attached at the front to the thyroid cartilage and at the back to the arytenoids. And in the top view, we can see that in the center of the larynx lie the vocal folds here or vocal cords and the space between the vocal cords or vocal folds is called the glottis. For normal breathing, the vocal folds are spaced well apart and they come together when sound is produced. And sometimes the vocal folds may be closed, blocking the flow of air and then open suddenly to produce a glottal stop as in a-a or to use an example from Cockney English but-a instead of but-a. The larynx has several functions. The primary biological function of the larynx is a protective function where the larynx acts as a valve by closing off air from the lungs or preventing foreign substances from entering the trachea. The principal example of this protective function of the larynx is the glottal closure during which the laryngeal muscles close the airway while swallowing. A second function is the respiratory function. During respiration, the larynx controls the airflow from subglottal to supraglottal regions. And the larynx is a gateway to the airway and thus in order for air to go into the respiratory system, the larynx must be wide open. During inhalation, the vocal cords abduct away from the midline resulting in a widening of the chink. And during exhalation, there is a relative adduction of the vocal cords and a narrowing of the chink. Moreover, the entire larynx is displaced down in inspiration and up in expiration. The third function of course is the linguistic function in speech where the larynx modifies the airflow from the lungs in such a way as to produce an acoustic signal. The result is phonation. Phonatory vibration of the vocal cords involves first the arrest of rhythmic respiration, then the adduction of the arytenoids with or without repositioning of the larynx and the initiation of voluntary expiration. Length and tension of the vocal cords during this process are slightly increased as you can see over here. And the laryngeal passage becomes occluded at the level of the glottis. The whole mechanism of vocal fold vibration can best be explained by means of an aerodynamic model. Let us look at this model of phonation in more detail. It involves three steps. Step one, adduction and opposition of the arytenoid cartilages in the midline and the immobilization of the posterior ends of the vocal ligaments. Second step, elongation and increased tension in the vocal ligaments. And step three, airflow through the glottis supplying the energy for vibration. The most widely accepted model to describe vocal fold vibration is referred to as the aerodynamic myoelastic model of phonation. It refers to the air pressure and airflow facts, the aerodynamic component, as well as to the mechanical factors involved in muscular activity, the myoelastic component. In short, it can be described like this. The aerodynamic factor involved in the theory of phonation is called the Bernoulli effect, named after Daniel Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and physicist. The most practical example of this is in the action of an airfoil. The shape of an airplane wing is such that the air flowing over the top of the wing must travel faster than the air flowing under the wing. And so there is less pressure on top than on the bottom resulting in a lift. We can also demonstrate this with a piece of paper. So here I have a piece of paper. If I now blow air over the top of this piece of paper, the air moves fast along the top and the paper will move up, just like the plane to which a wing is attached. Vocal fold oscillation is similar. The pulmonic air stream causes the vocal folds to be sucked together, creating a closed airspace below the glottis. Down here. Continued air pressure from the lungs builds up underneath the closed folds. And once this air pressure becomes high enough, the folds are blown outward, thus opening the glottis and releasing a single puff of air. And now the muscular or myoelastic effect comes in. The lateral movement of the vocal folds continues until the natural elasticity of the tissue takes over. And the vocal folds move back to their original closed position. Then the cycle begins again, similar to the vibration of a rubber band when I blow air through it. Now here I have a rubber band. In summary, two factors control glottal opening and closure. The aerodynamics of the airflow, opening the glottis via an air stream, and the elastic tension in the laryngeal muscles that is working to close the glottis. Each cycle produces a single puff of air. The sound of the human voice is thus nothing more than tens or hundreds of these small puffs of air being released every second and filtered by the vocal tract. Depending on the tension and elongation of the vocal folds, various types of phonation are possible. The default is nil phonation or voicelessness. It requires a more or less wide opening of the glottis resulting in glottal silence. A normal voice or just voice refers to normal vocal cord vibration occurring along most of the length of the glottis. Whisper, this is an example of whisper, requires a far greater constriction than the voiceless setting of the glottis and is generally achieved by adducting the vocal cords while maintaining an opening between the arytenoids. In breathy voice, this is an example of breathy voice. Normal cord vibration is accompanied by some continuous turbulent airflow. Creaky voice, and here you have an example of creaky voice. Creaky voice is a phonation mode characterised by a low frequency of vibration of the vocal cords. And finally falsetto, falsetto is the phonation mode and this would be an example where the vocal cords are stretched longitudinally so that they become relatively thin in cross-section. Thus falsetto is primarily heard as a phonatory setting in singing. Do you remember the famous BG songs, Saturday night fever, night fever? Just listen and you know what falsetto is. Apart from phonation, the larynx is also involved in the production of a particular airstream, the so-called glottalic