Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering InterConnect 2017, brought to you by IBM. Okay, welcome back everyone. We're live here at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for the wrap-up of IBM InterConnect 2017. I'm John Furrier, my co-host this week, my partner in crime, co-CEO, co-founder SiliconANGLE Media Inc. with myself, Dave Vellante, Dave's been a great week. I mean, I just feel like I have been Watsonized and block chained and cloud all week. So as we wrap up InterConnect, I want to get your thoughts on IBM, the cloud business, the big data marketplace, some of the things that we're seeing at the hundred of events we go to, we got our events coming up, we're going to be in Munich next month, we got DockerCon, and a lot of developer events coming up, but in general, we get to see the landscape. In some cases, that others don't see. And let's talk about that. So before we get into the landscape, let's talk about IBM, IBM's prospects. This show, just quick stat, almost double the online traffic we're seeing on IBM Go than World of Watson, which was the biggest show we've ever done with theCUBE that we've seen. So an interest. So it's a data point, unpack the data. You can see that there's a lot of global interest in what IBM is doing right now with the cloud and with Watson, and certainly with Blockchain, you add another disruptive enabler potentially to what will either be a brilliant IBM strategy or a complete crash and burn. I think this is an IBM go big or go home moment with Ginny Rometti. I love her messaging, I love her three pillars, enterprise strong, data first, cognitive to the core. That is solid messaging, all three pillars. To me, it's clear. IBM is at a reinvention moment, it's all coming together, but it's a go big or go home moment for them. Well, you know, John, I mean, Ginny, when she took over, I say she was running strategy before she became CEO.  And my ongoing joke is, Dell bought EMC, IBM buys the weather company. And that to me underscores the differentiation in thinking, Oracle I think is a little different, but Oracle and IBM are somewhat similar. I think you'd agree, in that they've got a big SaaS portfolio, they're trying to vertically integrate, they're trying to drive high value margin businesses. Now differences, IBM's much more services oriented than say in Oracle. And that's still, as I say, a big challenge for IBM, but I'm a bull on IBM. Why is that? Well, I think the strategy is, number one, they're relevant, right? I mean, we talked for years about how we weren't like that, excited about Microsoft because they weren't relevant, Satya Nadella came in, all of a sudden they're relevant again. I think IBM is highly relevant in the minds of CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, CDOs, all the C sweet. IBM is super relevant there, just as our Accenture and Ernie Young and all the big SIs, but IBM's got tons of products beneath it, number one. Number two, despite the fact that you called it out several years ago, they bought SoftLayer for 2.4 billion. It was a bare metal hosting company, right? But IBM is turning that into a cloud business with Blumex, right? And they're building, bringing in acquisitions like Cleversafe, like Espera, like Ustream and others where they're bringing services that are differentiated. You can only get Watson on IBM's cloud. You can only get the IBM's blockchain on IBM's cloud. So they're bringing in value added services and there's only one place you can get them. And I think that's a viable strategy that's going to throw off a lot of cash and it's going to lead to success. By the way, they're also continuing to invest in open source. So again, that's... Well, that's the other piece. I wanted to talk to you, and this is your wheelhouse. IBM's open source mojo is not just lip service, right? They have deep rooted DNA in open source and their strategy around, and they've proven that they can monetize open source. What's their model? I mean, explain the model because I think it's instructive. I mean, open source, there's a lot of different models. Red Hat is one. For IBM though, I mean. IBM's model open source is very clear. I mean, if you look at what they've done with just blockchain as a great example, they've mobilized their company and they did it with Blue Mix as well, the cloud. Once they said we want to get in the cloud game, once we want to do blockchain, they go open source at the core, then they get their entire brain trust working on it. So it's not just a hand wave, some division. They're kind of reorganizing on the fly. They're kind of agile organization, which some may read as chaotic, but to me, I think that's just good management practices in this day and age. They get an open source project and they drive that home and they have people contributing and giving that to the community. And then adding value on top and differentiating. It's just classic 101, create some value and create some differentiation with your products. And by the way, if you don't want to use our products, build your own or hey, use the open source code. So that's pretty much an oversimplified version of open source. But blockchain's a great example of this, right? So they get to see the hyper ledger. It's an open source project. They put all these resources in and they say, okay, now let's build our product on top of that. Let's get the open source community leverage. And this is, let me ask you this. Does IBM, so several years ago when IBM announced Bluemix, you were pretty critical. I was very critical. You said IBM has to win the developer audience or it's cooked in this game. That's what I said. How has it done? How would you grade them? I think they're doing very well. IBM is, again, to use your word, they're not putting lip service in it. So I was joking with Meg Swanson last night, so Adam Gunther, when they interviewed on theCUBE and I was critical. I didn't say that their cloud was bad. I was just saying it's just not as, it's got a lot of work to do.  Which we now know that happened, right? But they've done well. They've done well. They've ran hard. They've gone the table stakes on the enterprise. I still think they've got some more work to do. We can analyze and putting out my cloud readiness matrix.  I have Google and Amazon done. I'm going to add Microsoft Azure and IBM on to the mix and my comparison matrix. But IBM has done good with the developers. They just invested 10 million on this announcement and they're ramping up. I wouldn't say they're throwing just money at it. They got people. So I would give them a B plus A minus score because they're hustling. They're doing it. Are they totally blowing it out of the water? No, I don't think they're pushing hard enough there. I think they could give it some more gas. I think they could do more with it, personally thinking. But you know, Dr. Angel Diaz was on early today. They're going at their own pace. But you agree they're in the game. Oh, totally. Making good progress. They're totally, IBM is totally in the cloud game. And they don't get a lot of credit for it. Either this Oracle, by the way. Somehow people seem to talk about Azure and Google. Google is so far behind, in my opinion. They're not even close. I think it's Amazon, Azure, IBM, and Oracle, and Google all kind of in that. Just suppose Oracle's developer cred, even though it owns Java, with IBMs. How would you compare the two? Very similar, I think. Different approaches. But again, to your point, IBM's relevant. Oracle's relevant. We had this discussion about VMware when they did the deal with AWS. They have customers and they have cash. So they're not going anywhere. It's not like IBM's a sinking ship. It's not like Oracle's