What's up everyone take down here today. I'm gonna be ranking custom cars. Let's get right into this Okay, so as you guys know, I am a car guy I really love going to car shows and seeing all the different custom vehicles and the classics and throughout the years I've been taking a lot of pictures at these car shows So today I decided I'm gonna go through a few of them and I'm going to basically Rank all of these custom cars for this video and kind of talking about them And what I like and what I don't like of each customized vehicle along the way These are car shows that I've actually been to and the pictures are cars that I've actually seen in person So let's just get right into this up first is this nice truck. I want to say it's a 1970s It honestly looks really nice. Actually it might be an 80s. I can't really tell I like the paint job the nice blue the Interior you can't really tell but it looks kind of black I look I like that as the cap on the back of the truck the grill it looks nice. It looks clean It looks crisp. That's something that I would like if I were to own a vehicle like this If I were to own this truck I would like a grill like that because I honestly am a fan of them and I like how everything kind of lines up It looks awesome. The engine bay looks sick So I'm gonna give this one a solid 8 out of 10 It just looks all together and it looks like a perfect truck I honestly think it looks perfect in that color as well Next up is this kind of like a copper truck. It is a nice Ford It honestly goes all good together. I can't really tell with the back if it's a whites Kind of like a cloth or vinyl cover with it or if that's just the interior of the truck bed So I can't tell if it's an actual cover or not the rims Look nice with the chrome but also with the same color matching the vehicle around it I think that's a nice added touch to it. It looks like a nice customized Paint job. I do like that. It's like a copper in a way So it is a custom paint job. It has a custom features to it, but it is a nice classic truck I'm gonna give this one a 7 out of 10 just because I do like this era of trucks But I kind of wanted a little bit more out of it the color looks nice But I would have wanted something that was a little bit more of a wow factor This is a nice truck. This is perfect. I believe it is a Chevy I'd like the two tone. I like the white and the orange. It looks awesome It kind of goes good together and it follows the body lines of the truck. I like everything about this I like the chrome front bumper. I like the headlights. I think that's just the generics of the truck for this model itself I think everything looks good about it. I like a lot of these trucks. It looks maybe Possibly a little bit lower than stock the rims you can't really get a good look at but they kind of look like wire Spoked wit rims. So it looks nice black interior. I'm gonna give this one an 8 out of 10 as well Just like the first truck it looks all together It's pretty solid and everything kind of flows together for it. So I like that next up is A PT cruiser it is a customized one. So I will give it that it has a nice patina paint job to it But for a PT cruiser doesn't make too much sense. I Do like it. I like the paint job itself But on a PT cruiser not so much if it was on an older vehicle an older truck or something like that or a rat rod It would look phenomenal because it's kind of like a greenish With the patina with the old rustic look it looks awesome the front bumper or sorry the front grille It looks a little odd. It does look custom. It does fit this vehicle nice, but it does look odd for me at least The rims are pretty big rims They kind of go good with the era of a PT cruiser, but with the kind of look they're going for which looks like a 40s chopped rustic look of a vehicle, but for a PT cruiser They don't really flow with what I think they're going for here And of course it is a chopped roof which I honestly like chopped roof vehicles if they're done, right? This one looks all nice. It looks all nice and neat. It looks all symmetrical.  I do like just not on a PT cruiser I'm still gonna rank this pretty decent I'm gonna rank this six out of ten, but I would have liked a couple more different things Or would have liked it done a different way possibly next up this truck actually looks nice This looks clean and crisp. I like that. It is kind of looks like a customized hood I can't really tell if that's a stock hood or not It looks nice with the kind of like a silver and the orange two-tone paint This is pretty stock other than the license plates The front grille looks stock the front bumper the rims kind of looks stock. It can't really tell Of course the windows are tinted so you can't see inside it It looks pretty stock I'm gonna give it a six point five out of ten just because of how much stock it is But I do like the paint job and it does look like a nice clean truck This is what I'm talking about this one here.  I like that. It's lowered. It looks phenomenal. I like that. It's a chopped top The rims look kind of out there for it. They do fit the style But for a rat rod, I wouldn't have expected rims like that the front grille kind of looks customized I can't really tell I'm gonna give this one a seven point five out of ten Just because of how much work they did and because the hood looks phenomenal. I like that They have it later levered a different way than what you'd expect it to be So it looks pretty solid This is an awesome Camaro. I do like this. It looks like a stock Everything the silver actually goes good with this I like poppy vehicles where it's just like a huge wow factor to it But for this one here, it looks very simple. It looks very clean crisp It does have a custom hood on it the rims look stock if not They're just like a chrome version of the stock style of rims Nothing really out of the world with this one. I'm gonna give this one a six out of ten It does look phenomenal. I would personally own this and drive this because it looks great however, it's not really Too much of a wow factor for me Now this is a nether Camaro different version. It looks kind of like a 69 maybe a 70s Camaro This does look nice. I like the Camaro paint job with the Racing stripes on it. It looks nice the rims look nice the engine bay looks nice I like how some have the hood popped and some don't The stock looks sorry the interior looks like a stock leather interior the paint job the orange It looks nice. I'm gonna give this one an eight out of ten. It just looks altogether perfect And it it looks amazing to me Next is a Chevelle SS which as you guys know if you guys watch other videos where I'm talking about cars on my channel I like Chevelles. I think they're awesome this here I can't really tell if it is one with racing stripes on it I don't believe it is because just above the front grille Doesn't show anything on the paint there, but it does look nice It can't really tell if it's a vinyl roof or if it's a painted roof I would prefer if this was a vinyl white roof instead of painted It just wouldn't look right if it was just painted, but the blue looks nice. I like that It's mostly all stock the inside of the engine bay looks all clean with the chrome It looks all high performance, which I like I'm gonna get this one because I like Chevelles an 8.5 out of 10 Next is a Challenger now this one you can tell it is a black vinyl roof, which I do like It looks all together. I like that is kind of like a deep purple paint job Which I like that is a nice mope higher paint job for me the rims look nice the engine bay You can't really tell with this angle with the lighting of if it's chrome or if it's just stock It might just be painted black. You can't really tell but this looks nice I'm gonna give this one a 7.5 out of 10 next up we have a Nice Mustang I do like this version of the Mustangs. I believe it is a 60 Four and a half. I might be wrong comment down below, but honestly, I feel like the rims They fit the vehicle. They do look nice for this era of Mustang. However, I don't like how they just look like a matte light gray paint job I kind of wish they were either chromed or Maybe a different color, but I do like the style of them. I just don't like the color of them on this vehicle I do like the paint job. It is a nice blue. It honestly looks phenomenal I like the convertible Mustangs for 60 fought a 64 and a half. Sorry I like the racing stripes that fits the era of the Mustang. It looks all stock. It looks all completes I like the interior. It's kind of like a light blue not really a baby blue But kind of like a lighter blue almost the color of the paint job leather interior. So it looks nice I'm gonna give this one Geez, I'm gonna say it. I'm gonna say 8.5 out of 10 just because it looks really nice It's a clean crisp Mustang and next up I'm gonna say this is gonna be the last one for this video because I don't really want a really long video and Yes, there's a guy eating an ice cream cone in the background, but we're gonna ignore that for a second here It is a nice rat rod It I believe I seen this one in person. I believe it is a rat rod Tow truck you can't really see from this angle of the picture that I took But if you look at the back how all of the metal is it's all rusty It all looks kind of flows together, but I believe that is the tow truck version Now I'm not sure if this can tow a real vehicle or if it's just there for show. I believe in the past they have towed Like a Volkswagen Beetle Volkswagen bug, but that's something that's really light That's a small vehicle. So I think that's the max that it can tow But this is a nice vehicle seeing it in person. You can honestly respect it a lot more the rims I do like that. They are red, but I would have liked them to be a little more rusty looking But they do look phenomenal like that's everything like I said earlier with rat rods The reason why I like them and a lot of people like them is you can really customize them the way that you want this here Parts of it honestly don't really look like an automotive vehicle The cab where you sit with a steering wheel is that kind of to me looks like it could be a tractor It doesn't look like a 30s Ford or anything like that. It just looks really square and completes It doesn't really have a flow of a vehicle unless it's a really old vehicle But it still looks good together the hood looks like it was customized out of sheet metal It doesn't look like it's been off of an actual vehicle Or if it was it was really chopped just have everything flow that is coming out of it The pipes and that that you can see the headlights look newer than Anything on this to be honest with you it looks like they were Purchased and put on the vehicle and they're supposed to look like an older vehicle era Headlight, but they kind of look new. It's really shiny. Everything else is really rusty and old I like the little toolbox next to the Driver's door there that looks nice. It's just like a nice feature added on to the tow truck Honestly everything about this It looks nice. I like rat rods It is a kind of functioning tow truck because I've seen this in person But I think the max like I said is a Volkswagen Beetle I think that's the max that it can tow and I believe the rest is just for show I'm gonna rank this one. I Don't want to rank it higher than everything but I'm gonna rank it nine out of ten because I really like rat rods They are basically you can show off your creativity more with a rat rod than anything else because you can just put random stuff on it and It looks original as long as it all flows and this flows. It's a nice vehicle I don't see many tow truck rat rods So I'm definitely gonna say it is I'm gonna say nine out of ten But this is all I'm gonna do for this video here for ranking car Sorry custom cars, but this is definitely something I think we're gonna do in the future because it's a lot of fun I really enjoy going to car shows and taking pictures and this is just from the vaults of pictures I've taken over the possibly last five years and this is only I think 12 vehicles that I went in ranked So there's definitely definitely gonna be more to come because I have a lot of pictures if I had to guess I want to say I have 500 pictures. I'm not gonna show them all of videos I'm not gonna do that many videos of it and just go through all of the pictures I've ever taken but I'm definitely gonna try my best to pick out the best ones like I did for this video and Kind of share talk about them show you guys the vehicles So comment down below out of all the cars that I shared in this video Which one do you like the most? Hope you guys did enjoy There's gonna be more videos like this coming in the future, but I'm gonna leave this video here Please take care peace