airstream and this airstream involves the closure of the glottis, a so-called glottal closure. At the same time, a closure is produced somewhere in the vocal tract. There are two variants of this airstream. If the larynx is moved upward during these two closures and the oral closure is released, the result is a so-called ejective consonant, such as up-ah or ak-ah. See my larynx moving upwards, ak-ah. The second variant is referred to as glottalic ingressive. So if by contrast the larynx is lowered and the oral closure is released, the result is an implosive sound, such as um-bah or ag-ah. See my larynx moving downwards, ag-ah. Well, so much for the larynx. Its structure, its general function and its contribution to speech. You should now understand how the larynx is involved in speech production and, in particular, you should be familiar with the aerodynamic myoelastic model of phonation. That's it for now. Thanks for your attention.


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم في نام الله سبحانه وتعالى رائعة رائعة ورائعة الحمد لله كل محاولة always دون الله سبحانه وتعالى لا matter what condition we are upon it is indeed the mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى that we beseech, that we seek that we follow that we would like to ask for and indeed therefore we praise him because through the praising of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we will be able to achieve his mercy الصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله واصحابه أجمعين we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم his household, his companions we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bless all those during or through the generations who have come to us or who have brought the goodness to us and we ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to bless every one of us and our offspring, those to come up to the end may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless us all, amen I commence by saying that if we would like tenfold the blessings of Allah سبحانه وتعالى each time we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we would achieve that a loser is the one who hears the name of Rasool الله and does not say صلى الله عليه وسلم so each time today and every other day when we hear the name of Muhammad we should say صلى الله عليه وسلم the strange point I want to raise is when I visit certain places that are poor in some parts of Africa I notice that they give so much of importance to the name of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم that we hear a huge buzz as soon as you say that name let's revive that because indeed it shows our love to Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so don't be ashamed, don't be shy to say it slightly louder with a little voice where everyone knows there is a hum that is uttered and we know what is being said today we will hear this blessed name Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so many times before we get up you would have had thousands of blessings of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and indeed it is a sign of the love of Allah سبحانه و تعالى and it shows that we love Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم himself as well I want to start off also with another very interesting point regarding the love of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم no Muslim no Muslim on earth would not be loving Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم no Muslim hates Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم because they would not be Muslim if that was the case but each one shows his love in his own unique way and we should not belittle the way people show their love what this means and I am going to draw an example for us to understand if a man has four sons for example and as he grows older one becomes a doctor and as an alim maybe he has studied the dean one did not find the job and one is a businessman who is very very rich now each one of those four loves their father they love their father so much and the one who is a doctor comes and says you know what dad every time there is anything wrong I will be the one taking care of your health matters anything medical I will do you come for a check up every six months every year or whatever it is and I will make sure that all this is done and whatever you need I am going to make sure because I love you so much you come first the other sons cannot say that because they are not medically qualified but the one who is a businessman will say dad every month I will give you a check of 50,000 rands you do what you have to with that I am not worried you are my father I love you the most because he is yours every month I hope we had sons who did that so that is his love he has the money he does not have something else so he is offered what he has and he will never insult his father but what he has been given and blessed with he gives then you have the one who is unemployed he is neither a doctor nor is he a businessman and what happens subhanallah he comes and says you know what dad I tell you something you live with me I will take care of you I will take you where you want to go I will come I will go and so on and so forth and the fourth one in his own way also says dad you know what I will help you assist you I will ensure so many different things let's sit every day together I will teach you what I have and we can give and take and say I love my father more or you don't love your father the problem with us in the ummah is when someone shows their love to Rasool الله عليه وسلم in a way different from ours on condition that it is something permissible and taught by Muhammad sometimes we become upset and we say this man doesn't love Rasool الله عليه وسلم I give you some examples some people show their love their life as best as possible according to the exact way that Muhammad عليه وسلم lived his life so the beard is grown it's a sign of the love of Rasool الله عليه وسلم the clothing is changed it's a sign of the love of Rasool الله عليه وسلم when it comes to something like salah