a sinking ship. Now that being said, there's a huge shift in the business. And I would say, in that scenario, Google is in a very good position. So I've been very critical on Google, only because they're trying to be acting like they're in enterprise play. They're not. I mean, Google's got great tech, TensorFlow machine learning. Google has great cloud tech. But in that game, they're up in number one, two spot. But in the enterprise side, they're not close. They're working on that. So that's my critique of Google. Microsoft has got the DNA for the enterprise. So Microsoft and Oracle to me are more similar than comparing IBM and Oracle. I'd say IBM is a lot more like Google and Amazon kind of in between. But Oracle and Microsoft look the same to me. Big install base, highly differentiated. Stacks aren't perfect, but it looks good on paper. And they're getting business. And Oracle's earnings, by the way, were very explosive due to the cloud growth. Another question I like to ask sometimes is, okay, what would you have done differently if you had a choice? Like when Gershner was running IBM, he chose to consolidate the company, essentially not consolidate, but focus on services, one throat to choke, single faced IBM, great customer service and build the services business. Buy-in, PwC, et cetera. That was a key. What could you have done differently? They could have said, well. For IBM? Yeah, at the time, you could have said, we're going to spin out different product groups. We're going to be the best at microprocessors or disk drives or database or software. I think IBM moves too slow. So that's a historical example. Given what IBM's doing today, what would you have done differently if you were Ginny Rometti five or six years ago? I would have done what they're doing now like three years ago. We were, when we started working with them with CUBE at IOD events, you had Pulse. Information on demand. You had a lot of silos. I think just, if I had to go back and get a mulligan, if I was Ginny Rometti, I would have moved faster. Done that faster. Hindsight's 20-20 on that, but it wasn't that clear. But again, it's the big aircraft carrier. It can only move so fast. But I think what they're doing now is good strategy. Enterprise-strong data-first cognitive of the core is a good strategy.  But essentially, machine learning in AI is going to be a big pillar there. And then the data-first is more of an architectural component that's very good. But in general, Dave, the cloud, this is what's going on in my mind. It's so obvious to me. The big data marketplace that was, we defined by Cloudera and Hadoop and Hortonworks just never panned out. It morphed into a bigger picture. And so Hadoop is part of now a bigger ecosystem. Cloud was growing very fast. Those two worlds are coming together and growing very rapidly independent with big data, with machine learning, AI, and IoT. They're coming together. So the intersection of the big data in cloud. Cloud met big data. That was Jeremy Burton from. But it's coming together really fast. And the IoT is the real business driver. I know there's not a lot of stuff shipping yet and there's some stuff out there, but merging IoT into IT, into business process, and into developer mindset, whether it's an Indiegogo up to full-on developers, is the accelerant that's going to fuel the AI value. To me, that's the intersection point of big data in cloud. And that is the home run. That's the holy grail. And that's going to be disrupting some pre-existing decisions by big vendors who made bets. And I'm talking about bets made in the past five years, not like bets made 20 years ago or 10 years ago. So I think the IoT is going to really shape the game. The other thing I worry about now, in my opinion, is a lot of AI washing. People say, oh, AI, you see people on the stage. Oh, we did this with AI. There's no AI. It's augmented intelligence, which is basically predictive analytics. So true AI is not yet here. It's a little bit hyped up. Not that I mind that. I think that the machine learning is the real meat on the bone right now. I think that's the core enabler. Machine learning is, by far, the most important trend in the computer science world today, as it relates to integrating that capability into cloud-native microservices and an overall application. I agree. I mean, AI is still a heavy lift. But to me, the key I go back to something you were saying is developers. That's the lever that's going to give you the ability to move large mountains. If you don't have that developer community and you don't have open-source chops, you're going to struggle a little bit. You're going to be either in a swim lane, like Oracle with its database and its RedStack, and maybe it can break out of that, but I'm not sure it wants to. Or you're going to be stuck in infrastructure. Yeah, but the developers are driving all the action right now, and you asked about the developers. My point about machine learning, if you look at the shows just recently, and certainly we have the history of the past year, machine learning is the sexiest trend in every show. Last show was Google Next, machine learning with TensorFlow, both open-source. Machine learning is not new. It's just now accelerating the developer. The developers want to move faster. And I think things like machine learning, things like cognitive ID inputs out there are great catalysts. So that's going to be a big thing we're going to watch. Obviously, we have a big developer community at SiliconANGLE, so something to watch. So what's next? We got a Chief Data Scientist Summit next week in Silicon Valley. We're going to be at the... Silicon Valley Friday show. This week, every Friday I do the Silicon Valley Friday show with me and guests. We got that going on, so always check that out on soundcloud.com slash John Furrier, or check out my Facebook feed, facebook.com slash John Furrier. But in terms of CUBE events, we got data works in Munich on April 2nd, DockerCon in Austin, Oracle Marketing, some experience, Red Hat, Dell EMC World Service Now, OpenStack, big data in London. It's going to be a busy spring. A lot of stuff going on. Great stuff. We'll see you in July. In Pumper Sticker, Dave, this show, encapsulate your thoughts. Well, I think it's all about cloud data and cognitive coming together in a way that allows business value and differentiation through the end customer. That's what this show is about to me. It's not about infrastructure, cloud and infrastructure. That's kind of table stakes. It's all about differentiation up the stack, creating, enabling new business models. My encapsulation is the enterprise strong data first, cognitive to the core message that Ginny said, that translates into IBM's shoring up their base products and putting an innovation strategy around blockchain and soon to be cognitive computing at a whole nother level. And I think they're going to have a real innovation strategy and continue to use what they did with Watson, the winning formula. Put something out there that's a guiding principle and draft the company behind it. I think that to me is my big walk away. And I think blockchain will potentially level, has game-changing capabilities. And if that plays out like Watson's playing out, then IBM could be in a great shape on both shoring up the base in cloud and their business and having an innovation strategy that extends them out. That to me is the reason why I'm bullish on them. So great show, Dave Vellante. Thanks to the guys. Thanks for watching. That's it for us here on theCUBE. I'm Java with Dave Vellante, wrapping up IBM Interconnect 2017. Thanks for watching. Be with us and follow us at theCUBE on Twitter and SiliconANGLE.tv on the web. Thanks for watching.


