لأن أخيرا لقد أخيرا بحيث أن أتكلم من المشاهدات في مهمة لتشاهد معي أيضا لقط أن نجد مهمة المشاهدات المشاهدات إذا أخبرني وإذا كانت ممتع وإذا كانت ممتع في عام 14 أو 15 لا يجب أن يجد أخيرا لكي أخيرا لكي نحن نحن نحن أكثر؟ أن أخيرا وإذا كانت أخيرا إذا كانت أخيرا ستتتحرك من المنزل مع أخيرا لأنها يجب أن أحبك لماذا؟ لأنها لا يجب أن تجدها في مهمة لأنه يوجد شيء مخطئ فيها ونستطيع أن نفعل ذلك ونستطيع أن نتعلم بشكل أخيرا عندما يحتاجوننا أكثر أعتقد أنني أتكلم معك قليلا أو أن نتكلم بشكل أخيرا أو maybe I didn't say it yet I said it somewhere else لذلك نتكلم بشكل أخيرا أن نتعلم بشكل أخيرا لأن أخيرنا نعرف عندما لا نحن فيهم يمكننا أن نشعر يمكننا أن نتعلم أو يمكننا أن نتعلم بشكل أخيرا أو يمكننا أن نتعلم بشكل أخيرا لأنه لا يعمل لا يعمل لذا ماذا is the story of a young boy who reached the age of 7 or 8 comes up to his dad one day and he says, dad how much do you earn an hour? he said $200 it's interesting can I have $100 from you? he said, your little rascal your dad works his guts out earns $200 an hour you want $100 just like that for nothing go to bed so the father pushes the son to go to bed that child goes with tea in his eyes so he goes and sleeps few minutes later that dad follows the young boy because he felt the remorse of what he's done of his action he finds his son about to go to sleep but these are still on his cheek so he takes $100 out of his pocket sticks it under his pillow in the meantime the child wakes up takes the $100 from under the pillow then in his pyjamas pocket he had saved another $100 pulls that $100 out now he has $200 he said to his dad can I buy an hour of your time? can I buy an hour of your time? I don't need your money I'm saving this money for you to be with me because you are never with me yes, you provide for me I know you go and work we all build an empire you build everything but that is not what I want I want your physical presence to be with me otherwise I will heather and heather away I will wonder somewhere different where I can get this comfort and this emotional support from someone else yesterday we spoke about building a strong personality in the mindset of our children and we said that they always present or we should inculcate in our children the ability to present their personal opinions and often to try to convince people of their point of view they do not change their minds easily and they enjoy talking from a leadership position they are not frightened to express what they think is right without the element of arrogance why? because if a child or a young man lives with approval and in particular approval from his parents he or she learns to appreciate what is good and excels in himself or herself because he has that strong personality and confidence and he believes that they are achievers and achievers in their own standards not in the standards of their parents one mistake we do as parents sometimes is we try to mold our children in what we could not achieve for example I wanted to be a doctor I couldn't my father couldn't afford to send me to the faculty of medicine or he could not afford the fees to go abroad so I live that dream through my child my child does not want to become a doctor he wants to become an engineer he wants to become a rocket scientist none of this he wants to be a painter disaster is struck at home you will be or not I don't have the potential to be a doctor no you will even if we have to pride the dean it doesn't work because your child if he is doing it against his will he may kill someone in the process or after graduation or he may abuse that system that he learned to his disadvantage and the disadvantage mold your children according to their own potentials and capabilities not according to your dreams and fantasies because you will create a gap between you and your son he will go and do the university degree then he will drop it and he will go and do something else of his liking and it happened I know someone who his father forced him to become a doctor after he came home he said these are the credentials now I'm a GP thank you I'm not practicing it he went and he did civil engineering he liked civil engineering shape him towards that don't shape him towards yourself the other point is we must instill self-confident in our children they don't feel or they should not feel that they must act like their peace don't be a follower be a leader and a pioneer in every aspect of your life do not allow yourself to be a follower to another system or to another paradigm on the country once you believe in your paradigm and you believe that your paradigm is the truth you become responsible for pushing that paradigm on others let others follow you and let not others mess with your mind let not others force you to give up on your principles to give up on your values to give up on your humanity as a Muslim no you inculcate humanity in their humorless existence of others if people decide to give up on their humanity you don't give up on your humanity if people decide to give up on God you don't give up on God and call him gosh no call him God with pride and advocate that message to others because it is part of your system so they must act like they must not act like their peace whatever their peace are doing we will join in if they decided to go to party we will party with them if they decided to dance we will dance with them why? because otherwise what will people say about me I come from Pakistan third world country no I will show them what Pakistan is as if Pakistan is only about dancing no no take pride about your country in other things take pride in your country in its beautiful nature and landscape in what it has been able to offer to the world in terms of scientific progress or whatever the case may be but don't take pride in something that there is nothing to take pride in in the first place the west or the developed countries they don't just take pride in their own Hollywood and Hollywood and what have you no they take pride in their achievement and that's what we need to excel in to achieve to be achievers Imam Ali صلاة الله وسلام عليك highlight how we should always be achievers when he said people are of three kinds either a divinely guided leader يعني this leader is he walks the earth with the light of Allah in his heart he knows the truth he's never shaken in a country to be his truth so he's saved he knows that he is on the right path secondly someone who is learning to become a divinely guided leader يعني the aspiration is always to live now the Imam says as for the third there are the ones who go with the floor who go with the floor if this I don't know what's your name Catherine Keef her name what's her name Katrina Katrina Keef wants to dance everyone wants to dance يعبيبي Katrina Keef does not sit value and stand it for me I sit stand it for myself right I don't allow anyone who walks on the stage to make me just sway my body to left and right no if this guy wants to go crazy on the stage oh this lady let them go crazy I don't have to be part of the crowd that goes crazy with them you know otherwise you're not thinking otherwise you are going with the what with the mood but with the mood that mood that is swaying you sometimes is not a right mood it may take your personality away from you it may take your dignity away from you it may take your decision away from you when you sway left, right and center just because someone else is doing it when someone wants to shake it don't just simply shake it think it before you shake it right think it before you just go down and shake it no but we don't think along those lines because we do not wish to think along those lines we you know prefer someone to dictate their terms on us rather than we sharing our system and paradigm with them they don't have to act like their peace they don't let comments about their personalities they don't affect them and they don't always try to prove themselves to other people if they believe what they're doing is true because if a child or a young man lives with encouragement specially from his parents he or she learns how to be confident but if his parents never telling him a positive word you know you know God damn the day you were born I knew it was a jinx day you know what I mean because if the jinx day the day your child was born you should be happy not sad no no no I knew you know what you take after your child I knew it from day one you know I knew it that you take after probably she hates her brother-in-law you know so blame it on the jinx all of a sudden blame it on the jinx it's got that poor child she got nothing to do with it you know he had nothing to do with it but she has an issue with the father so she wants to him you know your child she can't say he takes after you you should probably end up with a you know black eye so she says he takes after his child you know so you and your brother both are nothing basically that's what she's telling her husband and the child listens to this he grows up with this and he grows up to follow the same methodology because he is not positive he's negative his outlook on life becomes very negative they have to be and we must instill this in them they have to be progressive and self-initiating we do not initiate things on their behalf they must initiate ideas they must take the you know what we call it the initiative to come and say something to come and do something to come and ask if we can do this or if we can't do that because their mind is always activated on the basis of how parents speak to them how parents encourage them how parents spend time with them and so on and so forth because if we truly hold within our heart the concern for raising our children then we will become creative in the way we do it but if we don't have the concern for raising our children in the proper perspective then anyone we will call home to carry on the task and the duty of raising them instead of us instead of us so they have to be progressive and self-initiating they cannot be stagnant in time because stagnation means poisonous if you leave a cup of water for 6 months in Jiba house now you leave it on this podium you come back after 6 months this water is what? poisonous why? because it has not been moved it has not been challenged but keep this under the sky if it is raining and come back after 10 years if it keeps raining and this water is being challenged and turning it will remain fresh water you can use and so is the mind and intellect of our children it has to be always challenged in the way we teach them and in the way we talk to them if we don't talk to them if we don't challenge them they will become stagnant and a stagnant mind is what? an idle mind is the devil's playing card if it is not challenged on the basis of truth it will definitely be abused on the basis of satanic temptations there is no doubt about that and I told you and I quoted to you that absence of soul on the basis of Dr. Moore in his book the care for the soul he says if you neglect the soul it does not go back it comes back to haunt you and thematically in drug abuse alcoholism crime loss of meaning and the list goes on and on and so is a mind that is stagnant and unchallenged they need to be progressive and self initiating they are to motivate other people to join good causes because they always take the hardest step they are the first to take causes to a higher level because they are always looking to the ultimate goal they have the higher picture in mind and they don't want they don't wait for others to initiate programs for them they are the initiators of programs even at home even at home they don't want for their parents or someone else to do something so that they would follow no they would come and propose something to their parents to do if a child lives with fairness and equity he or she will learn to be just in every part of his transaction you know what try it brothers and sisters and on the point of try it brothers and sisters I did not say sisters or mothers because it saddens me that some men and I don't know what it seems that I offended some of my brothers somehow I don't know because if you look at the ratio of sisters to brothers it seems that I've been hearing hints you know this Maulana is woman Maulana there's woman Maulana issue you know there's not men issue I say you know it's not about men and women it's about us and coming to an understanding that