Hi Jo-Marc. Hi Alyssa. How are you? I'm doing good. How's your wife? Is she better? She's better. She's back to school, but despite, although it was a mild case, the branches are still heavy, so if you're not protected, this can be really nasty. I hope you didn't have people in your surrounding that got sick. No, no. There were people that died from COVID, but we're good so far. Okay, not too bad. When a year ago I saw my neighbor coming back from hospital, he was crawling back. So we said, well, then people don't come back, so that experience. It's rough. Yeah, it's life. I would not have expected two years ago to go through such an event, a worldwide event. Right, right. And it makes me, it makes me like really question, like something that is so, like you can't see it, but yet it's so powerful that it can wipe out so many people, right? Quickly, so fast. And without us being prepared or it comes out of blue sky. Yeah, yeah, what a shock. So Marc says he's running late. And let me see, I'll share, see if I can share my screen, share screen. I always battle too much. Yeah. And I love the picture you have behind you. Each time it's a pleasure to see. Oh, thank you so much. I stay in here all day so I figure I get something that's that kind of keep me in here, and that colorful thing helps. It looks like for some reason I cannot share my screen. I have all these error messages that pops up so I don't know but let me I'm going to put this in the chat window. Let me see if I can open it. Yeah. At least I can open it. So this works. Where is my window being doing several things at the same time. Which is not. I understand. Okay. Okay, here we are. Yeah. So, I think with us here we can get started as a market that's okay. And then for me. Yeah. Okay, so I'll take the first bullet item so Jenkins is the way status. We're still writing stories. We are working on what were stories. These are user stories that they that the Jenkins users, they submit how they're using Jenkins the benefits that they get out of Jenkins the values received. So we put that it's kind of like a mini case study. So we're still writing those we're still collecting them and in return we are still sending people T shirts as a thank you for submitting their stories. So we decided to do because we have so now we have so many stories is that we did we created a map and if you go on. You see where you go on this link so I'm going to give you the link is. Is it on the main site. No, it's not. It has its own site. I opened Jenkins is the way. Oh, here you go and if you click if you go all the way on top and then there's there isn't there isn't a map so if you put like a slash on the the URL Jean Mark, if you put a slash map. MAP and see what that does. Oh, there we go. Yeah. So if you click on one of those icons. You'll see a link that pops up what people say about it and if you want to read more about it there's a link that you can click on takes you directly to the story, but the goal here was just to give us a visual where Jenkins is and what people are saying about Jenkins on a global map. So that was the intention there. Yeah, so I, I haven't done anything with regards to promoting this so that's on my next things to do. I'm going to blog. Post a blog, and then we'll also have CDF help us to promote this and share this with a wider audience as well. So that is that and then you click on. If you click on, is it home. If you click on home.  A little bit over to your right these. Or user stories user stories I'm sorry yeah, you click on user stories. It's next to the map that the black bar yep you're almost there go up a little go up, up more up more it's in that black bar and it's into your left. It was my left but yeah there we go. Oh there okay on the black. Yeah, yeah you click on that. And you'll see the dates we're still posting stories and those are all the stores that we have collected. And as of this year. So it's a lot of stories that sharing about Jenkins yeah. Yeah so if you click on one of them ill, you can read about it and you know see what the challenges people face and how they use Jenkins to solve those challenges. Yeah, and they'll give us a quote on why they left Jenkins. Okay. Yeah. So, so we are about my guess is around 60 people that answered. We have, oh we got a couple of hundred people that submitted their stories, but we've posted this is a over 100 stories that we have posted. Yeah, I see that here so they're about six a page yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so that's with Jenkins is the way that I owe status. And then let me see will go to the next item on the agenda. Okay, so I'll skip. I'll skip marks item, and I'll go down to the upcoming events and planning. Okay, so I have reached out to Faustum. I have reached out to the organizers, and they do not have the plans for the stand yet for Faustum. So they said to circle back in December. So I will do that I'll circle back in December. Just to make sure that we secure a virtual booth for Jenkins. I want to work with you on the content that we want to have on that on our site. Right. Yeah. And I know that Olivier has a dev room so we will try to get some Jenkins talks in there. And perhaps some, if CDF has some talks that's relevant then we can definitely get them to submit some talks there as well. So last year and this is, I think this is common in a lot of the virtual conferences that we have now, Jean-Marc, is that there's low attendance to the booth. In these virtual events right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, if you can think of anything that we can do to get people to the booth. Please do share. I think sending swag out is, oh, it's a hairball. So, yeah, it's, it can be expensive and shipping can take a long time. Yeah, we don't have the effect also that being at the booth is is rewarded and that you can start a conversation. