الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن و الثناء الجميل و أشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهدي السبيل و أشد أن سيدنا و نبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد إن شاء الله و تعالى today we are going to speak about سيرة الإمام المسلم من الحجاج we are going to speak about الإمام المسلم last week we spoke about الإمام البخاري today we are going to speak about الإمام المسلم رحمه الله و تعالى الإمام المسلم before we are going to the name of the Muslims I said something in the biography of who the Imam البخاري and what I said was a statement attributed to the Imam النووي The Imam has a book called تهدي والأسماء واللغات and in this book الإمام النووي talks about names and the biography of some people and he talks about words how they are pronounced or how they are written in that book he said something very powerful which is the importance of learning the biography of the scholars he said and I am paraphrasing he said that the biography of the scholars it's very important that we learn it he said that they are more scholars and righteous people their biography or they have more rights on us than sometimes even our parents sometimes even our parents sometimes even our parents sometimes even our parents because the scholars they came to fulfill the salvation of your hereafter maybe your parents may deal with only your worldly need and knowing the biography of the scholars you will know if they have a conflict between themselves or they disagree on a particular issue you know who to give the upper hand over who because you know their level you are not going to make them all the same and we are suffering from that today where every single person we are taking their opposition as though it's a scholarly weight so we are saying the scholars differed and الإمام الشافطبي who said something very powerful he said people say the scholars differed but he said they are considering scholars because people we don't consider them to be scholars they are not in the midst of scholars there's only one view but people are saying there's difference of opinions amongst the scholars which scholar are you talking about the people of knowledge don't consider him to be a scholar or they don't see him to be a scholar are we all together so learning the biography of the scholars help you in this way الإمام المسلم is the student of who الإمام البخاري will speak about that later لكن الإمام الدار قطني he said something very powerful who الإمام الدار قطني he said لو للبخاري لما جاء مسلم ولا راح he said if it wasn't for بخاري مسلم would not have come no would he have gone in other words who has favor on مسلم الإمام البخاري and this teaches us something very important which is if a person benefits you something the respect that you should give them the poet he said إذا أفادك إنسان بفائدة من العلوم فأكثر شكراه أبدا وكل فلان جزاه الله صالحة أفادنيها وألق الكبر والحسدة if a person benefits you a benefit إذا أفادك إنسان بفائدة من العلوم any science فقل سي فلان جزاه الله صالحة may Allah reward him in good أفادنيها هي benefit me this وألق الكبر والحسدة get rid of arrogance and the envy and the jealousy get rid of it and say جزاك الله خيرا لو لله if it wasn't for Allah after that if it wasn't for you after Allah if it wasn't for you then I would have not known this so ألمام المسلم he had two teachers what did he have he had two teachers one was who I mean he had many teachers but two main teachers were focusing on the first one is who ألمام البخاريو the second one was محمد بن يحيى الذهلي بخاره a lot of teachers but we're going to mention two of them the first one is البخاريو and the second one is محمد بن يحيى الذهلي that's the second teacher and that's the first teacher both of these scholars both of these imams they had a conflict an issue occurred between the two of them we didn't get the chance we didn't get the chance to talk about it when we were speaking about the biography of ألمام البخاريو we didn't get the chance to talk about this fitna that happened to بخاريو but بخاريو and محمد بن يحيى الذهلي they had a conflict big conflict where it resulted to it resulted for ألمام البخاريو to leave نيسابور he'd left نيسابور because of the fitna بخاريو came in نيسابور with the whole city came out for him and he left by himself because of this fitna and two fitness happened to بخاريو the first one was this issue of محمد بن يحيى الذهلي he got accused of saying that the Quran is created it wasn't what he said and the second one was the leader said to ألمام البخاريو I want you to teach my children privately and ألمام البخاريو said knowledge is not humiliated if your children want to learn they can come to the lessons where there are others so who he has the fitna of محمد بن يحيى الذهلي outstanding and then the leader now and so this caused him even a greater issue and this caused ألمام البخاريو to ask Allah if he can take his life and ألمام البخاريو was from مستجاب الدعوة the people who Allah used to accept there دعا and anyways he died from that الله سبحانه وتعالى took the life of ألمام البخاريو here Muslim is in a conflict now both of them are what both of them are his teachers so what he did was he chose to not narrate from both of them any صحيح Muslim did not narrate from مخاريو and he did not narrate from محمد بن يحيى الذهلي both of them they are not any صحيح he avoided it he didn't want to take a side even though he aided and he supported مخاريو in what was said about him and he defended him but محمد بن يحيى الذهلي was another imam imam no debate about that are we all together brothers but I want to say a benefit here محمد بن يحيى الذهلي is a imam and مخاريو is a what is a imam both of them are what both of them are imams but when محمد بن يحيى الذهلي wrong بخاري wrong بخاري unjustly Allah has a sunnah Allah has ways that He does things today we don't have any of the works of محمد بن يحيى الذهلي none of His works he is in the rivayat and the asaneet of hadiths I mean he is in the chain but we don't have a book of His لكن ايمام البخاريو Allah protected from His works and this is the statement of the messenger الله عليه وسلم يا محشرة من آمن بلسانه ولم يدخل الإيمان في قلبه لا تختابن المسلمين ولا تتبع عوراتهم The Prophet ﷺ said all those of you who believe who believe in Allah and the day of judgment يا محشرة من آمن بلسانه ولم يدخل الإيمان في قلبه أن ايمان هستد النهاد لا تختابن المسلمين don't backbite the Muslims ولا تتبع عوراتهم don't follow the Muslims there are mistakes look for the show coming فمن تتبع عورة أخي تتبع الله عورته if you follow our people's mistakes and you try to catch them out الله سبحانه وتعالى will bring out your mistakes The Prophet ﷺ said this and if Allah brings out your mistakes Allah will expose everything in your household what's inside your household Allah will bring it out into public So الإمام البخاري رحمه الله the book that he defended himself in this allegation that was made against him when he was accused of خلق القرآن is published the book that he defended himself in this allegation is called خلق أفعال العباد he broke the book in two halves خلق أفعال العباد what did he do? he broke it into two the first part of the book he refutes the group that he's been accused of who is this group that he's been accused of? the جهمية and the معتزلة he refuted them in the beginning and he proves that the statement of the جهمية is disbelief of Allah and then he goes into the second part of his discussion which is خلق أفعال العباد which is the name of the book what does it mean? that Allah created our actions our actions are created by Allah and it doesn't mean just because our action and our voice is created that the Qur'an that we're reading is created and he discusses this issue are we all together? and he goes into detail regarding this particular issue am I making sense brothers? this Kitab is published in two volumes and the تحقيق of it is شخفة هد الفهيد it's two volumes to be honest it's one volume because the first volume the sheikh شخفة هد الفهيد all the two volumes the تحقيقات and the manuscript he used the one note and I read it the Kitab خلق أفعال العباد I read it on the محقق himself شخفة هد الفهيد the خلق أفعال العباد I read on him the Qism the part of the جهمية and halfway into the the خلق أفعال العباد على كل حال الإمام ومسلم I'm going to speak about it الإمام ومسلم is name is مسلم ابن الحجاج ابن ومسلم so his name is Muslim ابن الحجاج ابن ومسلم ابن ورد ابن كوشاذ so his name is مسلم ابن الحجاج ابن مسلم ابن ورد ابن كوشاذ ابن كوشاذ so his name is مسلم ابن الحجاج ابن ومسلم ابن ورد ابن كوشاذ القشيري القشيري القشيري so his name is مسلم ابن الحجاج ابن ومسلم ابن ورد ابن كوشاذ القشيري أني سابوري أني سابوري الخرساني الخرساني so we've mentioned his name so we've mentioned his نصب and we're going to mention his كنية what's his name أبو الحسين his name is أبو أبو الحسين this is his name الإيمام المسلم these scholars the historians they all agree his قشيري متفق اتفاق there's no dispute المسلم is القشيري his قشيري are we all together brothers why what's the significance of mentioning this the significance is because قشير is a قبيلة عربية it's a well known Arab tribe صح so here we have we previously took الإيمام المسلم is Bukhari an Arab no Bukhari is an Arab مسلم is what is an Arab مسلم is القشيري which is a قبيلة إحدى القبائل العربية قوشاد ذل ذل ذل so he's from that tribe ولذلك if you go to the كتاب علوم الحديث if you go to the book علوم الحديث by إبن صلاح you know the كتاب علوم الحديث علوم الحديث is the book that الإيمام العراقي in his alfiyah he made into poetry the alfiyah of العراقي is a poetry of عمر بن صلاح كتاب علوم الحديث so he says وحيث فعل وضمير لكل واحد ومله مستور كقال اطلقت الشيخ لفظم the thousand lines of poetry in science of is taken from this بوط علوم الحديث this إبن الصلاح says the first person who wrote an authentic book is him البخاري وابو عبدالله محمد بلو وعيد بخاري و تلاه after him came أبو الحسين المسلم بن الحجاج القشيري من أنفسهم هذا كل ما أريد من هنا ماذا؟ يقول القشيري من أنفسهم امرصلاح يقول أن مسلم من قشير لماذا يقول من أنفسهم؟ لأنه يعتقد أنه يعتقد بخاري هو جعفي مولاههم نحن بخاري بخاري هو جعفي مولاههم يعتقد أنه يعتقد بخاري هو same for المسلم لا لا لا مسلم هو قشيري ليس ولا هو منهم هذا هو who he is this is his lineage are we all together? does that make sense? we took that last lesson the concept of ولا okay now we are going to go into his city or the place in which he is from which is الخراساني خراسان فولزاندن نيسابور خراسان is big but it falls on the way it falls on the نيسابور say that again what did I say? الخراسان falls on the what? which one falls on the which one? نيسابور falls on the خراسان sorry نيسابور is bigger خراسان falls on the نيسابور are we all together? which one is bigger? نيسابور is bigger خراسان is bigger sorry sir خراسان is bigger so before I start getting confused which one is bigger? خراسان within خراسان is what? نيسابور rather نيسابور is sorry خراسان is 4 خراسان is 4 مدائن 4 cities then you just need to memorize خراسان the first one is نيسابور also مرو بلغ هيرات صحيح those are the 4 which one is he from? all of these 4 are what? all of these are خراسان which one is he from like in? he's from? he's from نيسابور نيسابور who's from نيسابور as well? محمد من يحيا let's do it, he's from what? he's نيسابور like an Imam Muslim from the same place and today نيسابور where does it fall? إيران it falls in where? إيران it's actually still got the same name right? it's good it's the same name it's called نيسابور but it's still the same and this shows us something which is الله سبحانه وتعالى he changes lands, he changes people he changes once upon a time this place used to bring our what? أهل الحديث the people of the sunnah and now it's أرض الرفغ it's a madina which is قديمة it's a madina which is what? قديمة meaning نيسابور is a city a city which is old it was opened at the time of عثماري بن عفان عثمار رضي الله عنه he opened it on the hand of his his nephew عبد الله بن عاميرن he opened it on his hand when the year was 31 some scholars they said