there is no segregation or inequality between the genders as long as we are working for the same cause and the same objective and that is to produce a better human being and to produce a better human being in this community and society we live in we need the contribution of both parents not one parent right even if you happen to be a worker and you work your guts out and I know you running a company if you are a CAO or you travel that does not exempt you from contributing to the raising and the training of your children and all along your wife right must both of you give your input because psychologist also say oh how beautiful the quote psychologist you know because it seems we are mesmerized by them because if we say I'll think about it it's the truth right but if I say the most renowned psychologist of the world who has the best selling book everyone is attentive okay that psychologist say or psychologist in general say if a male child male child loses connectivity with his dad and I'm not telling fibs I am raising alarm bells tonight being my last night because I hate to leave this community and I have not shared everything I have in my heart okay though I have not yet scratched the surface but let me share as much as I can psychologist say this is the biggest bombshell of all my nights okay I reserved it till today a child who loses connectivity with his father will one time in his life look for a father role moral outside and that will begin in him the homosexuality process and stick about towards finding a male partner يعني simply to become gay we ask why why does Moulinus speak about these issues he shouldn't speak about these issues then what do I do do you know why I speak about these issues because people calling me and parents calling me back home and they say please council our child because he has homosexual tendencies and my answer where were you before that happened where were you as parents the first question I ask the mom because it's often the mom that calls the father will never call because he's ashamed the first question I ask mom mom where is his dad you know what she says he's almost out either playing cards or masha Allah building his shisha to a level that is higher than anyone can expect you know or he is roaming some streets in Thailand I don't know where you know or he's going I don't know to some place in يعني somewhere you know I said no wonder no wonder where the child feels helpless morepless lost because there is no father figure at home there is no father figure and then you know what we blame the mom if it wasn't for you you and your morning sessions you know high tea I don't know what to after noon tea all this that child would not have been lost no one likes to take responsibility why? because the mechanism of family life within the Muslim community does not run in harmony with one another it's not synchronized look at us mother in law fights with daughter in law daughter in law fights with mother in law child with father father with mother يعني husband and wife wife with husband then the parents take it on the children are sorry to say that a dysfunctional community not you not you not you the Muslim world is a dysfunctional community why? because they opted for the rituals of their faith as opposed to the practical aspect of their faith they did not implement Islam in practice as the prophet did he was there for his kids he was there for his grandkids he was there for his daughter he showed us how a father should honor and respect his children first if he expects his children to honor him in return رسول الله sees Fatima تزهراء coming towards him history tells us and all the rewired among the Sunnis and the Shi'a say the prophet would take to his feet in respect to his daughter takes his abaya puts it down and he says you sit in my seat when she sits in his seat رسول الله takes their hand and he kisses it for her in return now his respect it is being earned صلى الله عليه وسلم because he put it into practice when Fatima تزهراء used to see the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم coming she would stand up also in respect to her dad she will make him sit in her place she will take his hand and she will kiss it for him why because she saw what her father wanted in action but we often demand that respect from our children but we don't give it in the first place we want our children to come and kiss our hands and even at times kiss our feet we find there is nothing wrong with it I wish my parents would allow me to kiss their feet day and night you know in gratitude and in honor for what they have provided me with but sometimes they don't they feel the humbleness but they started it first when your way so small your mother would kiss you all over from your hand to your forehead to your head I won't go any further she will kiss you everywhere because she likes you she is teaching you she is inculcating in you they respect that one day she would expect back from you but often we stop at a time when the child doesn't see that respect when the child is about 5 6 when he starts to realize things that's it no more relationship with that child no more jano no more ja no more habibi no more haini no more no more hayati no more albin you know all these terms the light of my heart the light of my eyes the light of my existence although the prophet used to use this term he used to use that he used to say and the apple of my existence of happiness lies in salah in order to direct our attention how important namaz is he said my entire existence and the sweetness of my existence lies when I am performing my prayers not in anything else so he used to use this term he used to actually pamper kebab and use these words of connection with them at a time when they could realize and feel the affection of their grandfather towards them and that's what we need our children to realize at a time when they can feel it so they can reciprocate it so they can reciprocate it I often mention this story and I hope you take it seriously not as a joke once I was away for almost a month like now or even two months and God helped my wife who has to put up with all my troubles you know may Allah bless every wife that puts up with her husband's trouble right and I hope husbands to honor their wives when they put up with their husbands troubles you know and they recognize the fact that she is a sabirah a mu'mina يعني she's sincere she's a believer she's respectful she honors him in his presence and in his absence she does not waste his money nor does she ever think of violating his father in his absence these are true women that we should respect and take our turbans in respect for them and other women also and mothers of course I'm not discrediting anyone right so I'm not saying every woman should marry I'm not anything okay no but I'm just saying if your husband happened to be someone that holds a message and goes out with that message support him in that message because Allah will reward you towards that message anyway to cut the story short I missed my mom who I was then 42 years old so the minute I landed I placed my bags wherever they are at home who I rushed to my mom opened I said no I want to do something to you she said go and sit on the seat now you think I've lost my sanity okay whatever you want I lost my sanity okay so she went inside on her seat I said I want now to sit in your lap she said excuse me you must have lost your mind what have these coaches done to you I said no Allah coaches are good people well I love them we all my heart she said what's this since when I said I miss you can't I not miss you I miss you I want to hug you I want to feel my childhood with you now when I am an adult to show you how much I respect the sand that you walk on the sand that you walk on she said no no no you're too too too big for me you'll crush my knees I've already had one knee replacement I said okay I have another proposal whatever I said lift your feet let me sit under your feet she said honest to God there's something wrong with you today I said no mom wallah listen just one minute you used to teach us when we were young a very beautiful hadith now I've realized what that hadith means and I want to practice that hadith the hadith that you used to teach us that the prophet said paradise lies under the feet of mothers who literally I come to realize that under your feet lies heaven so can you lift your feet so I can sit in heaven for a minute this is how we should relate to our mothers brothers and sisters this is how we should relate to one another out of concern and admiration to what they have presented us and when we do that then our children will reciprocate to us the same respect and the same you know the same sentiments that we show them what we need to do to our children also and I have one minute left that they should be solution oriented what does that mean they don't wait for mom and dad to come and solve the problems for them no they should be equipped in knowing how to resolve their problems because mom is not always there for them and dad is not always present for them right they have to become solution oriented they do not stop working until they reach the desired result they don't take personally the problems that they might run into along the way and they make sure the obstacles along the way they don't become uncontrollable keeping the final vision in mind what are they trying to achieve keep that in mind and work towards it even if there were obstacles along the way but don't wait for mom to tell you what to do don't wait for dad to tell you dad and mom have already told you and showed you now you take the initiative you become solution oriented to such an extent that you are able to reach out to others and give them solutions and show them how solution can be achieved if a child lives with praise and recognition he or she learns to appreciate himself his parents and others one last point one last point sorry they must be resolute the biggest problem children have or they are raised to have is what they don't know when to make a decision yes no tomorrow no not tomorrow maybe after tomorrow next week and you know the punchline the punchline which means it's never going to happen Insha'Allah forget it that's the end of it Insha'Allah I will do it it's not going to happen why haven't we been seeing you for the last month Insha'Allah I'll come and see you that can see him for another year that's our insha'Allah yet insha'Allah in the Quranic text means what means big bin means big bin you know big bin يعني it's going to happen when you give time to someone I'm going to see you insha'Allah at 2 o'clock it does not mean 2 o'clock AM it means 2 o'clock PM right it's not AM because he doesn't expect you to come at AM he expects you to be 2 PM after Salah because that's the time you gave him right when you give time you know once I went to a wedding the wedding was at 3 o'clock the guy says مولانا it's 3 o'clock I said yes you said the wedding is at 3 they said not for you for others I said what do you mean they said you know our community you tell them 3 PM they come 5 who are of all the community that never shows on time so I assumed you're not going to show on time I said so is this what مولانا's teach you that you should not keep time I said I told you a million time I'm an educated chef I'm not a مولان please 3 o'clock next time means 3 o'clock because you know what your time is not more important than my time nor my time is more important than your time each person's time is important in his own right I have no right to hijack it from you nor you have a right to hijack it from me because time has to be respected Allah spoke about time in the Quran in so many times to such an extent that he considered time if it is not used appropriately it's the back break of your existence when he said والعصر إِنَّ الْإِنْسَانَ لَفِيْخُسْفِ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَلُوا وَتَوَاصْفُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَتَوَاصَفُوا بالْحَقِّ he said by the token of time people are doomed except إِلَّا الَّذِينَ except the believers the believers in one system in the practical system in the human system that makes you a human being إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَلُوا except the believers and that's it no and they were good it's not