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. What is generally done in these virtual booths. The virtual booth. Yeah, we usually have somebody from Jenkins staffing the booth, you know, people come and ask questions, then, then we have our experts to answer the question. And I think we also have like, I forget last year, Olivier had, I believe it was a video. I'm not sure I have to go back and check. Yeah. Video or some kind of posters. Yes, definitely we have a we have poster for how people can contribute to the project. We have that and then we share some of our case stories as case user stories as well. Could we or could we their form of posters or things like that mention that we're going to submit for she codes Africa or Google summer code and these kind of things because this can attract. Yeah, people. Yes. And, and is, is a way to attract traffic. Yeah. And start a conversation on that one. Preaching for my church. I like it. I like it. But at least give a positive feedback or mention it as being a positive contribution. But also to attract candidates or, or so I have no clue how a virtual booth looks like. I can send you the link. I'll actually I'll add. I'll look for it and then I will link it to this document. Right. Okay, and I don't know it what form. It is swag. I'm with my limited experience. I'm not sure it's good idea. Yeah, share your own, your. Yeah. stickers stickers does pretty well at foster stickers. This is a good idea. Yeah, okay. And this you can stick in an envelope. It's just to work. Right. I'll look into the logistics of this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we talk about, yeah. Okay. So Boston will be in person in 2023. That's cross fingers. Yep. Yes. It's mainly because travel restrictions are so complicated. Right. Uncertain. Right. And the fact that it's taking place during the winter month. That's when every, a lot of people are sick. Yeah. That's cross fingers indeed. And then a scale. Oh, so Mark and I, so in the past Kosuke and Tyler, and I, we usually attend scale. So scale is an open source conference here in California. It's located in Los Angeles. And it takes place usually in beginning of. Or towards the end of February, beginning of March. Yep. So they will do this in person next year. So the plan is that we will mark will host a Jenkins pipeline. Training training. Yeah. Yeah. So we will do that unless marketing tells us that we can't because of budgeting, but I think right now we can. And then we will also have a booth. So Mark, Mark and I, we usually staff the booth. At scale as well. Okay. And then the next item is the advocacy budget items. Yeah. So she code Africa contribution. That budget will come out of marketing. So. Sasuke is aware of it. So she, she has it on her radar to support this event. Okay. As well as the internship for the Linux foundation. Yep. So. So that looks good. Yeah. I have a budget for next year as well. I have budget for swag. As well as like our contributor summit at DevOps world. So DevOps world will be in person next year. And we will be in person next year. But we will not have a contributor appreciation event. And that usually job market takes place after the conference, like in the evening, that's where we, we do that are networking, you know, just a lot of eating and drinking and just getting to know our contributors better and just connect. So we probably will not do that next year, but we will do that next year. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And then Google summer of code. I believe we are still interested in doing that. I think that that program is doing well. So I will look into that. In the past. Yeah. And try to understand what is the timeline. Yeah, for that. And what we need to do with what time. Right. And I think it's the same for she codes Africa. Yeah. Having budgeted is already the first step. But we need to be need to be sure that we have. The timeline under control. I thought triggering a brainstorm meeting on, on that just to. To start somewhere we need to find. Mentors we need to find subjects we need to probably fill some paperwork for these organizations. Yeah. Let me take up some old documents and. Yeah, you and I can, we can take a look at it. From there. Because I currently have no idea where, where we're getting at. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I'll, I'll dig, I'll dig it up. All right. I think so that is all that I have. Just anything that you want to cover John Mark. No, I don't have anything. Anything else. There's just a subject that I'm thinking about. But. Let me think more on that. What kind of. Measurements do we have. About the results. Of the advocacy and outreach. So. Okay. That's a good question. So they, it's, it's a long shot question and, and, but something I believe we, we should start thinking on is. Can we find some kind of metrics that would help us to see. What is the effect. Of the initiatives we do. So I believe there is. Now, I don't exactly know, is it going to trigger. More traffic on the Jenkins.io. A site. Are we going to. We can measure how many people came to the virtual booth, but is that going to work. When we do it. Life. It's very confused in my mind, but I'm just raising the point. What kind of data can we use to support. These initiatives. So I go to. To think about that. See what kind of, but I'm, I'm fairly new to that. So wondering, trying to, to find some quantitative. Quantitative. Information. And. What we did, but also what is the result. I don't know. I don't know if it's feasible. But this is always something we should have on the back of our mind. Okay. Okay. I think that's good. And I think. Going forward as a team. We can definitely define. Our, what our goals are.  So we can definitely do that as we start planning. And see what. I have no idea. But this is always something we should have on the back of our mind. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise I don't have any other reflection or. Okay. Well, great feedback. So we'll leave it as that. And then we'll reconvene in another two weeks. Last point. Yeah. We, we would like to have talks for. Foss them is the first coming. Are we going to do or wouldn't be a good idea to promote or. Mention it or, or. To create some. Some attention. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good point on that. For instance, on the. The dev list. Developer lists or. Another medium say, Hey, by the way, there is this, this conference. Being remote will allow more people to contribute. Is there somebody you want. To prepare something. Does he want some help? So you mean like. Getting people to submit. Talk. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we can definitely do that. We can do it in different circles. But. Doing some promotion about that. And so that we get some. People participate. Just an idea like that. I would like to test the idea with Mark or somebody more, more. Now it's to the community. I don't know, but. Here we would like to have talks to. To the dev room. Let's ask. Let's see. Let's try to trigger interest or, or. Bring people to make this step. Yeah. Okay. I like it. Anything else. No, I already spammed you. Okay. Okay. Thank you for your patience. No problem. I'm learning. I'm learning. Well, we're in this together. So no worries. All right. You have a good. Evening. Yes. You a nice day. Thank you. Your day starting now. Yes. Okay. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


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I hope everyone is doing well. I'm bringing to you guys another episode how I learned Arabic with my brother Ibrahim Ja'bir. A lot of interesting stories that I have with this particular brother. Good experiences, benefits that you're going to get from this episode. And yeah, inshallah, just to give you a little context on what's going on here, Ibrahim Ja'bir. You might have even know him. He had a video when viral in 2016. Man, I can't even remember honestly. Anyway, that went viral. It was a hot period when there was a few things going on in terms of terrorism and things like that. So Ibrahim Ja'bir is a poet and he made a poem. From what I know it was kind of like freestyle as well. You got it out of the manga, how they say in Spain.  So it went viral basically and a lot of people saw it, it was shared and whatnot. So yeah, he's a lot I can say man. A little bit more context about Ibrahim Ja'bir. He's as well, he was a former professional basketball player, played for the Euro League, different countries like Greece, Jordan. Not Jordan. Greece, Italy, I played a lot in Italy. Those are the main two places, Greece, Italy and then I finished up in Lithuania. And how do they not? Shooters, the shooters place. Yeah, jump shooters, jump shooters. So yeah, Ibrahim as well for those who play basketball is the only person that I cannot guard. But I still dunked on you once I think. No, no, no. On the low rim, on the low rim. Ever done, ever done. Latter-day psychedelics. I don't remember that. So yeah, me and Ibrahim Ja'bir we met in Egypt, in Cairo. But we're going to get into that, how we met and whatnot because it was kind of interesting. I had a dream that I met him before I met him. So yeah, inshallah, just give a little bit of context in terms of first of all, what made you want to learn Arabic after having kind of like a lifestyle which a lot of people dream of, which is you know, becoming or like getting paid from what you are passionate about basically becoming a professional athlete and whatnot. What made you like, how can you even