it was opened at the time of عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله تعالى عنه on the hand of أحنة في بن قيس this is the khilaf but that which seems to be strongest it was at the time of عثمار رضي الله تعالى عنه نيسابور third point when was he born ألمام مسلم there are four views of when he was born a lot of the times you're going to see the scholars when they are born it's not known but when they die they are known because they were born no one knew who they were but after they became scholars everyone documents when they died the day become the significance right ألمام مسلم was born few four views the first one is 201 the first view is that he was born 201 the second view is 202 the third view is 204 and this third view ابن كثير and ابن حجر they strengthen this one that is 204 ابن كثير and who ابن حجر the fourth one the fourth view which is 200 and what 6 200 and 6 الإمام ابو عبد الله الحاكم النيسابوريو and ابن صلاح they said this is the one 206 and this is the strongest opinion this is this is the strongest opinion how many scholars said this ابو عبد الله الحاكم النيسابوريو and who ابن صلاح and also نوي and also الإمام الإمام نوي all three of them they said 200 and what 200 and 6 206 that's the strongest why number one these scholars all three of them they wrote a book on الإمام مسلم they wrote a book on الإمام مسلم ابن صلاح has a book called what عناية صحة مسلم ابو عبد الله حاكم النيسابوريو has a mustadrak صحيحين مقارن مسلم نوي has a shallah of صحة مسلم so these three are known to have given very great importance to what الإمام مسلم and his works so that's the reason why this view is stronger and there are other reasons but we'll stick to that how many of you did we say his birth what was the first one 200 and what 200 and 200 and 200 and 6 now we're going to speak about نشأته واصلته he's upbringing and his family الإمام مسلم he grew up في بيتي علم واجاه in a house of knowledge his father was a individual متصد للتربية الناس وتعليمه his father was a teacher his father الإمام مسلم his father was a teacher and he used to educate and teach others ولذلك his father had a title known as المشيخة المشيخة means you were entitled to teach at the مسجد مشيخة was a degree of that time in order to get a seat to teach as his as his student said محمد من الفرأة محمد الوهاب الفرأة mentioned that الإمام مسلم وكان أبوه الحجاج من المسلم من المشيخة and this shows you as they say an apple doesn't fall far from it it doesn't fall far from a tree in other words like father like like son your son most likely takes you as the first role model so he took from his father and he started to like to teach الإمام مسلم and educate الإمام مسلم is a bit different from بوخاري why not much is mentioned about his early stages like there's not much written about when he was a kid the things that he did his memory not much was written but at that time if we look at historically kids used to go to كتاب which was a place where they would learn how to write how to read they would learn manners and at those time brothers children had a session where they learned أدب أخلاق they were nurtured but their parents would give a lot of importance for their children to get that even the leaders of that time they used to have that for their children if you look at the biography of the the leaders of that time the خلافاء their children they had a مربي that gave تربية to their children when you know the famous statement of الإمام ماليك's mother when she said to إمام ماليك إذهب إلى ربيعة الرأي go to ربيعة عبد الرحمن and do what she said فخود من أدابه قبل عمي go take from his manners before his knowledge go and sit and take from what take from his manners and the way he is before you take anything regarding his what his knowledge و لذلك إمام محمد it was said that 20,000 people would sit in his gathering they wouldn't read or write all they came was to look at the way إمام محمد would carry himself and the way he was just to take the manners from him they would come for that و لذلك إذا كنت ترى some of the lands of the the Muslims they conquered it because of what تعمل and their dealings and the manners that they possessed so manners is very high و لذلك the Prophet said إِنَّمَا إِنَّمَا is what أدات من أدوات الحصف يعني I wasn't sent for no other reason إِنَّمَا بُعِثْتُ لِأُتَمِّمْ مِمَكَالِ مَنْ أَخْلَاكَ I mean I wasn't sent for no other purpose because that's what إِنَّمَا it benefits us I was only sent down to do what to perfect good manners pay attention here the whole religion stands on good manners how? isn't to heed not good manners with Allah when you say that Allah I'm an associate partner with Him with something else that is what but manners with Allah و لذلك الله سبحانه وتعالى He said to the Prophet و إِنَّكَ لَا عَلَى و إِنَّكَ لَا عَلَى خُلُقِ العظيم You are on a great station و لذلك sometimes people they will reject the truth not because they have enmity towards the truth but the way you carried it and by the way you said it they will reject the truth not because but the way you said it or the way you presented it was not with manners and it does have a negative effect on the people we've seen that good manners is vital in the way that you say things and the way you do things and that's how الله تعالى وتعالى dealt with the Prophet have you ever seen in the Quran Allah referred to the Prophet by His name in the whole entire Quran الله سيام محمد هل you ever seen in the Quran يا محمد He calls him يا أيها النبي يا أيها الرسول never يا محمد but all the other prophets يا نوح يا إبراهيم the other prophets yes but not in the Quran الله always refers to him either by a characteristic of his attribute or his prophecy or the fact that he is a messenger so good manners good manners is important الله تعالى تعالى صلى الله عليه وسلم فبما رحمة من الله لينت لهم ولو كنت فضل غليضة القلبي لنفضل من حولك فعفوا عنهم وستغفل لهم وشاويرهم في الأمر فإذا عزمت فتوكّل على الله محمد if you were a person who didn't possess good manners and you were a harsh hard tough rough person لنفضل من حولك and the companions would run away from your gathering they would not want to they would not want to stay with you they would leave you so what do you do do this for them فبما رحمة من الله لينت لهم ولو كنت فضل غليضة القلبي لنفضل من حولك فعفوا عنهم if they do something that's not good forgive them overlook it pretend you didn't see that happen if it's something insignificant ignore it فعفوا عنهم وستغفل لهم ask forgiveness for them وشاويرهم في الأمر and also consult them in your issues after you consulted them take the final decision yourself number 5 point number 5 شمائله شمائل means the great characteristics of al-iman Muslim the great characteristics of who al-iman Muslim al-iman Muslim كان على الهما he had high aspiration al-iman Muslim and the scholars of that time they had high aspiration very enthusiastic كثيرا نشارب they were very enthusiastic ذالصبرين they were very patient these scholars were very patient in the way that they attain knowledge and the way that they gain knowledge and the evidence for that is when we list the which I'm going to list later the places where they travel to the lands that they went to the lands that they went to brothers it's not like here and there and that they cut distance seas rivers to take one or two حليث this shows you patience والله imagine you today if somebody here came from رأس الخيمة what do we say الله أكبر it comes from the Friday Essentials when we say that we are amazed it comes from Abu Dhabi what do we say we say he is serious الله أكبر he is a real student of knowledge صحيح imagine somebody traveled by riding beast horse or camel or something from as far as Afghanistan to come here this class today what would we say and they stayed to do this and they went back they didn't take no flight no nothing how would we see that that's how these people were brothers somebody would just walk this shows them great patience and brothers it's the desert it's in the middle of the desert they would walk in that desert walking is very hard in that place water remember you left your family behind you don't know if they're alive here you can call is everything fine I'm just about to reach my destination for months they don't know if he dies in the desert the family won't know because to get there it takes him 6 months or 3 months or 4 months and to come back we take that much amount the family will find out a year if they don't find him a year that's what they're going to say something's not right something's not right are you with me brothers and in the road fear of being taken their wealth being taken from them rubbery and etc it was very high that's what these people really did this is Sabah now very great patience maybe sometimes they would do that for not so much knowledge for how much brothers one hadith just for one hadith they would do that to travel that distance it's very sad when you see brother all he has to do just get his car keys put it into the ignition drive to a mischief quickly take notes it takes 2 hours or something 90% of it is written on the board for you and then it's online for you on YouTube all you just have to do is watch it and take notes again to perfect your notes brothers I believe personally why is the the level of production at that time with what they had they had less ability the chances of taking a lot of knowledge was very low at that time but their their knowledge was greater than ours and the intake was you know how much hadith they would take a day some of them would take 2 hadiths 3 hadiths that's it you just by the click of a finger you can come across how much hadith thousands are we together brothers you carry 40 hadiths and no we just one day you can take it if you wanted to صح you hope volume in your house they would travel to another country for 2 or 3 hadiths and go back and they were able to produce more than we we are able to do it today صح this shows you that these people were dedicated they were dedicated and they were serious there's a story I'm going to tell you about Imam Muslim's real dedication and that is what caused him to die Imam Muslim's death was a very strange death something strange happened to him listen to this ألمام ابن صلاحي يسأل وكان لموته سبب غريب نشع عن غمرة فكرية العلمية مسلم's death was strange it came from a strange reason one day the lengthy story أبو عبد الله الحاكم ولي صابوري he mentioned it one day ألمام مسلم was sitting with his with his students and this is called مجلس المدقرة it's a gathering where they revise hadiths everyone meets thousands of hadiths they just listen to everyone it's like how you sit down to revise Quran so one person mentioned a hadith that Imam Muslim did not recognize he didn't recognize the hadith that was asked this became stressful to him he became stressed I don't know this hadith فنصرف إلى منزله he went to his house look what he says فادوك رأله حديث لم يعرفه حديث was told to him he didn't know it فنصرف إلى منزله he went to his house وقاد السرانج he put the candle on وقال للمام في الدار and he sat with his family his wife and his children he said no one can enter onto me منكم هذا البيت no one can come into this house no one no one let anyone come to me فقيل له they sat him before you close the door before you lock yourself in وهوديت لنا سلة فيها تمرو باسكت that has dates inside it has been given to you has been given to us you can take it eat it so he said okay he took the basket he placed it right next to him and then he started to open his notes to look for that one حديث and every now and then he would take a wad a date and he would look for the حديث and then he would take the date and he would look for the حديث and look what it says فكان يطلب الحديث ويأخذ تمرتا and he would bite eat it واصبح وقد فنيت تمر the basket the date finished and he found the حديث and it caused his windpipe to lock the dates that he ate his mind was gone into finding that one حديث it caused his windpipe for him not to be able to breathe and he died from that ألمان مسلم رحمه الله تعالى looking for wad looking for wad one حديث what happened to his mind absent he was absent when I went to India I went to a place called Banaras I went to a you know a center there called جامع سلفية in Banaras and there's a great scholar who رحمه الله رحمة واسعة who was dedicated like that for knowledge and Allah hasn't taken out from the Ummah people who still remain like that when it comes to knowledge they are dedicated it was said that he went into his house in order to author a book and so he was researching and researching and researching it took the whole day for him to research it took him the whole day and he never said all night and so at night he finished the book that he wanted to author I mean he the collection of our حديث and the knowledge that he was trying to collect he had what he had finished what he wanted to do but what happened to him was he had forgotten his name so he came out of the house so he wanted to write on the note at the front he wanted to write his name so he came out and he asked the people he said what was my name and this لشك scholars wrote books on it that the person becomes so invested in what they are authoring they become so invested in what they are studying that they forget the surroundings the teeth around them they forget the surroundings على كل حال this is the the dedication and the hard work of these great scholars and Imam Muslim he died عشية يوم الأحد on a Sunday عشة time ودوفين يوم الإثناني in the morning of Monday he was buried لخمس بقين من رجل five days was remaining for the month of رجل to finish the year was what 260 261 so how old will he be? 55 five years of age he was only 55 and Imam Muslim was how old? 55 right? 