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So, you have now a game, so this is a Bayesian game, there are n players, they have strategies X i, utilities U i and types T i. So, this, this, this and the, this is the prior probability with which the types occur. This is a prior of occurrence of types. So, in other words nature chooses, chooses T in T with probability, probability P of T and this we will assume is greater than 0. So, that we can freely divide and all that. Now, here it is okay because this is part of the problem definition. In mediation there is no such necessity that you have to give everything a positive probability. It may be that it is bad, you may actually want to stick to a certain, certain set of strategies or profiles only, okay. So, now what is mediated, so again we will look at mediated communication in this case. So, you take mediated communication in this case. So, now players have private information, okay. So, because the game is of incomplete information players are being born with various types, alright. So, so mediator now asks, mediator asks each player for its type, okay. This is the first step. Then based on the types that have been received, so suppose the mediator receives types T 1 to T n, these are the received types. Recommends action, recommends actions x, which is x 1 to x n with probability mu of x given T, right, okay. Now, so this mu which maps your T to delta of x, this is your mediation plan. What is the payoff that a player i would get when his true type is T i and the mediation plan mu has been chosen. What would be this payoff? This would be, can you help me write this out? So, an action profile x has been chosen with probability mu of x given T, okay. Now, player i will get a payoff u, ui of x given T from that when the true types profile is T, the type profile of all players is T. But he only knows his own type profile, right, which is T i. So, he only knows his type which is T i. So, here I am, what I need to do is take some this over all x, because that is the, there is an expectation over the actions that are chosen. And some also over the types of the other players, because you do not know what, you do not know the types of his or the other players, right. You know your own type and so you sum over the types of the other player, okay. So, this is the payoff a player would receive, okay. So, let us get this clear. This is the payoff that the player received when the mediation plan is mu, okay. His own type is T i, alright. And types of other players are T minus i, correct. But there is something more. See, why did I, so I have a T minus i here in this probability, why? Because that is the type of the other players, alright. That is the probability with which the types of the other players have been realized. There is a T minus i sitting here also in, as part of this T. This here, remember this, what you have here, this remember is the reported type. And this is the true type. True type occurs with probability P of D minus i given T i. And that will affect your utility. But the mediator is going to recommend an action based on reported types. Is this clear? So, this is the payoff that players would receive if they, if all players report their types truthfully. And the player knows his own type and the mediator chooses a mediation plan mu. Is this clear? If players had chosen some, had reported some other types, then that is what would appear here. It would not appear here because this is in fact their true type. But it would appear here because the mediator would choose actions based on reported types. Is this clear? Okay. So, this remember is the reported type. This here is the true type. So, we are actually assuming that these are equal. So, this is the payoff under plan mu when players report types truthfully. And player i knows his own type T i. So, he has come to know his own type T i, does not know the types of the others. And the types have been reported truthfully. And the mediation plan mu is under process. Is being used. Then this is the payoff that he can expect. So, now this is obviously now hinting at a very important issue. One is we had a question of obedience earlier which was there before this. But there is which we saw in the case of a correlated equilibrium. But now there is also another issue which is the issue of lying. Players may misreport their types. So, the mediation plan is suggesting, is recommending you an action X. So, players can and but the mediation plan itself is based on types that you have reported that players have reported. So, players can deviate from this plan. Players can deviate in two ways. One is misreport their types and two, they can disobey recommendations. So, let us once again we will follow the same sort of template of analysis. And this was pioneered by Myersen. It is really incredible how nicely this whole thing falls in place. So, what is happening here essentially what we need is that so to so think of the problem of designing a mediation plan. If you wanted to design a mediation plan you have to tell players what to what to do. But then what you need to tell them depends on what they tell you. It becomes this guy it becomes a very complicated it just seems impossibly complex that how could you tell someone what they do what to do when they are in fact they could in fact lie. Fundamental to all of this is this idea of what is called the revelation principle. Revelation principle essentially says that you can you can bring this all down to players revealing their types truthfully and then obeying whatever you say. Now there is actually revelation principle technically deals with something much much more complicated. You could you can in fact here I have asked players to I have said you can just reveal their types. Why do they ask them their types they can you can ask them something else also right. So, imagine for example if your type is let us say what talent you have some musical talent let us say. Now I could ask you something as a function of that. For example, I can ask you to sing something that that will that is a function of your musical talent or some or ask you to you know or something else which can be derived from that form that. So, this actually leads to the following. So, as part of our designing a mediation plan you have to you know if you think about it that way you have to not just worry about players lying you have to also worry about what exactly am I should supposed to ask them what is it that I should ask them and then based on which means what is the space of signals that come from the player to you right and then using that then I have to recommend an action. So, take auctions for example the the essential thing that player that each buyer the his type is how much he values that item. But should I directly ask him what how much he values it and that maybe he will lie based on that and then decide based on that you know who gets the item and and so on that is basically recommend recommendations based on that or maybe should I ask them something more indirect use that to then decide who should be what action should be recommended to the players. And it is not it is not at all obvious sometimes it may feel that ask doing something indirect can actually help you get you know help you implement things better. But so but the revelation principle basically says that I mean does not matter okay does not matter you can ask whatever you wanted to execute with with something with a with an indirect signal can also be executed with a direct signal okay. So, essentially this is the key idea is essentially a generalization of what we have seen already here in where there was just one way communication from the mediator to the okay. So, now there is going to be two way communication and the incentive compatibility type requirements that will be there will impose that it is in players interest to report that to to a obey and also to report their two types okay. The next thing we will see is once again this kind of mediation simulates any outcome of any communication system in which players report send in their types maybe truthfully maybe by lying and then that communication system then recommends action sends messages and from messages you get actions okay. So, so this kind of mediation once again simulates any pre-play communication with players having private information as well all right okay. So, we are just building towards the revelation principle. So, now essentially to in order to do that we have so players could deviate in these two ways as I said now each mu induces a game in which so each mu induces a game in which each player must choose a type to report and a deviation plan form report form recommended action. So, let us write gamma i then so this is so he reports a type si and he has a deviation plan delta i okay. So, si is now in is in ti all right and delta i is takes the reported action and produces another action okay. The payoff then form now so this we need to write out carefully okay I want to see if you can so the payoff is now for a for this for this game with these for the game with these set of strategies now okay. So, players will play s comma delta all right and they would have they have types t okay for a given s delta and t what would be the payoff so this nothing player i does not know his type as yet okay this is just for a for a profile of types for a profile of s reported types and for a profile of deltas what is the payoff so let us write this so ui which is his utility utility is going to come from what is going to come from the action that he actually chooses what is the action that he chooses delta of x where x is the action that comes from the mediation plan right so the mediation plan is going to suggest a profile of actions to the players that is this now what is this mediation plan what is this action suggested based on reported types which so I need to so reported types s so I have s here not t okay so you have delta 1 of x 1 till delta n of x n all right and then this is did I have what notation did I have given right here given given what s or t given t where this is now the two two type profile right so let us put a given here okay and the sum is over x and n okay so this is basically now a game of incomplete information parameterized by mu with this payoff okay and this being the strategies and these being the types okay so so this is so this is a Bayesian game with types ti and strategies gamma i all right okay so now let us let