Hi it's Brigitte. Welcome to Sunday Morning Coffee with Brigitte. Nice to connect with you today. I'm gonna share with you something that I found on the web. It was a post and so let me read this to you and then we'll have a conversation about it. It's a really powerful piece about healing and the healing process but hmm it's about the healing process as in healing is a lifestyle choice if you've heard my work as an intuitive life coach you know that I believe that healing isn't a one-time thing an event or because you're broken and you got to fix something whether it be your body your heart your brain whatever. Healing is a lifestyle it is the way that we are in wellness and in love with ourselves and taking care of ourselves okay so that's my little philosophy on a healing and I think you need to know that stepping into this audio today and so but this this piece in particular this writing gives the understanding about how we evolve and change and how we're always ever evolving and changing and thus we are always healing discovering new levels of ourselves. Alright you ready? Get out your journal. Your whole oh by the way too I should say I do not have a let's see it looks like there's a little bit of a it's by Jamie Varen V-A-R-O-N Jamie Varen okay just want to make give credit. Your whole life will be a series of healing that's how it works. You live you uncover a layer you are asked to go deeper and you sink into a part of you that feels even more true than the person you were a year a month a week a minute before in many ways it's about shedding shedding what holds you back from experiencing your life as it's happening shedding societal conditioning shedding walls locks healing will not be linear it will not arrive one day in perfect form it's a becoming and unraveling a putting together only to unspool a bit more stop trying to be done with the work of becoming yourself stop rushing it you have a lifetime to master it you're meant to have a do have a lifetime to become unfold tense and unfold again it all belongs it's all part of it maybe you need a break once in a while but don't quit becoming truer versions of yourself you don't have to become better just truer more you more expressed more free that is powerful that is powerful that's very powerful hmm the becoming and the unraveling the becoming and the unraveling it's the state we could go into when we're questioning we're checking in inside with our lives is the question really is about does my external life express who I am on the inside and if it is different if there is discrepancies that cause conflict or confusion or struggle or strife then there needs to be a real alignment that's what becoming is becoming is a form of real alignment of not just allowing yourself to become a better version of yourself but to become a newer more truer like is stated here by this author a more truer version of yourself and just as our body changes look at your hands yeah especially after you get past a certain age I think like into your 40s you start to notice your hands have wear on them you know we'll be driving one day and you'll have your hands on the steering wheel you'll be sitting at a stoplight and you'll bend your wrist just a little bit ever so slightly and you notice multiple rings around the edges of your wrist that lead up by the way as you get older in towards your fingertips and then sooner or later you realize how much those veins on those hands are popping out and then you might notice a few little freckles are those freckles I've never had freckles and then it turns out there's sunspots and they don't fade or go away and then you notice how much older your hands look because you have changed it's an evolving process the process of becoming wiser becoming more experienced more seasoned that is shown to us in our physical human bodies instead of outrunning our change in our evolution process it is really for us to embrace it because it is intended to serve us so that we continue to evolve from the inside out as a newer version of yourself and new discovery emerges you integrate that in and then you can express it outwardly into your human life experience now I recognize that some changes some evolutions will be deep profound and traumatic potentially if it's a remembering or of either a past expression or experience or a future dream or desire and to my experience the remembrance of dreams and desires that are held inside or the realization of them when they come out and we finally are it's revealed to us that we have these dreams and these visions for our future our lives that we've never really been open to revealing to ourselves and all of a sudden it's there and you're like wait what that's more intense and more traumatic to realize that you've had these dreams and and aspirations and visions for your life that you have never allowed yourself to even see and they're yours it's all about you and it's not about you being self-centered or conceited or screw everybody else it's just all about me it's not about it's not that that's not what this is but it will feel like it because your brain will tell you it will bring up self doubt it will say you're not all that in a bag of chips it will say you'll have feelings from and remember and since from other people saying things to you over time about how not good enough you are and comparing you to other people and and and things that mattered to you like maybe writing mattered to you and you got a bad grade on a writing project or something like that these things will come up from your mind it will bring up memories to influence you to keep you in a place where you aren't able to become more of yourself in a true reform because you can't seem to get into a place where you can allow yourself to even recognize the dreams and desires that are hidden tucked into a treasure box inside of you and it's tucked in or hidden in a treasure box inside of you layered upon resistance so that it's safe and protected for that time when you get to that layer of yourself you couldn't know these dreams or visions for your future all along because it would have seemed daunting it would have seemed insurmountable it's like someone that I this this is gonna be a stretch for me because I have not trained for a marathon however I'm gonna use a running analogy here it's like someone training for a marathon who's never run like someone like me for example that's not totally true I did a 5k once about eight years ago 5k like three and a half miles right but the point is is if I wanted to run a marathon I would have to begin to train I would have to do strength training and cross training and running not just running but these other things to have a whole body prepared for this run for this marathon experience for this ultimate goal of achieving and finishing and completing that marathon experience but I would have to prepare for it but in order to prepare for it and even start to begin to work toward that I have to have this connection to that goal that vision of of a of an experience of what it would feel like and be like a dream to run the marathon a dream to be at the finish line and feel the exhilaration of the emotion of the moments that led me to get there in this incredible sense of of accomplishment of a rival now I know you know we talk a lot about how things aren't always based on an outcome and in fact life is really about the journey not the outcome because the outcome of life is death if you are living in a human body the body expires sooner or later the body will expire and so therefore life isn't about the outcome of it the ultimate outcome because the outcome is the transition point of death right so and we're all going to get there it's just a fact it is literally a fact the how you get there however is completely up for negotiation discussion and it is your actions your behaviors your routines your your choices that result in the how you live it so yes there is a lot to unpack here there is a lot to understand about life itself and life as a whole the energy of becoming is very powerful it can be overwhelming there's it's filled with unknown but it is a necessary part of fully living if you want to fully live embodied with the awareness of dreams and desires that you have with a connection to a deeper richer life experience then you have to allow yourself to practice being open to being in those uncomfortable places while you have these discoveries or awarenesses about yourself like the author mentions the the becoming in the the unraveling of things so it's kind of like a series of arrivals of a feeling of it's it's literally like you know what it's like it's like breathing it's like the in breath and the out breath and the in breath and the out breath and it's kind of like the tension that you can hold in your chest in the heart space and not even realizing that you're holding your breath when you're working or when you're at a meeting or when you're at a bus stop or when you're at a stoplight and you realize oh my gosh I'm holding my chest but the air tight in my chest and I'm limiting my own personal ability to receive the air the life affirming life element of air so then you let let your body relax little and then breathe in deeply and fully and expand the lungs it's like that contraction and expansion the contraction and the expansion it's like the squeeze that comes that feeling of being oh that awareness of a of a tense muscle in the body and so