welcome back if you are joining from the other stream that decided to die my phone basically overheated so I shoved it in the freezer and I've turned the aircon on and then we'll see what happens I'm live-streaming Chris okay Chris it's not in the freezer I'm live-streaming oh the photo it's like is it working sorry for that little flip I sort this out it's better welcome back I felt like maybe the lights were on my phone where like too too hot I already opened everything so this is everything I also got this watercolor paper these pens and these brushes were in another one box and then these palette and postcards and sketchbook were in another one so there we go sorry for the confusion there guys with the stream dying let's try again look I really like the way that this is pooling so I wanted to make it darker so at the moment we are trying at this paintbrush called the we mop if you needed a little reminder of what's going on and I'm testing this paper but we're trying to like paint something at the same time Chris is the music too loud or is it fine let me just tell the other stream that I am live on this one now morning everybody I like how this dries it's really cool have you guys tried this travel paper before and that guys I'm gonna be purchasing I hope a streaming camera so I can properly stream like on Twitch soon and stuff like that at the moment I'm using my phone which is probably not the most professional thing but I can't afford the new camera right now so I'm just doing what I can so thanks for understanding guys my terrible iPhone that probably won't work in a bit in a bit I'm not gonna stay very long because I have to go to town to post some stuff for my pictures but I'm gonna I'm gonna try and get some stuff sorted get some stuff sorted what I'm saying get some stuff finished here so you can test out I want to test out some of these pens as well just received the upgrade a couple of days ago and think I need to think what to do this month's prize I have I've just seen that they've they're doing those how what was it a good like was there good stuff inside it cuz that's relatively new isn't it the upgrade so confused or what happened that I couldn't check yeah sorry I was confused too I was like why are you doing this to me phone what is your problem acrylic paint oh I'm not really a fan of acrylics really I tried them again recently and I was like yeah still don't like these like I really like them when I was a teenager because probably cuz that's all I had to try at the time so yeah I don't I don't like them as much as like watercolors or wash and I've never tried oils I really want to try and go watercolors but I'm a little iffy because I'm short on money Hannah do you have a Twitter or Instagram you can DM me on because I'll send you these if you want them because I would I don't think I'll use them that much after this and I go to the post office now so I'll send them to you yeah no worries I won't use them so better than they go to someone I've got loads of art supplies and I got these for free anyway if you don't mind that they'll be a little bit used from this go to like Twitter or Instagram and just DM me your address so I can pack them up now after the stream because I'm gonna go to the post office now in a minute now as they say in in Wales where I went to University I went to University in Wales and I was going on a night out with some friends and somebody rang me up and because I was a little bit late and they were like hello where you to and I was like where my two what you're like way too like what do you mean what where am I to see if we didn't understand what he meant and he's like where you two means where are you like where you to do those go down as buttery as they look like they do I think it's the paper to be honest the paper's really nice and well yeah genuinely like watercolours go are pretty nice so especially if you use a lot of water that was such a dumb comment especially if you use a lot of water like the oopsie sorry for missing this I will clean it funny Chris yeah Chris is playing a game in the background in the background as if I'm gonna say what paper strap for 400 yeah that's the paper I've never used it before so I'm guessing I'm guessing it's good my fiance as well she insists the phrase now in a minute yeah in a minute now I heard that a lot and I think I came back from University saying in a minute now as well because it just makes sense in a minute now like it will happen I got the bound sketchbook and love it for gouache nice yeah I'm I'm I'm liking them I'm not really sure what I'm doing here I'm just kind of making stuff up to test them out instead of doing traditional swatches because I find those very boring but some people like them I mean boring to do not to look at they're kind of nice to look at well I'm just gonna do a little clip for my vlog because I'm vlogging now again I'm doing yesterday so I'm just gonna say something and we are filming for the live stream right now and my phone decided that it was too hot earlier so just crashed on me so we're doing another stream this is currently my setup in case you guys are interested it's terrible I need to buy a new camera say hi to yourself if you're watching this and you are watching a live stream I have a little front-end sticker here and we want opening pallet full packs if I want to focus and we're just testing them out right now so there we go that's what I'm doing today and then I'm going to go and post some mail and that is the clip for the vlog it's probably not that interesting but probably good to know what I'm doing I like the we mop because it does mop up all the paint if you want to if you just joined I'm gonna remind everyone that this pen is this pen this paintbrush is called the we mop because because somebody decided that from silver it's kind of gross okay let's try some I'm aware that you can put this down underneath the paint but I just wanted to try something I'm too impatient I'm too impatient we mop is a good mop yeah it is staff law is way too expensive for me to my shopping shipping post and feed myself a month for that money Jesus really I don't know it was like expensive