me ask you this so then if all other players are honest and obedient okay so they do not lie about their types and they obey the the recommendations that are been made by the mediator what is the payoff that player I would get if he reports a certain type and has a certain deviation plan okay we need to basically ask this question because this is the essential question of obedience or whatever right so so what is the payoff that player so let us call this ui star so this is this is here I am writing the payoff of player I from reported reported type si deviation plan delta i when all others are truthful and obedient okay so let us write this so what is this going to be a function of now it is going to be of it will depend on the mediation plan okay and so when he when we are talking of reporting type si all right okay so this is and let me put this more so since we are talking of reported type si this is when he comes to know his own type when he knows his own own type so si itself has to be reported based on his own type right so we need okay so this will be a function of now mu which is the mediation plan both are okay it will be a function of player i's player i's reported type si okay it will be a it will function of the deviation plan delta i and given this is given his own own type ti okay when he is once he has come to know his own type so when he comes to know his own type he has to pick a reported type okay all right so what is this let us write this so first let us write out the payoff what is player i doing so let okay let us write first recommended action okay so you recommended action x actually I need more space here so so let us write our recommended action x action has been recommended based on what and so action is recommended based on the types of reported types of all players so player i is reporting si t minus i si comma t minus i others are reporting t minus i okay all right now based on this what action is being chosen now ui delta i of x i okay which is so that has been recommended based on what is the action he takes based on what has been recommended to him okay what are the what are the other guys playing x minus i they have they are obedient right so they are they are playing what has been recommended to them okay given the true types of all players so this is given t all right so now I need to do some averaging so first is I have a sum over the recommended actions so you have some of x and x he also comes to know his own type right which is ti so what does he know about the types of the others pt minus i given ti right so he just he knows that the other types have been realized with this probability so I need to also do this this is fine so this is the payoff player i gets when he reports his type as si when his two type is ti and has a deviation plant delta i and all others obey and report to their tribes truthfully all right so now we have once again the the incentive compatibility constraints constraints again demands what should it demand in terms of our notation so on the right I need to have the what he gets when others obey but he does not all right so when that is just this u star i what do I have on the left do I have this when everyone obeys which was which was this one right so payoff underland view when players report their tribes truthfully and actually I forgot to write here and obey take the recommended actions okay okay so so here so what I have on the left then is ui of u given ti so what you have on the left here is this is when everyone obeys and everyone is truthful then all players obey and all are truthful and this here is when all but player i obey and are truthful okay so this inequality what this needs to hold for what for all something you know what is the for all yes for all types that he could report and for all delta i yes for all delta i which maps like this okay what else whatever be his truth type right for all ti and no mu has to be such that this was this for all n yeah okay and for all okay so this is this is what is needed okay so so and so what we have that so mu then is a mu is a correlated equilibrium of of the Bayesian game if it satisfies incentive compatibility constraints so if it satisfies these incentive compatibility constraints this one then mu is said to be a correlated equilibrium.


This is the difference between jumping on a normal prosthetic leg and my running blade. So you can see that I'm perfectly capable of jumping on my normal everyday walking leg, but there is not a lot of bounce, spring, or energy return. So if I'm doing something that's high impact, I'm always gonna switch out to my running blade or sport blade. As you can see, there is a lot of bounce. Using this for any kind of impact activity, be it running, jogging, jumping, anything like that makes it exponentially more comfortable. I'm also way more mobile because there's actually spring. It's way more comfortable on my residual limb, also on my hips and my knee because it doesn't feel like I'm trying to land on a piece of concrete on one side. Different tools for different activities. My walking leg is the one that I use, I'd say 90% of the time, but when I wanna do some box jumps or go for a run, I always switch out to my running leg.


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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillahirrahmanirrahim. Allahumma salli ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala Alihi wasabbi wa barak wa salam. As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Thank you so much for joining us for MCC's New Muslim Rabbanon Stories series. Today, alhamdulillah, we have Sister Heather with us. Salam alaikum Sister Heather. Thank you so much for joining us and sharing your story with us. It's definitely an honor and we look forward to hearing from you. Can you tell us more about yourself or a little bit about yourself? How long have you been Muslim, background info? Wonderful. Thank you for the invitation to speak this evening. I'm excited to be here and I really appreciate it. Alhamdulillah. So for me, new, new converts. I was invited to recite the shahada by my now husband, but at the time a new Muslim friend back in September. So, so many things have changed for me very, very quickly. But after reading the Quran from cover to cover, I realized that I am on the right path and home. And this will be, is kind of the beginning for me of a journey that I look so very forward to. And I will add to that that most recently I married this very wonderful person who is the answer to prayers that had, who is Muslim and had invited me to be Muslim, his Muslim wife, just recently on the 17th of March in Qatar. Mashallah. Congratulations. So there's been so much going on. Mashallah. Mashallah. May Allah bless your marriage. I mean, can you tell us more about your journey to Islam? And you're, you know, just basically a kind of a little bit more about the things that led up to that point where you felt in your heart that you believed and you wanted to take that step. Absolutely. So for me, my journey was I was born to a single mother under dire circumstances and was raised without religion. There was no conformity, freedoms, unimaginable freedoms and things that probably exposed me to ways that were certainly not healthy. But in reflection, I realized my mom was doing the best she could. And so in raising me in a very non-religious environment, I had just kind of lived my life a certain way up to a point where I was in a situation where I lost a loved one who was most dear to me and it was the worst experience. I was, for the first time in my entire life, most devastated, just broken. And that set me on a path to start exploring deeper meaning. Why am I here? Why is, why do these things happen? And I stumbled upon a Buddhist monastery and was invited to attend and studied for several months and met the most wonderful Buddhist monks and nuns and learned prostration and prayer and meditation and how to more discipline my mind and I still have in memory some of the wonderful mantras. However, there was still something that I was searching for and a beloved family member had suggested I pray and it was a Christian prayer that was brought to my attention and so I began my journey of prayer and ultimately ended up reading the Bible cover to cover then decided on baptism and started attending church. But again, I was just really, there has to be more to this and I had so many questions and I felt a connection but I was really to a degree feeling like I didn't fit and I had experienced within the past couple of years some additional deeply felt very hard hitting losses and I was once again faced with why are these things happening and you know, I feel like I'm a little more spiritual but I just turned inward and really was in a certain way more lost and the questions that I had, I wasn't finding answers to and this wonderful person just kind of stumbled my way and from that point there were conversations that opened up and he began speaking to me about Islam. I realized I had so many questions and then they just flowed from me very naturally and when he was talking about Muslims and I did I know Muslims and I hadn't ever met a Muslim that had ever spoke to me about being Muslim or Islam so I knew virtually nothing. The only thing that I could relate to was while I was reading the Bible there were parts of the Old Testament in scriptures where it was talking about prayer and prostration and it was obviously I identified once reading the Qur'an that a sequence of events obviously are very well accounted for and had some understanding of who the prophets were and felt a real deep connection to the Qur'an and so that I had this person readily available to ask questions to and to answer my questions was certainly most beneficial. I was truly grateful and then of course set upon the journey of learning Salah and I'm still struggling because the Arabic language does not come easy for me. I think I'm one of those people that I've tried learning other languages and I learn a little and I forget more than I've learned and I do realize that this is going to be a very long journey and I just have to be gentle with myself. I tend to be a little bit harder on myself and sort of expect myself to do everything to a measure of not necessarily perfection but in order and to make sure everything makes sense and has some deep meaning and that I'm getting it and so maybe I have a tendency to overthink things but this is one thing that just feels so natural to me to a point that when I discovered by doing a DNA ancestry test that I actually have ancestry from Tunisia, a Muslim country so I'm realizing this makes perfect sense. Mashallah, that's an amazing story, Mashallah. Allah brings us to Islam in such beautiful ways, Mashallah and that's definitely the case for you, Mashallah. Okay, so you just took Shahada, Mashallah just recently so this is going to be your first Ramadan. Yes. And Ramadan is just a couple of days from now so how are you feeling as we approach the blessed month? Candidly, I have moments of nervousness and anxiousness however I'm realizing that my approach is just really with a high degree of humility I know so little and I'm really putting effort into wanting to learn so that I can value at the highest level the blessings and the benefits and the rewards and knowing that it's going to come with challenges I'm embracing those challenges that it's going to come with difficulties I'm embracing those on the front end realizing that they will shape me and mold me into a better Muslim woman a better Muslim wife, a better Muslim sister within the