recognizing oh this is tenseness recognizing all this is resistance recognizing oh this is another place where I have another discovery and instead of judging the resistance or the tenseness or being frustrated about how uncomfortable it is recognize that this on discomfort is causing you to ask which is getting your attention which then that notification becomes something you can do something about you have information you have insight your body is extremely and highly intuitive and it will share that information with you you might gain it in a meditation you might get it from a physical sore neck or sore part of your back pay attention to where you are sore in your physical body I should mention this is important because it is connected to your chakras and the chakras are the energy centers inside the body and it can give you insight as to where that treasure the next layer of your becoming is housed because your body is the embodiment that holds the soul of you and all of your wisdom and we forget that so as you are becoming newer versions of yourself as your body is literally getting wiser and showing you the experience in the seasons you have had it is showing you that you are well qualified to live this life to become more not because you're not enough but to come more to discover more unique creative ways interesting dynamic adventurous ways to be yourself and expression and sometimes those things are scary the things that reveal to you mean big changes are external and guess what that's okay that is a natural part of life there is nothing wrong with you that is a natural flow to this life journey so I guess for me the word becoming stands out in this reading let's read it one more time so that you have a little bit of an insight here so grab your journal see what word stands out to you so for me becoming oh here's another word shedding oh my gosh shedding and clearing oh that's a good one we could do a whole sunday morning coffee about that couldn't we here we go ready your whole life will be a series of healing that's how it works you live you uncover a layer you are asked to go deeper and you sink into a part of you that feels more true than the person you were a year a month a week a minute before in many ways it's about shedding shedding what holds you back from experiencing your life as it's happening shedding societal conditioning shedding walls blocks healing will not be linear oh that's a good one healing will not be linear it will not arrive one day in a perfect form it's a becoming it's a becoming an unraveling a putting together only to unspool a bit more stop trying to be done with the work of becoming yourself stop rushing it you have a lifetime to master it you're meant to have a lifetime to become unfold tense and unfold again it all belongs it's all part of it maybe you need a break once in a while but don't quit becoming truer versions of yourself you don't have to become better just truer more you more expressed more free again this is by Jamie Varron this is Bridget thanks so much for listening to sunday morning coffee with Bridget it is my pleasure to inspire your spirit and fill you with hope on this sunday morning podcast here at above life channel be sure to watch above life channel on mondays for insights from great great channeling sessions that i have weekly as a psychic medium with afterlife celebrity guests also you can follow me on more of my intuitive vlogging channel which is very grasshopper on youtube i do some teaching there um about things intuitive i also share about my very real psychic life there i do have a vlog there as well again that's very grasshopper on youtube thanks for being here


Bah, what's up everybody, once again it's brand man Sean, and today we're going over part 2 of how to get over 1,000 people out at your event. If you haven't seen the first one, just know that me and my friends did Adventure Time ATL, an event where we brought out over 100,000 people over 1,000 people messed that up. But wishful thinking, here we're about to go right into some of the tips. Number 1, testing. If you're actually putting out a decent amount of content, you really want to maximize the content that's working the best. But you can't really waste all of your channels if you have a few resources on pushing out all of your content everywhere. So what I did was, we had our main page on Instagram, and I'm releasing material, right? And as I create material and release material, I'm seeing which material works best. And whatever is getting the best feedback, I will disseminate to the rest of the group and say, hey, this is the one that we're all spreading. So some material was just the main page material, and it was cool help for the overall branding for people to come to the page and get more interest. But the best working material was the material that I chose to spread everywhere. That simple test to get the maximum return on investment. Number 2. Now, I personally never ever ever condone follows for followbacks or anything like that. We'll go over that in another video. But what is so important and how it can work for an event? If you have an event and you actually create an event page and you're really creating this whole brand around a certain event. What you can do is if you follow everybody who, you know, matches whatever you're doing, you want these people to come out. Then if you follow them, maybe they're not going to follow back. Do not to follow to follow back. It's not even about that. You're following them just because you want them to be aware. So when you're following all these people, they're going to at least click on the page a lot of times and see what is this or who is this. And if it's named specifically a part of the after the event and it sounds something interesting, like something interesting in this area specific like Adventure Time ATL. People will likely at least click and you just want them to be aware. And this is no different than handing out a flyer and people seeing the information. So just make sure that your page is ready when people click before you do a follow campaign. So then when they go, they can see the dates and all that stuff clearly or what it's about clearly. And they can see some already branded material content, commercials, whatever you have got it. Good. Number three, make the event about the people. Now, what does that mean? I know it sounds kind of like lovey-dovey, but the reality is so many people make events just for people to actually come out and see them and love them and say, hey, I got this many people out in my event. Come see my art. Come see my show. But at the end of the day, it's not about you. People love Kanye shows and people go to Kanye shows who really don't even rock with Kanye or concerts like that because they hear how interesting and entertaining they are. The same for people like Travis Scott. Well, for your event, whatever it is, even if it's just a performance, you want to figure out ways to stimulate people from all angles and make it as immersive as possible. Because when it's about the people, not you at the end of the day, you get associated with giving people the feeling that they'll remember and they'll want to go back to your events in the future, which is why this is important and I'm including in this one. This event where we got 1000 people out was the second event, not the first event. For the second event, we had a lot of word of mouth marketing that happened naturally just because we provided such a great experience the first time around. You do that. If you make it about the people and making sure they're enjoying and not just about people coming to see you, then it'll be a lot easier next time to get people out. We gotta let's say like 400 people the first time. You know that 400 of those people are probably going to at least tell other two other people if they have a great experience. Number four, cultivate curiosity and scarcity. It's an integrated tactic in sales and marketing to basically first create this curiosity through marketing.  But once you're doing this, you create this curiosity, but then say, hey, we only have this many tickets available. So that might be a early bird. We only have this many early bird tickets. People are familiar with those kind of things, but so many people get it wrong because we say, hey, we only have five tickets left or tickets are going fast. I'm going to go ahead and let you know most people are lying when they say that their tickets aren't going fast.  If you don't instill and create any kind of emotion in whoever is experiencing your marketing, then you're not going to be able to transfer that emotion into a transaction, which will be a sale. So if you get people curious and kind of wondering about the event and then juxtapose that with a tickets are only on sale for this amount or at least the early bird tickets are only on sale for this period of time, you start to really be able to funnel that into actual sales or people actually showing up. And there's multiple ways to continuously do that leading up into the event. Curiosity or hype or excitement and then this artificial scarcity. Combine those two magic. We did this in multiple ways, but I'll put up one specific example where we kind of compressed this into one flyer. Other than that, go ahead and share this. If you know somebody who you think might be helpful with your team or whoever and you know what to do, hit that subscribe button.