55 okay let's go into his seeking of knowledge or I'm just going to mention his traveling I'm going to mention some of the most prominent places where he traveled to number one مكة المكرلمة where did he travel to? مكة مكة المكرلمة who did he hear from in مكة? he heard from a sheikh by cold عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي عبد الله does anyone know that name I've mentioned that before does anyone know that name عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي does anyone know that name? ها other than you other than you عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي I've mentioned that name before I pretend that it didn't happen عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي is from the narrators of موطع Imam Malik I've mentioned that when I spoke about the موطع of Imam Malik what did I say? one of the narrators was who? عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي is from the students of Imam Malik okay so عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي is who? he's the student of who? he's the student of Imam Malik so look how Masha'Allah and Malik مسلمة عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي so عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي is from the senior teachers of who Imam مسلم this is طبقة the first the first level of Muslim's teachers و لذلك if if الإمام المسلم used عبد الله بن مسلمة القعنبي he would have had in his صحيح ثلاثيات yeah it would be him three people between him and the prophet Muslim would only have three people and then the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم are we all together brothers? yeah this is what is it called? this is called ثلاثيات ثلاثيات ثلاثة it means three people between the author and the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this is good that's close to the messenger this is called سنت سنت عالي this is called دوات a senate which is عالي it means between this author this is the but there's a funny thing here but what is it? مسلم does not have any ثلاثيات in his صحيح بقاري does لكن مسلم doesn't why? if he used عبد الله عليه وسلمة القعنبي he would have are we all together? he what? he would have the reason why he chose not to علمان مسلم is because in the chain between in the chain of عبد الله عليه وسلمة القعنبي and مسلم is a man by the name of سلامة تبنو وردان سلامة ابنو ابنو وردان and سلامة تبنو وردان the scholars have criticized him so مسلم avoid that even though he could have used this this route to what? to go through علمان to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so does does مسلم have a ثلاثيات in his صحيح? he doesn't his student does though who is his student? علمان ترميدي ترميدي in his سنان what does he have? one ثلاثيات the student does and the teacher doesn't does that make sense the teacher is more closer to the prophet does that make sense the reason is because the only person that مسلم could have got his ثلاثيات through was عبد الله عليه وسلمة القعنبي but he avoided that route the reason why he avoided that because علمان عبد الله عليه وسلمة القعنبي who did he hear from? سلامة ابنو وردان سلامة is a person who is what? his question is good these are very important information واللهي and I think you should I just said something and I looked at a lot of you and you didn't even write it you know what I just said? and I'm going to ask you tomorrow you don't even remember I just said to you سنان ترميدي there's only one ثلاثيات in there that's a fact that you to write that down it's beneficial just write that down somewhere keep it somewhere it's good information to keep and also this information is good for you to know that Muslim does not have any ثلاثي yet you may feed yourself this is not important information now I promise you one time come to know how important it is brother's right إن شاء الله تعالى he also went to Medina and what did he do? he took knowledge from there who did he take knowledge from in Medina? إسماعيل ابن أبي أويس who did he take from? إسماعيل ابن أبي أويس إسماعيل ابن أبي أويس he took from him in Medina he also went to Basra so he went to Mecca he went to Medina he went to Basra he went to Baghdad where did he go? Baghdad he went to Balkh Balkh بأ لا خأ Balkh كوفا he went Egypt مصر he went Ray he went to what? الري ألف لام رائع الري ري is what? استهران today the capital of Iran is what? الري is the capital of Iran which is Tehran بلق is part of Iran بلق is what? part of Iran and part of أفراليستان لكن الري is the capital صح؟ شيراز is where? إيران أولي بزلان وينين إيران لكن الري is the capital هوا يوه تجده ولذلك الري there are scholars who attribute the ray like أبو زورعة الرازي رازي is a what? is على خلاف القياس مفلوجيكلي صرفيين it's رازي is when a description is mentioned but it's from الري where did that come from? they said this is سماعي this is how it was hand can I just make sense what I said? okay أبو زورعة الرازي أبو حاتم الرازي رازي comes from where? how did رازي come from الري doesn't make sense where does that come from? doesn't make sense this is confusing normally a description should just add a yet to the ending شي رازي صح لا يصابور لا يصابوري فكذا الري now became الرازي an extra elf came an extra that came they said this is سماعي سماعي meaning it was hand like this are we together? some things they follow a pattern and some things are just it was seen like that that's how it's said we just take it like that like for example knowledge why is the K capital سماعي you can't explain that can you? it's سماعي why is it there? do you guys, does anyone here know? it's سماعي right? like for example A and N what's the difference? it's what comes after right? if it's A if it's a vowel right? A-E-I-O-U it's an N right? and if it's any other any of other than that it's a what? so why do you say A university? I'm not an university but it's A السماعي that is قواعي is what? it's what? it's سماعي سماعي من هكذا وجد are we all together brothers? what is it? it's it wasn't meant to be an English class but it's سماعي so that's why الرازيو comes from right he also went to أشام where did he go? he went to شام he also went to those places he went to شام I'm going to conclude with the last point which is مدهب هو في الفروح what madhab does an Imam an Imam know we follow which madhab was he upon was he a Hanafi was he a ماليكي was he a شافعي or was he a حمبلي those are the four madhabs today right? are we all together brothers? those are the what? four madhabs that the world know of today right? even though historically there were not the only madhabs there are more than that but all the other madhabs what happened to it? in دارسة they perished no one authored in it so it all went so these are the four Allah chose سبحانه وتعالى لحكمة يعلمها الله wisdom only Allah knows he made these four remain are we all together? the first is who? an Imam أبو أبو حني هيا أمام أمام أنا أمام so which of those four was an Imam مسلم رحمه الله let's look at what an Imam إبن تيمي said about this إبن تيمي was asked a question was put to him they said to him البخار ومسلم وابودود وترمدي these colors هل كان هؤلاء مجتهدين لم يقلد أحد من الأئمة أم كانوا مقلدين they asked Ibn Taymiah they said to him is الإمام البخاري أن مسلم أن أبودود أن ترمدي وإمام هو مجتهد مجتهد means they look at the Quran they look at the sunnah and they extract wounds from it directly not looking at what anyone said directly they go to it themselves أو are they blind followers of a particular imam شكول إسلام إبن تيميه he said how many people was he asked about how many people how many individuals did they ask him today I'm going to put a lot of pressure on your brothers today I want I want people to focus not just today but every class إن شاء الله how many people شكول إسلام إبن تيميه asked about first was who بخاري second was who مسلم third was what أبودود ترمدي he wasn't asked about إبن مجهد there's a reason why he wasn't asked about this so these five إبن تيميه when he was put to him he said أم البخاري وأبودود أبودود one side for me what did he say he's breaking them up now he put بخاري أبودود one side what did he say فإمامان في الفق من أهل الإجتهاد بخاري أبودود أم مجتهدين are we all together brothers بخاري أم what بخاري أبودود أوات مجتهدين I really want first class to understand the people the people are what مجهد the number one is a what مجتهد okay the second is a what متابح the third is what مقلد you have to understand this first مجتهد means a person who goes to the Quran and he goes to the sunnah directly and he brings out ruling and he gives a ruling that's a much thing he has the ability there are conditions like him there are conditions it's not easy it's not light to just go to the Quran and the sunnah and do being a ruling like that that's a much thing متابح is the second level what does he do he can't go to the Quran and the sunnah himself he doesn't have he hasn't got this ability his knowledge doesn't reach that but what does he do he listens to the dispute and the discussion amongst of the scholars he reads them he says what does what's his evidence what's his what should we steal how did he extract the ruling out of this evidence okay I've understood him what about why did he oppose why what did he say did he respond to this evidence how was his response to that evidence and then when he he says I'm with and Ahmed's wrong in this issue he's a called the what متابح why is he a متابح because he couldn't go to the evidence himself he couldn't go to the source himself and bring out the ruling what did he do he had to choose from the views that were there he looked at which one is closest to the evidence are we all together brothers the third one is called the مقالد مقالد is the what the مقالد is the one who doesn't know anything he's like as a scholar say he is a مؤسل عندما يتن he's like a dead body that's been washed he's had been lifted been put down in other words he just takes one Imam's view and he just everything he says he says okay he doesn't know if the Imam is reading an ayah or if he's reading Arabic poetry he can't tell the difference what's he called he doesn't know what's happening does that make sense that's a مقالد he doesn't know anything scholars they اجماع بن عبدالبر brings it اجماع اجماع اجماع in his kitab جامع بيان العلمي