community so I'm grateful and I'm so very dependent upon a lot of strength in me and fortify me and bring the wisdom to me and bring good people to me that have experience and wisdom and I'm really genuinely just feeling so grateful Mashallah, I really appreciate that you're offering yourself some self-compassion and trying to just take it easy and put in Allah's hands Mashallah So are you feeling apprehensive at all about any particular aspects or do you feel like you're going to just take it a day at a time? Exactly, it's probably really going to be an hour at a time I am fasting as something I've always kind of had a tendency to not do the things that I should do so never am I ever eating at the same time sometimes I donate until two in the afternoon and sometimes I donate at all in the evening and I was actually just joking with a family member and saying that I realized that the fasting will be beneficial because I've struggled with framing what I should be doing in terms of food there have been things that for the longest time I've overindulged in and as a consequence of that it's certainly had an impact on health and so I'm wanting to just really reevaluate my thinking about what I put in my body and how often and that there are so many people that struggle for just the basics so I'm feeling a certain amount of responsibility to make sure that I don't overindulge so that more can be shared with others it's a sensitivity that I have more now thinking about my intention going in which is just to really value all parts of Ramadan and that the fasting even though I know it's not going to be easy I will take it hour by hour day by day and do my very best and I haven't even really looked into what the consequences are if I break fast or if I don't do things the right way I'm just really trying to focus on what I should do and just the leanings on Allah to strengthen me and ensure that I'll do what I'm supposed to and find the right guidance and counsel Insha'Allah, insha'Allah I'll fall into place and you'll figure it out it's definitely a journey like you mentioned earlier that it's a life-long journey so insha'Allah with each Ramadan we learn more and grow more insha'Allah and also like you mentioned SubhanAllah it really is a great time to be more mindful about what we're eating and how we're eating insha'Allah it's really such a multifaceted benefit during Ramadan, insha'Allah okay so let's talk about non-Muslim family members and friends and do you foresee interactions with them during Ramadan and how do you think that's gonna go? I actually just received a phone call from a sister who lives in New York she's coming to California for a week with her boyfriend and has invited me to a night of comedy next Wednesday and she had mentioned going to dinner before and I explained to her that this is Ramadan so there's fasting from the early morning prayer until a later evening prayer and that dinner will be out for me and so it was very sweet it was a touching moment because she immediately said I will eat when you are able to eat and I realized that even though my family doesn't fully understand this change in my life and they have questions and when I answer I'm trying to be most patient and not impart more than what I actually know I'm not trying to overstep boundaries because I realize that I'm so new and that this is all still so very new to me but that I have read the Quran and so I'm able to just draw from some of what I've learned and when I'm talking with them about Prophet Muhammad's teachings Prophet Muhammad SAW he was Salem in his teachings or mother Aisha and I am able to share with absolute joy and enthusiasm that I'm learning and these things though they're very new to me are such an important part of my journey and my growth and that it is in many ways creating in me a much better person and so I will be a much better sister a much better daughter and just all I in inshallah a much better well-rounded human being and so I'm actually excited more and more to be sharing as I know best how to explain what it is to be Muslim and to explain more about Islam and even though I feel very limited in my knowledge I can certainly share at least the basics of my own experience and the wonderful people that I've met and the joy that I'm experiencing and the love that I feel and that is being shared with me which is unparalleled to any other experience in my lifetime so I want to share these things what a blessing that they're open and open-minded and being supportive inshallah inshallah they will continue to be that way and inshallah may Allah just increase the love and care between you and all of your family members inshallah okay so since this is your first Ramadan again and I think anyway as each Ramadan passes by or as each Ramadan approaches we would want to set goals for ourselves but this is your first Ramadan so do you have any goals in mind and what is the most what are you looking forward to most this Ramadan? it's not a good question I'm still putting the pieces together but one goal is that I really do so I'm almost finished reading the Quran for the second time and I want very much to be able to complete it a third time for deeper understanding and I feel that the impact that it'll have in terms of hopefully inshallah finding some deeper meanings and moving more towards more self-discipline and knowledge that will fortify me going forward as I delve deeper into more of the responsibilities of upholding the five pillars of Islam and embarking on studies and really trying and inshallah hoping that the Arabic language takes hold so reading the Quran and prayer is highest on my list of priorities learning du'a so I feel like I will be utilizing this time as much as possible I think the bigger challenge is that I work Monday through Friday to 4.30 so I know trying to do all of this and balance it with measured discipline is going to come with challenges and that's maybe where I feel like I could potentially stumble if I miss a prayer and if I'm still struggling after a week or two with certain words or parts of prayer am I going to feel disappointment within myself or you know how I deal with that as I go but you know just kind of keeping everything as simple as possible manageable inshallah inshallah may Allah make it easy for you and give you success in all of your efforts mashallah I think I've read today by one of our teachers a post about making goals during Ramadan and making them meaningful and I think it was consistent or making them practical so mashallah it sounds like you have that covered like your goals are mashallah very meaningful and important to you and then you know you have some consistent or you know goals that you can try to make consistent for yourself inshallah so inshallah okay so fun stuff inshallah you know Ramadan for people who have grown up as Muslims they have a lot of stuff that brings you know brings nostalgia for them whether it's food or just you know gatherings with family there's a lot of things that just for like with us maybe you know there's different holidays that have nostalgic memories for us Ramadan and either like that for born Muslims but since we weren't born Muslims we have the opportunity to make traditions and build things in our in our Ramadan so that will be nostalgic for us in the future so have you thought about that have you thought of any traditions that you want to build for you and your family or start for you and your family inshallah the one thing that most stands out for me in terms of what I find I want to accomplish or it's kind of part goal but I want to develop this into a tradition during Ramadan is where I have kind of the minimalistic approach I mean not truly or as much as I would like to commit to but a pretty minimalistic approach to life in general I want to basically kind of go through things that I've accumulated over time that might not have the value and donate and do things for others that if I think something that I have might be of benefit to someone else who may value it more be willing to part with that and that's kind of part one of the second part for me which is really to be more available to help others I feel like that's kind of the one thing that will really allow me to experience the benefits of being a good Muslim woman in a sense because I am right now my husband lives in another country and I'm here alone and my family lives in other states so outside of work it's just me at home and to become a more community oriented more community involved and to really build within the community but first by building relationships with others through and giving up myself of my time of my efforts any talents that I may have is something I most look forward to so I hope to translate that into tradition somehow Sister Heather that's an amazing answer Masha'Allah beautiful I can't imagine that you know just really such a beautiful and humble tradition that you want to start for yourself and again may Allah give you a success in your efforts I can tell you that MCC always needs volunteers during Ramadan so you're always one of them Masha'Allah that's really beautiful okay so last question as a new convert would you like to share with the community viewers who are watching this outside of the MCC community and how do you feel we could support new converts better? Great question I most would like to really develop relationships within the Muslim community and I feel Alhamdulillah it's such an incredible blessing to have been guided and come into contact with so many wonderful people at MCC when I was first reaching out to masjids in the area it was because I needed the Shahada certificate to go to the country to marry my husband I hadn't yet really felt comfortable knowing that I wasn't so well rounded in prayer and to go to the mosque to pray and so I'm still at a point where I have so much more work to do but I'm so willing to learn and so any sisters who have knowledge, wisdom, experience they are willing to impart, I am eager to listen, to learn, to share and I'm very excited to be among such a good community of people and the resources here are absolutely fantastic and I will say that to my experience it was a phone call and an email and the response was so immediate my brother Manir just orchestrated everything so split second literally just dropping everything to accommodate me and I was thinking who does that wherever in the world do these things happen so there's such a special place in my heart for you and brother Manir and sister Jose Alhamdulillah I feel so incredibly blessed to be invited here and to be sharing in this experience and my experience with others but also be able to be a part of something so much bigger and I'm truly grateful for this and in terms of I think you guys do so well already drawing resources and garnering resources for new converts I've not yet tapped into but been offered so many wonderful resources so that's where it will be picking up for me and I will definitely be doing a deep dive into these wonderful, wonderful resources but again just wanting to be more a part of a community and so I would never shy away from anyone that reaches out to me in any way or if I reach out to someone and they can guide me or direct me I would be ever so grateful it really is an honor for us and I know brother Manir and sister Jose we all feel that it's an honor to be able to support you and welcome you and you already are Masha'Allah contributing just by sharing your story and it sounds like you just want to be part of the community and give back Masha'Allah may Allah reward you for all of that and again thank you