around the North West for a Monday afternoon. Now the launch of Gradham, the new Irish business award scheme from Gloria Gale is later this month and the awards give businesses the opportunity to increase their use of Irish. The Irish Language Development Officer with Lienra at her Canon joins us on the line now and we're live streaming as well. Barbara, good afternoon and happy new year to you Barbara. Thank you very much, John. Same to you, Lienfou Wachadich. Now let's talk about these new awards or this awards scheme. How exactly, the average business who might maybe would like to improve their Irish a little bit anyhow, how can they avail of this or what's involved? Okay, so this is an award scheme that is really about developing the capacity of businesses in terms of using Irish. So they're not in competition with other businesses. It's simply challenges that they set themselves and they can achieve a bronze, a silver or a gold award across three different categories. So one of those is their signage. Another one is their marketing and branding and the third is their customer service. So they could decide in the first year that they'll go for a bronze award in just one category or they might decide to take on two or three categories and over a period of time they can build up from bronze to silver to gold. So it really is about building step by step and their support there to help them do it. And is there different criteria in each category and for each of the awards? How it works is that there is an outline. I'll be going around so in the next week or so with a handbook for any of the businesses that are interested. I can also email them that handbook but it outlines say in terms of signage what is required. And if say there are 20 points there that you could cover, if you've got 35% of those covered you can get a bronze award. If you could 55% of them you can get the silver award and if you've got 80% or more you can get the gold award. So it's working on the same aims over a period of time but the more that you fulfill the higher the award that you can get. So you're not even if you move from a bronze award to a silver award you're not just starting again with another whole project you're simply building on what you've already done. Is the aim here to remind us all not just businesses that this is our national language and we need to work with it and work at it in order to ensure that it survives? It's very much about that. I mean as they say, the life of a language is to speak it. And researched on by Forrest Nigelga found that people had great kind of positive energy for the idea of using more Irish and wanted to see more Irish in businesses. And so people get a buzz out of the fact that there is Irish around and it encourages them and for many people they're more inclined to go to somewhere where they can see Irish or they can use Irish. So it's very much part of our plan as a geltuk service town to increase the amount of Irish that is visible that is hard to increase the number of places that you could go in and know that you can do your business through Irish or at least that somebody will greet you in Irish. I mean you know the fact that legal day the butcher is putting up signage which is going to be bilingual outside the shop is really good. The fact that you could go into Sanjay and bliss there in the boutique there in the main street and Sanjay can speak to you in Irish. You know these are the things if you go into Holgren the signage there in the front of the cafe you know is in Irish and people like that and so it's to build on that positivity really to do that and to help people to see that Irish is very much a living everyday language. And with these awards it we're not suggesting a sea change here it's small changes that can then add up to make a make a big difference. Absolutely we're not saying to people listen you know you have to be fluent within six months that is not what we're chatting about but we're saying use the little bit that you have be prepared to you know to put it out there to say to people yeah we actually you know maybe we have two people in the business who can speak Irish or we'll put up signage in Irish or at least whenever you come in we'll say Gia Ditch or we'll say Gora Mayagos when you're you know when you've done whatever transactions you're doing that were prepared to use it so it's very much just taking those little steps and gradually building confidence because I think the big thing for most people is about confidence to use the language and this is about increasing that confidence. And it's amazing what Irish we might have you know talked away in our psyche that we have from when we were at school and might not in all my own case have used it very little since but it's amazing when you get a wee trigger and oh I know what that word means and the trigger could be something that the business introduces. Exactly exactly it can just be something very small I mean they talk about active and passive use of language so the active is that ability to you know to make conversation in the language to read the language. The passive is just as you say we might think oh I have no Irish at all and yet I can understand those phrases or I can understand a sign that's up there so I might not have the confidence to use it but it's there and I am amazed I mean every week I have people coming to me saying I want to learn Irish or I want to improve my Irish literally on a weekly basis there's great energy there and so it's to give people that opportunity the more they see it around them the more they hear it around them the more they think you know I'm going to give this a go and for many people it is just reawakening the Irish that's already there and then we have lots of people who've moved here who are very interested in the language you know or their kids are at school their kids are doing Irish and they want to do you know they want to be able to speak some Irish or people coming in from the geltacht areas and particularly I think for families to be able to show your kids look look there's a sign you can read that sign there's somebody who's speaking to you in Irish this is a living language and that is what is so important and it's something that the businesses can really be a part of and get involved with but they also get the benefit of people saying you know I'm going to go there because I know I can walk in there and speak the wee bit of Irish that I've got even if it's only a few words I know that I can do that so it's a win-win situation really make a good point of those coming in from geltacht areas are those maybe they're going to galescalls or whatever it is and learning Irish at a young age but then as they get older and become more aware it's important that Irish is still relevant and that you can walk into businesses where there's a little bit of Irish on the signage or on the advertising or somebody greets you in Irish and then and then they can go well you know that's you know that's really affirmation of you know why I'm continuing to do this that says and I would like to see this summer I would like to see businesses who are involved in this scheme saying you know we've some summer work going wouldn't it be great to get a few young people in who speak Irish so that we can increase the provision of Irish so that kids come through all the schools in the town not just college to Ali but all the schools that kids would say do you know it's worth me being fluent because I have more chance of getting a summer job and even if you think in terms of tourism in this town people love to hear Irish you know I encounter that on a regular basis people are just buzzing about the fact that either they're hearing more Irish around or they're getting that bit more confident about speaking it so if we can encourage young people to see the possibilities that are opened up to them because they will speak Irish because they're confident and they're prepared you know they're prepared to give it a go then that would be fabulous well I think of people you know visitors here and and they're coming from a country where English isn't say the first language widely spoken but maybe not the first language so they're coming here and English is the English is the language that they're using but I'm sure they're aware that Irish is our first language but unless they go to the gilded up they mightn't be aware of that so it's great to go into a town like letter Kenny and indeed you know there's all the other towns that are not in the gilded up around only go and see a wee bit of Irish or hear a wee bit of Irish. Oh absolutely absolutely there's a real cultural richness there and sometimes it takes people from other countries to remind us of that of how important it is I mean before Christmas we had just kind of a taster Irish class over a couple of weeks for women who uh well it happened to be a group of women whose first language is Arabic but their kids are going to school here and they were talking about the importance of language for them and therefore their understanding of the importance of Irish for anybody growing up in Ireland and they want their kids to have good Irish so they are doing Irish classes with us and that's something that we're going to kind of set up more formally now from February because there are people from all over the world living here I mean with a woman from Brazil doing a 10 week Irish course with us absolutely