وفضلي لذا مقالد does not consider to be people from the people of knowledge it's عامي his words are not given a مقالد not a scholar is not considered to be from the scholars that's اجماع are we all together brothers also a مقالد should not say this is right this is wrong three a مقالد shouldn't discuss anything he is upon برورة when do you eat dead corpse when do you eat corpse you have nothing to eat right you can't find food when do you eat dead animal that you found you can eat it because it's ضرورة تقليد is ضرورة it's a necessity so if you're eating corpse because you have nothing to eat but I have food you don't tell me come and eat dead corpse with me are we all together brothers so the مقالد he's upon برورة necessity he's do تقليد of his Imam he can't force other people to do تقليد who are able to look at the evidence are we all together now is that Imam these five imams بخاري مسلم month and is الإمام البخاري سيس الإمام البخاري هنالإمام أبي داود أم مجتهدين They look at evidence and they bring it out from there And the other remaining, where did he put them all in? He puts them in شاكول إسلام إتايمية أهلوا الاتباع ترميلي مسلم النسائي They are متطبيعين They are what? متطبيعين He says They look at the views of those scholars They say this issue What did Ahmed say? What did Isha'a Qubr راهوية say? What did Abu Ubaid Qasim إسلام say? And they strengthen which one they believe is right and they take it Are you with me brothers? We will stop there إن شاء الله التعالى We have taken the life of an Imam Muslim Next week إن شاء الله التعالى We will take the life of an Imam أبي داود بإذن الله الكريم I will finish the four imams like We will do the six of them All six of them We will take their lives A bit about them إن شاء الله التعالى Now we are going to start the next lesson بإذن الله الكريم علوم القرآن Anything which I have said that was wrong Incorrect is from me And Shaytana I will leave a message of free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدو الله إله إلا الله ستكسلك أتوب إلي


Just to cut the story a little bit short, I made so many promises to God that day, I'm still paying them off today. And one of those promises is to help people that I can help. And that turned into helping real estate agents accomplish their goals, very much like what you're doing. What's up? How y'all, how are you guys doing? Doing great, man. Yeah, money for sure. Juan, give us an update, man. How's the salsa or marinara this morning? Do you know what it is? I had a little Bolognese yesterday, so I've been cheating on the marinara. Bolognese. Bolognese. I hear you, bro. I hear you. I definitely skip the Bolognese, man. If I have the option. We should start getting Italian restaurants to sponsor our podcast. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, man. You guys own a couple, don't you? You and your family? No, not yet. Come on, man. Come on. Cool, man. Well, good, man. A lot of cool stuff happening out there. Want to just kind of dive in here. Got our guy, Keith Lucas, with this. What's up, Keith? How y'all doing there today? What's happening, Ricky? We're doing good, man. Got you a little, I like your little setup there, man. What all's going on there? Where are you? I figured that I'll let you know. Can you believe it's virtual? That's not even a real background. One of those like... It is actually my office, and I was using it for some videos the other day.   Yeah, it's one of the best I've seen. You guys are messing with me, man. Oh, my God. Wow. Wow. Okay, you've got that dialed in. Interesting, interesting. Hey, I need everything I can to help me make me look better. Yeah, you're doing a good job of that. So just so everybody catch everybody up here, Keith Lucas is the newest member of our group, of our team here. Road to 10,000. Juan, what are we up to this week? As of this morning, we are at 601. 601. Very nice. Very nice. Cool, cool, cool. Keith, tell everybody what part of the, what market you're in, how long you've been selling, a little bit of your background, all that good stuff. Yeah. So thanks for having me on, first of all, I appreciate it very much. And to meet the rest of the team at least virtually, I'm here in Charleston, South Carolina, been a broker and a broker owner for 21 years now. Really had about enough of it starting, I don't know, probably about six months ago, just running a brokerage constantly and keeping up with everything that was going on with it. After all that time, I figured that it was really time to give myself a bit of a break. So I looked around, I knew Ricky, of course, and what he was up to. So he kind of inspired me to move on over to EXP and to give up the daily grind of running a brokerage. So that's really the long and short of it. I was down in Florida, in the Southwest area, of Florida for about 15 years. I would brokerage down there on another one simultaneously up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia. And then about, I guess about 15 years ago, 14 years ago, moved here to South Carolina and been rocking in ever since. I love South Carolina. They're probably going to have to take me out of here feet first. It's a great place. All right. Well, cool. So I mean, give me a little bit of depth into your business in terms of sales or are you out of sales at this point or give everybody a little context? No, actually, I'm still in sales and the whole idea of coming to EXP, of course, was to read myself a ball of the pressures of the brokerage and also to create another revenue stream, to replace the revenue stream I currently have from my sales. I really want to kind of back out of the sales over the next few years. And to that end, what I found that really works very well for me is doing videos. And both of you guys know that I do a lot of videos. I'm actually starting a new free coaching video, video coaching program. Video has been very good to me. It's been awesome. I've been doing it for years. And it's something that the whole market is morphing to every day that you go on social media platforms, you see more and more agents out there doing videos, whether they're trying to sell a house, they're doing a walk through, whether it's an open house, whether it's, hey, just come and find out about our area kind of a thing, or even what I do, which is more content where it's kind of focused on supporting local businesses and things like that, which really expands my network and does exactly what you've been doing, Ricky, for so long is building your network and going out and helping people along the way. And that's kind of it. It started a long time ago. You guys, I don't know if you could tell how old I am on this video or not, but I'm not 25 anymore. Back when I was 17 years old, something happened to me that kind of changed the whole trajectory of my life. I was actually a merchant marine and I used to sail on freighters around the world, literally. And I was out one summer on a freighter coming back from Rotterdam, back to the States. And we're about eight days out basically in the middle of the ocean. And there was a huge explosion and fire on board the ship.  Well, it's the same thing on a ship. And just to cut the story a little bit short, I made so many promises to God that day, I'm still paying them off today. And one of those promises is to help people that I can help. And that turned into helping real estate agents accomplish their goals very much like what you're doing. So that's what kind of brought me full circle here and starting up the free video coaching thing because there are so many people that they're doing it and want to do it, but they don't know how to do it. And I want to help them achieve their success and see the same kind of results that I've had. That's number one. Can I share a screen with you here for a second? Tell you a short story? Absolutely. We're going to make you a host. I could just hit that. You should be good. Yeah. So y'all can see this screen here now. So I did a snapshot of July of 2019 through July 2020. Okay. During that time, I did three sales. Actually, it was a little bit more than that, but we're going to use round numbers just for sake of the ease of math. And so I spent about 20 minutes doing the videos about another 10 minutes putting them into a newsletter. And I did that for 50 weeks straight. So 30 minutes, 50 weeks equals 15 hundred minutes. From that, I generated over $3 million in sales, but let's just use $3 million. Well, I had a GCI of $90,000. If you take that GCI and divide it by the amount of time that I actually put in there, so $90,000 divided by 1500 minutes, I was earning $60 a minute doing video during that period, or $3,600 an hour. So again, video has been really good to me and its consistency. It's doing it for 50 weeks in a row. Now, I've been doing it longer than that, but I just took that snapshot because it really illustrates the power of the video and being consistent. Keith, how big was your database when you started blasting out that video newsletter? Because those are really good numbers. Yeah, I started, I would say it was probably around $5,000, and then it's grown to over $12,000 now. And I get at least one listing request per week out of it and usually sell one listing per month from it. And then what's your main way of filling up that database? Because for you to go from $5,000 to $12,000, I see the video campaign as a phenomenal nurturing tool. But how do you fill it up for all the new agents that are listening? So a couple of different ways. Networking number one, that's probably the biggest thing right there. There are so many different ways you can network, even during our pandemic that we're having, get on Zoom calls, get on panels, get on all kinds of different things. Invite people to come on to what you're doing, build your network, reach out to your local farm area, make sure you get all those people on there as well. And then, of course, if you have one of the lead generation platforms, you can use that. But the thing that we really want to stress that I really want to stress is that lead generation, it's a tough game. And the market really is shifting more towards a relationship generation game. You're building relationships, and that's how you build your database. Really cool. So essentially, if there was a three-step process, it's go out there, speak to people, build a relationship, and stick them in your database. And then when you're home and you have time, build engagement content in video that you can shoot out to them how often, once a month or once a week. No, I do it on a weekly basis. Cool. So it's basically what Ricky's been doing. Just instead of doing just the weekly newsletter on the email, you've added the video concept to it. Exactly. And people like that part of it a lot because the stats prove it out very clearly. It's like 65% of the people will work with the first agent that they speak to, but it jumps up to almost 90% with the first agent that they meet. And by them seeing you in video, video equals meeting. So now they get to see your face, they hear your voice, they understand your mannerisms, maybe even if you have a sense of humor, they get that as well. And they appreciate the content that you're giving them because you're not trying to sell them. All you're doing is giving them relevant content about your local area. And people really like that.  And so you know it works, right? They know you.  Nice, nice, real nice.  