so much for sharing your story inshallah it'll be a benefit and for others inshallah thank you so much sister Heather thank you, it's a pleasure assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh you are here for this momentous event this incredible moment in your life that I hope you will cherish forever and remember forever and I just am so humbled to be a part of it with you you've met Manir and Edelah and Aisha and Masha'Allah they're amazing people and I'm sure they've already maybe even laid out the process for you but just for the sake of making this as efficient as possible I'll just quickly summarize I'm sure you know as well the shahada process is really easy Masha'Allah to come into Islam it just takes a sincere heart and a few words and that's it and we believe honestly though you're already part of this family of Muslims you're already our sister this is just a formal process to officiate it but I feel that just some analysis I came into the room and I saw your beaming smile I felt that from you so the actual process that we do is basically I'll just be reciting the shahada in Arabic and I'll go at a very slow pace so that you can repeat with me I'll say it in English are you familiar with that? I'm sorry because I usually get like all of this back sort of knowledge or context beforehand but this was a little bit done a little differently which is fine but are you familiar with the shahada? Do you know how the phrase or the declaration is stated? Do you know it? Alhamdulillah, beautiful Alhamdulillah and if you don't mind just for us just to have again total transparency here would you mind if I ask what your previous religious background if any what it is or what it was? I appreciate the question mine is one of those journeys that I can summarize fairly easily but was basically born of a situation where I was not planned I never knew my biological father and my mother not having a whole lot of insight as to how the world works was without religion and was basically just thumbing her way through life to the best of her ability made a lot of mistakes and so in short fast forward to 20 years she gave birth to my youngest sister I was nearly 20 years older then and when my sister was just one month shy of her 16th birthday she died from an epileptic seizure that oh did I lose you? Oh no I am here all of a sudden I was just seeing myself so in short that moment caused a real imbalance in my life and I was on the quest to find answers because she was the dearest person to me I had never been so close or really been able to measure what love was until she was born and came into my life so I ended up finding a Buddhist monastery studied Buddhism learned from some wonderful nuns and monks how to be more mentally disciplined and physically disciplined and so really the first if I could call it religion that came into my life was Buddhism and then sometime maybe nearly a year later my relative who was also affected by my sister's passing had suggested I pray a Christian prayer and so she gave me a book and I began to read and then I was inquisitive enough and read the Bible cover to cover started attending Christian churches and eventually was baptized but further on down the road I was really just sort of baffled how so many of the pieces didn't really fit and I was still searching and I had kind of stumbled upon some verbiage about the Holy Quran and I was curious but I didn't really aspire to learn because I knew it was a different language and I just thought I hadn't yet been fully inspired until September this year when I had been really just kind of at the lowest point in my life for a very long while just empty really depleted and feeling very defeated and this bright light came into my life that just illuminated the beauty of all things that I think that were pressing in my heart but that I hadn't really quite been able to piece together in terms of who Allah is and what Allah does for us and I was inspired to read the Quran so I bought my first Quran read from cover to cover and I know now that this was the definitive intention for me it just kind of took me a little longer road maybe and a whole lot of bumps and bruises along the way but I see how I've arrived at least whole enough to really recognize what is true and I am so genuinely grateful. Oh my goodness oh my goodness Aisha that was such a beautiful testimony I, wow you've left me really speechless thank you for sharing that I'm sorry because you probably are going to get this question so much as more and more people have learned of you coming into the faith and I have to just prepare you for that this will be the question that everybody wants to know like what's your journey tell us your story but what a beautiful beautiful story thank you Mashallah I mean first of all may God bring you peace over your sister's passing I pray that you are reunited with her in the best of places she sounds like a lovely person so I'm sorry that you went through that but the fact that her passing led you to this path is just such an incredible gift that she left you with right even though she left she also left you this gift so we always say that we all have different paths but the fact that we get here is what matters right the fact that you're here even if you stumbled along the path we've all stumbled some of us were born into the faith we've certainly stumbled a lot but alhamdulillah for God's mercy and the fact that he awakens us as you said so beautifully you know that you just felt illuminated and that really is what I think many of us who embrace this faith whether we're again born into it or we come into it it is coming out from a darkness right that we just suddenly realize this is what I need to hold on to because otherwise we're just floundering trying to find our way in this very very complex world alhamdulillah thank you so much for sharing really beautiful I don't know if you're in local are you local in the Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area? I've been conquered. Oh my God that's where I was raised like oh wow my mom lives there I was just there in the other day okay I hope to meet you I would love to meet you I would love to you know sit with you and spend some time with you you're close that's wonderful news yeah I would love to get to know you more more about your journey you're so well spoken such a great storyteller Masha'Allah Brother Menir I'm sure you took note of sister Aisha we may have to bring her on to the to the speaker circuit at MCC at some point insha'Allah but no you really are you're very very captivating storyteller you had me gripping you know right from the beginning so Masha'Allah it's just such an honor but thank you for all of that and just again I feel like Masha'Allah you know you're already here but let's you know if you're ready we can proceed and we can we can go ahead and appreciate this beautiful moment insha'Allah so the Shahada as you know you know it it's very short and typically some speakers or some people who appreciate will do it one time or three times based on the preference are you comfortable with either or or would you like to the the Prophet I said him when he would emphasize something he would repeat it three times and that's where that practice comes from so I do prefer to do it three times just to kind of you know in line ourselves with him and also for us who are witnessing I think it's just really it's always beautiful to say the Shahada was someone who's coming to the page because we reaffirm our own faith in that moment as well so if you're comfortable with that we can do three but if you want to just keep it simple short and sweet we can do one too I love the idea of three okay I'm so again honored and excited to be here Bismillah so we'll begin and I'll repeat it in Arabic and then we'll do the definition after the three full statements in Arabic we'll do the English definition and then that will be it so Bismillah we first begin and say Ash hadu Ash hadu I'm sorry I forgot to give you the instruction so I will repeat I mean I will say it and then you repeat immediately after me so we'll start again Bismillah Ash hadu Ash hadu An La ilaha La ilaha Il Allah Il Allah Wa Ash hadu Anna Muhammadan Muhammadan Rasul Allah Rasul Allah beautiful masha Allah that's one down two more Ash hadu An La ilaha La ilaha Il Allah Il Allah Ash hadu Ash hadu Anna Muhammadan Muhammadan Rasul Allah Rasul Allah Ash hadu Ash hadu An La ilaha La ilaha Il Allah Wa Ash hadu Anna Muhammadan Muhammadan Rasul Allah Rasul Allah Masha Allah, Allahu Akbar God is great welcome to the faith sister Aisha you are now a Muslim although you were one even seconds ago but you are it is official you are alhamdulillah part of this incredible ummah welcome you are our sister in faith you are here is of course the Shahada which simply states that I bear witness that there is no God but the one and only God God and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God and that is all it takes for someone to come into the faith of course to feel it in the heart to testify it in the heart and on the tongue so alhamdulillah welcome I wish I could hug you alhamdulillah and that is usually what we do there is usually a line and we just everybody crowds around alhamdulillah you have to kind of get through that but really special moment jazaki l'akhirin for allowing us to be a part of it did you have any questions umm or sister elin or brother manir did you have any any announcements anything let's say I think it would be good to bring them back into the conversation inshallah anything to share Aisha how do you feel inshallah that was really beautiful thank you sister Aisha for sharing your story with us it was really moving and you know you've been through so much may Allah continue to open doors and bring beautiful blessings into your life I mean and also sister Hosea if you want to talk to her about her slate being clean and dua's being accepted inshallah yes but anyway thank you so much and inshallah like a brother manir will be or has already added you to my mailing the mailing list that I send out so inshallah I'll follow up with you about that because we have some stuff coming up inshallah thank you Aisha thank you elin Aisha I love it I love it brother manir did you have any for sister Aisha any announcements about it you just honored us sister heather by allowing us to be part of this special day it was just a special privilege to be part of your spiritual journey you'll hear this again and again from us because we lived this this saying that this is a this is not a sprint this is a marathon we're going to take it slowly and we are here for you we're running this with you and we're there to make it beautiful for you as you are for us to give you water to give you gatorade to give you whatever you need to run this marathon with you so that's what it's all about and so thank you for the thing and we'll start the whole say we'll say that you know your slate is clean it's like the day you came out of your mother's womb you got to keep your good deeds and because of your wonderful presence I can tell you have a lot of that I'm the luck and thank you for sharing your story yet by the way very touching it just reminded me of the old saying that God reserves his hardest test for his strongest soldiers and amazing and please pray for us because you know we are all weighed down for what by baggage by things that we have to answer for and the sins that we do but your prayers are very direct very go direct to God right now and that's why we have to selfishly ask for ourselves right now which is yeah thank you so much thank