loving it you know somebody else who'd come from Australia sometimes it takes people from outside to remind us what we've got and how important it is even just to our own our own sense of who we are there's great cultural richness there okay so uh there's a business listening in now and they'd like to get more information or get involved where can they where can they go well they can register through us they can come to me for more information as I say I'm waiting on the handbooks to arrive the uh my email address is olas so it's eolas at leonrallc.ie so lionrallc.ie and I'm sure you would put that up on the website for us I can be contacted by phone on<PHONE_NUMBER> and we're going to have a launch just something very simple online given the times that we're in on the 25th of January at eight o'clock and it'll be on Zoom but the idea is that it'll give people a you know the opportunity just to ask questions you know how does the scheme work what if they want to do this what if they have these opportunities just to pull that together and to make them aware of the resources that are there things like First and the Gaelgas scheme Takiak to grow their business support scheme that gives 5050 funding for things like packaging and signage and translation of websites and stuff like that so there are lots of resources there's good support and there are great opportunities for business okay brilliant well that official launch will be on the 25th and the best of luck with the uh with the scheme Gradham the the Irish business award screen Barbara thank you very much for uh taking some time to join us. 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ち học أن نت serait armed today in sha Allah we're going to be spending a bit of time actually talking about a very very important night that is taking place tomorrow, known as the 15th of Shaban. So we'll start off talking about some of the virtues of the night and then the practical dhikr that someone can do. This is probably among the top two to three most important nights in the entire Islamic calendar. So you have the Qadr and the odd nights, and then you have Nisf-e-Shaban, which the Ulama have singled out as a very, very virtuous night based on various hadith of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So very, very important night for us to try and do a significant amount of worship. So that's really going to be the topic of the conversation in shah-e-tadeh. So to start with one thing that's really important to remember is that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, every time he swears by something in the Quran, it means it's really important. And often Allah swears by time, and he swears by different types of time. So he'll say wa al-asr, like literally taking an oath by time. He'll say wa al-fajr, taking an oath by the time of fajr. That means you know the time of fajr is very important, otherwise God wouldn't have taken an oath by it. He swears by wa ad-duhah, the time of the mid-morning. He says wa layl, swearing by the night. Also again signifying the importance of this time. And so in that what the, that's mentioned in the commentaries is that time in general is really, really important to God. And you, as Muslims, we have this idea of sacred time and sacred place. Right? So all time is not the same, and all places are not the same. Right? So the month of Ramadan is not the same as the month of Dulkai. It's not the same. Right? If you, you can fast the entire month, let's say you fast the entire month of Muharram. Great. You can do that, but you have to fast the month of Ramadan. It's not the same. It's fasting an entirely different month. If somebody goes to a virtuous place, right? Like I think I mentioned this before, but if somebody were to go to the plane of Arafat, right? In Makkah and the right outside Makkah, if someone were to go there and they were to just on a random Tuesday in a random month and we're just to stand there, that's great. It's totally fine. Nothing wrong with doing that. But it's not the same as being on the plane of Arafat during Hajj when that is a core pillar of the Hajj. Right? And same thing with being in Minan-Mustalifah. You'll see if you go there in a random month, nobody's there because that's not a central place of worship during that time. Versus the Kaaba, which is always a place of worship. Umrah is always being done. And Medina, where the Prophet is always being visited. And so similarly, you have certain times of day, which are very, very important. And the benefit you get from doing something in that time, you won't get that benefit in doing something outside of that time. The prayer being the primary example, right? Praying Fajr in its time has a completely different effect on the soul than someone who wakes up late and misses, has missed Fajr and makes it up. It's still, you know, we have to make it up, but it's very different than praying on time. And it's very different than not praying at all.  There's a very different effect that it has. And so again, this idea of time becomes really, really important. So just like Allah has selected certain times of day to highlight and select certain times of week to highlight. So the day of Jumma is not the same as Monday or Tuesday, right? You don't just came on Monday at 1.30 p.m. in the Masjid and you're just like, hey, just kind of, you can come for Doher. That's great, masha'Allah. But it's not the same as coming for Salatul Jumma, where that's the day of congregation. And it is a very, very, very virtuous day in our religion to the point where there's a whole Surah in the Quran called Suratul Jumma, where Allah is honoring that day and immense, many, many, many types of events, immense spiritual events took place on the day of Jumma, on the day of Friday. Because Allah singled it out as, this is an important day. I want you to honor this day. For the Jews, it's the day of Sabbath, right? The Saturday, right? And for the Christians, it's Sunday. But in every religion, there might be different days. But for the Muslims, that day is the day of Friday. That day is the day of Jumma. And you're not going to have the same benefits that you get on Jumma as you, or you won't get the same benefits on other days as you'll be able to get access to on Jumma. Just so that's kind of at a weekly level. And then that also happens yearly. There's days where Allah singles out. He singles out months, and then he singles out days to give the believers boosts, to give the believers boosts, right?  The spiritual days that Allah has singled out for this Jumma are like that. There are days of boosts, there are days of getting extra spiritual breezes and extra benefit in your life to help sustain you throughout the rest of the year, to help sustain you throughout the rest of the year. And that's why they're so important. They're so important that if somebody constantly, you know, in the busy lives that we live, very difficult for people to worship abundantly all the time, right? To constantly pray at the Hajj, and to read lots of Quran, and to pray the night prayer, and to fast often out all extra type things, assuming the fire that's already taken care of. And God knows that. He knows that thing that's not easy, right? And he gives an immense reward for people who do that consistently. But he also then gives some something a little bit easier for the rest of us. But it's hard, right? And you're like, okay, here's a day or two for you to really, really focus.  And I'm going to be closer, right? And in a figurative sense. And there's going to be more barakah and more du'az answered and more forgiveness granted and more mercy that's being spread throughout the world. And so make sure to take advantage of it. And that is the day of the night, rather, of Nisf-e-Shaban. So the Nisf-e-Shaban is approaching. So that means Nisf-e-Meem is half, right? So it's half of Shaban, the middle night of Shaban. It takes place on the 15th night of the Islamic month of Shaban, which where we happen to be in California, that will be tomorrow night. That corresponds to tomorrow night will be the 15th Shaban. And that is a night in which again, we'll talk about some of the some of the different, you know, benefits that we want to make sure that we take advantage of. Depending on if somebody, you know, online, you guys are somewhere else, you want to check with your local area, when was the moon cited? And when does that night fall? It might be Thursday night, might be Friday night. There's really no chance that it's that it's sooner than that, right? So that's the night the night in Islam enters on Margaret. And then, you know, it continues. So the 15th night will have begun tomorrow. Now, high level summary in terms of what happens at three or four big things are mentioned in the Hadith. First is a ton of people are forgiven on this night. A lot of people are forgiven on this night. Then a lot of mercy is distributed on this night. There's like it's like a magnet for attracting Allah's mercy. But you have to have your heart open. You have to be trying to receive because there's times when the mercy is distributed, where if you are if you are ready to receive it, there's going to be very different than somebody who's in a state of heedlessness and a state of gafla and not ready to receive the mercy. It won't affect them in the same way. Then the third thing that happens at night when do'as are answered tonight when do'as are answered and