we would like to be on time every time give importance to the adhan give importance to the masjid that's a sign of the love of Rasool الله عليه وسلم when you spend a lot of time effort and energy learning the Quran it's a sign of the love of Muhammad عليه وسلم when you spend time learning his life and attending events or programs where we are going to learn more about him and his life it's a sign of love we are here today to show not only that we love Rasool الله عليه وسلم but to prove that we will follow his example as best as possible some might choose like حسان بن ثابت عبد الله بن رواحة رضي الله عنهم كعبي بن مالك these were the poets the munchidid they used to come out with beautiful poems out of their love of the deen and Muhammad عليه وسلم and there are so many we may hear of some and we may not know some we should study these and we can come up with our own in order to express our love for Muhammad عليه وسلم so this would be in the form of singing the praise of Rasool الله عليه وسلم that is also showing love it is one aspect of it remember never belittle someone who is showing a different aspect of the love of Rasool الله عليه وسلم we are not perfect human beings in fact human beings will not be perfect the perfection was for Muhammad عليه وسلم granted by Allah سبحانه و تعالى will keep trying you know when they say the sunnah of Rasool الله عليه وسلم it is so vast it is so wide so broad that only he was able to fulfill every aspect that's why it's his sunnah as for us even the best from amongst us we will only be able to fulfill a limited number of aspects of that sunnah of Rasool الله عليه وسلم may Allah سبحانه و تعالى so never say someone does not love the Prophet عليه وسلم yes if they are going wrong we can correct them in a beautiful way that correction should also be according to the method of Rasool الله عليه وسلم it's an automatic gift for us to be following the sunnah even while correcting people now let's start off right at the beginning Rasool الله عليه وسلم was born that birth was a gift for all of us every one of us indeed Allah had favored the believers when he sent to them a messenger it is the favor of Allah so if someone asks you what is the biggest favor that you have it is the fact that you have iman and you are a follower of Muhammad the biggest favor hold on to it learn about it teach your children live by it because more important than giving lip service to your children about how important it is to fulfill your deen and to follow Rasool الله عليه وسلم is actually to fulfill it yourself so that they watch you and they fulfill as you do the most successful parents are those who lead by example they practice what they preach how many of us are prepared to do that that is also a sunnah of Muhammad so let's start making resolutions for today a mental note we need to practice what we preach we need to be role models for our children we need to be people who can pass the baton look at the globe and look at the disasters across the globe والله the solutions of the problems of the globe are those who lead by example solutions of the problems of the globe depend on how closely you are following the sunnah of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم we cannot be seeking solutions from Allah سبحانه وتعالى yet the messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم who was sent to us we are far away from what he has taught yet that is what the solution was سبحان الله may Allah grant us a deep understanding may Allah grant us a love such that we feel it in our hearts for one another he was born that was a gift of Allah سبحانه وتعالى for every one of us we thank Allah for that and at the same time the conditions surrounding his birth some of these we learn such deep lessons that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has kept in them that it would change the way when he was born what had happened to his father he had passed away prior to the birth imagine the most loved unto Allah that is something we firmly believe he is without a doubt the best of creation the most noble of all prophets of Allah imagine when you say the best of creation have you thought about what that means the best of creation better than the angels and Gabriel and in fact the most noble of all the prophets of Allah سبحانه وتعالى including Isa Musa he is the highest and Allah chose that when he was born he was born an orphan Allah chose that for him لا إله إلا الله محمد الرسول الله what good news is that for those they think they were disadvantaged at birth because they didn't have a father or they lost their mother yet it is an advantage سبحان الله it is a sign of the love of Allah سبحانه وتعالى it does not mean you are going to fail the first lesson that I learned when I look at the birth of Muhammad is to appreciate the orphan child and this is why Allah سبحانه وتعالى warns us about the treatment that we give to those who are orphaned or those who are widows so much so that Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم himself has said myself and the one who looks after an orphan shall be like these two fingers in Jannah remember it's easy to read that but when you start thinking he was an orphan you look at it differently imagine he is saying me and someone who takes care of those who are like me will be in Jannah together that's the whole reason why they will be in Jannah he was also an orphan سبحان الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the most loved by Allah the one whom when we hear his name if we don't say صلى الله عليه وسلم we have in fact insulted ourselves and cursed ourselves سبحان الله because after a little while he lost his mother صلى الله عليه وسلم a few years later we hear this every year we look at it we understand it we hear it we listen to it but have we ever paused and thought about going out of our way to take care of orphans going out of our way to take care of those who lost their mothers going out of our way to take care of the widows for the sake of Allah and Allah alone and earning Jannah you have love for رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم go back and look at those who are orphaned and tell yourself if Allah chose for his most beloved to be like this at the beginning then surely for me to look after such children would actually be my stepping stone towards earning the intercession رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم on the day of judgment may Allah grant that to us say amen so my beloved brothers and sisters remember when you have a soft spot in your heart for those who are orphans widows those who are disadvantaged those who may have lost a loved one and when you take care of them when you reach out to them when you give them a good word you find Allah if you want to find Allah you will find Allah where the broken hearted are you will find Allah where the sick and those who are elderly are those who need help are because if Allah wanted he could have done for them every single thing without needing anyone else but he wanted to give an opportunity for those with the greatest of hearts to take care to rise to the occasion to earn an active worship a reward through it so Allah kept the sickly the elderly those who are disadvantaged imagine there were no poor how would we be earning through giving according to one of the narrations a time will come when there will be so much wealth on earth that no one will accept zakat you go and give a man and he'll say I've already got bitcoins you can keep your money may Allah forgive us there will come a time there will be so many people with wealth your money will be rejected so spend before that time there will come a time when the way we are worshipping Allah today may not be as easy it is happening already across the globe so while you have the opportunity worship Allah in the best possible way imagine if there was no one who was sick and ill how would we be able to earn the reward when Allah says you heard about so and so who was ill and we say yes and then he says well had you gone there you would have found me there Subhan Allah so make an effort put your phone aside for a moment it's a disease that all of us are involved in to different levels myself included we need to put it aside and do something real to earn جنة الفردوس look for the people look for those who are in need the true people in need don't show that they are in need you might find a person next to you every day you haven't even greeted him and yet the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says أفشو السلامة بينكم should I not show you something if you were to practice upon it it would increase the love and the محبة among you how many of us would like to see that love and the محبة spread amongst us every one of us if that's the case you start off with the first step of greeting the people and meaning it السلام عليكم and you smile subhan Allah you've earned a lot I promise you a smile is not an act of charity for nothing it's a صدقة for a reason because the power of it is way beyond anything material remember this try it out you find a person who looks so difficult they look so stern and the next best thing they smile at you all the barriers are broken you can greet you feel close you feel a connection through what showing your teeth even if you haven't shown the teeth but at least you've broken into a smile so it's not something cheap no matter how small it is that someone can say this is insignificant may Allah forgive us may Allah strengthen us my brothers and sisters I want to tell you something very important before I go ahead came to my mind right now anything we say about the deal is connected to Muhammad anything we say about Islam about Salah about the pillars of Islam about the do's and the don'ts no matter what you want to say is connected to Muhammad he receives a reward as we are talking right now and we receive a reward and at the moment the angels are surrounding us the Rahmah of Allah is descending upon us Allah is mentioning us Subhan Allah to the angels and at the same time Muhammad is achieving a full reward of anything and everything we do every Salah that is read every act of worship that is engaged in every act of goodness that is engaged in he receives a full reward look at how his rank is elevated to the highest of the high so thank Allah today we are seated here because of Rasool Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم effort what he did and how he taught and he was chosen by Allah he brought everything to us so don't forget this nothing that you want to do to earn closeness to Allah can you do without going through Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم's teachings remember this what a great gift of Allah and this is why anyone who involves himself or herself in anything to do with the deal has involved himself or herself with Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم you want to get closer to him involve yourself somewhere wherever you can like I said earlier some people can give differently from others you might be able to give your time someone gives their wealth someone gives their expertise someone sits and makes du'a because perhaps that's the only thing they could do now when you have a big capacity don't just sit back and say I'll just make du'a no wait if Allah has given you something greater than that you need to know that's your test where are you going to take what you have now if you are a top doctor for example where are you going to take that when you die it's gone with you unless you have passed something on unless you've helped people if you are a very wealthy person what are you going to do with that wealth it's not even going to come with you in your grave as for your offspring they come with their own sustenance written by Allah سبحانه و تعالى so go back to the life of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and see look at what he tells for example when he felt he was on his death bed and he says oh Prophet of Allah I have a lot of wealth and I've only got one daughter at that time he only had one daughter so he says I want to give my wealth in charity the Prophet says no don't give all of it he says