you both for those reminders you know we do so many I don't know where that's coming from that was like you know like a drum roll like someone did I don't know where it's coming from I don't know where it's coming from I have no idea where that's coming from do you know where it's coming from from in here I'm checking all my tabs I have a million tabs open right now Sada Jose I think it's yours because when we were on mute it was still coming oh my gosh really yeah I'm so sorry it's fine it's very beautiful yeah I wish we what is this part of the yeah Allah you know I have a YouTube video up for the Qalam Institute I'm so sorry I had no idea it was on but the timing was so perfect yes upon all oh my goodness alhamdulillah there's no better words of course than the words of Allah but Sastra Aisha as my dear Sastra Aisha and brother Minir when you've come into Islam we believe that you are as they said like a newborn baby you're sinless all of your past good deeds accrue they join you and also you're any sins or any mistakes any misdeeds you've made also get converted into hassanat or good deeds for you so you basically have you know abundance and a surplus of good deeds and that's why we seek your draws because you are not only in that beautiful pure state but you're also your draws are considered what we say mustajab which is there's a lot of power right now because you've come into this faith you've made the ultimate sacrifice and to come into Islam and as an adult of course I was reminded earlier listening to our teacher Hamza Yusuf who's also a convert he was saying that sometimes people forget that the all of the first generation were converts the Sahaba the wives of the Prophet they're all converts have an immense role in our faith and they have such a weightiness because they make the ultimate sacrifice and so you join the ranks of all of those amazing incredible people of course and here even with us the Shaysha who's also a convert and who leads the convert care and so many of our members of our community are converts our teachers the teacher that I just mentioned I don't know if you're familiar with his work Shah Hamza Yusuf but I think he would really appreciate he has a book on Islam and Buddhism he wrote a section on you know comparing the two faiths and also I don't know if you're familiar with Dr. Thomas Cleary who was he wrote many books on Buddhism he's actually one of the great translators of the Buddhist tradition he passed away actually I believe in August or July of this past year unfortunately but he was also a Muslim people don't know that about him so there are so many people that you're going to meet who've had very similar paths and Buddhism Subhanallah is one of those traditions similar to Christianity where people it's like a doorway it's a stepping stone that they will just with a little bit more study find their way to Islam so I really was thinking of that as you were speaking like Subhanallah I'm not surprised especially because you said you were a seeker and seekers you know Allah like Subhanallah pulls you because you're seeking the truth and until you get to that truth you're not satisfied and that's why your journey is so beautiful because it shows the sincerity of your heart you went through loss and you started you know that inquiry and that inquiry took you to these beautiful other traditions which there are beauties beautiful truths and universal truths and all of these beautiful faiths but Alhamdulillah you're here you're here in Islam and that of course is a gift Islam really is a gift and I would love to again speak to you further inshallah when you're you know ready to come and join us in person I have Halafas that I do or like gatherings for women the last Friday of every Thursday you are always welcome and if you ever come to MCC I'm five minutes away I would be honored to meet you to give you a tour to just spend some time with you and maybe inshallah when we are able to do that we can provide some resources for you I'm sure actually sister Aisha already has that process ready because mashallah they're so good at helping you know with the Convert Care program to make sure you have the resources you need but I will happily share my information with you if you want to be in touch with me any questions you have or any just to feel like you know I'm now part of something much bigger and it is it's a family and I I'm sorry I'm going on so long but I love this community so much I came from Southern California and I made a specific duad that Allah grant me the ability to move close to MCC because I love these people so much and you will feel the love on this and I've been a part of many communities but what you get from the MCC community is really really special so that's why I'm so happy you took your shahada with us and that we will be honored with seeing you and having you a part of our community so thank you, forgive me for going on so long but any a thing to share any final remarks from you I genuinely feel so incredibly blessed as I realize that with the guidance of Allah he is drawing me near to some extraordinarily wonderful people three of you have definitely a very special place in my heart not only because you have gone out of your way to be so accommodating to a very on the spot request but I will tell you that I have really been praying to Allah for an opportunity to experience more of the Muslim community and I feel like he has brought me closer to some wonderful people so I'm just so grateful thank you each of you that's so sweet I can tell you that the feeling is very very very mutual I'm so touched thank you for again requesting this last minute shahada I felt like it was like the lottery really to have this subhanallah on this blessed night so thank you in this blessed sacred month of Rajab there's just so many wonderful gifts that you've given all of us and to reaffirm our own testimony of faith as always as I said such a blessing so thank you I look forward to being in touch with you and I thank brother Munir for making that contact he knows he's got that VIP he can text me anytime he wants especially with these requests so I jumped on the opportunity but I'm so grateful to you thank you thank you so much and may Allah make it easy for you know as brother Munir said this is a marathon and there's going to be a lot it's such a beautiful time and I don't want to you know say any more than that just just cherish it relish it enjoy it take your time and just really grow in your love of your creator who's basically pulling you towards him inch by inch inch by inch every day and inshallah may Allah surround you with beautiful people who hold you who give you space who you know really support you during this time and we just we're excited to have you so thank you thank you so much giving you lots of hugs virtual hugs I'm a hundred so I hope you're okay with that because I will hug you at some point definitely virtual hugs lots of virtual hugs from our side too my side thank you I can do a quick closing before we head out Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Bismillah Ya Allah we ask that you bless our dear sister Aisha increase her draw her closer to you provide for her from every which direction ya Allah surround her and develop her in your mercy and in your care and bring her guidance every single day so that she can again benefit our community and we can benefit her Alhamdulillah thank you for bringing us together please bless MCC community brother Munir sister Aisha their families all of their loved ones everyone's loved ones ya Allah please protect and preserve them all thank you for this wonderful gift Alhamdulillah sister Aisha joining our faith Alhamdulillah thank you thank you thank you Aisha have a wonderful eating both of you Aisha have a wonderful eating brother Munir as well InshaAllah we will see you soon Asalaikum Asalaikum


Hi guys, welcome back to this channel, it's Meks from the Meks creation. In today's video, we are going to look at what you call vist visas in Qatar. Yes, we are going to look at vist visas for family, for relatives, we look at brothers, sisters, all name it, parents. So what are the requirements if someone is sponsoring you for the vist visa in Qatar? That is exactly that we need to know or that's what we need to understand. Remember, you can apply for the vist visa for your spouse, for your brother, for your sister, for your parents in Qatar. But still that there is a requirement you as a sponsor, you are supposed to fulfill. Remember, when we talk about the vist visas, some countries have visa, vist visa weaver whereby they get visas on arrival. There are some countries that don't have visas on arrival. There are some countries whereby they need to apply for visas online. And the other countries whereby if you need a vist visa for example, you can be sponsored by a family member. You can be sponsored by someone who is already working and living in Qatar. But under some given amount of conditions that are in place, not everyone, not every resident that is working in Qatar can support or can sponsor a family member, can sponsor children, can sponsor family to come. It will definitely depend on which kind of nature of work you are doing. That is also another requirement. So the nature of the work that you are doing is going to be facilitated or it's going to be backed up by what we call the amount of salary that you are being paid. That is also very interesting. That is another condition because if they definitely make it that every resident that is living in Qatar can sponsor a family, can sponsor a family, then definitely some of these Gulf countries or even Qatar or other countries they will have an influx of people coming into the country. But there are conditionarities. There are definitely conditions that are supposed to be put in place and the salary matters.  That should be your salary.  Then if you are going to sponsor other relatives to come and visit on a visa visa in Qatar then definitely you will need what you call a minimum of 10,000 katariyal for you to sponsor your mother to sponsor your other relatives and this will be backed up by what you call a salary certificate that will be coming from your company to specify that that is the actual amount of money that you are receiving in one way or the other. Sometime it can be even what you call a bank statement. So we are going to look at the requirements.  