good enough to say faith is in my heart والله if you look at my heart it's V8 not good enough should V8 V8 so what if it's a V8 V8 has to show performance on earth does your V8 run from 0 to 100 in 3.5 of a second then you're a Ferrari then you have a good heart in your faith and your heart is being inculcated into action but if it is not then it's a stagnant heart it means nothing to say belief is by heart no الله says belief is by heart but it is corroborated by action it is corroborated إِلَّا الَّذِينَ آمَلُوا وَعمِلُوا الصالحات and then what والتَوَاصَف بالحق and they always hold to the truth والتَوَاصَف and they are always patient they are always patient so we need to teach our parents about resolute they are willing to take risks even in their decision making even if they are hesitant خلص بيوزلوت say I'm going to do it don't hesitate don't delay الله says to the prophet فَلِذَا عَزَمْتَا when you are resolute وَنَمَتَا what should you do go ahead فَتَوَاكَلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَلِذَا عَزَمْتَا فَا فَا in Arabic means what immediate there is immediate I can see some knots it does not mean delay عَزَمْتَا فَا you are resolute then do it immediately okay they are willing to take risks and enjoy taking the challenge they don't get discouraged because of obstacles or not being able to make the right decision at the moment they are faced with a problem if a child lives with negative shame always he learns to feel guilty even if he has not done anything wrong and that kills the confidence of our children anyway may Allah SWT in conclusion allow us to know the truth follow the truth and be the advocates and the communicators of the truth let me go into the questions that you have raised yes and our volunteers are on both sides one here and what is the compensation if you leave it for a sickness for travel or for any legitimate reason you have to make it up again after the month of fasting if you break it intentionally for no reason whatsoever still you have to make it up but at a larger and more cost which is for each day you have 3 options either you fast 2 months or you feed 60 hungry or needy person or you emancipate a slave if they are slaves there is no more slaves and the reason why Allah says you emancipate a slave is because Allah had planned the abrogation of slavery in Islam so you see in the rule of Islam every second rule is free a slave free a slave free a slave so that the community will be free from what from slaves not to enslave some people think that Islam you know did not abrogate slave like Islam brought a system for the abrogation of slavery anyway so you have to make it if you can't make it alright then you delayed in a few solution oriented to this question then you have to pay you have to make it and pay compensation on top if you delayed it until the next Ramadan comes in there what is the punishment for homosexuality you want the truth rehabilitation you didn't expect that right yeah because someone would say kill them barbecue them that's what you do to them now I say rehabilitate them because they don't know what they doing they being misled to think that it is genetic and it is so so how can I put it it is so insulting to a human intelligence to say that homosexuality is actually genetically inherent it is not and psychologist has come out and also stated that there is nothing to prove that homosexuality is inborn it's impossible that even if we put religion aside put religion aside you don't want to believe in God you don't want to believe in God put religion aside the whole universe runs on the basis of one positive and one negative it doesn't mean that the positive is better than the negative and the negative is better than the positive right why they are called positive and negative because they complement one another if they don't exist then they cannot function for example your battery in the car goes dead you get droplets you know the droplets try to put the negative on the negative and the positive on the positive what happens you will be fired right fired by the spark and humanity wants to put negative with negative and positive with positive and they say it's okay what are you going to be sparked you are going to be sparked mentally emotionally physically mentally you are going to lose it you are going to lose it if you do it in that way so I say rehabilitation for the misled is of paramount importance in that regard and if you are looking for another answer let me tell you that the answer you are looking for is not only in Islam Christianity preach it Judaism preach it all the divine religion preach that particular punishment I don't want to say it because I want to concern myself with rehabilitating them rather than condemning them and pushing them away on the basis of what I told you the prophet mission was the prophet mission was not to eliminate people but to eliminate their wrong within them that's the prophet mission he does not want to kill people nowadays girls and older women wear the hijab the head is covered no doubt but they wear skin tight clothes the latest what? PJs having the legs and the slits oh yes I've seen this today in Zanzama yes and I said to myself what's going on in this world tell the waist the slits of the shirts are tell the waist so when they walk or sit they are fully exposed especially if they are whiter or cream colored she had discrimination why the discrimination and if they are dark colored they will not be noticed they will be noticed Allah when he spoke about dark and light he said from the ocean comes out الياخوت والمرجان comes out الياخوت الياخوت is red يعني darkمرجان coral يعني white so people have taste towards what is dark and what is white don't discriminate brother فلقا Huang خافراس shower also worn I'm not keeping up with fat Touring by the way extraction this is a new term I should learn خايف أتعرف the hard horn with his job I don't understand the concept of covering the head and the rest of the body is exposed can't assured some life يعني it answers clear I set the hijab it's an all round to dare spot it's not just to cover the head فهي جاب هو حياته ، فهي حياته ، فهي هنا ، يبدأ with the mind internally and then overflows on your entire behavior to such an extent that hijab also begins to control the way you think and in particular the way you allow your tongue to bite at others. يعني حيجاب is not all I'm better than you why because I wear my scarf better than you but I have a tongue on me God help you if I take my tongue out there is no recovery from my tongue till the day of judgment. It's worse than a scorpion bite. Okay. Is this hijab? This is not hijab.    And let me tell you something you have done a better job than us men. Sorry to say that because us men can always hide our identity.  لذلك اعجبنا سلسلةنا الذين يستخدمون بشكل كبير لتعتقدون ما يستخدمون. لتقنق with the overall concept of Hijab. السلام شيخ وعليكم السلام I'm the owner. لا حوله. والله I'm not picking at you. هو يقول السلام عليكم شيخ I'm the owner of NIMCO. و سأسأل لك why you keep picking on me. والله I don't. I'm not country. صلى الله عليه وحمد وآله وحبه. جميل one brother. لذلك إذا قمت بإعلاءني the owner to visit one of your shops because I've heard so much about NIMCO that I'm dying to go and see it in person. لذا my apologies if I sound it in any way as if I'm picking on NIMCO. الله سبحانه وتعالى your rusks and everything that comes out of your company. سأعطي بعض المساعدة as to what our reaction or action be in the present time when Muslims are being targeted and martyred based on their belief. What practical measures should be adopted to denounce our association with people who target Muslims based on their faith or belief. Now can we practically condemn such acts and how do we announce that we are not a party to people who do such acts? What is our duty as an individual and as a community? I think let me begin from the community and let me begin from our leadership with all due respect to our leadership. And when I speak about leadership I'm not talking locally. I'm talking more internationally. Our leadership must take a firmer stand in regard to the question of unity among Muslims. And I will spell it out. The question does not say it. You're talking about Sinni Shia. I will come and say it. We must do everything in our power to stop the carnage that is taking place in today's world in regard to the killing or the targeted killing of one another because we will only be harming ourselves and our setups. I said it and I will say it a million times. I love Karachi and I love Pakistan because it's a beautiful country but I don't love the carnage that is taking place and sweeping this country. It dismisses me. It makes me feel sorry. It makes me feel sad. It makes me feel pity for the situation that is happening in this country and we must do everything in our power. One of our community leaders or members of this setup at least when I spoke two days ago about unity between Muslims he gave me, he said, Chair, give me that speech of yours. I said, why Uncle? He said, because it's about time we do something. I said, what do you want to do? He said, I want to switch your speech into a very articulate news article and select a good English important newspaper which is top of the class in our country here in Pakistan to start promoting this ideology among the Muslims. I said, this is a step in the right direction. A step in the right direction is not for someone to stand on the mimbara and further escalate the problem between Shi'as and Sunnis. That is not a stand. Wallah, wallah, wallah. Our Imams are not pleased with anyone who aggravate the situation further and further between the two groups. Imam Ali, peace be upon him, 25 years he was removed from his post according to our belief at least. Right? According to our belief. I am talking academic. Yet, what was his behavior in that government? If you want to be Ali like then do what Ali did. peace be upon him. What did he do? He participated to the last minute in all the previous three governments that came before. To such an extent that Omar himself, the second Khalifa used to say openly in front of everyone may I not live to a day which Ali is not in it. May I not live to a day that Ali is not in it. Why? Because Ali declared his intention. When he said لأسل منما سلمت أمور المسلمين وإن لم يكن فيها إلا علي إل وإن لم يكن فيها جورن إلا علي خاصة meaning what? that I shall surrender my right for as long as I see the unity of the Muslim is one. As long as Muslim unity is intact although I will suffer personally on account of being removed from my seat but it doesn't matter. That's my heart. I've waived it. I have waived it. Why do you want to become more Ali than Ali then? Why? If Ali said سلام الله عليك سلام الله عليك I shall surrender I shall cooperate I shall work and you know what? Something probably you've never heard in your life that our imams and our history says this that when the Muslim armies were fighting against the Romans they were beaten yet they were back to be what beaten by the Romans because the Romans at one stage outnumbered the Muslims عمر the second Khalifa called the council of Shura you know when they called them the council of the like we call the legislative council the top ranking companions of the prophet he called them who among them was Ali so he said what is your opinion? they said about what? he said I want to join the Muslim army personally to fight against the Romans they said what an excellent idea you'll boost the morale of the Muslim army everyone said that everyone he came to Ali Ali is quiet he said I can't or I did not hear your opinion in the matter he said I advise against going and being party to the Muslim army he said why? he said because if you are killed then the entire Muslim state will be shaken this you don't hear you don't hear this right? tell me something if I was Ali because I would think that way not Ali would think that way Wallah Ali would not think that way I would think that way if I knew Omar wanted to go and fight what would I do? go go I'll pay you the ticket it will be first class you know Wallah I'm the best red camel I will put you you know red camels during those days you know what they were they were the bankers and the rules races of that time to own a red camel it's like you have a Rolls Royce Phantom you know or a