well then I give half of it he says no he says well then I give a third of it so the Prophet says yes you give a third so to give out a third of your wealth and leave your wealth is also part of the Sunnah of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم let's go beyond the birth of Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم I drew one example and I drew a few lessons from it and I pray that every one of us from this moment when we hear the term orphan we look at it differently those who are orphans minimum is minimum is to put your hand on the head of that orphan wallahi there is a hadith that speaks about that action in particular and how beloved it is to Allah سبحانه و تعالى have we done it have we shown some form of kindness insha'Allah we do from this day on the second aspect that I want to speak about is that of the friends of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم from a very young age today we have a crisis what is the crisis we have drugs on one hand we have gambling on the other we have the clubs we have so many gangs and gangsters we have people who are doing all sorts of things insha'Allah we also have a lot of good we must never lose hope in the mercy of Allah Allah will bring all of them back to the path if he wishes never think that you are safe from the plot of the devil no matter how pious you think you are because the only time you can be guaranteed that you are safe from the plot of the devil is when you are given your books in your right hand if you passed away with iman you have succeeded we hear of the story of the one who worshiped Allah for 70 years then he turned the one who was disobedient for 70 years then he turned he had a good death so remember when we see others perhaps who may not be on a line that we would like to see them upon go back to the sunnah of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم we are talking about the seerah we are talking about aspects of his life when the kufar of Quraish who were disbelievers he used to want to ask him a question he used to want to answer it so much that sometimes you find some of his companions look he is giving preference to these people but his idea was in fact to ensure that they get the message because to win them over was what he wanted one person coming onto the right path we should be equally interested in trying to guide those perhaps who are misguided we should be equally interested sometimes they are in our families a lot of us out of what we think is our own piety we write off people we say write off gone have you followed the sunnah have you understood the seerah have you looked at what the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم did he kept on trying and kept on trying and kept on trying and guess what the results came in years later in some cases instantly but in a lot of cases it was the victory of Makkah the victory of Makkah that brought about so many people thousands who accepted Islam by one good deed what was the good deed he gathers the Quraysh صلى الله عليه وسلم and those were the people who had killed his companions and some of his family members and those were the people who had driven them out of their homes those were the people who usurped their property and those were the people who did so much of harm and evil against the muslimin they had prepared armies and drove to Medina in order to attack the muslimin and yet the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the day he was on a level of strength that they could see he asks them a question يا معشرة قرش ما ذا تظنون أنني فاعل بكم or people of Quraysh what do you really think I'm going to do to you today obviously you're seeing a ruler with more than 100,000 with him and what are they doing they're ready to take instruction from him if he said go for them they were wiped out easily let's go back to the seerah we are not prepared to do this to our own brothers and sisters at times and then we want to be considered for the intercession of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم you have to do something big in your life you have to do something massive in order to be able to achieve that love of Allah and that intercession of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم something you did not want to do but it was so noble and it was part of the teachings of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so you did it in order to earn the pleasure of Allah so Quraysh at that stage they couldn't say much what would they say they had good hope that's all I mean if a man is there he's got all his guns and everything what do you think I'm going to do to you you're going to say I think you're a good man I think you know I hope that you're going to do something decent because that's the best you could ever say the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says فأنتم التلقى he says you can go you are free لا تتريب عليكم اليوم I tell you what my brother Yusuf عليه السلام told his brothers no retribution against you today you can go you are free he didn't talk to them about the deal he didn't talk to them about converting reverting nothing what happened as a result of that deed you see the people entering the fold of Islam one after the other they could not believe that was not their system the system of Jahiliya was one man attacks one you kill another ten but that's not Islam this is the sunnah of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and this is how we would achieve فأنتم التلقى I don't want to ask you something very very difficult to do all I'm saying is today is a day we are looking into the life of the most beloved of Allah are we prepared to do what he did to the kufar of Quraysh to the muslimin who are related to us in our own families whom we've had a dispute with over a lot of the times wealth a lot of the times argument between the women or the men or sometimes wealth a misunderstanding a mistake some bad habit someone might have had we must make an effort to reconcile and Allah سبحانه وتعالى will definitely grant us so going back to the aspect of the