maybe I shouldn't be using it like I was watching this oh my gosh eat the rich Chris says thanks Chris I love the jelly roller it's a called jelly roll not jelly roll love anybody else addicted to making these little star shapes I live in India money what's real different here yeah I understand that I tried this one before this is a pentel point liner which is waterproof and fade resistant so I guess that means if you use a rubber on top rubber sorry guys eraser as you would say in America I guess if any Americans are here and it would not rub out or erase sorry whatever the line probably sounds really horrible to like Americans though you know you're gonna come to town with me Chris 8 a.m. here in Chile how's the weather in Chile Chris asks and I ask it's sunny that was unrelated I know I was like okay sarcastic let's see how the we mop we don't stop till we mop yes I like this paper a lot I think so definitely gonna use it or not limited palette not really I guess I'm just kind of obsessed with the same colors which is blue greens pinks kind of I have a problem so guys I'm gonna go even though I know this was a really quick stream but I have to go to the post office before it shuts and then I've got to meet my friend so thanks for coming along to this really quick stream I will see you guys hopefully on Saturday where I'm gonna post my next vlog and I hope that you guys can check it out because yeah have a great day or night to all of you and thank you so much for checking out this stream today I like the paper a lot and the Van Gogh paints on their way to what was your name okay I will look at my Instagram now and pack them up okay thanks guys


Hello morning to you all, and welcome to the first meeting of the 2016 Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee. I am Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, and I am the oldest member of the committee, or, as I prefer to call, the most senior member of the committee. It is my pleasure to convene this meeting for the first three items of business. I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome all members to their new roles. Mae'r eu cymuniad ei wneud yn ymdynhys i eich ymddangos iawn i gyrthod descriptionaeth a cyfweliadau o hyffordi dynnu chwaraeon yn rhaid i fynd i'r cymaint. Mewn gwneud i gael i gweld a chael ei wneud i gael i gaeliiddiau chi wneud ar y gwybodaeth hon o gwbl o ran i gaelio'r llan i mewn gwirioneddau i gaeli gyfweliadau i gaeli'r llan i gwelio i'r cread o gyflei'r unig. Dyf yw'r cwed, oherwydd i chi gaeli i gaeli'r cyfweliadau i gael ei'r gweld i gaeli'r cerddau bod ni'n amilyddio'r ac ystodion a'r unrhyw ddисguelio'r agl permethefyd y Llywodraeth Gweithdechedydd, fel Llywodraeth, Caerdydd ac Erthi. Lleidydd sy'n ei indebdyddol yn gyflym yn ychydig ar gael gyda'r reddiol, rym ni'n ddwyf yn ychydig. Oerbyn i'r bundi y Llywodraeth yma wedi unrhyw ydi gyda'r ysgrifennu lleololiectradd a rywbeth i'r newydd peir i wyf i eich unrhyw meddwl nhw. I very much look forward to working with everyone in a productive and an effective manner. Before we move to the first item on the agenda, I would like to remind everyone present please to switch off mobile phones, etc., as they may affect the broadcasting system. However, you may notice some committee members consulting tablets, which I hope they will do, as this is the Climate Change and Environment Committee rather than using paper. That's a shift for myself, but there we go. They may be using them during the meeting. This is because we provide meeting papers electronically. Also, it's important to note that we have received apologies from Alexander Burnett MSP. The first item on the committee's agenda this morning is to consider whether to take item 5 in private. This is the development of the work programme. Could I seek agreement from members that we take this item in private? Thank you, so the committee has agreed to that. We can have that noted please. The second item is to allow committee members to declare any interests that they have, which are relevant to the work of the committee. Background information has been provided in a note from the clerk. I'll start with myself and I'd like to declare that I'm a member of the campaign for Borders Rail. I'll then ask Maurice Golden if you would please declare any relevant interests that you have. I obviously refer members to the register of interests of which I have Zero Waste Scotland listed on that up until the point when I ceased working for them on May 20. I also refer members to a project that I conducted for the Chartered Institute of Waste Management looking at the application of the circular economy in other European nations. The bulk of the work that was conducted prior to being elected must be registered as the article of publication and associated presentation will take place during the course of the summer. I also refer members to my membership of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management as well as refer members to the fact that I'm a waste smart trainer for the United Kingdom and I'm happy to offer any training as required on that. That's me, thanks. Right, and thank you Maurice particularly for that last offer of help. Right, and I'll move to Graeme Dey, please. Thank you, I'm Graeme Dey MSP. I'm not aware of any declarable interests that I require to make. Thank you, and to Mark Ruskell. Thank you, I'd like to declare that I am a councillor, Dunblane Bridge of Allen Ward in Stirling Council. I'm also on the board of the Strathallan Community Rail Partnership. Thank you, and to Kate. I have no interests that I'm aware of having to declare. Thank you very much, and to Emma Harper. It's related to Gail's question, I am a member of Dogs Trust, so. Thank you, and to Angus MacDonald next. I own a property in the Coron of Newland Sea, a local authority area on an island that is subject to a current community buy-out attempt, which may be of relevance to this committee during this session of Parliament. Otherwise, I've nothing to declare. Thank you, and to Finlay Carson. Thank you, and to declare that I'm a councillor on Dumfries and Galloway Council. I'm currently a member of the NFU