Rolls Royce Corniche you know two doors conformable the ultimate calm you know for a rich person I will pay you the ticket no Omar said Ali says you should not go because you will shake the morale of the entire state and then Omar says you have a point that is the right advice you know what guys if you want my interest in the matter as much or one sorry no one wants the interest of Islam as much as Abul Hassan always wants the interest of Islam this is Abul Hassan Peace be upon you this is Ali Ibn Abi Talib that we get condemned because the way we preach about Ali Ibn Abi Talib Ali Abi Talib is free from the way we preach about him sorry to say that Ali Ibn Abi Talib when the entire army of the opposite side comes to him and they say they are swearing at you he says I know I've heard them I've heard them cursing me swearing at me swearing at me so he said okay we gotta swear at them his people he said we gotta swear at them but the way they deal with us we will deal with them Ali Ibn Abi Talib comes out of his tent God is all his army he said listen to me I hate for you to be among those who curse and who swear these things you don't hear this is a خطب in natural Balaam instead what we do we pride ourselves in cursing or on cursing curse والله والله the school of Ahlulbayt are not the perpetrators of cursing we did not initiate cursing we are not the one that initiated cursing when cursing came from someone else it was as a response to what was initiated that cursing came at large values you know someone would say oh sheikh sheikh please please don't argue with me on that point Allah she cursed Allah cursed so if Allah cursed I can curse good let me agree with you Allah did curse but Allah is Alim who I am Jaheel Allah is Alim Allah is the most knowing when he curses he knows why he is cursing but when I am cursing I am Jaheel I am ignorant I don't know whether my curse is in the right place or not and sometimes I would curse and the curse will come against me you know why because look how Allah says على لعنة الله على الظالمين so you know what if you are going to say على لعنة الله على الظالمين make sure first that I am not a zalim first because then I will be swearing against myself okay don't be a zalim at home because that I will include you when Allah says على لعنة الله على الظالمين don't be a zalim or an oppressor with your workers because that I will include you even if you go to the biggest imam ba'gah and you pray thousand rak'anama during the day that you're coming huh don't be an oppressor against your children don't be an oppressor against your wife because Allah is saying على لعنة الله على على everyone who is what a zalim of course على لعنة الله على الظالم which is better not to implicate yourself or to implicate yourself why do you need it you want to get closer to Ahlulbayt go get closer to Ahlulbayt on the basis of their monajat and praises of Allah that will guarantee you to get closer to Ahlulbayt and don't be like those who advocate negativeness in community where our children are paying the price now to certain extent and I will make you the judge of this and I want you to be fair in your judgment a young man came to me once because his mind has been polluted by the negativeness in some of our community you know what he said he said what do you have against cursing I said it's not in my system nor did I learn cursing from my imams my imams don't curse peace be upon you and if they curse they curse in general like Allah taught us and they don't specify and the fact was that are coming out from our Maraja of Taklit now is what don't swear don't curse don't mention particular individual because it will heal the unity of Muslims at its core and we will be paying the price right around it came from several countries and you know the country that these fatwa are coming out from this young man doesn't agree with the Maraja because he is more learned than the Maraja okay so we are having an academic discussion he said what do you have against cursing I said I don't do it because I don't believe I need to do it I need to purify my tongue and heart from cursing he says you know what you don't even know what Islam is all about I said okay tell me Islam please maybe I can learn from it he said do you know that cursing is better than sending salawat on Muhammad I said you know what I don't want to debate with you anymore if you think that cursing is better than something Allah put so high in his Quran when he said بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم إن الله و ملائكة هو يصلون على النبي يا أيها الذين آمنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليمها الله قمت بعمل أحول آية في تفكير أحول سلام الله عليك قمت بعمل أحول آية في تسليم أسفق في القرآن لكنه قمت بعمل و تخبرني أن تسليم أفضل سلوات و روت على محمد و أعلم محمد I said this is the beauty of our situation that makes you cry blood instead of teas for the carnage that is taking place in our communities in our societies if we want change to happen let change happen within our midst first second we must engage all Muslims at around table conference enough is enough let us have our solidarity together and discuss issues openly and let's put them on practice not just when we meet سلام عليكم we hug and kiss we are brothers in this lab but when everyone goes to his own mosque back to normal everything back to normal just for the sake of the conference we are you know what we are just as they say in Arabic you know what we do we rub the beads of one another to make us feel good about ourselves that Alhamdulillah I took a shot with the Mufti of Egypt yeah good looks cool man looks so cool but when everyone goes back to his mosque same thing nothing has happened and we have not achieved anything sorry I take much time but your questions Mashallah are so academic طيب موام okay ليلة القدر what was the revelation Quran came to Rasool in bits and on certain conditions please explain why we say Quran نازلا او نازل قرآن النازل تقليد you told me I should do تقليد of the Stanley Sahab I didn't say that but in the Quran Allah I did not say that I said there are مراجع I said if you don't want to become مقلد you become the Stanley yourself right you study to become an expert in that regard ان شاء الله you know what maybe I will follow you because I'm not a Muslim I will follow you if you become an expert because you need to be an expert in the field that's what I was explaining and I said there are many مراجع of تقليد if you see them fit for you to do تقليد I didn't name any of them I said there are There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is There is مع شيء that you think will help you. Go and do a tonsillitis operation. Or you put your hand inside and pull them out. Because you're an expert, maybe I can do it. And let us be academic in our approach. And I'm not attacking the questioner. No, no, I have no issue with the person who is asking the question. I'm saying in general, if we want to argue a point, let us argue on the basis of academia. Why do we surrender without any hesitation to the fact that I am a follower in certain fields. I'm a follower of a doctor or not. When I fall sick. I'm a follower of someone that comes to build my house or not.     Even if you have what we call in the West a builder-licen builder.  You don't know how to build your home. You know what? Because you have to follow certain instructions. And if you don't follow the certain instructions according to the rules of the building industry, you will not get the approval at the end of the building of your house to enter your house. You have to put it down and start again. So what we say about mokallideen or about Maraja is that they wave the way. They are scientists. They are experts. They help you along the way. Yes, you will be responsible on the day of judgment if you come before Allah and you say but you know what? You know God? I tried my level best because I thought it was that way. Allah they will tell you. Didn't you have experts in the fields to ask why did you do it yourself? Allah will ask you that. This is what Allah will ask you. Not that Allah will ask you only why did you depend on the opinion of the Marja. I depended on the opinion of the Marja in as much as I depended like you told me or Allah to go to the experts. Didn't Allah say go to the experts in the Qur'an? He gave بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فسألوا أحلت ذكرين كنتم لا تعلمون Go and ask the people who are in doubt with knowledge if you are unable to have that knowledge. In doubt with knowledge means what? Any knowledge. Any knowledge. Any knowledge. If you need an expert opinion on a matter Allah says go and ask it. يعني for example let's say I am a Marja of Taki. You can say مولانا should I build my house facing east or west? I am not an expert in that matter. And I have to admit I'm not an expert in that matter because I'll be crouching on my own limitation. Where you want to build your house go and ask an expert. Go and ask an engineer. Go and ask an urban facilitator. You know. He will tell you whether it's face to face east or west maybe all I will tell you I will tell you don't make sure that your bathrooms does not face count. That's all I will say. But a bathroom I can't say anything else. Right? That's my expert opinion in the matter. But I don't have any expert opinion other than that in that regard. So following a Marja is not that you actually surrender your mind. No. You are engaging the mind of an expert. That's how we should view it. You are engaging the mind of an expert. So much so when you engage the mind of someone who comes to give you a feasibility study when you want to put for example a new project in the countryside of Pakistan to start a business in what you call it a meal for cotton for example. When you want to put a meal for cotton in all honesty would you just do it yourself? Wouldn't you go for an expert? You're about to invest 50 million dollars in the project. Would you put just 50 million dollars like this? Or would you go and ask an expert in that matter? But Subhanallah only when it comes to religion we are all experts. Only when it comes to religion everyone is a doctor of law a doctor of jurisprudence. Do you know that studying religion has its own rules and regulations? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I don't want to say that. If some يعني مولانا don't project that image don't blame the religion. Don't blame the religion. Studying religion is not something easy. We study 17 subjects in a day in order to understand why this verse was revealed in this time. Why in this shade. Why at that place. How does it interpret in this regard. How does it work in this position. It's not just for fun. We just don't go there to wear a turban.  