I'm not even that tall, you know, so I guess video really takes off a couple inches. Well, cool, man. Well, that that's good stuff, man. Where can everybody find this this, this new coaching program? Yeah, the video, the video class or whatever, is it a course or what is it? No, it's free coaching, it's video free coaching. So basically it's a really simple concept. The website just went up, it's RainMakersUnlimited.com RainMakersUnlimited.com and you can sign up there. Actually, my ebook will be done by the end of this week and I'm not sure when this is actually going to air. I know it's being recorded, but by the time this air is probably that book will be ready. So you'll get my book and see exactly the step by step methodology I used that I just described a minute ago to earn those $90,000 right off the bat. It gives you every last detail on how to do that. And then, you know, if you have questions, my phone number is all over the place. My email is all over the place. You want to jump on a Zoom call? Let's do that. You want to just talk over the phone? We can do that as well. Whatever you're comfortable doing, I'm comfortable doing. I'm here to help you guys build your network, build your business through the use of video. Because again, for both of us, we're expanding our networks, right? Absolutely. And then, Keith, something you mentioned was this is all consistency, right? Because it sounds like it's too simple to be true, but in reality, 90% of real estate is really just simple. It's not easy. It's simple. When it comes down to these videos, I could already hear the agents telling me, well, what do I put in the video and what if they don't like what I'm putting out there? Do you go over that in the course in terms of what to come up with as far as material goes for the actual video itself? Yeah, we do. There's tons of different things that you can showcase or spotlight whichever term you want to use. What I found to be most effective is not trying to sell real estate or myself. You're selling yourself just by being on the video and people getting to know you. It's watching your favorite TV show, right?  You relate to that character. You always tune in to watch that character. It's the same thing. People like to see it. They like the consistency. So every Wednesday, a new video will drop. They're expecting it. They want to see it. Then, from that, you're delivering content for your local community. What's going on in your community? One of the things that we really focus in on is supporting local business. You can go to a local business, whether it's an artesian cheese shop, whether it's a restaurant, whether it's an organization. We just had a really cool one the other day called the Center for the Birds of Prey. We did a video on those guys and it shows about everything that they do for the birds of prey, for the falcons, for the hawks, for the owls, for the eagles. All that stuff. They're a hospital and they have an education program. People really dig that stuff. They really like to see it and understand it because, one, they don't always know it's there. Two, if you have new people moving into your area that are in your database that came through your lead generation platform, they love to learn about your area. They want to know. They want an insider's look as to what's going on because all they see is mass media. Mass media is always the bad stuff, right? There's a shooting or a fire or something bad, but this actually delivers the insider's look, and that's what I found to be most effective. We get tons of requests for people to asking us to come profile or showcase their business. It's funny. It's so powerful.  There's a whole other aspect to that whole sharing thing that we could talk about at some other time, but it's phenomenal. Even the agents think it's great, and it's kind of sad on one side of the coin because they're too lazy to do it themselves, so they're sharing ours. We don't mind them sharing ours, but if they want to build a business, and as Ricky says, there's enough business for everyone, right? There's enough business here for everyone. Go do it. There's only a couple of other people in all of Charleston that are doing videos on a regular basis, and they're great, and they're getting business from it, too. I think what's great with tools such as BomBom and KVCore, KVCore is integrated with BomBom, you have the ability to just blast these out to hundreds, if not thousands of people, how to click on a button. As long as you take the 30 minutes a day you said to edit, put it together, and then click it out there, there's really not much involved, and the ROI is ridiculous. Show me somewhere else in real estate where you could earn what, $60 per minute? Yeah. I mean, you can't earn it all. Even if, let me simplify this, you don't even need to go outside of your office or your house, whatever that happens to be, to create a video. You can do it right here, and you guys were talking about my background just a few minutes ago. I could be here in downtown Charleston in a click of a button and talking about the cobblestone road that's right behind me and how the cobblestones came over in the ships from back in the 17 and 1800s. They had nothing to do with the cobblestone, so they built roads out of them, and that's a great video. Let's talk a little bit about this because I was going over this in a training myself. When it comes to consultations, buyers and sellers, and I'm being a lot more receptive to meeting with the realtor via Zoom. I think if you could control the elements on the Zoom call, you can make for a lot more of a fun experience when it comes to converting clients. How are you actually just changing these backgrounds as you go? Are you doing it through Zoom? Do you have a green screen behind you? Because I'm sure a lot of realtors want to step up their Zoom game as well. Yeah, for sure. I've got a green screen behind me.  Make sure your lighting is good. It's done right within Zoom. They have an option down by the camera that says choose your virtual background. All you have to do is click on it. You have previously uploaded a number of different scenes, if you would. We can be anywhere from inside a factory to sitting at a beachfront condo or a different condo. Just click through them and decide where it is you want to be. Get some lighting to make you look a little bit better. That's something we teach in this course as well that I teach in this course as well is how to make yourself look good on camera, on your videos, even at home. We cover all of those different topics, the equipment, the staging, all that stuff. Cool, man. That's good stuff. I didn't really use video until I got into the coaching side of the world, but as a new agent, I've been talking about how if I were a new agent in today's world, how I would be crushing social media in terms of video, ads, content locally on top of my phone calls. I think that people need to, because once you get the leads, we got to call them. Once you get the leads through the video, then we got to call them. For me, it's when you combine the voice-to-voice strategy with the digital marketing video slash social media email strategy. When you combine the two, I think too many people are doing only video. They're not really doing too many calls, or they're just doing calls. They're not doing any social media. They need to combine the two and find the balance between, okay, I'm going to call for two hours, three hours, and I'm going to do social media for two or three hours. I'm really going to crush this whole real estate thing. I think that's where you find the most dangerous agents. In my opinion is when you got people that are good on the phone, they got that gift of gab, they can make friends, they're comfortable, they make people feel great, and they're part of the family. Then when you can exude that onto a video and share that same enthusiasm on camera to the world and everybody in your local market like you do, then you've got a really killer like winning combination, I think. So yeah, absolutely, man. I think this is great. So we're going to link all your stuff below the video. If you're listening to this on podcast, just go to YouTube and find this and we'll link everything below. His ebook, the little course, everything that he has going on. That way you guys can dive all in and take advantage of these free resources. Yeah. Again, if you have any questions about it, reach out to me directly. Again, my phone number is all over the place. It's on the website. Is that where you want people to contact you? Is your phone number? Probably the best thing to do is to go to the website and just sign up there. It's your name, phone number, and email address. But what if they want to contact you and ask questions? Absolutely. Give me a call. I've never heard that before. Do you guys just give me a call? My number's everywhere. Just go find it and hopefully we'll talk one of these days kind of deal. Yeah, it's pretty simple. Do you have a smart number where you could track where you will call? Are you from or is it just a regular cell? I have a regular cell and it's a really confusing number because it looks like it's a company number. It's<PHONE_NUMBER>. So people see that, they're like, well, wait, I'm not answering that. That's got to be some kind of scammer or company call on me. Melissa and bro. Okay. We're going to put your phone number in the description for those of you who don't feel like googling Keith Lucas and then see his number on Google and think it is yet again another fake corporation. We're going to put his direct number. Ricky, let's talk about this a little bit though. I see Gary V. He started this way back where he started collecting SMS, right? Because he said that was the future. How do you feel about that?  You think it's the future or you think it's better off the way it is? I think it is for certain things. I'm using it for my coaching business. I've got several thousand agents that are part of my mass texting database that get motivational text messages and stuff. What I'm telling my agents is to do once a month, text your database. Just once a month, just text a link to your weekly email or an article or something. Just text something and say, give a little one liner, a couple of words, a little hook and then a link to bring some value to them and make sure that on the link or somewhere that they can. Because nowadays, I guess you have to be on top of the actual because when you mass text, you're not mass texting from your personal cell phone number. It's going to be a third-party number. See, they have to stay on top of that inbox like it's your email or have it forwarded somewhere, something like that's where you can stay on top of it. People need to be able to contact you pretty easily. There's some things about it, but here's what I think about it. I think that it's really extremely early. I think that it's kind of like, or who knows, it may not, it may not end up like email. Right now, I have agents that are scared to do mass text a lot because they feel like it's still a much more intimate, family and friends-only kind of place. Who knows? It may stay like that. It may never get to the place where you're getting 20 junk texts a day, like we're getting hundreds of junk emails a day. We'll have to see where it goes. I think it's really powerful in terms of open rates. I think the open rates are like 97%. Incredible open rates. If you use it right and you don't abuse it and you bring a lot of value, I think it's great. My whole formula is I tell everyone to do their weekly or monthly newsletter and then use the actual text blast on KV Core for holidays. You could say something on Valentine's Day, put your website in there. It's non-invasive. It's personal. Then if you call them quarterly and you stay in touch with them that way, it's a triple threat. Like I said, it's the same way to discuss about it in a different way. Keith, everything you mentioned on video I think is the future. If you go and combine that with some text campaigns and regular email campaigns, they're going to be the one that you reach out to when they want to buy yourself. And I think something that you can also do here at EXP is to get your ring central number and use that as your texting number. It'll go right back to your cell phone. Ricky, you were talking about using a mailbox. Everything will