Scotland, and in the interest of transparency, I'm a partner that owns 20 acres in South West Scotland, but I've been advised that it's not a registered interest. Right, thank you, and now to Gail Ross. Thank you, convener. I am a councillor for the Wick Ward in Highland Council. I'm a member of the Scottish Rural Parliament. I am a member of the Board of Management for North Highland College. I am a member of Dogs Trust. I'm a member of the Cats Protection. I'm a member of the SSPCA, and I'm also vice-conviner of Friends of the Far North Line. Thank you. Thank you, and to David Stewart. Thank you, convener. I've got no relevant interests. Right, thank you to all members, and as you see, we have a particular wealth of experience. We won't be wanting for people to go to when it comes to animal welfare as well, which is reassuring. Right, and now very importantly, I'd like to move to agenda item 3, which is our choice of convener, and this is the committee's next task. The procedure has been explained in paper 2. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish National Party are eligible for nomination as convener of this committee. Can I invite a member of that party to nominate one of their number for this post? I understand that Graham Day is the party's nominee for this post. Right, thank you very much. That's nomination by Kate Forbes for Graham Day, and as the rules declare, there's no seconder is required. So I'm going to ask, do we all agree to choose Graham Day as our convener? Yes. Agreed, that's agreed. So Graham is our convener, and I know he will bring so much wisdom and experience. And as long as we promise not to fight about who's asking questions about behaviour change, Mr Convener, we will be in very safe hands. I will now vacate the chair. Thank you very much. Okay, thank you very much, Claudia, and the committee. The committee's next task is to choose a deputy convener. The Parliament has agreed that only members of the Scottish Conservatives and Unionist Party are eligible for nomination as deputy convener of the committee. Can I invite a member of that party to nominate one of their number for the post? I understand that the nomination will be more as golden, but can we deal with that formally, please? Terry Morris Golden. It's nominated by Finlay Carson. As that completes the process, I'm delighted to say that... Do we agree? So, sorry, can I just clarify? Do we all agree that Morris Golden won't be... I was jumping the gun there, thank you. So congratulations to Morris Golden. The next meeting of the committee... Where's for the committee to decide? I decide by the committee in the course of the next week. I now close the public part of the meeting and the committee will move into private session, as agreed earlier in the meeting, to discuss its future work programme. I now close the meeting.


Today is the day of Arafah. And the day of Arafah. رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم told us that the day of Arafah and the day of Eid and the three days after that they call أيام التشريق these five days the Prophet ﷺ said it is our Eid people of Islam imagine the Prophet lump sum five days as Eid which is amazing الحمد لله رب العالمين so that's number one so today's Eid tomorrow's Eid and the three days after that is Eid number two the Prophet ﷺ witnessed a Eid on Friday so he said to people Allah has brought upon you two Eid the Eid of Jum'a and the Eid of Al-Adha so masha'Allah Eid after Eid نور على نور number three talking about the day of Arafah the Prophet ﷺ said there is no more there is no day more likely that Allah will forgive someone and spare him from hill fire like the day of Arafah there is no day more likely Allah will spare someone from hill and give him his absolute amnesty and forgiveness like the day of Arafah the Prophet ﷺ told us that no dua no dua in the whole year is like the dua of the day of Arafah so it's the most and nothing in the same hadith and nothing that I said me and the Prophet ﷺ before me better than لا إله إلا الله masha'Allah the day of Arafah is the day in which the ayah in Surah المائدة Surah number five ayah number three اليوم أكملت لكم دينكم وأتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الإسلام الدينة today I have completed your religion for you and I have perfected my blessing upon you and I am pleased and I accept that Islam is your deen I am pleased with Islam as your deen Allah is pleased with Islam as our deen so are you pleased are you happy with Islam the way it is so insha'Allah you are this is called رضا بما يرضى الله to accept what Allah SWT has accepted my dear brother and sisters you might think شيخ you talking about the day of Arafah at the end of the day of Arafah why didn't you speak about it in the beginning well here is some news for you رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم consider that the day of Arafah will continue until الله أكبر of the day of Aeed so for those amongst you who were working and who were busy today and you think you are you feel so down and you did not do enough قرآن and ذكر I'm Salah and this it's not over yet all days are over by Maghrib and the next day starts after Maghrib except the day of Arafah someone came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and said يا رسول الله I was traveling from my people on the back of my camel I stood up on every mountain I thought it was the mountain of Arafah I kept on running from mountain to mountain and mountain until I passed by Arafah and now I came and I prayed with you فجر at Musdalifah Did I lose Hajj? رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said whosoever witnessed صلاة الفجر with us today he has caught Arafah Imagine صلاة الفجر the next day whosoever witnessed with us صلاة الفجر the next day he has witnessed Arafah so if that is for the حجاج in which رسول الله حج you Arafah the most important day in حج is Arafah if the one who goes to Hajj has all the way up to صلاة الفجر of the next day imagine the one who didn't go to Hajj so I'm really really really excited yesterday night masha'Allah was Arafah in Makkah but Arafah continues today is our Arafah and it still carries the same value and it