think, right? Some people might think like, how can you even think about like learning Arabic? Like what's you, you know, give us a little bit of context about that. First and foremost, as-salamu alaykum, my brother, Muhammad Mamadou, Mr. Halal Money, all of the above. Very appreciative of the opportunity, privilege to be able to sit here and interview with you, inshallah, for the benefit of myself for you and all of those who will get to see this video, inshallah, and also as-salamu alaykum to the audience. May Allah elevate you all and cause you to benefit and make you of those who learn and benefit from the Arabic language. I wish it was so easy just to start, you know, maybe I want to say seven years ago now when I was in Lithuania playing basketball. Actually my journey with the Arabic language started well before that, well before that. And actually Arabic is the first language that I learned how to write as a child. And it was a thing in my family of like status. If you could speak Arabic, you know, you were on another level. My grandfather who embraced Islam in the 1950s in America, he learned to speak Arabic and he traveled to the Muslim world and he rubbed elbows with people over there and so forth. And so Arabic was always this thing in my family, you know. But the way your grandfather is doing pre-janazah on Malcolm X, right? Rahimahullah. Rahimahuma Allah. May Allah have mercy upon them both. Yes, my grandfather, Heesham Jabra. So he was a pioneer, at least in my own eyes, you know, of Dawah in America and also just like seeking knowledge, learning the Arabic language and being able to access books that had not been translated yet.  And then on top of that is the language in which we recite the Book of Allah to Ireland. We pray with the Arabic language and we greet each other, you know, in the Arabic language. And so it was like an organic kind of experience. These seeds being planted in me as a young child until I arrived at the age of 13. Right? And so my pops, he came to me, he said, we're moving to Morocco. Right? And that was the end of the conversation. That was it.  I'm in seventh grade. We just won the seventh grade basketball championship, et cetera. And I'm just thinking about going back to eighth grade next year and repeat. But, you know, Allah had another plan. And so going to Morocco was really my first experience being immersed in the Arabic language. Alhamdulillah, it turned out to be a better experience than I anticipated. I sincerely hoped in my heart that, you know, something would happen and we wouldn't end up going to Morocco. But I was introduced to the language then. And we had our classes at the Arabic Language Institute. And we picked up some of the slang as well that the kids they speak on the street and they say, you know, it's really, it's really, you know, this type of Arabic. But, you know, just developing an ear hearing the language and starting to be able to recognize the words in that short period of time when I was in Morocco. That was really my first immersion into the language. And so now, 20 years later, right? I'm 13 in Morocco. 20 years later, I have a son. I have children. And I'm looking at them like I want them to get the Arabic language. I want them to, you know, I don't want them to have to go through what I had to go through as an older person. But if they learn it in a more organic way when they're younger. And so that was a big factor in me coming to Egypt. And the first place is that I wanted to expose my children early on to the Arabic language. And this is something that I recommend. I recommend to the people that have the opportunity. You know, if you do have that opportunity, at least, you know, use the online avenues to expose your children to the Arabic language. You know, the world is small now. The internet is open. And you have people like Mohammed Mamadou that are offering these type of services, you know, so really take advantage, especially when they're young, they have the capacity. How many languages do you speak? Five languages. Five languages. How many did you actually sit in the classroom and learn? Arabic. So the other four you learned in an organic way based on what you were exposed to by your parents. You're right. So it's a tremendous opportunity. So that brought me back here. But at the same time, and I know you have more questions, kind of a long story, but no, go ahead, go ahead. After leaving basketball, actually, I want to say that when I was playing basketball, I would be sitting on the bus, and I would always be reading the Quran. When we're going on a road trip on the way to the airport, on the way to the hotel, on the way to the stadium, I would be reading the Quran. You're talking about when you was playing basketball, yeah? When I was playing basketball, you know, so basically my past time was reading the Quran. And I had the Quran that had the Arabic on one side and the English on the other side. And so I had a decent vocabulary from when I was a little bit younger. But at the same time, there were gaps in my language. And so I would read an ayah and I wouldn't understand it completely, but parts of it I could