come right to your phone and you'll be able to keep it there. Cool, man. A couple things happening. I've got like 15 alerts just now that Josh Teamfeller left Kelly Williams. Did you see that? The CEO? I have not. No, he's not the CEO. He's the president, I think. He's the president. You're right. Because I believe Gary stepped down and then he stepped up, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It doesn't say why he left. Yeah, he didn't say why. He just put it out, I guess, on his Facebook page that he was leaving. I wonder where he's going. Let's just pull this up really quickly. Yeah, it's on Inmanazov this morning. Yeah, it'd be real interesting to see. I would love to know why he left and where he's going. Why don't we get him on an interview? You think you can lock him down? Yeah, let me see. I have some contacts out there. I think we could... Actually, I got this guy. He's the CEO of Kelly Williams in, I think Arizona or somewhere, but he really wants me to come on his podcast. So I know who I'd love to have on, Chris Heller. Chris Heller. Chris was past president of KW. Let me just see if I can... But him and his team were like one of the top teams in the entire country. They were closing out several hundred transactions a year, but Chris left KW a few years back to go serve in a major role at Lone Depot. And then I think he bounced to another tech company. So there's a lot of upper executives over there that are doing some major plays on tech. I love to learn their insight on where they think the industry's headed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Chris Heller and Josh team, I'm going to reach out. Absolutely. To those guys and see... And they could get Gary on this. Maybe we could do... Kelly? Yeah, why not? He doesn't even have an Instagram account. He's incognito. Yeah, dude is... He's in hiding. So we got... So we're officially open in Brazil, right? Yeah. And I just landed our first agent there today. And I talked to another. So we're formulating a team there. We're formulating a team there. So I'm excited about that because I know a lot of Brazilian agents and I went to Brazil and spoke at R4.   I know that economically, they weren't doing so well when I went there as far as a country as a whole, but they'll come out of it. But at the end of the day, I'm really excited. Just the fact that I can grow teams. I didn't tell you this one. We're up to like 25 or so in South Africa right now. Okay. Yeah. So that's exciting. And I think we've got another 10 or so kind of work in there. So it's exciting, man, just the opportunity to be able to expand in these other countries and to kind of be the be like, you know, ground level, you know, in these countries. So got our team leader in Australia, Lee, and working to start the team there. We've got about what 2030 in Canada, you know, Canada is heavy. Yeah.  I believe our international brokerage is going to grow bigger than the US one. There's just so many more agents out there and so much more market share that we could conquer. So we had 100,000 agents later this year. Oh, did you see Grant Cardone today? Not today. So he did a Zoom call and somebody sent the Zoom link to me. And so I watched it live and I couldn't watch the whole thing. Because I was making videos and stuff. But I watched the first of it. I watched a little bit of the middle and then I watched like the very end. And then I basically just turned it off because it was just whatever. But basically they are, it's like official. Like they are with the XP. And Alaina, Alaina. Alaina, yeah. Yeah, Alaina, she's the way it looks like. She's I guess the one getting a real estate license and becoming an agent.  They're calling it the 10X real estate empire or something like that. And they're going to, it's going to be incredible to watch with their influence. I think the way they saw it is it's all upside, right? Because they have the influence, they have the brand and they just needed a platform where they could build it as big as they wanted to. But as Keith, you mentioned earlier on, it's the opportunity to have all the benefits of being a broker owner, but none of the headaches. And who wants to get the 600 agents? Now we have to manage, support, train them, do all those things. This really is like a once in a lifetime opportunity. So I think they saw that and they want to cash in, you know? Oh yeah, dude. Yeah, absolutely. So that's exciting. A lot of exciting stuff happening. So yeah, man, Keith, I would ask you where everybody could follow you, but I'm sure you'll just say Google my name. Give me a call. Yeah, look at the post office, you know, up on the wall or, you know, in a lot of bathrooms and, you know, spread around the country, you'll see there. Yeah, people can reach me. It's really simple. I'll give you my number again. I know it's a little bit confusing, but it's<PHONE_NUMBER>. Email address Keith at KeithLucustine.com. The free video coaching website is RainMakersUnlimited, okay? And it's spelled just like it sounds. RainMakersUnlimited, it's really simple. Go there. You can, my phone number is there. Email is there. You can sign up for the book and for coaching. And, you know, we're going to build a big coaching program for people that really want to start using video as part of their marketing strategy. And there's no reason why that you should wait any longer to do that. You know, it is the way, you know, we can do one of these down the road where I can share with you more information, but this is mind-boggling. There are 500 hours of video that are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Every minute. That's mind-boggling. Say it again. Say it again. 500 hours of video are uploaded into YouTube every minute. It's like, could you imagine the, like, the cloud storage? Like, can you imagine the, can you imagine, like, the data store? Like, I saw. You need a cloud for your cloud. What's bigger than a terabyte? What's after a terabyte? Megalodon, I don't know. An Optimus Primeabyte? Yeah, like, I saw a picture or a video one time or something of, like, the Google, like, some warehouse. Like, they have, like, warehouses, I believe, with just, like, nothing but, like, hard drives. Like, as far up as the ceiling goes, like, just, like, for probably miles, they have, like, it's like goodness, man. Like, like, what if, like, what if something happened to that?  Would we all lose, like, everything in our Google drop? You know what I mean? Like, how protected is this stuff, you know? It's insane. But yeah, like, five, you say, 500 hours per minute? A minute. Yeah, 500 hours per minute. That's probably 24 hours a day. Yeah, that's worldwide. So, you know, it's not just here in the States, but that's an incredible amount. The consumption is huge as well. There are more people watching videos online than there are watching the major networks and the streaming services combined. You think so? You think so? Oh, I know so. So, so what is it now? There's more people watching what? More people watching videos, okay, from places like all the social platforms, let's just say that, all the social platforms and even bomb bombs and things like that going back and forth than all of the major networks in the United States and all the streaming services in the United States. Wow. It's huge. It's huge. Wow. That's massive. You know, it is. And, you know, it's not too late to get in the game. There are a lot of people out there trying to do it. And I have to give them an A for effort, but they need to, you know, get some coaching and stuff to make themselves look better and to get their message across. And that's something that we find is really tough for a lot of people. It's just getting going, you know. It's an obligation and to stay consistent. It takes effort, but, you know, if you're not going to prospect on the phone for three hours a day, spend that time networking and making videos to network, you're going to see results from it.  I can't do this. There's a way for everybody to do it. Yeah, 100%, bro. 100%, bro. Well, look, thanks for coming on the show. Enjoy chatting with you for a little while. You know, you guys take advantage of his free resources on video strategy there. It's brought him a lot of success and he's really speaking a lot of truth here about it. And I stand behind it myself. So Juan, anything else today? I think we are good. If anyone has any questions on video or online lead generation strategies, reach out to Keith. He's your man. If anyone's interested in learning more, I think partner up with me and Ricky, reach out to me or Ricky via Instagram and we answer all our DMs. So we're looking to partner up with people, not just locally, not just nationally, but worldwide. If you are in a country where you think you have influence to bring on tons of agents, let's talk. I don't see why we can't partner up. Absolutely, guys. We'll see you guys on the next show. Till then, road to 10,000 out. We'll talk to you guys soon. Take care, guys. Peace.


Could you use your communication skills to change people, especially the toxic people in your life? I think changing people, I don't know that I start anymore. I think I used to start with the belief that that was possible and in fact was my responsibility. I don't anymore. I think my role as a communicator and a leader, Daniel, and I guess to a life's degree, yours too and all that you do, is this awareness that the best we can do is to share what we want to share as best as we can, do it well, and let that seed fall where it may. I'll go back to this idea that I've shifted my approach to humans from what I call an industrial approach to an agricultural approach. There are two main ways to approach growing people, helping people. One is industrial, one is agricultural. An industrial approach I think is more a manufacturing batch mentality. You know, I want a hundred of these, which is why our education system in the West is so broken. The education system is an industrialized approach to kids. It's obsessed with box ticking and test results and exam results. It has no interest at all in the children's personal flourishing according to their own kinds of intelligence, because schools are obsessed with one kind of intelligence, academic. So we have an education system where kids spend a lot of their time where they are not celebrated for who they are, so they don't feel seen or listened to in large chunks of their lives unless parents get more proactive in those kids' development. Schools tend to shape them in a way that's unhelpful to their development. And so I think an agricultural approach where you sow a seed like a farmer does in people's lives and then step back like Jesus did and let that soil condition do whatever it does in response to that seed is a much better approach. So I don't try to change people by this manufacturing compliance-based, foreshoot-into-a-mold mentality. I'm much more relaxed into this rhythm for 25 years now of, here's an idea. It may be an uncomfortable one. It's to do with toxic people, toxic relationships. Here's what I've learned about that. Here's how I think things can be better in that area. And I shared it much more as an idea and a suggestion. I'm going to tell you the downsides. I'm going to tell you the possible ways to fix it. I'm after, I think, sowing a seed. I'm after gradual influence that may lead to change, but I'm not trying to change anybody in the 30 minutes I'm speaking. My energy needs to, the change energy potentially becomes too aggressive and confrontational and finger-waggy. I think the influence that brings gradual change energy suits me better at my age and stage of life. And I was done actually for 20 years, much more conversational, suggesting, here's an idea. Why not try this? That may lead to change. So yes, great communication should be involved in bringing change, but through the delivery system, I think, of influence.