friends of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم one of his best friends if not his best friend was a man known as عثمان رضي الله عنه do you know that عبد الله ابن عثمان رضي الله عنه was the closest to رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم so close that even later on he was the first man to accept Islam now some of you might be looking at me a little bit surprised عبد الله ابن عثمان who is that عبد الله ابن عثمان he was known as أبو بكر ابن أبي قو حافة رضي الله عنه I said عبد الله ابن عثمان intentionally because a lot of us don't know his proper name so I thought perhaps we might educate ourselves today to say أبو بكر was a كنية it was just a pen name given to him and his proper real name was عبد الله عبد الله ابن عثمان so now all of us whose name is عبد الله ما شاء الله we know that that name was also the name of أبو بكر رضي الله عنه his father was called أبو قو حافة his father's name was actually أثمان they all had names like that so it's interesting for us to know this he was so close to Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم guess what he never ever drank alcohol even prior to Islam just like Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم never touched alcohol even prior to Islam although the entire community and society was involved in it or most of the people were it was something they traded in like no man no man's business but my brothers and sisters this goes to show how we need to learn a lesson your friends make you your friends he had the best of friends when he married he married against all odds someone who was older than him صلى الله عليه وسلم someone who asked for his hand in marriage things that we would consider today oh is that what happened you see these guys look at what they're doing go back to the sunnah go and check do you know what his choice of a spouse was so blessed that the day he came with nubua she did not doubt him a single bit how many of us our wives do not doubt us a single bit صلى الله عليه وسلم every other day we receive problems of people who صلى الله عليه وسلم their wife looks at your phone the next thing قيامة is there الله أكبر من الله سبحانه و تعالى grant us steadfastness we shouldn't have anything to hide his wife خديجة بنت خوالد رضي الله عنها والله when he came down and he asked her to hug him سبحان الله that is mentioned how many of us when you have an issue you come to your wife and say hug me I don't think we do that I don't think we do that would we you have an issue you have a problem when you come home you're like a devil you say get out of my sight you don't know I've had issues at work today that's how we operate but when you have had something big happen to you come home and you're supposed to get that comfort and that embrace helps you embrace سبحان الله it helps she didn't doubt him at all and so when he told her what happened she said hang on let's go to this cousin of mine I take you to him Allah will never let you down you are such a good man الله أكبر this was prior to nubua this was just at nubua in fact سبحان الله imagine a wife saying he is a very good man سبحان الله may Allah make us from those may Allah make us from those say amen I see the amen was so soft initially may Allah make us from those whom our wives can bear witness that we are top people that's why the prophet says خيركم خيركم لأهله و أنا خيركم لأهله he says the best from among you are those who are best to their wives and on top of that he says you know what I want to tell you I am the best from all of you to my own سبحان الله سبحان الله what a great sunnah of Rasul Allah that brings us to another aspect and that is the issue of being good within your home being the best you can to your family members the term أهل although primarily may refer to the wife it includes family members it includes family members so the friends you make very very important to let them be those whom you would like to be like those who have habits and characteristics that you would be proud of your friends make you or break you when we go to the Quran and we see the verses of the Quran and the Ahadith of Rasul Allah speaking about friends and friendship and we look at it and we don't take it seriously we are the losers every time you see a person with a bad habit I have actually asked people questions you know what tell me more about your friends when you see them in a deep hole you ask them about their friends are in a deeper hole mostly you need to be friend good people you need to make an intention that you will be a good person to your friends you need to make that intention this is when we will have hope again by the will of Allah in our own future change your friends look at the youngsters on drugs for example they have to do it together with their friends really would you find someone and friendship includes those whom you be friend online today you have to be very careful whom you be friend online you have a person who doesn't go out of the house do you have any friends no online there is no answer because I don't even know how many friends I have online subhanallah do you know that your friends online are actually not necessarily even real people may Allah subhanahu و at-ta'ala forgive us come to the masjid for salah interact greet the people it's part of your deen it's part of the life of rasoolullah when they arrived in madinah munawara what happened masjid kuba first thing they thought about they didn't think about guys let's start our business let's do this that that was secondary first thing was the masjid when they arrived in madinah munawara first thing was the masjid the people were brought together there is love between us today we are seated here in large numbers and we want to tell you if you do not feel the love in your heart for all those who are here there is something wrong with you we will have differences by all means we will but our deen is based on محبا the verse of the Quran tells that to us Allah subhanahu و at-ta'ala explains to us how important it is to be رأوف و رحيم his quality is obviously but we too need to be filled with love