understand. And so naturally I began to look at the translation to fill in the blanks and fill in the blanks. And then so some of those vocabulary words, they would keep coming back and then they would begin to stick. And so unknowingly, I was kind of like developing my Arabic vocabulary just based on the translation, looking back and forth with the translation. I know what this heart of means, I know what this noun means, but what is this verb right here? Okay, it must mean this, it must mean that, right? Going back and forth. And I would just be doing this on the way to like a basketball game that, you know, we're about to go play in front of 8,000 people, right? And I'm just reading Quran on the bus, right? So then once I left basketball and I went back to the States and I began working with the youth, Muslim youth, non-Muslim youth. And I would be getting invited to these events and to present. And, you know, people were asking me to write speeches and all of these type of things. And Alhamdulillah, just from my academic background, I was able to do that. But at the same time, the more that I would do it and the more invitations that I would get, I would keep telling myself, like, I need to go study. I need to kind of strengthen myself. And really, if I'm going to do this, you know, prepare myself to do it the right way. And so, you know, before I actually decided to come to Egypt, I was actually getting a few job offers to be like a youth director here or a program director there. And Alhamdulillah is the best of planners.  Evaluate everything. You know, because, you know, sometimes you make a decision and you're just like locked in for five years. You know what I mean?  And that's when I made the decision. I said, I need to go study. I need to go, you know, strengthen my Arabic language and also try to memorize some Quran and start reading some books of, you know, knowledge and so forth and so on. And that was kind of, you know, the summary. The short version. So, wasn't it there like a turning point where something happening was like, nah, I'm about to go study.  Like I said before, like just the aging of my children. My son was approaching, well, he was four years old. And, you know, this is the time where you start looking for schools. You start looking to see where you're going to, you know, how are you going to raise your children and so forth. And, you know, just knowing the community back home and there are some good schools. But, you know, there are some obstacles. There's some red tape and there's some other underlying issues that aren't necessary to mention. But we didn't find a suitable situation. And so we were looking overseas and just once the conversation started rolling. We said, yeah, we could do this. We could do that. Oh, I know so-and-so who's in studying in Saudi. I know so-and-so who's studying in Egypt. And during that process, my wife received a message from a sister that she knew who knew about a Marrakesh, a center in Egypt. And so they were doing intensive for one month. And I was like, this would be a perfect opportunity for me to go over there doing intensive, get acclimated to the environment and see, is it something that I want to do, you know, a little bit longer term. Dang, what can you do in one month though? Yeah, but it was basically to fill out the environment. Is this where I want to bring my family? So, yeah, I would be able to study. I would be able to get familiar with the other students of knowledge and just Egypt, you know, the environment of it. And so it wasn't like, you know, I'm going to learn the Arabic language in one month.  You know, no, it was an experiment. You know, it was like me testing the borders before I brought my wife and children over. You know, because it could be very difficult if you come over here all at once, that you don't know how to get around and you don't know the ins and outs, you know, so that one month was for me to basically take all of the hits in the beginning, you know, so that my family wouldn't have to. And so what's funny was after I made my istikhara, you know, seeking Allah's choice and His preference in the matter, I reached out to somebody who I knew was studying in Egypt, brother by the name of Yusuf Chroma. And I said, yeah, there's an intensive program going on in this mother cast so forth and so on. He was like, oh, yeah, I go to that mother cast, right? I go to that center and I live right down the street from it. And I got an extra room for you if you want to come. So it was like, wow, subhan Allah, right? So the door was just like everything was just laid out perfect. I came in. I was literally three minutes walking distance from the murder case. In fact, I was doing five hours a day one on one with the teacher because I was the only one signed up for that. The same teacher for one month. And he was like, he was the he was the most suitable teacher for me at that particular phase of my development. It was a little bit difficult because I was measuring my Arabic against his Arabic because I don't have any other students in the classroom. With me. Right. Right.  