Hei there and many thanks for tuning into Y254 Apologies we are starting our news bit a little bit late due to technical hitches but we are here at trust that you have been well it is the child of January 2022 a very good Wednesday evening to you my name is Dereva Hillary welcome to the broadcast elders drawn from the Somali community have castigated Meru Governor Keraito Morongi over his directive to have the cameras belonging to Somali community held had as a falsifiably driven out of Meru County. This is following last week's clash beating camel had as an famaza from Meru County that resulted to death of more than seven people led by vice chairman of Somali Council of Elders Osman Bidu and the chairman of the Somali had as grazing committee Abdi Kadeir Mohamed members of the Somali community termed governor Keraito's directive as insightful and full of hate arguing that they are Kenyans and they have the right to live in any county of the choice including Meru County an operation to falsifiably flash out the Somali community had as a and the cameras from the Meru area bordering Isula County began three days ago with had as now decrying physical harassment by the police officers conducting the operation while over 1600 cameras have so far been displaced from the grazing area addressing journalists in Kambi Ashraf along the border of the two counties the elders demanded that the government agencies should take action. So ya kisa sisa tujafuraya sisa kama wa mama, tuna taka security, kila usuku tuna ogopa, hatuna rahanda ninyo mbetu villi yosirikali mefanya juzia tujafuraya kabisa. Mimina itom zia Osman Bidu, Fastchaban Somali Elders. Mimina nalaani ili maneno juzia li tokea. Bandia Tigania East, mambao mahalina itwa malbeishilmi kwa luga ya zamani lakini sukusina itwa ardiu eriahiyo maneno mambao li tokea. Kifu ambawa community wali gusana na kifu ali tokea na nalani hiyo maneno. Atuko tiari kunga mokono na hiyo nkama jamia Somali atuko tiari. Nante kana k maku'u tuleitan ribsa k發gewa hornu wa jazdiau. Mieromanagunani niniu na m DVK Haidi Yubili Kwa Biga Kwa Wadiya, · pa kwa kwa niya sustainan- · kwa kwa kwa kwa hiniu na m DVK Haidi Kwa Gbani Ndidi · kwa kwa hiniu na m Dibili Kwa Biga Kwa Biyipana, · kwa kwa hiniu na m Dibili Kwa Biyipana, · kwa kwa hiniu na m Dibili Kwa Biyipana, · kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa bigia kwa kwa kwa bio · kwa mwanyu vikiya, from the same note kega has continued showing his immense support to the political parties amendment bill saying that he has no doubt that bill will say through wans it is tabled before the Senate. We are solid, we are good. In fact if you go to the register… of the Pareto parties, you still see that Jubilee is ranked 2nd in terms of the membership. So, we are still there. We are proposing, we are hoping that either before the end of the month or early February, we will be able to do our NDC. But we want to do our NDC after the law is fully enacted. Because there are some decisions that we will be making in the NDC, which could have some implication on the law. So, we want first of all to dispense off with this law, then immediately we as a party will have an NDC. Because we don't want to do two NDCs. Actually, I foresee a situation whereby some of the parties that will be in Azimio will also do another NDC to endorse some of the things that will be captured in this law. So, we will wait until the law is ascended to, then after that we will be able to do our NDC. But the party is there, the party will be there even when we go to Azimio. Even if you go to Azimio, which will be the big... Stil on politics, the fire's Rifti Valley regional commissioner, George Natembea, has resigned. Natembea announced his resignation when stating that he is now fully focused on his transoya gubana choru bid speaking to the press in Nakuru. The Rifti Valley boss of Angti Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Machengi and his principal secretary Karanja Kibishu for giving him an opportunity to serve in that capacity. Natembea acknowledged the role his seniors and juniors played in making his tenure as the Rifti Valley regional commissioner success. He will vie for the position of the Governor on the Democratic Action Party of Kenya DPK. Mungina na hitu na nobat, Jara Komora, mungina na hitu na Fred Dmitri, mungina na hitu na Kidi Onsirai, hiliwa Mushwa na hitu na Ada Komondi Bunde, hiliwa Mestafu, hiliwa Nema D.C. nambawana nilatia wudunia Taifayeli. N insufficient wings. Nisilati nupatu m굴duki, m змigao kwok можетumu Fengha kupanya this, i visitor employees have never done anything. In case underってimi kisha mabaya stays in kostia. So na pata kesa inakostana. Was murdered in Isiolo on January 23, 2022 of a land dispute led by the by center for enhancing democracy and good governance programs. Manager Paul Massisi, the defenders in a statement termed Elizabeth's murder barbaric and brings to the fore the pervasive nature of violence against women and girls. The activists termed the cases as example of the price that women right defenders have to pay for protecting human rights and advancing socio-economic, cultural and political rights. The organization wants the perpetrators brought to book. We also want the president's office together with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry to publicly condemn and declare the matter of women human rights defenders alarming and consider the issues a crisis. The attorney general has also been challenged to fastrack the review and adoption of the human rights defenders policy, a tool designed to give guidance of the work of not only women human rights defenders but all human rights defenders and their protection by the state. The main optimistic that the suspects will eventually be convicted because if they are not the tree of impunity will be watered. We wait with a pated breath to see that day when the court convicts the murderers of human rights defenders. We can not stand aside and wait for justice to happen. We push for justice to happen. So that's why we're here today. We must be aware that the death of Elizabeth Ikaru comes at a time where we have experienced increased famously in Kenya especially of human rights defenders. So we colleagues in Nakuru, we call on the state to ensure the protection of human rights defenders in the course of their work. Here in Nakuru we also experienced many cases of this nature so it is our duty as human rights defenders to come out strongly and speak against vices of this nature. Barbarik Mada of Elizabeth Ikaru brings to the fore the pervasive nature of patriarchy, systematic structures that work against women and girls and incidences of violence against women and girls in Kenya especially targeting. Elsewhere 15 adhdoms have been constructed across the forwards of Mwingi West with an aim to boost food security in the area. Speaking at Nzawa market in Gotani, while he commissioned rehabilitation of Muivano, Adhdom, Mwingi West MP Chao Zengona said so far 15 such adhdoms have been sank and others distillated. The legislator said national irrigation authority has heavily invested in the construction of the dams thus enabling locals to get clean water and also water for irrigation. I'm going to add that each dam is set to benefit 5000 households. So my special thanks to President Urumugai Kenyatta for facilitating national irrigation authority. We would like to express our gratitude to NIH for what they have done to our consultancies. They have heavily invested on us in Mwingi West. We are really thankful and we will keep on fighting for their budget so that they can have our dear Kenyans in access in clean water and also access in water for irrigation. We thank NIH for what they have done. This is a dam which is going to... Neto John Bathwa, senior chief, Nzawa location. We thank NIH for the support they have done to the dam. This dam is going to be in Katoa Mokoloni from 2020. And for now, it is going to be in the next dam. We are talking about five locations. Those dams are approximated to have cost 20 million shillings each. Now, in other news, members of Morangaba owners' association have raised concerns over what they claimed as an increase in selling of counterfeit bruis in the county. The association accused the mushrooming wines and spirit shops. They perpetuated the selling of a substandard liquor drinks which pose a heart hazard to consumers. In a press conference in Morangaba, the members led by the chairman Simon Jorage accused these behind the business of selling fake alcoholic drinks saying they are putting lives in danger. The substandard alcoholic drinks, Jorage said, they are tainting names of business people who are selling quality liquor. The chairman said the majority of those dealing with the fake liquor are not the members calling security agents to crack down on individual supplying and distributing counterfeits in the county. Some businessmen, because of greed for money, they have resorted in doing manke business. As you may find, a wines and spirit which is supposed to be doing wholesale, they are doing retail. Some of them are even opening bottles and giving drinks in glasses. Some of them have started even operating like bars, which is not allowed. On behalf of Morangaba owners' association and our patrons, we wish to make the foreign statement. We believe alcoholic drinks are meant to be enjoyed as a means of relaxation after hard days work and shared between friends as a way to ease social interactions. Alcoholic drinks should not be avilled to the destruction of our families, individuals and in particular, shortening lives of our young people who are the future. In business, the port of Mombasa has received a boost in its operation after receiving three states of the art ship to show giant cranes manufactured in Japan at a cost of 3.3 billion shillings. The equipment which arrived on board the special vessel Christendom V, big lift buffing from Japan Dr. the Mombasa Port Second Container Terminal Bar No. 22. Speaking of the Equicide, KPA Acting General Manager and Engineering Service Engineer Javan Wanga say that ship carrying the equipment started its voyage on December 18. Speaking separately, KPA Principal Corporate Communications Officer Mr. Harji Masemo said that in 2005 KPA developed a master plan aimed at creating capacity by expanding baths and acquiring new cargo handling equipment. Masemo said that phase two of the second container terminal is almost complete where the new equipment will be installed. It's also worth noting that the specifications for these equipments have been done by the engineers in Kenya Port Authority and we will be something we take pride in. The capacity of what it will do in a year will be doing more than 550,000 TUs annually and at the moment the port is doing about 1.2 so you can imagine that will be another about 50 plus percent of the cargo that we handled through the gantries in the Port of Mombasa. Of course the operations is such a way that the other complimenting equipments including the rabata gantries that I've talked about, we have terminal tractors as well that will also be holding containers from the yards to the shore. Now away from Kenya in Cameroon, a prominent opposition loom maker and a barrister in Cameroon from the opposition social democratic front, SDF has been shot dead in Bamenda City in the northwest. Dennis Nkelamo to the BBC that government forced Senator Henry Kamende to get out of his car and then shot him in the chest party communication secretary. Nkelamo added that the motive for the killing is unclear. Bamenda is the main English-speaking city in Cameroon under the centre of a political crisis that has led to conflict between separists and the military. According to the international crisis group the fight has killed more than 6000 people and displaced about 1 million people since 2017. And finally in sport Manchester city are in pole position to sign Arling Harland in the player, if the player decides to move to the Premier League the player is expected to leave Borussia. Borussia got money this summer when his 64 million shillings pounds released clauses become active. Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool are also monitoring Harland's situation at his current club. City Boaz Pepe Gadiola has been looking for a striker since Sergio Guero's departure last summer and with that sports story we mark the end of our news bit tonight. We meet many things for staying with us. We appreciate so much your company. Let's do this again next week Wednesday until then enjoy the rest of our programming.