Time on a record. A simple as that. It's not that much. But if you want to go and be an expert in the matter it is to facilitate people's life and not to make it difficult for them. In Sistani In Sistani صاحب سطبي you told me I could invest the money in my bank and use the interest or the investment. But it says no suit would suit. That's not interest. I explained according to the fatwa of Sistani. If you don't ask your bank to pay you and the bank goes and invest your money and then takes that money and invest it and then gives you a return on it he says in this case it does not amount to interest. You can take it because the bank is investing with your own money. That's his opinion in the matter as an expert in that particular field. If you're not happy with his opinion then consult another merger in that regard and see what he says in regard to this. My both all the children my daughter 32 in Karachi and my son is 30 in Toronto. Both don't fast and pray but they do if they I don't know they something they have good children or something so insha'Allah they will pray and fast insha'Allah they will pray and fast a window a window no children monthly income 35,000 in cash or in fast certificate something called fast certificate on apartment where she is staying two small houses empty not on rent children in the bank that's a good marriage proposal that's a very good marriage proposal anyone interested anyone interested how much the card is on her to whom she would give please the sister will wrote this question put your email address I'll give you the details in writing because you need I'm not proposing to that sister don't get a funny idea صلى الله عليه وسلم my wife is in the audience she will kill me and even if she's not I will not do it anyway do you no do you think the 12th Imam will unite all the Muslims in the world yes he does because Allah says صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم his paradigm will prevail all over the world by virtue of and knowledge not by the edge of the sword the Imam comes with knowledge with academia with debates with argument with discussion in order to convince people about the truth and and is the indication of the arrival is what's happening I think now is an indication of the arrival of the Imam maybe I think there is a lot of signs happening but I said and I always say don't concern with yourself with the sign concern yourself with your readiness for the Imam when it comes prepare yourself don't worry about the signs I remember in 2005 you know one of the major signs of the reappearance of the Imam is we have been told that there will be two lunar eclipses in the one month right or wrong right everyone knows in 2005 I was in London South London you know or in London I don't know maybe it was south or wherever so it happened that we had two lunar eclipses in that month you know what happened everyone wanted to divorce his wife everyone wanted to sell the company everyone wanted to leave the house why the Imam is coming خلاص you know why should I hear everyone started signing over their inheritance okay the first month came the Imam didn't the next came the Imam didn't the third came the Imam didn't and now it's been 5 years 7 years the Imam didn't come no these youth are saying where is the Imam the way we are telling them about the signs made them even down the Imam himself right because we are not trying to put their signs in what in the whole attitude or paradigm of Islam no we put the signs in abstract no you have to look at the whole picture not in abstract I said to you brothers when someone puts a proposal towards your ancestors of course you don't give the answer like this if I tell you what would you prefer a straight line or a curved line what would you say straight line right but if I say that straight line is going to be your eyebrow oh God no then I want it to be curved a little bit at least right because you know right you want a curved line meaning when I want to look at the Imam let me look at every other scenario in place and not at just one side or dimension of his reappearance and the biggest important sign of the reappearance of the Imam is our readiness our preparedness to be available I bet you now I bet you now if the Imam comes we are not ready to receive him we are not ready we are not you know if the Imam looks at our door oh my God it's the Imam wait wait wait I've got a couple of bottles under the bed I have to get rid of them and then the Imam looks again wait wait I have to go and take all the photos of Katrina of Phyllis Pease Michael Jackson you know from my daughter's bedroom wait wait wait I have to take all the black labels of Bombay Blue who Johnny Walkers from the fridge in the garage the Imam knocks the third time I'm still not ready I'm clearing the house still you know wait wait wait until the convertible Hijab comes on you know so the Imam is ready to see my wife then you are ready you glean everything you open the door the Imam is not there you know why because the prophet told us the etiquette of visitation is that after the third knock you are not wanted simple as that the etiquette of visitation you knock once you knock twice you knock three times if the people don't answer the door simply Allah says to you turn and go back don't go back to the backyard don't go back to the window and see if they are hiding behind it's not your problem it means the people are not ready give them the benefit of the doubt and go back no no you know it مولانا wait let us look over the fence maybe they are hiding on the jola you know it's not your problem Allah says if they tell you the Quran says they tell it from where you came from it is better in the sight of Allah towards righteousness that you comply you know why because everyone has his own problems and you don't know maybe you came at a time which was not appropriate right and maybe the Imam will come at a time which is not appropriate because we are not ready so let us ask for the appropriateness of our measures that when the Imam comes we don't fail ourselves towards him Salamu Alaikum don't be concerned with the signs don't be concerned with the signs how many signs were there for Imam Hussein Salamu Alaa who was with Imam Hussein Salamu Alaa who was with him 72 people were there not enough Muslims during that time now there were plenty of Muslims were they ready they were not ready to be there right okay even though we believe in Allah why is it so that some people have a weak faith who is to be blamed how how these are something few these us as individuals is it us as individual our parents the environment why do we pinpoint at each other rather than looking at our own self absolutely absolutely absolute take my hat off I said from day one if we want things to change let us look introspectively first look inside us look towards our ego let us establish our own reawakening in finding the truth if you look deep you will find Imam Ali said تزق مؤنك جرمون صهير you claim that you are a small mass yet وقد what the whole world and its secrets have been put within you the whole world and its secret is embedded inside you you just need to look a little bit inside رطولs are considered to be important many a times but on the other hand emphasis is more on Islam as a way of life why is that so because without having Islam as a way of life rituals are meaningless because what we are talking about rituals if the rituals are going to be confined to a time and a space and it is not an overwhelming paradigm of existence then the time of space for these rituals will be confined to their time and space i.e inside the mosque they don't become you and Islam wants these rituals to become you Islam wants the Salah to be Muhammad the Salah to be Ali the Salah to be عزمان the Salah to be Jihad the Salah to be Zayna the Salah to be Jamila not Jamila the Salah to be anyone alright so meaning what meaning that Salah becomes an embodiment of that human being what does Salah stand for يعني نماز stand for it has to be you then it's no longer a ritual it's a way of life that's what we mean when we say it's a way of life that you become Salah Incarnate you become Salah Incarnate you become Rosa Incarnate what does Rosa mean Rosa means to feel the light of others to feel the hunger of others to give you an incentive instead of making more project to increase your wealth make some project to alleviate the problems of some people that is what Rosa it's an institution of learning and studying you know and when you give give generously please forget the Markinson's disease now it will come to you shall we it won't you know give because when you give Allah will give again when you give don't give rupees give dollars give dollars for a worthy cause of course you know someone when they give you know they are earning millions of dollars a thousand dollars two thousand even ten thousand dollars in their case is pocket money pocket money wallah I know some people some people five thousand dollars is pocket money for them pocket money but when they want to give hundred rupees hundred rupees but hundred rupees you're giving your wife's bag sorry I'm not an attack on anyone wallah it's ten thousand dollars it's new if you don't you know it's ten thousand dollars a bag one bag with a purse inside it is 750 you know who the coin wallet is thousand five hundred any seven thousand five hundred is the wallet who the coin purse is five thousand dollars just wallet pocket change good I'm not against it pamper your wives they will pamper you back good but pamper the poor the orphan you know why because the prophet said I and the sponsor of an orphan are like this in Jannah يعني we walk hand in hand blessed are the supporters of orphans on the day of judgment the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم you know what he says I will come on the day of judgment and all of a sudden I see a woman pushing huh pushing the prophet so the prophet looks he said who is she why is she pushing me she said look what she said she is the sponsor of the orphans Allah Allah she is the sponsor of the orphans she is used the sponsor orphan she feels that she has a position next to you يعنى صلى الله عليه وسلم الله أكبر this is where money is really invested or in honoring your Muslim brothers and sisters as well so no go for it yes indeed go for it and like look introspectively in terms of establishing what we need to establish where when you are in USA UK etc can you eat what has not been insulted with the name of Allah no no name has been evolved on the animal no because I do not eat anything except at Pakistani or Arabic restaurant or my daughters house where Halal meat is cooked may Allah bless you and honor you that's the way to go topic Zakat sorry for you to repeat Zakat you mentioned that you need to give on your income gold if you are trading in gold but you do not give on your saving as you give homes on saving do you have to give on gold or silver which is with you kept as security for the children but not in use do you need to give on your accumulated wealth please specify in regard to the first one if that accumulated silver or gold that is not being used and it is not being used as a form of zina ornament just sits in the bank for nothing yes you have to pay on a Zakat if it reaches more than one sorry more than 81 grams of weight in regard to that issue please specify that you do not have to give Zakat on your saving or wealth no you don't if you are a follower of the school of Ahlul Bait but you pay homes on your savings that's what I said do you give Zakat on company shares certificates which you have you own them and you get dividends from them no you give homes on that if the dividends are saved for a year and you have not used from these dividends the saving of that year please describe the concept of insurance both life insurance and gel according to all the marajah of takleed in the Ahlul Bait school of thought all forms of insurance are allowed because when we say insurance for life it doesn't mean it's protection against death no it means to ensure that you leave something for your children after you pass away may Allah يعني I'll share along all your life Inshallah according to our Sunni school of thought they say some of the learned scholars of the Sunni School of Thought they say all forms of insurance are Harab all forms some of our Sunni scholars who have studied the matter from a social perspective and they've given it also some any dimension to it they say no all forms of insurance is Halal except life insurance مجرده، هذا هو المؤشر في المنطقة مجرده الأسلحة، أي أسلحة سيكولوجيا، أي إسلام، أي مجرده جميعاً، مجرده الأسلحة والإسلام مجرده الأسلحة، المجردين aren't all of them المجردون aren't real but not all of them يبقى على حياتهم والمجردين من يرى المجردين وانا يأتون كل مجرد أنا أخبرك عن الآن، ما ترى في المجرد إنه ليس حقيقي ، إنه ليس حقيقي في ذلك الحال. يمكن أن يكون هناك محاولة للمحاولة حقيقة لأنك تحصل على محاولة حقيقة. أنت ترى محاولة ، أنت ترى شيء محاولة. أنت ترى شيء ما أنت ترى قبل. لذا هذه هي حقيقة ، محاولة. ثم أنك تعلم أن هذا يوجد بعض مجرد منه. هناك بعض مجرد منهم ، يوجد أحد منهم مباشرة في المحاولة. ويوجد أيضاً المحاولة ، إما أنه يوجد إمام جاعة فرصانك ، سلوات الله وسلامه عليك. ويوجد أيضاً المحاولة ترى هنا وينه ، لأنك يمكنك تحصل على المحاولة. بل سيكولوجياً ، لا يريد أن تضع محاولة على المحاولة إذا كانت محاولة. هل أنت محاولات مهما؟ هل أنت محاولات مهما؟ افضل هذه المحاولات المهماً لا يساعدون على الإحوات وجوبة. يجب أن يجد محاولة على الحق. فلن يكون محاولة. إذا بالتصميم على المحاولة الإذا كانت محاولة من أيطلا محمدساً وسفوط للأبنان ، يقول أن كل المحاولة يمكن أن تكون نهاية. لذا إذا كنت في تقليل هذا المحاولة ، يمكنك تتحصل على المحاولة إذا بلا تضع محاولة. وكما تقوم بأفكار أضم راجعة وكما تستطيع أن تقوم بإضافة ذلك هل تمكنك أن تخبرنا بفتحك المساعدة للأجل؟ بعد كل هذه 10 دقيقة لا حاولة ولا قوة إلا بالله أتبعي من المحاولة أتبعي من المحاولة خلال سيارة سلاحة حولاً شوية لا يفتح جميع المزيد من الموجود سوف أطلقي ما أردتكم في يوم ذلك سأبقى المؤسس معك سلام if I want to make my will I am allowed to make for my all assets like house, money, jewelry, etc. أو just for the 33% and 66% will be like شريع لديك عائل. ما أنت تفعله هو أنك يجب أن تدخل حدث لشري حضورك. ولكن one third of your entire asset is at your discretion. One third of your entire asset is at your discretion to do with them the way you want. Even if you want to give it to one of your daughters, you can. And just in case you are worried about it, for example. Although I explained why it is two to one, but even sometimes we still doubtful or we want to be extra short, you can do that. Why we celebrate it separately? In one house, one brother Takled Imam Khomeini. In another Takled Imam Khomeini. Why our scholars can't sit down together and decide once for all to be together? How can in one house one brother is fasting another in Rosa? Is this unity? No, it's not unity, but take it up with the margin. I cannot unite all the Muslims. Although I wish I can unite all the Muslims. My opinion, humble, simple opinion to you and to all my respected Marajah of Takled that I take my hat off to them in regard of respect. The only way we can achieve unity in regard to the moon determination when it comes to moon sighting, not to moon fighting. Is to adopt the astronomical calculation of the birth of the moon. That's the safest way out to have one Eid together. Because Eid has been highly politicized these days. Even if you forget Marajah at Takled, countries now celebrate Eid according to loyalties of one political system against another. And you know Saudi and Egypt is a classical example. They used to always declare one because of political tension among themselves. Salam brother Jihadu. We missed you all here last year after the lectures. And again the waiting starts from today. Thank you for being here. Awaiting your return, your sister. So and so. May Allah bless you. And I await to see you all again insha'Allah soon. Please could you share your email address with us. Many thanks.  It is Sheikh Jihad. SH now she is the best wife ever. Alhamdulillah رب العلم. She is so tolerant, so accepting. So يعني ما شاء الله. May Allah bless and bless all our wives. Your wives. Not mine. Please it is Sheikh Jihad. SH, SH, EI, KHH. SH, EI, KHH. J-E-H-A-D at Hotman.com. At Hotman.com. Question one. And observation that a lot of questions being asked revolved around money. Sex, rituals. Could you share with us the importance of inner purification? And what to focus on to improve ourselves. Wallah that's what I've been talking about. Wallah that's what I've been talking about. يعني if I have not been talking about this, what have I been talking about? For 10 days wallah I lost my voice. I said inner purification, introspective. Look at yourself. Become not a ritualistic Muslim. Try to entertain your spirituality. If you neglect your spirituality it will not go away. It will come to haunt you. If I introduce certain stuff. This is part of your purification process. To speak about money so your money will be halal. To speak about your sexuality so your sexuality will improve your spirituality as well. Because if you are all over the place in this department, your spirituality will not function in the right department as well. So we need to be, I said, an all rounder Muslim in all these aspects of our existence. Question 2. What is slams? What is slams on monogamy? Who always hold and spear the question? I think it's about Muta or monogamy. And scores of wives and some, but what of monogamy? You know what? I'll tell you what monogamy. Monogamy is when every woman refuse to be number 2. I'll rest my case. Get it? Get it? Don't blame men. If every woman refuse to be wife number 2, we don't have filigree. We have what? Monogamy. Okay? It's true or not? If every woman refuse to be wife number 2. Thank you. Alright. How do you handle someone who becomes angry? And is unpredictable? Short term. I will send him to an anger management course. Seriously, this is not a joke. Anger, the Prophet SAW said, is one of the worst characteristics of a human being and one of the worst sins after alcohol. The Prophet SAW said, الخمر is the mother of all evil. It leads to so many. After that comes what? Anger. He who angers you, what controls you. When someone angers you, he starts to control you because you lose it. He starts to throw things at you. You'll jump, you'll jump. Run, you will run. Someone is standing next to you on a traffic light. He revs his car. Boom. He'll rev it. Why you rev it? Because he's angering you. You can't stand it. Because you have no control over your emotions. And it leads to disastrous outcome. Disasters. It leads to divorce. It leads to violence. It leads to dissension. If you know you are angry, the minute you see signs of anger, leave the scene. Don't stay. Leave it. You're about to have? Punch someone. Retract. I know sometimes wives push the wrong buttons. And we husbands sometimes push the wrong buttons. The minute you see the wrong buttons are being pushed, retract. Change the situation. Do you know what you do? Your anger takes the better of you. Go and have wudu. Why? Because the Rasool الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said anger is from the devil. And nothing quills or takes away the effect of fire except what? Water. Because anger from the devil.  If you want to quit it, go and. You know one day a small child not a young man came and said I tried making wudu. It didn't work. I said go and have a shower. Because your devil is death beat. Jump in a pool. And control your anger. It means you have a serious problem brother. Serious problem. And I asked my sister's humbly please don't push the wrong buttons. Please let us synchronize our relationship and not put you. So your husband is getting angry. Don't have a go at him. Leave a trumpet. Visited another time. Visited another time. If you want to discuss matters with him invite him to Gloria James. Okay. Invite him to what do you call it? Wellington. Is it? Wellington it's called. In. In. This chocolate please. Butler. Butler. Invite him to Butler. Offer him the nicest and the choices of Swiss chocolate. Mismerize him. You know. Let him come. Give him the dose of calmness. And then says Habibi. My life. You know. Let's discuss our problems of getting angry. Now he's killing. He's killing. He's having the best chocolate ever. He will give and take. But when he's on fire or when he's seen coming out of his and you are still punching the wrong buttons. Yes. Every time this is you.  If it wasn't for that devil. If it wasn't for the snake. You think he's going to be quiet. Do you really think at that moment your husband's going to be quiet? You know he's not. Your neck will be the price. Sorry. Unfortunately. I'm not advocating that. But that's reality. You have to stop it. Change the atmosphere. Change the situation. You're angry. Please don't get angry my child. Please. Forget it. خلص. Story is over. Argument is done. No problem. We'll talk about it later. Develop techniques that help you be in harmony with one another. Anyway. No more question. I have a request. And that is I first have to acknowledge as the Prophet ﷺ said he who does not thank the created ones will not be inability to thank the creator الله سبحانه و تعالى.  It's bad for your health. Shaykh make sure you take vitamin C at time of of time Shaykh probiotics before you come to Karachi by two weeks. Unbelievable sister. The amount of respect the amount of looking after the food I can't say. If I turn to her husband I have never seen a generous person in his acceptance in his overwhelming nature in his character like brother Hasan. I know he hates me saying this he's going to shoot me after leave the podium but I have to say because it is important that we recognize each other in a positive way. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى thank each and every member of the audience I personally would like to thank them for their dedication for their support for their unbelieving nature in putting up sometimes with my nonsense and burying it throughout the lectures of the night that they never showed any anonymosity they never showed any discomfort even when I sometimes I flare up I say something here and there and on that note I ask each and every one of you to forgive me if I have hurt anyone in any way or in any shape it is not in my character to be someone that hurts people it goes against my nature and if I have done anything due to shortcoming or due to a mistake I ask for your sincere forgiveness and for your sincere pardon in the matter. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى also if I don't say it I am ungrateful my hand goes off to the volunteers the one who put up their food every day they are phenomenal unbehevable people their patience is surpassing I think if you really want to know how to learn anger management go to them go to these amazing people they will teach you how to suppress your anger thank you to the valet parking people to the security officers to the rangers to all the brothers and sisters thank you to all the nine sessions and the members of our enclosed group I can't name them all but they know who I am talking about our very deep friends that we used to chillax every night Q&A until sehri time you know no break sheikh you are not going to sleep of our dead body until we squeeze every question out of you thank you guys you are phenomenal as well thank you also to the amazing Ali Reza Sharif for always guys where are you the crowds are here and people are becoming impatient okay brother Ali Reza Sharif it's my problem I was fixing my amama sorry I'm coming on the way thank you to my respected uncle and a beautiful heart and brother uncle jameel yosef for his support thank you for the master of sermeny who is I don't know how to describe him Muhammad Rajbai the reason why I say that is because of not only his dedication here but his dedication on behalf of all the community for legally pursuing matters of concern on our behalf to always make sure that our community stays safe our community stays in good light with all our Muslim brothers and sisters thank you to all the brothers and sisters if I miss someone please forgive me I don't mean to miss anyone but thank you to all the uncles brother Ali Naqi my heart goes out to you and to your family brother Muhammad all the Habibs all the all the families without any person feeling that I don't recognize your effort in the matter if I have missed the family next time please brother Hassan list all the family names because I really sincerely wish to thank every family in this gathering because they were phenomenal you are an excellent group and wallah wallah wallah no matter what I say about the community in Karachi I will not give them that you right I love you in all sincerity and I think you are full of potential to do things the right way and change the paradigm from negative to positive I won't be fair either if I don't thank my wife for her patience she has been amazing and when I said to her why don't you join me in Pakistan she said it's a good idea but I have an 8 month old boy who's gonna drive me nuts on the plane I said but come wallah it's worth it when she ordered the plane after one hour she said what the hell did I do but alhamdulillah finally she came and she also now says if people ask you to come to Karachi next time go it's worth it it's worth it thank you so much for everyone please again on conclusion forgive me for my short comment والسلام عليكم جميعا ورحمة الله وبركاته