to single it out to make sure to make a lot of do'a. Someone can do a one whole hour or two whole hours just presenting your needs before Allah. Alhamdulillah, right? And then it's also a night to do abundant prayers. So extra night prayers, no specific amount of the Hajj or things that someone has to do. But amongst the tradition, there used to be people who would do a thousand rakahs and whatnot in this night. I mean, like people, the big time worshipers, they would do a lot, right? Really, really focused on taking advantage of this night. Those are not things anyone has to do, nor are they from like from from Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ. These are just things that people, masha'Allah, did out of their love of worshiping Allah, out of their love of worshiping Allah. So, so those are the four main categories are mercy, forgiveness, do'as being answered. Oh, and the last one, a night when tribulations are warded off. So you make a lot of the off or tribulations that could be coming your way to be warded off and for protection from those tribulations, protection from those from those tribulations. So then we'll get into the kind of the specifics, right? So there was a, there's a, there's a Hadith that is that mentions that one time say the Aisha of the Oh, yes. Then the day is called the 15th of Shabbat, the night, and it's tomorrow night, Thursday. It will fall and if you're in, you know, California fall Thursday, March 17th. So right 24 hours from today, from now, like Maghrib was just about an hour ago, it will start and it will continue all the way up until the night will continue up until right before Fajr. And then that day also, the day of the 15th of Shabbat, which we'll talk about shortly, is also a very virtuous day. It's a day that we're supposed to, that is recommended to fast and there's no requirement or anything. It's just good, good to fast. And we'll also talk about how important this is to help somebody start to prepare for Ramadan, because most of us probably haven't fasted either since the last Ramadan or since maybe a day of the day of Arafat or the day of Ashura or something like that, right? Because and mashallah for those who are consistently on the Sunnah and they're fasting all the time. Obviously, that's really, really good. So the, the, does that answer the question? Yeah. So one night, I say the Aishah, one second, there is a Shabbat Barat. Yeah. So this night is also known in the subcontinent as the Shabbat Barat. There's like different names, Nisf-e-Shaban, Lailat-e-Nisf-e-Shaban. When something is great, people give it specific names. We'll get into this later, but just because people are asking this question online, there's groups of people out there that their main goal in life is to prevent other people from doing worship. They love to do that. They don't mind if people are watching TV and on Netflix and TikTok and that, but if someone starts to do a little worship, oh, it's a big problem. If anybody tries to tell you to not worship God extra on any specific night, ignore them. Just ignore it. In the time we live in, those people should not be considered. There was a time in place when people were trying to be super, super, super scrupulous to have proof that everything they did in their life, not just worship, everything they did in their life, the Prophet Salaam did. Meaning that these were a category of people that if the Prophet Salaam did not eat something, they would not eat something. If the Prophet Salaam never look, obviously he didn't spend time on screens and shows and this and that, they would not do that. If they knew that his lifestyle had a certain level of tahajjud, they would spend that many days in tahajjud. If they knew that there was a certain amount of Quran you should be reciting, they would recite that much Quran. They would be sending salawat upon the Prophet Salaam all the time. Their whole life was extra worship. That was it. That literally with their life would revolve around obviously being with their family, taking care of their family and so on and then worshiping as much as possible. Someone can show us that that's the mass amount of people in society doing that today. Mashallah. But usually that's not the case. Most of the time we're struggling to just do the basics and if we try to do extra and someone says, don't do extra, there's no proof for this. You can't prove it in this, this, this, this. Just ignore them. You don't. Number one, there's plenty of proof and we'll talk about that in a second. There's proof from the Muslim, there's proof from the hadith, there's proof from the greatest scholars of our religion, including the likes of mama haddad, mama suyuti and others. But secondly, to worship Allah and to seek His bounties and to, to ask Allah for forgiveness and dua and so on and make dua. It's always a good thing and it really doesn't matter if someone is doing that. Like there's not something to stress about. Unless someone is in that scholarly class of people that again their entire life from morning to evening is based on the sunnah. Then in that case, go ahead and scrupulously validate if every little act of worship is in accordance and you'll still find that it is in this case. But if you, if you, if you're that bent on it, right? But that's, that's to answer the point someone asking about, about the little thing is fishaba and there are people out there called bida police. They love policing other people. It's called innovation police. Just tell, tell them whoever's asking the question to worry about the haram going on in society and not worry about worship that people are trying to do. You will not get bad deeds for trying to worship Allah. That much is very clear in our religion. So the proof for this. Now let's get into some of the proofs. So one time I say the aisha radi allahu anna, she was out and she saw the prophet sallam leave and she saw that she followed him and she saw that he went to the graveyard of al-baqi. If anybody's been to Medina you'll know that the masjid of the prophet sallam is here, which is where his house was and the graveyard is literally here like maybe three to six minutes walk from the masjid. So he went to the graveyard and she saw him there in the graveyard and making dua, raising his hands in supplication and she inquired what's going on. She inquired what's going on here and he told her that oh this is a bit on this night that the night of 15th shaban is what the night happened to be on this night at the 15th of shaban she the prophet sallam said that Allah forgives more people than there are hairs on the sheep of this certain tribe known as the tribe of kalb and this tribe was one where there was obviously tons and tons of sheep and if anyone's ever been up close to any type of animal right or you'll know that the animals have a lot of hair right that sheep has a lot of hair so that's all of the hairs in the entire tribe of all the sheep in that tribe right so millions and millions and millions essentially and that Allah forgives more people on this night right then that metaphor the prophet sallam used to say that he forgives a lot of people and then she said that Allah gazes at his creation on this night a special gaze this is called another the special gaze of Allah you always want to ask Allah for a special gaze if you get a gaze of from Allah like a special gaze you're set you will it's a magnetic pull to pull you towards him right so so Allah gazes at the at people on this night and he forgives them except two types of people he said the first is somebody who actively associates partners with God who associates partners with God and the second is someone who is anybody want to guess or know what the second category might be first has to do with God the second has to do with your fellow people that it's somebody someone who who holds ranker and basically hatred and grudges in their heart against their fellow Muslims that everybody's gonna be forgiven except these two categories of people now take a step back and think that in this situation none of what Allah is looking at is based on the physical everything he's looking at to decide on the forgiveness is based on what's inside right so you could be outwardly doing all the things fall and but inwardly there's a there's a mess going on you hate this person you hold hatred against this person you are calling these people out you feel like these people are always always you know wronging you or whatever it is right and you're just you just are somebody who hates a lot of people you have a lot of grudges right and then and then so this it's a deed of the heart nobody will know if that's the case you could smile in front of us oh it's so good to see you and inside your side oh my god I hate this person right like that's that happens and there are people like that and so Allah forgives people except the one who has that trait in them and then the other category that except the one who is also a deed of the heart we're except the person who's giving weight to anyone other than Allah and there's that there's formal types of worship like of idol worship that really barely happens anymore you don't see people like bowing down to stones and whatnot very often but you have what's called idol worship in a different category which is people who worship they worship themselves we might worship money we might worship fame you might worship power you might worship these other idols