carries the same value all the way till صلاة الفجر so congratulations may Allah accept from us and sisters this is a day رسول الله صلاة الفجر صلاة الفجر الله forgives two years with it a year before and a year after this is called time travel machine you can go in the past and change the past one year and you can go in the future and change the future by one year all by fasting one day which is the day of Arafah and by the way if you couldn't fast today because you are pregnant or breastfeeding or you have your period or you're sick or you have chronic disease or you're old or you're too young or your health doesn't help you or you were traveling and you say يا الله if I wasn't going through that I would have fasted today الله would write you and give you the entire complete reward as if you fasted today you will not miss anything that's why my dear brothers and sisters حمد لله let's make dua يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله يا الله we say بسم الله الحمد لله وصلاة وصلاة وسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وصحبه ومن ولا يا الله in this blessed day يا الله we don't we confess to you our weakness we are Allah we don't complain about anything we have zero complaints the only complain that we have is about our nafs and our ego and our pride يا الله the only complain we have is about Shaytan يا الله the only complain we have is about the temptation of life but يا الله about you you've given us every blessing that we are enjoying يا الله we confess to you our weakness we confess to you our helplessness we confess to you our hopelessness we confess to you our laziness in performing عبادة يا الله what we do is not enough يا الله when we pray we don't focus يا الله when we fast we don't focus when we give charity we don't give enough يا الله we are played with sicknesses upon sicknesses يا الله we are not proud of anything يا الله but يا الله even we we confess to you all of these things يا رب العالمين يا الله we have never built hope on ourselves or our strengths we have never built hope on our deeds we have never built hope on our actions but يا الله we built hope we've built hope we've built hope on your forgiveness يا الله we ask for your forgiveness we ask you we have hope because you are the forgiving we have hope because you are the merciful we have hope because you are the cherish the giving the generous one we have hope because you forgive you are hope because you accept the repentance we have hope because you strengthen the weak and you forgive the mistakes and you accept the repentance يا رب العالمين يا الله other than that لقد تأتينا لك بأي شيء. يا الله نحن نتكلم نحوكناسنا يا رب العالمين لكن يا رب العالمين لقد نحوكنا بسبب أنك أحوكنا. لأنك أحوكنا رب العالمين لدينا أحوك لأنك أحوكنا وانتك تساعدين ونقوموا بإمكانك تحوكين يا الله إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين. يا الله إهدينا الصراق المستقين يا الله إلا أننا نحوك وإلا أن نساعده وإلا أننا نساعدنا لك في الشرطة يا رب العالمين. يا الله يا رب العالمين. يا رحم الراحمين. يا الله لدينا أعرف آخر الله than you يا رب العالمين. لذلك سنصرين لك لا يوجد شخص لكنك. لذا من سنصرين لك؟ إذا أردنا من سنصرين لك في الشرطة؟ إذا لن تستخدمنا. يا الله لدينا لا يوجد شخص لكنك. أنك Our Lord and we are your slaves. أنك Our God and we are your worshipers and devotees. يا الله أرجوك لا تنساعدنا يا الله لا تنساعدنا. لا تنساعدنا ولا تنساعدنا من الشرطة في الشرطة يا رب العالمين. يا الله يا رب العالمين Our father Adam عليه السلام. And our mother Hawa. When they ate from the tree. And you ask them why did you eat from the tree. You taught them to say words. They said يا الله we have wronged ourselves and if you are not merciful to us and if you don't bestow your mercy upon us and forgive us we will be amongst the losers so you forgive them. يا الله we make the same dua. We are the sons of Adam and the daughters of Hawa. We are their children and we make the same dua. يا الله يا رب العالمين. يا أكرم الأكرمين. يا أرحم الرحمن. يا الله when Yunus عليه السلام جونا. يا الله when he got swallowed by the whale. He was in the darkness of the night. The darkness of the depth of the ocean. And the darkness of the belly of the whale. And he was getting digested in the stomach of the whale. But he said After everything was done. And in any human calculation he was gone. But يا الله you taught us through your book that when you make dua it's never too late. Even when it looks too late. When it seems too late. When it seems it's over. It's not. يا الله you made the whale. Spit him. And throw him up on the ocean. On the shore of the ocean. And you made a tree of Yaqeen grow upon him to cover him. So that he can dry and repel insects from him. يا الله we make the same dua that Yunus made. لا إله إلا سبحانك. And you said we are the oppressors. So forgive us يا رب العالمين. يا الله يا رب العالمين. We make dua. The same dua that your son. Your deputy. Your Nabi and Prophet. Yaqoub made when he lost his son Yousuf. فصبر جميل. والله المستعان على ما تصيفون. May Allah bring them back to me and gather them. يا الله Yousuf عليه السلام. يا الله. He was thrown in the bottom of the well by his brothers. Picked up and hid him as merchandise. He was sold as slaves. He served as a servant. And then when he refused Haram he was thrown at the bottom of the jail. But he said. إن ربي سميع الدعاء. He said. ربي غفور رحيم. يا رحم الرحمن. يا الله we make the same dua. That Yousuf عليه السلام made. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. يا رب العالمين. When people wanted to go and crucify. عيس عليه السلام. He made dua to you. That you would save him. And you raised him up. And you saved him from crucifixion. The same dua we make to you. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. When Ibrahim was tied with robes. And they threw him in the fire. He said. لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم. حسبي الله ونعمل وكيل. And ya Allah. When it seemed so too late. When it seems he was going to be burning in that fire. You saved him. And you made the fire cool upon him. And safe for him. يا رب العالمين. We make the same dua. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. We make the same dua. That Musa made. ربي إني لما أنزلت إلي من خير فقير. يا الله. For all the blessings that you've given me. I am poor and indebted to you. And I need it يا رب العالمين. يا الله. يا رب العالمين. Please ya Allah. With everything that we do. That we're not supposed to do. And everything that we don't. That we are supposed to do. يا الله. Forgive us. Make this day a day of forgiveness. Before the sunset of this day. يا الله. We ask you that you would have forgiven us. Oh. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. We ask you to expand the risk for everyone. يا الله. You have shown us your power and strength. In the big things. In the galaxies. And the small things in the viruses. يا الله. We've learned the lesson. And we see. يا رب العالمين. We see your power and strength. So ya Allah. Lift up this plague. Ya Allah. People lost their jobs. People with. That used to give charity. Now they are in need of charity. People lost their face and their dignity. يا رب العالمين. People are stressed. People are getting sick. People are dying. يا الله. We ask you that you lift this plague. And you make humanity a better humanity. And you make the Muslims better Muslims. يا الله. يا رب العالمين. Forgive all Muslims. Help us to pay off our debt. And let Muslims pay off their debt. يا الله. Any Muslim that is poor. Make him rich. Any Muslim that is lost. Bring him back to you. يا الله. Died him. يا الله. Any Muslim. That is in need of help. يا الله. Help him. Any poor mother. And a mother that is an orphan. That is that her children are orphan. And she cannot take care of them. يا الله. Help her to take care of them. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. We thank you. And we ask you يا الله. To be there for the week. For the old who has no one to take care of them. For the young who are malnutritioned. يا الله. Bring peace to the Muslim world. Have peace and security in Syria. In Iraq. In Afghanistan. In Yemen. In Libya. In Egypt. In Morocco. In Tunisia. In Algeria يا رب العالمين. In everywhere. There is a Muslim. يا الله. Be there for our Muslims and brothers and sisters in Sudan. In Kenya. In Mozambique. In Tanzania. For all the Muslims. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. Be there for our Muslims in West Africa. Be it in Nigeria. Or Senegal. Or Ivory Coast. يا الله. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. Be there for every Muslim in every continent. Whether they are in Pakistan. Or in India. Or in Bangladesh. Whether they are in Singapore. Malaysia. Or Indonesia. يا الله. For all the Muslims. يا رب العالمين. Make their life easy. يا رحم الراحمين. يا الله. They are our brothers and sisters. We love for them what we love for ourselves. As you have given us. Give them يا رب العالمين. Give them love. Give them power. Give them security. Give them income. Give them food. Give them shelter. يا رب العالمين. يا الله. Make the world a better place for us and for our children. يا الله. Help us. And give us the knowledge and wisdom to raise our children. يا رب العالمين. يا رحم الراحمين. يا أكرب الأكرمين. يا الله. We thank you for everything you've given us.  So we are thankful يا رب العالمين. Please يا الله. Help us. And support us يا رحم الراحمين. يا الله. Help Muslims in America. And in Canada. And in Europe. And in England. And in every country يا رب العالمين. In Australia يا رب العالمين. In every western country that there is a Muslim minority. Or in any country that there is a Muslim minority. And Allah I ask you to take care of this horrific test. That our brothers, the Uyghurs are going through يا رب العالمين in China. يا الله. Please save them يا رب العالمين. Be there for them يا رب العالمين. يا الله. Our brothers and sisters in every country where they are suffering. Whether they are in Turkey. Or in Iran. Or in any place where they are suffering. And they are under siege and embargo. And they are going through hardship. يا الله. Give them security. يا الله. Any leadership in the Muslim world. That are bent into destroying Islam and Muslims. Take it away from us. And any leadership that wants something good. For Islam and Muslims. Security and peace and love and equality. And bring back people to Allah. يا الله. Help them and support them. And be there for them. يا الله. We have منافقين. That are from us. They carry our names. But they fight Islam and Muslims day and night. يا الله. Take care of them. Take care of them. Take care of them. Like you took care of Al-Ahzab. On the battle of the ditch. رب اللهم منزل. اللهم مجري السحاب. ومنزل الكتاب. وهازم الأحزاب. اهزمهم يا رب العالمين. يا رب المسلمين. على المنافقين. اللهم من أرادة بالإسلام و المسلمين. Who so ever wants something bad for Islam and Muslims. يا الله. Stop him in his track. And take care of him. And who so ever wants something good for Islam and Muslims. And for humanity. Bring him forward and support him. يا رب العالمين. يا أرحم الراحينين. يا أكرم الأكرمين. يا الله. Our brothers and sisters. In the poor Muslim countries. In the highly populated Muslim countries. They are suffering on a large scale. في اندونيجيا ، في بانجلدش ، في انديا ، المسلمين يشعرون في الوضع يا الله في باكستان ، أكثر مسلمين ، أكثر مسلمين في نيجيريا يا الله ، إنهم أكثر كبير من المسلمين أكثر من ملايين من المسلمين ، يا الله ، أبقى لهم أبقى them the food ، أبقى them the dignity ، أبقى them the power the strength to carry their life يا رب العالمين يا الله ، أبقى the Qur'an the pleasure of our hearts and make with the Qur'an all of our sadness all of our worries, all of our grievances all of our depression, all of our stress gone with the Qur'an يا الله make us from those who read the Qur'an who understand the Qur'an, who implement the Qur'an who call people to the Qur'an who memorize the Qur'an أمين يا رب العالمين يا الله we thank you and we love you يا الله strengthen our iman make Islam look beautiful in our eyes we love to our hearts make kufr and fosouq and asian look ugly in our eyes and hate it to our hearts يا رب العالمين يا الله guide us to the straight path forgive us and help us يا رحم الراحمين يا أكرم الأكرمين يا رب العالمين يا الله we thank you we thank you abundantly يا رب يا أكرم الأكرمين يا الله guide the Muslim brothers and sisters يا رب العالمين all over the world يا الله