Jimmy K here, Metal Voice. Look at this. The Metal Voice shirts are now on sale. Just go to the video description to find out on how you can purchase one. Metal! Welcome to the Metal Voice. Today on the show, Ron Keele. All right. What is going on, Ron? Matt, it's another crazy year in the life of rock and roll. Yes. Very proud to have a new album out called South by South Dakota and be able to talk to people like you and promote it. And you and your viewers, your listeners and like a lot to talk about. And here it is. And here it is. Here it is, right? That's very cool. It's kind of like it. It's kind of like it. What a fantastic album cover. And I've got a great story behind the album cover itself, of course, if you want to get to that. But that's a beautiful graphic behind you there, Jimmy. South X, South Dakota. The new Ron Keele band album was released April 24th. So it's a covers album, right? Just tell me about the making of it and why you chose these certain songs. How's that? Well, that's a great story, Jimmy. And they're all covers albums. You know, whether I wrote the songs or not, but the cool thing about South by South Dakota is that I could brag to people like you and your listeners and viewers how great these songs are.   And you go in the studio with a game plan and a mission to record those songs and release them and share them with the world. On this record for the first time in my career, I can honestly say that these are some great songs because I didn't write any of them. These are iconic. There you go. From the classic rock songbook. And we didn't really choose the songs. You know, the songs chose us. The process was entirely different than anything I've ever been through.  This time, we went in the studio last year to record the fight like a band record and we would warm up in the morning by jamming on some of our favorite Southern Rock covers like Flirting with Disaster, I think was the first song we cut.  And at the end of the day, when our session was done, we'd have a couple of cocktails and we'd unwind by jamming some of these great Southern Rock covers that are part of our lives, part of the fabric of our culture and certainly a part of the Iran Kill Band song list the last five years as well. And after about three, five days, I started listening back because my producer was recording everything we did. Of course, and I had no idea when we were cutting the stuff that he was even recording. I listened back to some of these tracks and realized we've got something very special here. This is natural, this is organic. This sounds like a bunch of guys in the studio having a good time. So at that point, after four or five songs, I realized we had the foundation for a great record. Of course, we had the Ghost Riders in the Sky single from 2015 under our belt and Homestick from 2017. Another couple of great Southern Rock classics. So the title for the album South by South Dakota just kind of popped into my head and I realized that we had something very special on our hands and so we started to add songs at that point and figured that it would be really cool to create an album full of these classic songs that have been such a special part of our lives and our shows all these years. So it was absolutely accidental, organic, unplanned and I think that is a big part of the charm in these grooves and these tracks and part of these performances is the fact that we didn't even know we were being recorded.  Well, you're always going to have to keep winning over new fans. That's part of our job as artists to evolve, to create, to release and record new music and people are going to come and go throughout your lives, throughout your, we're building new fans as we go. Now, I am really pleased and thankful that so many of the Steeler fans and the Keelaholics raised this new record and it's good, solid, heavy arena rock. There are stylistic differences but at the end of the day it's all great, powerful, classic rock tunes with big guitars, thundering drums, screaming vocals and great songs. So I appreciate all the fans that have stuck with me through the twists and turns that I'm doing, but no, you ask if I'm scared? No, I'm absolutely fearless. As part of being an artist and living on the edge, man, you can't be scared of what people are going to think. If you sell 3 million records like I did, Jimmy, that means, you know what that means, right? It means billions of people don't like you or don't want what you're doing. They don't want it and I'm cool with that. I make music for myself first and then I share it with everybody else and hopefully they'll enjoy it as well but I've got to be happy with it, proud of it and pleased with it before I can sell it to anybody. I guess at the end of the day, right, people know you for sort of branching out and that's what they expect of you, right?  That's correct, Jimmy. For me, music is composed of different landscapes, mountains, oceans, beaches, forests, rivers, lakes. These are all different landscapes that I love to explore and I don't see why I should be chained within a box or in a fence around one particular style of music. A lot of the fans don't know that long before I sang metal, I won awards for playing jazz music and was a classically trained student when I was younger. So I played everything from Beethoven to Mozart to Miles Davis. In fact, then when we were playing the jazz band and the school orchestra, it wasn't a conflict to play a Mozart composition in the orchestra and then go to the jazz band and play Miles Davis. It was all different colors of the same picture and the same landscape. So for the last 20 years, I have combined my metal heart with my cowboy attitude starting in 2000 with a band called Iron Horse and what I called it then was hard rock and southern country metal. It was a hybrid of all of the things that are part of my DNA and then if you listen to it and you have to come up with a simple description, the term southern rock has always applied to everything that I've done for the last 20 years. Even the Keel reunion album in 2010, Streets of Rock and Roll, which is a great, it's my favorite Keel album of all time. 10 years ago we released that reunion album and still people will say that they can hear the twang or the country influence on my voice, even though I'm screaming my guts out and it's hard rock and 80s metal type music. To me, I grew up in a time when you could listen to AM Radio and you'd hear the Eagles and D Purple on the same station. So I did not create those borders between styles that so many people have now. I think heavy metal is different because the metal heads, especially back in the 80s, were intensely loyal and of course we respect and appreciate that, but if you strayed outside of that format, then you became a trader to your style, even though that 80s metal, there was everybody from Bon Jovi to Metallica and everybody in between and those are two totally different styles, but I listened to Metallica and Bon Jovi, both. I don't know why we can't enjoy pizza today and steak tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. All right. So we talked about the sort of the covers album. What about like a new material?  What are you working on? I'm always writing, creating, and I will always continue to express myself through music. But is something coming up? I mean, is there like an album going to be released? We just released a brand new album, which we're here to promote.  I mean, this record is just brand new. We're still unwrapping the shrink wrap. All right. All right. What's coming next? Dude, who knows? Tomorrow is not guaranteed to any of us. We'll have to live for today and we're all on a one day contract. There's no guarantee any of us will wake up tomorrow. So we have to enjoy the moment. You have to appreciate your past and I embrace all my accomplishments, the three million records sold touring with Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Aerosmith, all the cool stuff, all the dreams that I've had come true. I love that stuff. I embrace and appreciate that. But today is all I'm given and tomorrow is not guaranteed. So I'm going to fulfill my one day contract today to the best of my ability. And yeah, I'm always writing, creating, recording new music. In fact, I am releasing this year another solo acoustic album on my Patreon platform. One song per month for members only at patreon.com slash Ron Keel. They get a new solo acoustic song each month. And then in December, they'll get the autograph CD with all 12 songs. That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You know, what else do you have planned? You know, that's what I'm getting at. I plan to enjoy my life. One song at a time. Okay, I got you. I'm not some rocket scientist who's, I'm not creating a vaccine for COVID-19. And I'm saying you 18 months from now, we're going to have a vaccine. I don't know what I'm going to have 18 months. I guarantee you, it will be some new music, new, new, new good times and sharing these experiences with my friends, my family and my fans. Sure, sure. What about Keel? Is it still something that you want to pursue sometime in the future? Like another reunion album or? Keel is a brotherhood. It's not even, it transcends the description of being called a band because we've been friends and bandmates now for 36 years. And we celebrated that with Keel Fest last year. Yeah. The monsters of rock crews, which we were able to do. Thank goodness. We got the monsters of rock crews under our belt in February. Before the pandemic hit.  And the Ron Keel band plays all those Keel classics in our show, the right to rock because the night rock and roll outlaw, somebody's waiting. Those songs are a big part of every show that we do. And the music will, will always be a part of me and my shows. Who knows what's next? Like, like you're asking me to predict the future. I don't have any crystal balls, but the guys in Keel are family. They're my brothers and we talk to each other all the time. And, uh, from a career standpoint, no, I'm focused on the Ron Keel band and stuff by South Dakota. This is my business. This is my job. This is my work. And I'm, uh, I'm all in. All right. Hey, look at forgive me if I, if I dig into your past a little bit, because we've never actually spoke before. It's like the first time you're being on the show. And a lot of guys ask me questions to ask you like, what was it like to work with Gene Simmons, you know, on the Keel albums? Was he, was he a great producer? I mean, did you learn things? What'd you learn from him? Gene Simmons is one of the biggest, if not the biggest influence on my career, both musically, personally, professionally, from a business standpoint. Gene taught me lessons and some, so many things about Gene that people don't realize or understand. The guy is, uh, he's rock and roll to the core. He has a deep appreciation for rock and roll history. Songwriting, making great records. And he passed all that on to me so much that I learned from him when I was what, 23 years old and just creating my first album. He, uh, taught us how to make great records, how to write songs and how to orchestrate like the bass drum and the bass guitar, how the kick drum works in conjunction with every bass pattern. I don't know if anybody else has ever even mentioned that throughout the course of my career, but today, to this day, we still make sure that every bass line complements and accents that bass drum pattern, little things like that, that, that he taught me. He's always the demon on my shoulder. And every recording session that I do, there's a lot of Gene and that influences, uh, has been there now for over 35 years. Also as a friend and a mentor, he taught me a lot about business, about life. He's a great guy and I saw him a couple of years ago. Man, we don't see each other often, but every time we do, uh, it's a big bear hug and a appreciation for that longstanding friendship and what we did together back in the 80s. What do you teach you as a singer?  I mean, from a business perspective, like you said, and from a music perspective or a recording perspective, what did you learn vocally from him? I learned to do another take because Gene would not, often he would not let me do another take. That first album, The Right to Rock, if you really listen to it and put it under the microscope, there's a lot of stuff that vocally is not, this is not really good. Uh, there's a lot of pitchy stuff. There's a lot of stuff that's not sung properly. But Gene would hear that attitude and that young kid screaming his guts out in the studio and he'd keep it. Oh, let's keep that. I go, no, Gene, please give me another shot. Man, I can do that better. And he would never let me take another shot at it. So I learned to always take another shot at it, try and deliver the vocal at least in key and in time. Gene was all about the attitude on that Right to Rock album. And that does sound just like he said in his quotes at the time.  