when it comes to the believers we have to we are part of an umma part of a family we will be resurrected with رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم not on our own but with the umma with the entire umma so we ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى to grant us ease so as I say if you look at every single aspect of the life of رسول الله and pause after that and draw a lesson from it in order to be able to practice upon and learn from to adopt in your life that is when you will be truly successful we have read the seerah we know the aspects of the seerah we sometimes know our facts the dates and so on it's important to know all of that it's part of our heritage it's part of our deen we must know the names of the people we must know the names of the mother the father of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم the lineage the more you know the better but shaitan must not make you think that that's good enough no that's a loss shaitan must not make you think that when we sit and talk about the seerah it's only talking about history no it is so alive and it should be alive in our lives because we should be practicing upon every aspect like I told you today the issue of friends سبحان الله when Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم in Makkah المكرمة when initially they started harming do you know that the issue of hypocrisy in Makkah was nil nil the muhajireen initially those who had accepted Islam they were free from hypocrisy that's why Allah says أولائك هم الصادقون when he refers to them those are the truthful ones because they stood with محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Haq that they believed in so solid in the face of the tyrants of Makkah who not only threatened them but executed some of those threats they stood strong so hypocrisy only crept up later on أستغفر الله when they went to مدينة مناورا and some of the people decided like عبد الله ابن أبيبن سلول etc. they said you know what we don't show that we're a part of this group here we're going to lose out so let's show that we're a part of the group but we're not really a part of the group مكة المكرمة they were solid people they gave their lives now I want to end with one aspect of the seerah that should bring tears to our eyes واللهي my brothers and sisters we are in love with محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم there is no doubt we are also in love with his companions because he says لا تسبوا أصحابي فوالذي نفسي بيديه لو أنفق أحدكم مثل أُحُدٍ ذهبا ما بلغ مد أحدهم ولا نصيفه don't ever talk bad don't ever insult any one of my companions for indeed if you were to spend Mount أُحُد weight or size or worth of gold in the cause of Allah it would never equate a single hand full of what they spent nor a portion of it now I want to explain to you that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his companions were chosen by Allah they were chosen by Allah when you hear the name أبو بكر أصدق something should happen to you you should feel something in your heart عمر إبن الخطاب ربي الله عنه the same man whom the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says when عمر walks through a gully shaitan cannot walk through the same gully he walks through another one سبحان الله that is عمر can I tell you they gave their lives they gave their lives مسعب ابن عمر ربي الله عنه he gave his life حمزة ابن عبد المطلب the uncle the fierce uncle of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم gave his life and he was martyred in order for the deen to come to you and it has so what are you going to do about it we are sitting here today thousands of kilometers away thousands of years away from what happened then and they gave their lives for the deen to continue and we are sitting here today we are not prepared to give up 5 minutes of our time for the deen to continue into our children our own children their concern was about the whole أمة they didn't even know we existed our concern is not even about ourselves sometimes واللهي they had more concern about us than we have about ourselves they had more concern about أو آخرة than we had about ourselves the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is the only Nabi whom on the day of judgment he will be saying أمتي أمتي the rest of them will be worried about نفسي نفسي because of certain things that may have happened so that goes to show he is more worried and concerned about us and our jannah and our آخرة and our future than we are ourselves many of us have so many bad habits we are not ready to give up not at all and yet they forget about giving bad habits up they gave their lives up you go to Uhud a lot of us may be blessed to have gone there and you see حمزة ابن عبد المطالب grave you greet salam do you know what happened there and you might know the history do you realize he fought for you and I it came here today we are seated here today my brothers and sisters I hope we can ponder deeply over that last point as well and I hope that we can change our lives completely because there is no point in saying tomorrow I am going to change it has to happen here and now this was Allah who gave us such a great gift have we appreciated the gift of Rasool Allah this evening insha'Allah we will be hearing many aspects a lot of the seerah of Rasool Allah every aspect of it ask yourselves and I should be asking myself too what have I done to appreciate the fact that Allah has chosen me out of the billions to be an Ummati to be a part of this beautiful ummah of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم may Allah سبحانه وتعالى bless every single one of us may Allah grant us goodness and ease may Allah forgive our sins may Allah grant us a new chapter a beginning for indeed every time we gather in this way the mercy of Allah descends and we seek the forgiveness of Allah in such a way that when we get up we will get up مغفورين totally forgiven by Allah may Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant us goodness I'll say this صلى الله عليه وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد والحمد