bring peace between the husbands and wives يا الله bring peace between the parents and the children يا الله our children are getting between our hands يا الله then to carry their deen and be muslimin like you helped us the parents to be muslimin يا الله we cannot afford to lose our children to shaitan or to bad company or to their nafs but يا الله we don't control the hearts of our children يا الله you control their hearts يا الله make them see Islam as beautiful make them see iman as something nice يا الله make them see the beauty of this deen يا أكرم الأكرمين يا الله bring reconciliation and peace between husbands and wives and if people got divorced يا الله help them to carry their life after divorce peacefully and nicefully يا رب العالمين يا رحم الراحمين يا الله we thank you and we love you and we ask you يا الله to grant us your love and the love of your messenger يا الله we ask you that on the day of judgment you grant us the shafa'a of Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم you grant us the shafa'a of القرآن الكريم you grant us the shafa'a of الشهداء والصديقين والصالحين يا الله we ask you that we are not questioned on the day of judgment but rather we pass with the believers يا الله we ask you for jannah we ask you for your pleasure and jannah and we seek refuge in you from your anger and from hellfire we thank you يا الله we love you يا الله and we ask you يا الله يا الله make our akhira better than our dunya make our akhira better than our dunya make the hereafter better than this one make our graves and the graves of our fathers and mothers and forefathers a garden of jannah يا الله we ask you for al-fir-dawsel we ask you the company of your prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم يا رب العالمين يا الله we ask you to for the highest place we ask you for healing healing for all sick muslims whether they're sick with covid or with cancer or with flu or with chronic or non chronic autoimmune disease whatever the people asthma yeah whatever the people are going through and suffering from يا الله heal them heal our bodies and heal our souls and heal our minds and purify us from inside out يا رب العالمين يا أكرم الأكرمين يا رحم الراحمين يا رب العالمين I thank you brothers and sisters عيد مبارك to all of you عرفات مبارك remember you have up to tomorrow فجر it's all عرفات not me said that رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم said that to a man who missed عرفات and caught Salat al-Fajir at Musbelifah with the prophet and was like almost crying because he got lost on the way رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم told him who so ever prayed with us فجر in Musbelifah عرفات ما شاء الله جزاكم الله خير بارك الله فيكم I love you for the sake of Allah wherever you are watching from wherever any channel you are watching on whether West Valley or SBIA or evergreen or San Ramon or Yasin Foundation or my Dean in Fresno or on my personal channel or on the 99 names of Allah or on the channel of the manners of Islam you are my brothers and sisters in Islam I love you for the sake of Allah you are good people Muslims are good people I have traveled around the world I visited Bangladesh I visited India I visited all the countries in the world Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore I visited and I have met the most amazing people of my life I visited Africa West Africa East Africa South Africa North Africa ما شاء الله ما شاء الله I have met Muslims from Uzbekistan Turkey Tajikistan Turkistan East Turkistan Subhan Allah I have met Muslims from all over the world and Muslims are beautiful Don't let anyone else tell you anything May Allah unite us with His love unite us for something good May Allah stop all of these senseless wars and the hatred that is put between us over nothing Subhan Allah We are fighting over gold and silver and power and everyone living today in 50-60 years from now will be dead everyone people think they are going to live forever Subhan Allah So, ما شاء الله I thank you brothers and sisters from Indonesia from Houston I can see and from everywhere ما شاء الله We love you and may Allah bless you and I am really excited ما شاء الله I really see change happening I really see positive change happening in the Muslim community in America in Canada Europe Australia wherever you go in the Western world I see positive change and I see positive change in all the Muslim countries you are amazing people you are very hospitable even the poor amongst you is more hospitable than the rich somewhere else I thank Allah that I am a Muslim I thank Allah that I belong to the club of Islam and Muslim I thank Allah that you are my brothers and sisters you are amazing people I love you for the sake of Allah and Iid مبارك والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


Now the aloo of you all is Abdu'l-Rashid Akhambi. It says all the ways to attract numbers, blessings and favour from the Almighty God is to cultivate the habit of perpetually praising Him. He said, though it is good for mankind to worship God, it is much more rewarding when they praise Him. That's because He bestows His blessings and favour on mankind without any form of discrimination. Abdu'l-Rashid was speaking in a wood-rending maiden edition of a festival-crossing celebration of God. It's organised by him and his palace in Iwo to praise the Creator. It doesn't celebrate lesser gods. A king celebrates only God Almighty. I cannot be second in command. Second in command is assistant. I cannot be second in command to any deity.  I am not slave of deities or idols. The first time in the history of the whole land that have seen both Muslim and Christian sitting down together in love with this and have never seen a town or a king assign a day possibly celebration to praise God is a very wonderful and unique program. The reason why we are having issues in Nigeria is just about it's basically because of segregation, because of, okay, this is saying this is not part of me, this is different from me, but here it's about unity. We have Christians and Muslims together under one roof and acknowledging the presence of God. It's something commendable, it's something remarkable for me.