In case you want them to come and either live with you because they can live with you and work under your sponsorship or in case they have vertical vacation or normal every day visa to come and see to come and visit you and go back to your country of origin. We want to look at the requirements. What are the requirements for you to sponsor what we call your spouse, your wife or your children in Qatar for those people that ask that question. One, you will have to apply for the visa application through what you call the Metrash. For those people who know the Metrash app in Qatar it contains all the services that you need to access most of the services in Qatar. So you will apply through what you call the Metrash. If you apply online it can be approved. The steps will be followed then they will also request from you to attack the relevant documents. Then number two, the requirements include the following. You must apply what you call the visa application that can be online or it can be through Metrash. You have to apply for the visa application online and you need to fill up that form. That form will contain what you call the details. All the details and make sure that you fill out all the required information that they need of you. Then two, you need what you call a no objection letter from your employer. You need to have a no objection employer from your employer. This is going to specify, it's going to be one of the documents that you are going to submit along with other documents for your visa visa for your spouse or your children to be approved. Then you need a photocopy of the company ID for that company that you are working for. If you are working for a hospitality company let's say for example you are working for a hotel company definitely you need to have to attach a photocopy of that ID to specify or to show that you are a true employee of that company that you are working for. Then you need a photocopy or you need a copy of the passport of the people that are going to visit you. For example if it is your wife and children you need photocopies or you need copies of their passports to be attached on those documents that you will submit for their visa visa to be approved. Then you need a copy of the Qatar ID or you need a copy of your residence permit. You as a person, you the person who is sponsoring you who is applying the visa visa on behalf of the others you are a sponsor then definitely you need to attach what you call a photocopy of your Qatar ID or residence permit for those people that call it because it's going to show you or it's going to signify that you are a true resident in that country. Then also still something that you need to know you need to attach what you call a healthy insurance certificate. For those people that you are sponsoring it's your wife and family. You need to ensure their health for emergencies for emergencies and things that may break up because remember they are coming to visit you for a short period of time. So definitely you need that health insurance for you to attach to the document. Then also you need what you call round trip tickets. What you call the round ticket is we need the return you need to attach the return ticket and the two way ticket meaning that they are not going permanently to stay here but they will come to visit then probably they will go out they will go back to their country. Most of these countries they normally want a two round ticket is because they do not want to see any flux of people coming and those people are going to be dependent on the economy. That's why normally some visit or normally this visit they normally require you to have what you call round ticket in one or the other. Then something also what you need to have is proof of relationship. What is your relationship? You need to prove that this is your wife. You need to prove that this is your children or these are your children. It is not proving by having what you call a return letter but definitely what you are going to have is that you are going to write you are going to have what you call authorized document certificates for your wife and you are also going to have birth certificates for your children then they can be approved in one way or the other. Then also you need what you call a salary certificate you need to present what you call a salary certificate and I told you the minimum salary certificate if you are going to sponsor your wife and children on a visa visa then that salary minimum salary is 5000 that you need to have so definitely when you have all those documents attached in one way or the other then probably you can fill in or you can submit your application for that visa and then you can be given the visa after under a review of all the documents that are submitted then they can definitely give you a consideration and review then they can grant a visa to come for your spouse and also your children to come and see you definitely that is what definitely it's all about in one way. So I hope I have tried to share the requirements for you to have. Let's wait in another video in part 2 and you see which other requirements if you are going to sponsor your wife if you are going to sponsor your mother your brother or your sister in another way. Thank you so much for coming back to this channel and thank you so much for supporting. This makes from the next creation.


G'day mate 40 here So one of the the 12-step programs that I I tend to has the unofficial motto of we're here to bring souls out of hiding Which sounds sounds wonderful, but what about those whole souls that probably should stay in hiding? so my first thought on Bringing souls out of hiding is the the people who are wounded So about a third of the population with these propensities for addiction and self-destruction cycles You don't want to reach into the cave and drag them into the sunlight All right, because what happens when you reach into a cave where there's a wounded animal that that's hiding out and you try To drag them into the sunlight. They're gonna bite you So you don't want to drag drag souls out of hiding, right? You don't want to try to drag people generally speaking into a recovery or You know your your religion or whatever it is that you think would be really good for people so There's something that I learned in the 12-step group Alan on it and that was Don't make a suggestion to someone more than once and I haven't been able to fully live by that But it's really helped me reduce my tendency to give unsolicited Suggestions to people so I would sometimes give people the same suggestion five to ten times Now I think I generally Try to limit it one to three All right, ideally I just give the suggestion once and move on I really don't want to be banging on with with my suggestions to someone so If I try not to give suggestions period Instead, I just try to share from my own experience and then if they hear something that that excites them then they can take it and run with it so we've got to be really careful bringing souls out of hiding or Making people religious or Turning people on to Something and like kind of dragging people along it just just doesn't work because we evolved in a way to be highly skeptical of other people's Motivations and so I have found low IQ people tend to be even more skeptical and surly than even average IQ and above IQ people but what about What about people who start coming out of hiding and then they get smashed I can think about all those people That I've known who are in solid jobs and then they took a new job That demanded a higher level of performance and they got fired from it So, you know, I know people for whom this has happened four or five times. They've been in a solid job They've taken a step up with a you know, big rise in salary a big rise in responsibility a big rise in standards and boom after A week a month six months that they get fired so We're not always Well suited to stepping up in the world, right? Weekend vibes. Yeah I'm just I'm just chilling So I know for me in my own work history the first first four jobs I had from sixth grade to To 10th grade I got fired from And I got fired from them for the same reasons that I struggled in jobs after 10th grade like lack of attention to detail lack of interest in what I was doing Lack of willingness to follow direction lack of attention to detail lack of conscientiousness, right that that you know got me fired from my first few jobs and I still have Some of those traits. No, I still have all of those traits just to varying degrees of intensity so I've had a work history where I make a mistake and then if the boss jumps on me for it It tends to lead me into a spiral where I make more mistakes Then the boss gets more upset with me and then I make even more mistakes. It's like a downward spiral So I'm thinking for for the under owner like myself that the situation of Employment is probably even more important than it is for the normal person. I think a normal person can adapt to To the situation someone who's not normal someone who's got Let's just call it addictive tendencies if you're not a big believer in addiction just you know use some other Self-defeating maladaptive tendencies someone who doesn't you know interact normally with other people So if you're one third of the population Who does not connect normally with with other people? Probably the situation of your job is more important than it is for the for the normal person That you need a particular type of environment You need a particular type of a boss a particular type of Relationship to to thrive maybe maybe your options are not as big and wide as they are for a normal person And that means you probably have to be a little more selective about where you go to work And it's not it's not possible to read this situation Perfectly, I've I've misread the situation I thought oh taking a job where it just seemed to be you know the perfect job for me I thought I was really open with who I was and the type of relationship that I wanted and The other party said oh, yeah, you know this sounds great You know I'm not someone who fires people like I've never fired anyone and and then like a week into it You know I end up getting fired Because I started the job when I was sick When I was sick I was also working on a substandard computer And so I started making mistakes getting frustrated with my computer things started spiraling and Boom the the boss who never fires anyone you know got rid of me And I would have been perfectly well suited for the job You know I could have done it, but they're just all these negative spirals that I fell into so it was just kind of Kind of humbling thinking about I excel in certain situations, but As someone who's not a normie The situations in which I expel maybe excel maybe more narrow than they are for for regular people and so Who is that character cool hand Luke? He's didn't need to talk about a man has to know his limitations So there are certain jobs and certain employers that I've just thrived in absolutely thrived in But then there have been all sorts of jobs and employers where I've just gone into You know a downward spiral. I've just been a really bad fit for me so maybe my options are not not as wide as they are for the normal person and if one has these Self-destructive tendencies Perhaps one has to take more care about putting yourself in a situation where you can you can thrive So for example, most people are not suited to being entrepreneurs It seems to me at least nine out of ten people are better suited being employees as their primary source of income So a lot of people have have a vision that they're going to work for themselves I think this is going to be less responsibility if I just work for myself or just be easier, but But they find it's actually more responsibility It's it's more demanding and it's not something that they're cut out for So Let's say you've got you know a certain level of recovery You you found you found a sphere in life where you're doing well Perhaps that doesn't mean you're completely ready to come out of hiding and I think this would apply to your relationships, too maybe I Think most people need just graduated levels of disclosure, right? You're not best suited You know come disclosing everything fairly early on in in a relationship. I particularly early on in a relationship like one thing can just Drown out all other things. So perhaps the most scary things about you are the most Just tasteful things about you are not something that you should introduce early on and then one form of coming out of hiding is to go online and to do live streams and Doing live streams is not in the best interest of a whole bunch of people I've seen doing live streams I give you going to do a live stream in America or Australia or England with a big Nazi flag behind you It's probably not in your long-term best