that have been created these are all against these are inner things that you won't see on the outside of somebody you might see manifestations of it but you won't be able to tell that this person like actively is worshiping someone other than Allah that what that means the actual external meaning of this according to many of the scholars is you actually like believe that there's a God other than Allah right but the inner meaning you always want to think about is if you are weight giving anything in your life or any other part of our life more weight than we give what God says that means we're associating somebody with God in the spiritual sense right that means like someone is out you know watching a movie or something and the prayer time comes in and they're like and forget it I'm in the middle of the movie like I can't leave the theater it's a movie right like and they're like oh I gotta finish it and the next thing you know prayer time goes and in that moment they were worshiping their entertainment and what their nests desired more than God because if you were wanting to worship God the prayer would have been priority right over now that doesn't mean that that thing is literally a physical God that somebody worships but it is a sign of associating spiritually other than Allah right something other than Allah and the same thing will happen that if the years go by in our life and we prioritize desires we we prioritize any desire we have that means we take Allah says in the Quran have you seen the one who takes his Hawa as his God or her God have you seen the person who takes their desire as their God as you don't want to worship anything other than God which in the truest form as you believe that nobody has power other than God but in another form it's that you associate your attention and your you prioritize something that distracts you from God that means that there is still these kind of mini idols that are that are set up yes right yeah another form of what's called ostentation right hidden shirk is to to worship and do it for the sake of other people watching you so you might be worshiping and you're like oh I can't wait for this person to praise me now that that's what that's what's called the form of hidden shirk so you don't thank you for for much one example one example right now it should be that the purity is directed entirely towards Allah and the sincerity is directed entirely towards Allah yes yep yep great question so the question was when we say forgiveness what kind of forgiveness applies and how does it work so in general the assumption should always be for forgiveness to assume a good opinion of Allah and hope that all of our sins and as many sins as possible are getting forgiven right because kind of in the realm of Allah ultimately to decide which sins he forgives and which sins that you need specific you know repented but according to the books and the kind of the form away for specific If if if if that applies someone doesn't lower someone curses or someone listens something haram goes and like kill somebody that doesn't apply just because you did a horror asserted that sin for that's not how works right that if someone say makes a sincere toba from sin that they did a sincere repentance. They really sincere ask a lot for might have done a major sin. So the major sin categories are give it like being down by body part different categories. You'll have swearing a false oath, bearing false testimony, adultery, fornication, right? So basically like like sexual relations outside of marriage. You'll have stealing something. You'll have interest taking out interest and or dealing with interest considered one of the major sins of the religion that a lot of people in our time don't even think about it. Economic sins are some of the big ones because they cripple entire societies if they're not taken care of. And so those are those are some of the examples that somebody running away from when all the Muslims like in a battle or something and someone runs away that's considered a major sin. Eating pork is considered and drinking alcohol consuming intoxicants. So those are ones you have to make a very specific toba for that. Those are not considered minor sins that are just erased. A minor sin would be, you know, again, a bad word slips out. You lose anger a little bit. You lose your cool with somebody, right? You don't lower your gaze. And maybe once or twice or whatever it is, right? Someone's listening to something that's impermissible, you know, a little lie comes out here and like those types of things would be considered the kind of category of minor sins. Now, the one thing in this, but that's like the outward realm, right? Inwardly, no sin is really minor with God because like it's a big deal to disobey him. At the same time, God's mercy is so vast that nothing is too major for him to forgive. So you kind of always have to have that delicate balance and never feel like, Oh, I'm at a place where I can't be forgiven. And I just did something too wrong. And then also never at a place like, Oh, it's just a minor sin. It's no big deal. I'll keep doing it. That's, that's, that's bad manners basically with God and kind of minimizing it. So in this case, any time somebody makes a sincere repentance, like there's three components to that. One, you feel bad about what you've done. That's the first step of repentance. So remorse, the guilt that sinks in, I shouldn't have done that. Why did I do that? Right? That guilt. Second, you actively ask for repentance. So you, this is the, what's recommended by the scholars is you actually like try to cry or sincerely say, y'all, I'm really sorry, like forgive me for this thing that I did. And it's a specific focused repentance. If possible. The third is you commit to not doing nothing again in your life. And so that then encompasses repentance. That repentance, if done for major sins, inshallah, if Allah will accept will be, you know, cleared in these nights, it's a very, they're very good nights to make a lot of repentance generally and specifically. So the specific things we've done and what it does is also prepares you hard for Ramadan, where of course there's going to be a lot of forgiveness granted. Yeah. Any other questions? So both of the main things that prevent forgiveness from happening on the night of 15th of Shaban, which again, as we mentioned tomorrow night, inshallah, comes from, it comes from sins of the heart, basically, you're not forgiving people and associating partners with Allah. And then the Prophet ﷺ also mentioned about this night that when it comes to spend it in prayer as much as possible and to fast the following day, because Allah calls out from sunset until Fajr of the following morning, that is there anybody seeking forgiveness from me such that I may forgive them? Is there anybody seeking provision from me such that I may provide for them? Right? And is there anybody who is suffering such that I may relieve their suffering? And this is a very, very beautiful call that takes place on this night of misfashaban. And so, and these are hadith, again, for many of the people who enjoy trying to discourage people from worship there, you can find them in the Muslim Ahmad, you can find them in the collection of Ibn Majah, you can find the Tab'een, the early generation from the Salaf, that the great Tab'e Mujahid, that he was so adamant on this night that he mentioned that it was the night meant, there's a surah in the Qur'an on the surah of Dhok'an, that he mentioned that the night called out in that surah, the night where all decrees are decided, is the misfashaban. Most of the other ullama took the opinion that it was a little but you have such to the point where this is from amongst the greatest commentators of the Qur'an to walk the face of the planet. And they called out this night as being really, really important. So again, highly, highly, highly encourage everybody, single it out, worship abundantly, use it as a way to rejuvenate spiritually, use it as a way to reorient ourselves and prepare for Ramadan and as a way for our needs to be accepted. And only later in life does somebody know the benefits of the spiritual gifts they get when they seek out these nights of all these, these amazing nights. When you seek out the night of 27th of Rajab, that the night where the Prophet went to the Miraj, Isra'a Miraj, the night of misfashaban, of course, the last 10 nights of Ramadan and really any night of Ramadan, which has a lot of virtue, ladut al qadr itself, right? You seek out the virtuous days, the day the Prophet Alaihissala to Islam was born into the world, that this amazing gifts that are being distributed. The whole heavens celebrate these things and the angels celebrate. This is the whole job of the angels is to just worship and they love when big, big days of worship come. The humans on this earth, us humans, we want to mimic the angels in some moments. So we also want to have times we just dedicate to worship. And so we should try for ourselves and for our families to really, really make these things into, into important things. We also have Imam Ali, who's mentioned, Sayyidina Imam Ali, that he, Ali ibn Abu Talib, that he mentioned that he went out on the 15th night of Sha'ban. And he mentioned that there are five nights in which Do'a is not, not rejected. And this he mentioned as one of those nights, right? As the night of the misfashaban. And then amongst those, he also