And that's part of the charm and the beauty and the success of that Right to Rock album. But Gene taught me so much about singing in the studio, about being comfortable. That was one thing that he always tried to make sure that I was in my comfort zone in the studio with delivering the vocal that I wanted to do that. And but he kept a lot of stuff that I would have probably liked to have done over. And I had very good opportunity to do that in recent years because we were, we recorded the Right to Rock on Last Year's Fight, like a band album. And I think the new version is vocally way better than the previous recordings. However, the fans, I get it, they're all, they love the original versions because that's what they grew up listening to. And I understand that. But thankfully in life, I have had a second chance to go back and re-record some of those songs like The Right to Rock, Tears of Fire. Somebody's waiting because the night, and I get to do those in my show with the Ron Kiel band every night and I get to do always, there's always one more chance to sing the song and deliver to the audience the way it was meant to be. So I have a good friend who's like a black Sabbath fanatic and I know he's told this story so many times. All right. So just quickly, my friend's like this huge black Sabbath fan and he goes, So am I, man. So am I. I'm with you. Please ask him, you know, what happened with black Sabbath because he thought you would have been like an incredible fit and a compliment to the band at the time. I appreciate that. And I feel the same way. It was an amazing experience. I was in the studio recording the Kiel demos at Pasha Studios where Spencer Proffer had recorded the Quiet Riot Metal Health album and Spencer was the hot hand in Hollywood at the time. He was the guy and he had signed on to produce the new Sabbath album after Ian Gilliland. Born again. Spencer had chosen me for the vocal position in Sabbath and we cut a demo of some songs and Tony and Giza heard it. I signed a contract. I met with their management. I spent days with Tony and Giza and Spencer Proffer for whatever reason. Ego probably was trying to turn black Sabbath into an 80s hair band trying to push outside songs on them and make them into an MTV type. And that's not Sabbath, man. Sabbath is who they are. They're the iconic founding fathers of heavy metal. You don't take Sabbath and turn them into an 80s hair band like Rat or Motley Crue. Spencer was trying to do that at the time. Not necessarily with me and my voice and my presence in the band because I would have been, I think I would have been a good bit. And you can hear that on the tracks for the new Emerald Sabbath album which we just released featuring former members of Sabbath coming together to create a black Sabbath tribute record. And I was very fortunate that I was able to sing three songs on the record. An Ozzy song, Hole in the Sky, an Ian Gillen song, Trashed off board again. And I got to sing Die Young, the Ronnie James Dio classic from Heaven and Hell. So I got to cover each one of those vocalists with guys like Rudy Sarzo on bass and Vinny Appassee on drums.  I get to talk about it in every interview and I get to sing these iconic songs with some of the guys that are part of that Sabbath history. So my time with the band was very short. I am very thankful that Keel survived that because that was right when we first put Keel together. And I had to tell the guys in the band that guys, I'm joining Sabbath and I can't turn this opportunity down. This is the chance of a lifetime and the guys in my band understood it. We thought that April 7th, 1984 was going to be our first and last show. But the deal fell apart. Spencer Proffer was fired.  We're not having any of this. We're going to do what Sabbath does. And I got caught in the crossfire because Spencer was the guy who got me the gig. And he was the producer of the project. And when he got fired, I got caught in the crossfire. Did you record any demos? I did. Does anybody have them? Yeah, all of my members at patreon.com. They've all heard the demo because I posted it there for my fans to enjoy and listen to and celebrate. And the response has been incredible. I don't share that stuff on YouTube or Facebook or any other streaming platform except my members site which is Patreon. So everybody doesn't know this. Patreon is like you pay this monthly subscription, right? That's right. And you have access to an artist's vault, you know, vault songs or demos or whatever the case may be. You have some goodies from the artist, we'll say. A lot of goodies.  And I'd like to think, I guess apparently I was a little ahead of the curve because several years ago when my wife was diagnosed with cancer, that diagnosis changed everything.  I'm not going to be able to leave home. I've got to stay here and take care of her through chemotherapy, radiation treatments, nine surgical procedures that she went through at that time and I thought, well, I've got to find a way to work from home. This is years ago, long before this pandemic I had to find a way to work from home. How do I share my music, my videos, my content, my my creations with the fans around the world. So I found the Patreon platform, built it and I worked extremely hard to supply all those fans with all the stuff you're not going to get on YouTube or Facebook or any of those other platforms. We've got entire albums that you can download for free. If you remember, we've got Patreon only, music videos, live chat, live online experiences. I do house concerts from home because when my wife was diagnosed with cancer, I thought, how am I going to play? How am I going to get out and play for my fans? So I built a stage in my house. We call it the fan cave where I've got decorations hanging on the back wall from all the fans through the years, all the cool stuff they've given me. So it's the fan cave and I'll get in there and I'll do live concerts online for the audience long before any of this pandemic thing was prevalent. That's pretty cool. When we were locked down, quarantined so to speak, I just went back to work and put the hammer down on the Patreon page. I do a lot of stuff there with my fans every day. You're going to get something new. The audio book, if you want to listen to my life story in audio book form, not only with me reading the book but with unreleased music and other contributors doing their voice over parts like Mark Ferrari from Keel, Brian Slagle from Metal Blade Records and so many other guests have added their audio pieces to my audio book releasing one chapter at a time. When the book is finished, everybody who subscribes at patreon.com to the all access level will get a free download of the entire audio book. The radio show that I host on a weekly basis on six stations worldwide. You can listen to it on these great stations. That's fantastic and I hope you do. But if you want to hear it on demand, it's one click away. Anytime, anywhere you are anytime of day at Ron Keel Patreon and so I try and go the extra mile to give the fans every little bit that I can. Every piece of content and sharing. They get to come inside my living room. They get to hang with me at my house and so far, right now, membership is at an all time high. We are gaining members every day, every hour because people during the pandemic and during the lockdown the quarantine, whatever you want to call it, they are all online.  I'll be doing this a long time to come long after the quarantine is lifted. I was doing it a couple of years ago. I'll be doing it years from now. So I encourage all the fans to just check it out at patreon.com slash Ron Keel. I got you right where you needed to make the pitch. I can always take a left turn on any given cue but I appreciate the opportunity to pitch the Patreon. I love performing live. I do everything that I do, whether it's the book or the radio show or the interviews or the albums or all the stuff that I do I do it because I want to be that guy on stage with the sweat and screaming my guts out and playing with the guys in my band and the people in the front row enjoying that concert experience. That's who I am. That keeps me young, keeps me strong, keeps me vocally fit and I enjoy that more than I can express. However since that is not available to us right now, I've embraced the online platform. Like I said, I was really lucky that we got the Monsters of Rock Cruise and the Australian tour out of the way. We finished Australia mid-March and then got back home just in time for the travel band. So we expected to be home during this time and our tour started or was supposed to start on Memorial Day weekend. Obviously that's not going to happen. The Canadian tour has been cancelled, postponed, rescheduled, whatever. So we're just hoping for the best. Hopefully everybody can stay safe and get back to where we belong and where we want to be at some point very soon. I talked to Rick Fox, not to Longo, we're friends, and he was telling about the Stealer Days. Always says nice things about you. Have you ever, I'm sure you get asked this question all the time, ever made any contact with Ingve over the years and maybe worked on some projects together? Maybe just one off-show? No, he wouldn't do that. I'd do it in a heartbeat, but he wouldn't do that. I'd talk to Ingve about that. I think it would be fantastic to come together and do a song for Charity or whatever. I respect and appreciate his contribution to music and the fact that that Stealer record, which became one of the iconic foundations of Ingve. That's the word. I appreciate the opportunity for that album and it got both of our careers kickstarted and I respect and admire what he's accomplished, but we're different animals too. That's a good way to put it. Did he speak English when you first met with him and you hung out with him and you started working with him? He did. He was okay. The first thing he said when he got off the plane was, now I am here. I do what I want. Then he said, I'm the Antichrist and it was downhill from there. Like I said, I appreciate the opportunity to make that first record, which is such a special part of that era and a special part of all of our fans' lives. Last year, we got to do Keel Fest. It was May 10th of last year, so we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of Keel Fest when we did our first show as Stealer since we got 35 years. Rick Box, Mitch Perry on guitar who replaced Ingve in Stealer and that gave me the opportunity to get back into those songs, listening to the tunes and rehearsing for that gig. I got to fall back in love with that Stealer album all over again because I had to listen to it a lot through the years. There's some really good songs and there's some very special moments. I appreciate its place in my life and in my legacy and in the fans' lives and in their music catalog. A lot of fans love that record and I appreciate the support, the fact that we provided part of the soundtrack to their youth. That's a good way to put it. I think the word is iconic. Let's go full circle now. That's a good album. South X South Dakota That's a buy. It's like buy. It's like two buy four is not two X four, it's two buy four. So South buy. Yeah, that means buy. As in everybody should buy it. That's a good way to put it. South by South Dakota the covers album by the one and only Ron Keel. Go pick it up and listen to the best Southern rock tracks you could ever possibly get. Any last words on it? Certainly not. There are lots more songs where that came from from those bands and I want to make sure everybody knows that if you buy the record at ronkeelshop.com you're going to get the autograph copy and an unreleased bonus track as a free download. Very cool. My guest today Keel, thank you so much for joining me. I will have you on again. You know, you're great. You really know how to pitch. You really know how to pitch well. That's part of our job. We're all salesmen. Some artists, it's not really their thing. You present well. That's how you survive. Part of that, my longevity is a big factor. The fact that I've been at this slow down and never stopped and the fact that it's my job to sell songs and sell music and entertain people. If I can't do that, then I wouldn't have such an audience and the opportunity to talk to people like you on your show. So I appreciate the opportunity. Thanks again for having me and let's do it again soon. Alright, Ron Keel, thank you so much.