interest though. It could be wildly entertaining Doing live streams predisposes people to share all sorts of you know dark things that they wouldn't share face-to-face Also people get an exaggerated sense of their own importance and wisdom and sagacity and Like becoming a social media personality for many people becomes an addiction and it just doesn't cost them the money They put into the equipment, but the time and the energy that for many people would be far better spent Working a second job learning new skills socializing working out, you know developing in some other ways and Also, like coming out of hiding can exact an enormous toll on your mental health and on your personal life So at a certain level of visibility, you know, you may be doing well But then you get step into management you step into a higher level of visibility you become more of an online personality and It it has a negative effect on the rest of your life. So I always try to monitor the rest of my life and and my live streaming and how are they affecting each other so for example, I've live streamed every day for the last four days and I may keep it up. I I may not but when I when I walk down the street or When I get a synagogue or when I go to a restaurant when I'm at the beach or I'm going to social events going to writer gatherings Are my online activities having more of a negative or a positive effect on on my happiness and on my connections to people who Matter to me. So by doing these online things, I get to connect with a lot of really cool people But I also leave myself wide open to speaking in ways that will damage or destroy my relationships with real-life friends and relations, so Big question. Am I having fun? Do I find this relaxing and fulfilling? I don't find this relaxing, but I definitely find this fulfilling and I do find this fun So I Don't find myself locked into a grind Right. I'm not not making stuff, you know out of vague obligation to my viewers, right? Obviously you understand. I don't don't do any of this because I feel like I have an obligation to you and If you're going to come out of hiding like figure out what people will get from it I mean, maybe you're not suited for being an entrepreneur or having a more visible position or Moving into management or taking on greater responsibility Maybe you're not the type of guy who should be checking the engines before the plane takes off Well me and the other three people have your streams. Thank you. Thank you, Link so What do I hope you'll get from from my live stream? So one thing is personality and personal connection. So people who've had similar struggles to me I think will resonate when I share from, you know, my own history of humiliation. I Think that sometimes I share some useful information and then there's sometimes spectacle such as more often in the blood sports days but that's the Those are the three elements if you're going to be Creating stuff online personality information spectacle and If your show isn't growing ask yourself which element might be missing so my show has not been growing for the past three years and The element that's obviously most missing is spectacle All right, there haven't been many blood sports on my show over the last three years there hasn't been that that compelling spectacle that used to take place on the show and Yeah, maybe maybe I'm coming up short in the in the category of personality Maybe I'm coming up short in the in the humor and the mind-blowing revelations that get the listeners juices flowing and Another another danger about taking on more visibility and coming more out of hiding is That people want a piece of your soul like often employees or viewers right they may want to connect with you and If you stand out and if you connect with people say on YouTube It's because people feel a specific connection with your specific resonance with your experiences and In particular your your failures all right, and so You have to open up your dark private places and let strangers in and So when people then reject your your content You're very likely to feel that they're rejecting you Right, they're rejecting you as a person that you are not good enough that you're not special enough You're not unique enough. I Don't find this a problem Like my happiness level is not determined by the number of viewers Obviously, I prefer more viewers to fewer, but I've been I've been doing videos for 15 years. All right, you don't see an unhappy person here Just like cranking things out out of some sense of obligation So if people come to a live stream for example, they're not coming for for media like they're just there's a ton of media they're looking for a relationship and When you disappoint people they're going to take it as a deep personal betrayal all right and Can you can you handle that? Can I handle some of those times when I'm saying something every single person in the chat? You know passionately disagrees with me and turns their back on me so I've made a lot of acquaintances and friends from these online ventures and some some people I reach out to and Like I form form an offline relationship with them and then you know, I call them I never got a call back. Right, so Sometimes I disappoint people. They just turn their back on me and that's it and so I Think I'm able to just ride through that It's it's painful depending on the the intensity and the the importance of that relationship, but it inevitably happens particularly Given that I'm constantly changing my perspective on things. I'm constantly changing my understanding of of reality I'm constantly shifting. I'm not a You know a reliable pundit who's who's always going to tell you that you know the conservatives are right The Republicans are right that the the nationalist position is right that the the people are right the populace are right the elites are wrong I'm not going to come with this consistent presentation of reality that Has a top 40 feel where I'm just like playing the hits all over the Constitution more freedom and so because I'm constantly changing a Lot of my audience is going to be disappointed Disaffected is going to tune out and may very well Feel like I have betrayed them but How much should souls come out of hiding? I guess that's that's a that's my underlying question this morning and I think talking about damaged souls such as myself people who are not normal that We have to be fairly careful about where we come out of hiding and how we come out of hiding that We have to take more care than the normal person. We may not have the resilience of normal people so a good thing about a strongly identifying in groups such as For me in orthodox Judaism, I feel completely at home in orthodox Judaism so I can I can step into the stream of orthodox Judaism and I can just share that I've I've imbibed the rules and and within the rules You can pretty much be whoever you are. You can pretty much share anything and it's fairly safe space so The damage need they're safe spaces, I think people who don't have normal levels of human connection They have a particular need for finding safe spaces and maybe we need to come out of hiding there Primarily and then maybe gingerly step into the real world with great care with some trepidation maybe slowly Judging whether or not We're too much Out of hiding whether we we're becoming too visible. I mean look at the amber herd Johnny is a Johnny Depp I mean that case Right Could you imagine? Yeah, Johnny Depp ever heard. I mean, could you imagine you're at your private life being being examined like that? So most people would not survive well with with that level of scrutiny So for the damaged Maybe come out of hiding in safe places use use good sense With the people with whom you start disclosing such as in 12-step programs as this ethos We don't share We don't share What we hear in the meeting outside of the meeting so so people who are going to be? Relatively likely to maintain that kind of ethos those are the people that we come out of hiding to first and then We should develop from that you know feeling of safety and that that feeling of connection and rebuilding human relationships from from the wreckage of our past Maybe we can slowly build build out of that some resilience that we can take into the the wider world But with some care so number one don't drag people out of hiding Right that that's not going to work Number two if you're damaged right take a great deal of care With whom you confide and where you come out of hiding Slowly step into the real world with the sense of resilience that you have safe places that you can go and people you can talk to and Recognize that you're probably not suited for all jobs and all employers and you know all opportunities for Just displaying yourself right for for visibility right maybe not all opportunities for visibility Are you know in your best interest and then some people simply have stronger levels of recovery? I think some people can get such strong levels of recovery that they can practically become normal and Then I've had illusions of that. It's like oh man. I've got such a strong level of recovery now You know I can I can step out into the world as a normal person and then I'll just fall flat on my face I'll get into a situation that plays to my vulnerabilities to to my tendencies to get into these downward spirals and It's like oh, you know, I maybe I don't have as much recovery as I thought I have to be selective about About how I display myself So I've I've had friends who were kind of struggling should they stay and say $80,000 a year jobs with good benefits or should they step up to jobs that are more demanding higher standards they're paying well into six figures and Many of them have stepped into those high-paying jobs repeatedly and gotten fired gotten shot down So two lessons from that one They need a high level of recovery meaning maturity meaning, you know more in touch with with reality So when you challenge yourself more the more Reality is staring back into you and you have to step up So now part of this you can view as just settling for mediocrity But if you only have a mediocre level of recovery and You step into something more challenging now, it's very likely that you'll be exposed So you either you either raise your level of recovery meaning maturity meaning your acceptance of reality or You stay Stay in the safe place Peter principle observation tendency in most hierarchies Such as that of a corporation is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach a level of respective incompetence Yeah, and so sometimes And sometimes we're meant to be visible primarily outside of our work Yeah, not not everyone is well suited to being a leader At at work. So I know in Australia New Zealand People frequently work much harder outside of their jobs and they do on their job. So on their job, they just they just kind of Walk along and do do what's required and nothing more and as soon as they get off work then they explode with energy passion and enthusiasm into their hobbies and So some people are better suited for that. I don't know if you've got a patent Let's say four times you've stepped up from a mediocre job to a high paying higher-demanding job and you've gotten fired What's the primary lesson from that is the primary lesson that you need to change and become a better person to Be more tuned with reality become more mature someone who expects greater things of himself or should one accept one's limitations That perhaps one is not well suited for management or for for positions You know requiring higher visibility and higher standards Open questions to be continued