Hi, everyone. Happy New Year. Joe for jasphyscasebreaks.com back in action here in 2024. We're gonna be doing some 2023, Panini the National, Gold VIP Pack Break. We're gonna do a 10-pack break, random first name letter. So for example, Letter B gets Bryce Young's. 18 spots, there's some combos there as well. Very big thanks and a Happy New Year to this group right here. Appreciate everybody doing that. There's some letters right there. Let's roll it. Randomized names and letters. One and a five, six times each. One, two, three, four, five and six. We got Tristan down to Adam. And then one and a five, six times for the letters. One, two, three, four, five. And once more, six and final time. And then we've got M down to S. With a new year and a new month. I'll figure out a different font. But for now, we'll stay with Helvetica. Tristan for you font fans out there. Tristan with M, Douglas with D, James with J, Jared with G, Roger with T, Jim with N and W, Logan with C, Brian with K, Adam with P, Tristan with L, and then the EFU combo. Scott with A, Alan with B, Brian with QO and all other letters not on this list. Douglas with H, Chris with R, and Adam with S. We're gonna pause the video just for a little bit. Let me alphabetize that right there. We're gonna pause the video just for a little bit. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades, then we'll have the break. So stick around, we will be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. No deals are done, but a bit of discussion on, hey, who's in the checklist? So we found a checklist on cardboardconnection.com. Took a look at it. Letters and collectors names all stay the same. Good luck, everyone. Remember, first letter of their first name we got 10 packs, grab randomly one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10. Another 10 packs are loaded up right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com. So if you're watching live, we can definitely run one back. So what I remember, it's only two cards and there's a parallel and maybe a base card on the back. Now there's the base, Steve Young. So you can see the VIP stylings right there so you know that it's from the national and we've got Lamar Jackson. Is this our MVP? So that's 163 out of 199. Nice red cracked ice. And that's gonna be for Tristan with a letter L for Lamar. So is it the back card? That's the base. I think so, Dan Marino for the letter D and the parallel is Giannis Antitocompo. Nice, 35 out of 50. Purple ice. That's for Jared in letter G. Oh, this one has two parallels right here. There's Calderick and Junior. The giraffe print. There's some short prints there. That's gonna go to Logan in the letter C and the numbered card is Roman Reigns. All right, so we've got some WWE in here as well. 66 out of 75. And that will be for the letter R and that's gonna be for Chris. There's another Lamar Jackson. And we have, we've got Pete Rose. Purple ice. 22 out of 50. Adam with letter P. Did Roman really reign, Rex is asking. I don't know. I don't watch SmackDown. I think I ended up watching Raw more often on Mondays. I'm sure he did at some point. There's Larry Bird for the letter L. Also, I think this should be pretty obvious and I don't think the checklist has it like that, but if it was like the Undertaker, we'll still go with you, obviously. All right, we've got a multicolor here and it's Jeff Gordon. Nice. The blue, yellow and green parallel. I'll show you the number in a second. Jeff Gordon's going to gym and it's 24 out of 25. Didn't Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon's car number 24? Car number. I'll bet that actually does make a difference on the secondary market. Yeah, Jim's saying he sure did. There you go, Jim. Yeah, the old DuPont car, the rainbow warrior. Number 24. That probably does make a difference on the secondary market. Right, got Danica right here as well. Douglas with D. And we've got nice Jalen Williams for the Thunder. 110 out of 199. Thunder playing some great basketball. Nice rookie card there. And that is for Jim and the letter J. Right, car number eBay 101, exactly. Got Randy Moss. That's for letter R, Chris Parent. You got Moss. And the numbered card is Roman Reigns. Green ice. Another one for Chris in the letter R. And that is 95 out of 99. Now it looks like we've got a few more to go. We'll have to see like a train whistle numbering here. There's Patrick Mahomes for Adam and the letter P. And the numbered card here is Walter Payton. Nice, red, white, and blue. Walter Payton. W, Jim. This one is numbered to 15. Nice low number there, one out of 15. Two more to go, another 10 packs in the store. Check it out. And tonight, I think it's tonight only. 10% off, everything on the website, jaspyscasefrakes.com. First day back in the new year, so put me to work. Emmett Smith for Tristan in the letter E. And then we got Sky Blue. Cracked ice, Bijan Robinson. Very nice. Nice rookie card for Allen in the letter B. 91 out of 149. Let's see what did Bijan end up with. I think he had a pretty nice season. Dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee. So he ended up with almost 1,000 yards, 948 yards for touchdowns. Not too bad of a start to his career. For rushing touchdowns and then a few receiving touchdowns as well. No, we do not send the packs along with these. There's Hendon Hooker. This guy's been marinating on that Lions team. Could be nice. Could be a quarterback in the future after Jared Gough. Wow, another end zone interception for Josh Allen. H, that's going to be for Douglas. And the last numbered card here is Bryce Young. There it is. That's what Allen wanted. Green ice, rookie card, Bryce Young for Allen. And the letter B, happy new year, Allen. 97 out of 99. Maybe with new coaching staff, some additional weapons. This guy could maybe reveal himself to be a great quarterback in the future. Nice. There you go, gang. So obviously these will ship too, but pretty nice selection of cards. So hopefully maybe in the next break that we do, maybe we'll see some autos. Autos are rare, but there are autographed possibilities, maybe a train whistle number. So check out the next set of 10, jasphyscasebreaks.com. Happy new year, everybody. Remember, 10% off tonight. Check it out. Bye-bye.


So what is malware and how do you protect your website from attacks? Well, we're talking about it here on The Journey. Have you ever been in a situation where you wondered how to get rid of malware on your website? If you haven't, you're one of the lucky ones. According to statistics, 75% of small business websites are at risk for cyber attacks, which means online security is more important than ever. And as such, monitoring your website and ensuring proper security measures are in place is crucial. So in today's video, we're gonna talk about how malware finds its way to your website. We'll also cover how to identify if your website has in fact been infected. And then lastly, we'll talk about how to get rid of malware on your small business website, covering it all. So let's kick things off, Naly. What is malware and how does it infect your website? Well, malware is a pretty broad term and it refers to malicious software created and used by cyber criminals for the purposes of extorting money, stealing identities, hijacking websites, damaging software, and just other illegal activities. Malware comes in many shapes and forms such as viruses, worms, adware, spyware, Trojan, Keyloggers and more. All those just sound terrifying. But malware is usually distributed in a couple of different ways, either through phishing emails that contain suspicious links or attachments, visiting malicious websites, manipulation of source code and themes or templates, disguised in plugins, it's pretty popular on WordPress, not reputable plugins, but out of date ones, drive by downloads, brute force attacks and unfortunately so much more. So let's talk about cyber criminals. Now, cyber criminals can target your hosting company to distribute malicious files or they can target random websites as well as your own personal computer. So once you have a virus on your computer, it can easily infect your website. And unfortunately, you can unknowingly infect your website by uploading files containing malware to your site. Another way to compromise your site is by logging in while your computer has been infected with a Keylogger, thus granting access to hackers. So this all sounds pretty scary, but how do you actually identify malware? Before you really figure out how to remove malware, you need to be able to identify it. And this is not easy as it's often hidden in different files on your site. But there are some warning signs that you can be on the lookout for that can help you recognize when your site has been infected. A couple of things you can look out for is your website doesn't display any of its usual pages, instead it displays graphics signed by the hacker. This is known as website defacing. It can also be Google displays warnings that your site contains malware. They like to notify their visitors to ensure that they stay safe. Some other things to look out for, your website has been blocklisted by browsers. Also, your hosting company disabled your site, yikes. In addition to that, your website is loading slowly, also a potential sign, and your customers or clients might be complaining about the drastic increase in strange emails, oof, coming from your own domain's email address. And when you visit your site, you and your visitors are redirected to a third-party website with suspicious or usually inappropriate content. You can also see strange ads on the front of your site that just don't make sense to be there in the first place. Or you notice new and unusual files or folders. Now, once you notice one or more of these signs, there's a handful of ways that you can actually confirm your suspicions, starting with a Google Safe Browsing Site Status Report. And what it is, basically Google offers a free safe browsing site that you can use to scan your entire website for malware. And once the tool has finished the scan, it will notify you of any suspicious files and code containing malware. And if you are code savvy, you can manually inspect your site's files for malicious code. Malware is usually hidden in the HD access, PHP or WordPress core files. It could also be in just random HTML or just scripts in general. The files containing malicious code will usually have lines of code encoded in base 64 format. Basically, it's encrypted code that when you look at it, it's just a long string of characters, but unencrypted, it's doing a lot of bad stuff for your visitors. And the third option that you have for detecting malware on your site is actually GoDaddy website security. And this is a tool that offers basically a malware scan on all plans for unlimited number of pages on your site. And you also get the benefit of block listing issues, which those can be damaging to your SEO rank. You don't want that. And one big benefit of using this tool is that you don't have to go through hundreds of files manually. All right, now, if you've found your website has been infected, you're probably wondering how to actually get rid of the malware. There are two ways to remove malware from your site. You can do it manually, but keep in mind that unless you're very familiar with code, you really run the risk of not removing all the infected files. And another downside of manual removal is that it is super time consuming. When someone hacks your website, it's usually not just one file manipulated. I helped a woman with her business one time and I think it counted to 764 individual files containing malware. And that would have been a nightmare for me to clean up manually. But a better and easier way to get rid of the malware is just to use a dedicated tool, such as our GoDaddy Express malware removal or any of our plans that kind of offer that. It really does save you a ton of time and it's worth the money if you're not that expert. So what to do after a malware removal? Well, once it has been removed from your site, there are a few steps left to complete that will keep your site safe. So update your CMS, your plugins and themes to ensure that they're using the latest versions, as well as removing any potential vulnerabilities. You'll also want to implement a backup plan for your website. So you can easily restore your website at any point in time, sometime easier than just fixing the hack. Next, install an SSL certificate just to protect you and your visitors sensitive information such as logins or credit cards. But again, with any of this, continue to scan your site regularly for the malware, either do it manually or through some automated tools. It's super important to be up to date and top of mind so that when something does happen, you are right there to attack. But above all, you'll really want to change your admin passwords and really any other user that has access to your site or your control panel. Now hacked and compromised site will ultimately lead to a block listed website. And that's going to ultimately damage your reputation. It's going to cost you customers and sales. In addition to that, it ruins the brand image that you've worked so hard to build. Keeping your site safe and secure is a must. Luckily having a tool that helps get rid of malware and just prevents you from being on browser's block list and prevents future tasks is not only easy but also gives you that peace of mind. But if this video is helpful for you, make sure you give it a like and drop a comment below. And don't forget to subscribe and ring that bell so you are the first to know when our next video comes out. This is a journey.