mentioned the night before Eid, the two Eids and the night, the first night of Rajab and then often actually Thursday night. So this is the night before Friday. Thursday night is a night in general in our religion, which is a very noble night to do extra dhikr and to make extra Do'a. This happens to be one where the misfashaban will fall also on a Thursday night. So for anybody who, you know, feels uncomfortable about doing extra worship because of the night of misfashaban, just do it because it's Thursday and Thursday night and you'll get the benefit of both, inshallah. Right. So the, there's a lot of other things to discuss about pause there. Any, any questions that anybody has as far? Yeah. Yeah. The question was, why do people think it's controversial? Yeah, in the last like 200 years, you have, you've had a group of Muslims emerge that anything that they cannot find a very, very rigorously authenticated hadith for, they just reject it and they say, don't do it. And then, and then they go to the point they go with it. No, they just, it's, it's, it's just a misunderstanding of the way the religion works. And they take the hadith with Prophet Muhammad said that every innovation is misguidance and every misguidance is in the fire, as if you don't have a very authentic hadith to prove something, then don't do it. And like I said, if you are somebody who scrupulously in every aspect of your life follows the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, I mean every aspect, right? Like somebody, they don't engage in any media. They're really careful about what they every aspect, you don't need really that many extra nights to worship. You're always worshiping all the time. But in the time we live in, there's a principle and a school known as taking hadith that might not be rigorously authenticated, but using them for good deeds to encourage people to do good deeds. In this case, this is one of those nights where there's in the collections of a hadith, there's various gradings of the hadith. Some of them are weak. Some of them are not as weak. You have various reports of different, different people in the early generations doing this. But there's, it's not like as authenticated as let's say, which is like mentioned in the Quran. So as a result of that, you've had this group emerge. It's kind of like a puritanical type of way of looking at it. Just say, don't do it, don't do it. So the reason I mentioned it is because there's like a whole troop of people who they make it their mission in this time and three times of the year, the Maulid, Niswa Shaban and Rajab to just say, don't do worship, don't do worship. But if you want to go like Batman, it's fine, but don't worship because you know, it's haram. So it's, it's, there's, there's like a, a misunderstanding of that approach. So I'm getting questions for that online, which is why I mentioned it. Like it's like repeatedly, you know, those questions coming. Yeah, no problem. So the, the three the three types of then worship that we should be doing. So there's, there's worship that is general, right? So forgiveness, seeking forgiveness is the first we'll start off with, then we'll talk about making dua, types of dua to make and then specific vicar to do, inshallah. So seeking forgiveness, someone can do this in a very, very general way. And then someone can do it very specifically, like making repentance from a sin that they might have committed, right? The general way means you take you, you, you, you just say astaghfirullah as many times as possible, asking a lot to forgive you, asking a lot to forgive you. One of the, one of the shoe who was recently visiting Imam Fawdei drama, he said, if someone can do 70,000 times astaghfirullah, and I looked at him and I was like, 70,000. And that would be really good on this night. But as many times as possible, right, that you, we should try to do, it's 500, 1,000, but sit for at least, or five, 10 minutes, just sit, take a dhikr, a tasbih and just do astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, and just say, Ya Allah, forgive everything I've done. Forgive everything I've done. It's a way of cleansing the heart. Again, there's no specific number someone has to do. It's just a nice, nice time for astaghfar. And Allah says in the Quran, often make astaghfar and you'll see provision coming down. Make astaghfar and we'll bless you. Make astaghfar and the rains will come. I mean, all of these things, astaghfar is a solution for a lot of problems on the face of the earth. It's if there's a night where the Muslims are all making astaghfar, that's a night where a lot of blessings will come inshallah and a lot of tribulations will be lifted. So that's one of the things that's mentioned the hadith to do, is to make a lot of astaghfar. The second thing is to specifically seek make dua for provision, right, to make dua for provision. In this case, there's two types you want to make dua for. Your dunya needs and your spiritual needs. So there's spiritual provision, which is like the Himmah to worship and these types of things and being able to get spiritual stations and gifts and so on. And then there's dunya provision and job and income and risk and whatnot. You want to make dua for both in this night, right? So single out time. If someone has children, make dua for them. If someone wants children, make dua for that. If someone's married, make dua for blessings and your marriage. If someone's not married to make dua to get married, right, to make dua for on this. And there's no, like, again, specific way to do it. It's just you make a general dua in whatever language you are able to make that dua. And the third is the relief of suffering. As was mentioned in the hadith of the Prophet, alaihi salatu as-salam.  Allah can stop any war he wants. Allah can stop any difficulty and tribulation that's going on. But we, we, our job is to beg him and to ask him and inshallah he is the one who will answer, right? And so we really want to use these moments to sincerely ask Allah. We, we made mistakes. We are sorry. Please stop my suffering, my tribulations, the adversities I'm going through, what my family is going through. Everybody has their own problems. Everybody knows what those problems are, right? We all know whatever issues we're going through in our life. It's a very, very important. Sometimes we don't get enough time to just sit and really think and beg God to help with that. And the key here is not a list, but rather sincerity. Really getting sincere and asking God and asking Allah to forget, to, to, to remove these difficulties is the most important aspect, right? So, that only he can remove problems, gather around the world and they wanted to help you with something. If it wasn't for God, they couldn't help. They're not able to help. Everybody was able to, wanted to get around your, all the people you and I think are enemies and so on and all the different people that are trying to hurt the Muslims around the world and everybody were trying to, to try to harm and God didn't permit that. You couldn't, you could not get harmed. And so seeking relief from suffering and relief from difficulty and relief from tribulation is a really, really important part of this night to do that. And again, the core here is sincerity. It is sincerity. And then the, that's also, it's also mentioned, again this is not what I'm about to mention. It's just mentioned by the, some of the, the, if someone would like to do it. To recite surah yasin three times in this night. The first time is to recite yasin, surah yasin, with the intention of a long life in obedience of Allah. So, to recite yasin with the intention of a long life in obedience, the proof for reciting yasin is this, there's a narration which mentions yasin is for its intention. So, you recite yasin for a specific intention that you are about. The second is to recite surah yasin for all the tribulations to be warded off, calamities to be diverted. Again, the same three categories essentially of dua you made now you recite yasin for them. And the third is for provision for health, for sustenance, and for healthy, and for expensive provision. And so to recite surah yasin for these three things and if, if someone is able to do so, you know, on their, on their own with their family that's good. If you aren't able to recite it, to listen to it and follow along, you know, listen to I know like MCC, MashaAllah is doing a program tomorrow night right around like after Mughra, but they'll be doing group recitation, I think it's, it's going to be live stream right to follow something like that, or to follow along on YouTube, whatever it is, but to have a connection with surah yasin. It's a very important surah and there's a lot of benefit in reciting it on this night. Yeah. Oh MashaAllah, okay, so it's just right down the street, right? Yeah, so there's there's a Masjid 57th in Shaddik, MashaAllah, MashaAllah Iman that will have surah yasin recitation, and and I think some thicker in the lie, inshaAllah, tomorrow night. Yeah, yes. Yeah, there's a good question. The question was that, is it enough just you say astaghfirullah or should you also be very like focused on the types of things that you are asking for, forgiveness for? So there's two ways to do this. The first is everybody should have a general practice where you just say astaghfirullah often without, you don't have to have anything where you're focused and thinking you're just doing astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, for all the sins you and I make. It's mentioned hadith that the Prophet ﷺ would seek forgiveness, fervently seek forgiveness from Allah, over 70 times a day. It's just he is with various formulas of bikr that he's seeking forgiveness and so that's very, very good to do. It's from the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ. Then there's like you saying astaghfirullah very, very focused with a specific thing in mind. That's good to do and to practice and then what happens if someone practices the second often, it basically becomes the normal state when you're doing the first because the more presence you have in small moments, the more presence you'll have in other moments. But it's very difficult to like get to the time where you're doing a lot of astaghfirullah and then to always be very present. And it's mentioned, I believe by, it's mentioned by one of the great Ibn al-Tahilah but it might be someone else that having at least one part of your body engaged in bikr is better than none and having two or three is better than of course one. So meaning like if your tongue is doing it but your heart's not that present, Alhamdulillah, at least something is doing bikr. If your tongue and your heart and your mind are all present, that's really, really good. But you kind of work your way towards that. So it's basically a lot of astaghfirullah generally and then the specific repentance, that's not done by just saying astaghfirullah. You want to really specifically sit and beg Allah to forgive you and that should continue for a period of time to really ask for forgiveness for something specific that was done. Yeah, does that, that's a question. Alhamdulillah. So that's, I mean, that's generally, I don't want to go too long here. Alhamdulillah. So basically the main takeaway is it's a virtuous night to make sure tomorrow night inshallah to try and to worship extra. If somebody is not able to, if someone is on their cycle and they're not able to pray or recoron, that's really fine. You can do this taqfar, you can do dhikr, you can make doaa. There's a lot of other things that can be done. It does not only have to be extra prayer. And so, but if possible, to also do extra prayers, right, to wake up aslaat at the hadjad and to then pray, make a lot of forgiveness and to make a lot of doaa and to ask Allah for the tribulations and calamities to be warded off. And the last bit that we'll just touch on inshallah and then we'll go ahead and wrap up is to make your intentions for the month of Ramadan. Make your intentions for the month of Ramadan. Ramadan is coming. It's, you know, maybe now at this point two, three weeks, two weeks away. And so again, these special nights come to give the believers assistance, to give you some boost because again, most people haven't fasted in a while. Most people have not done extra night worship in a while. Most people have not singled out time to just do extra dhikr in a while. And so to try to use the night of Nisf-e-Shaban to do that, to be present and to expose yourself to the secrets and the breezes that are going to be being distributed and inshallah then to use the that the time to make intentions in Nia for the month of Ramadan, inshallah. So with that, if anybody has any questions we'll do we'll take the questions inshallah. And for the brothers that are here for Isha, I forgive me. Usually on Wednesdays we're going to do Isha at nine just to wrap up the class. But if you guys want to pray for a Jama'at we are more than welcome to just we're just going to finish the class. Forgive me. Any any questions? See questions online? Yeah, so there was a question about do you have to seek forgiveness from somebody you have harmed? If if you are able to reach that person and the relationship is not completely you know damaged the virtuous thing to do and the right thing to do is yes you want to seek forgiveness from them. If you've hurt somebody you want to make sure you go and seek forgiveness from them and you first clear your heart and like forgive them and then you also ask them please forgive me like I shouldn't have done what I did and that actually takes a lot of courage to do and Allah knows it takes a lot and that's why it's so virtuous and it's prayed often in the Quran amongst the people who pardon other people and you want to be amongst those people and you want to be from people who also seek pardon from someone you've wrong and so yeah that would be important important to do okay any other questions? All right So Insha'Allah the next two weeks are going to be entirely focused on preparing for Ramadan we're at the point in the book where it's about fasting so we're going to cover that chapter we'll do internal aspects of Ramadan and then practical and thick aspects of Ramadan Insha'Allah so that will be the focus for the next two weeks after which Insha'Allah we'll be in the month of Ramadan and we're still kind of figuring out if we're going to be doing a class earlier in Ramadan or not like in before Iftar if we just as a quick question for people here if there were to be like a class 30, 40 minutes or 30 35 minutes 45 minutes before Iftar and then you know brother Malik or someone else you know had food or people brought some food for Iftar would that be same topics that we've been covering the practical spiritual of the class would that be something people would want to come to kind of quick show of hands yeah okay okay so okay so we'll need to organize it Insha'Allah okay so we'll get we'll organize it I'll let you guys know then my next week or the following week what the plan is for that Alhamdulillah okay okay so we'll go ahead and close out with the dua and then we'll we'll pray Insha'Allah Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim Alhamdulillahi rabbil al-alameen wa sallahu sallahu wa sallahu wa sallam abarika Sayyidina Muhammadin wa la alihi wa sahbihi sallam rabbanaatina fiddani hasnatumah fil aakhrati hasnatumah kina azaab al-nar rabbit khalni mudkhala sidqin wa kharajin ma kharajah sidqin wa jani minna dhulqa sultana nasirah wa qulja al-haq wa zahqal baatil nal baatil akaana zahuqa la ilaha illa anta subhanak inni kuntum ubalimin ya ar-Rahman ya ar-Rahim ya fattah ya aleem ya aleem Allah, ya Allah ya fattah ya mubin Ya Allah, ya Allah we ask Ya Allah that you grant us your pardon and your mercy and your tawfeeb to worship you especially Ya Rabb Al-Alamin anidus ladithanis fa sha'ban Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah we ask you grant us and our loved ones and our community members Ya Rabb Al-Alamin immense immense gifts and spiritual breezes that would be distributed in this night Ya Allah we ask for your gaze and for your nether on the night in this fa sha'ban Ya Allah Ya Allah we ask you give us himma to worship you and you give us himma to fast on the following day we ask you prepare hearts for Ramadan Ya Allah please put barakah and what's left of sha'ban Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah and prepare hearts for the month of Ramadan Ya Allah Ya Allah please Ya Allah prepare hearts to seek forgiveness from you Ya Allah and to seek your mercy and to seek your gifts Ya Allah wa haab Ya Rasak and please bless us with immense gifts Ya Allah Rahman Ya Shafi we ask that you heal us from our tribulations and from our problems and from our sicknesses Al-Rahman Rahimin we ask that you by your mercy remove our tribulations and our problems from us Ya Allah and from all the Muslims that are suffering and all the different countries of the world Ya Rabb Al-Alamin remove their problems and the Muslims in Yemen and in Syria and in Palestine and in Pakistan and in Kashmir and in India and in Myanmar and all of them and in Afghanistan and in Iraq and all of the Muslim world Ya Rabb Al-Alamin anywhere where there are any people struggling Ya Rabb Al-Alamin please remove their tribulation from them please remove their wars from them Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah please stop this war in Ukraine that has started and all the wars that have been going on in the Middle East and in Africa and all over the world for so long Ya Rabb Al-Alamin Ya Allah Ya Allah we ask that you by your mercy and by your rahmat that you assist us and we turn to you we have nobody to ask for help other than you Ya Rabb Al-Alamin we have no one who we can seek guidance from or who we can seek assistance from other than you Ya Rabb Ya Rabb Ya Allah we ask that you help us with our problems and help us with our difficulties and make it clear for us Ya Rabb Al-Alamin whatever it is that we should be doing make it abundantly clear for us in our life Ya Ar-Rahm Ar-Rahimin Ya Allah and we ask you for everything good at the Prophet Allahi Salatu Wasalaam asked for and we ask you for protection from everything evil that he asked protection from and we ask you for Hussnal Khatima a good ending and a good seal Ya Rabb Al-Alamin that in our life give us a good ending and let us Da'a Yapan La Ilaha Illa Allah Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah wa sallallahu wa sallam wa baraka La Sayyidina Muhammadin Wa La Alihi Wa Sahbihi Wa Salam Alhamdulillahi Rabb Al-Alamin Subhanakallam Allah Bi Hamdikun Ashadu Wa La Ilaha Al-Asaf Wa Alhamdulillahi Rabb Al-Alamin inshaAllah we'll go ahead and pray Hussnal Al-Isha Fasak Al-Akhir Asalaamu Alaykum Alhamdulillahi May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you