And he's like encourage me like, no, no, you're doing well. You're doing well. And he would just push me and push me and push me.  So that was the turning point. I would say my son coming to that age and then everything else kind of just fell in place behind that. Yeah, I was trying to not forget the points you because I didn't want to cut you. But the first point I was going to say that even me myself when I first went to Egypt, it was for an intensive three months program. And I think if it wasn't like sometimes when it's presented to you in a real like organic way, like, yeah, you need about two years to get, you know, good. Or like to be able to say, OK, I'm done for now with the average language. Let me jump into someone into something else. And yeah, for me, it was the same. Like you just go there three months and you're like, I love this man. I'm staying here. I remember that point. I was like, you just fall in love with it. And then the other thing you said as well is how some students as well, one of my students, she said, once I don't know, I don't know what to compare my level to. But this is why we have this one in our program. We have basically different different aspects. You see, when you go in Egypt, there is, you don't only benefit from what the teacher is giving you. You benefit from the environment, as you say. You benefit from having other brothers around. You see who is better, who is a little bit more like, more like Fasih. His language is more like it sounds more Arab and you benefit from all of this aspect. So this is why in the program, we make sure that we not only we give you, you know, we do the whole structure as you probably don't know. Which I'm pretty sure we're going to get to as in, you know, you get all the vocabulary that we have. You know, the whole tasrifat and whatnot. So you have the weekly conversational sessions where you can actually, you know, benefit from like all the students like benefit. What is he saying? Oh, I see the student is better. Why is he better? All these students has a Arab origin and he says a lot of Amir words, but I still benefit from how he talks. And then you have as well the one on one calls with the teacher because sometimes it's good to talk to students. But the thing is that the student as well, he has the same level. So he's got like two, you know, two week, two week people like fine. So it's good sometimes to have the teacher as well to correct you now. Exactly. So yeah, I mean, five hours per day. With the teacher, I'm thinking about the teacher miskidney. I need five whole hours. I guess you guys had a break and whatnot. But yeah, so then you took your family. That was your turning point. You took your family.  I remember I think I saw you when I was the second time. But anyways, what I was trying to say as well as what I was trying to ask you, a lot of people, they are kind of like scared of, you know, traveling to countries like these three world countries. What was your feelings like? Like, do you feel like scared? Like, what's it like? I don't know what I'm, what I'm expecting. Do you expect like Egypt to be like this nice Muslim place where everyone is mohtaram and everyone's respectful? How was your whole feeling when you first got there? I probably can't relate much to those people because of the fact that I've traveled so much in my life, you know, through basketball. And like I said, my father said we move into Morocco, you know, when I was just like 13 years old. And in fact, when I was in Italy playing ball, my family moved to Egypt and they lived in Arahab. You know what I mean? So I came over to visit several times. My wife had actually lived here prior to us being married when she had just finished college. She lived here to teach social studies or English or something of this nature. You know, so we were both already familiar with the environment. You know, it wasn't just like, okay, talk a lot of love. We out of here. We gone and we're going into the grave. No, but we actually knew a little bit about the environment that we were coming into. We had family, friends who lived here for years and years. And that made the transition, I would say, a lot easier.  So, you know. Okay, so once you get to Egypt and you jump into the classes, a lot of people think, okay, how I'm going to learn Arabic when the teacher, when I don't know Arabic and the teacher doesn't know my language. So how did the whole, how was your first experience with that? I mean, so maybe I can, I would say like, Yeah, you might not relate to that. Yeah, I don't have a real answer because I have like a foundation already in the Arabic language. I would say I was a bit shy in the beginning and like afraid to make mistakes.  And he'll let you kind of move through your mistakes and guide you around them and just remind you in a gentle way. You know, so the teacher is very important in that type of a transition. But just already having like somewhat of a foundation and this is good like people studying Arabic in the West, building up a vocabulary, having a connection with the Quran where you can start to understand some of its meanings. All of those things are beneficial and going to help you in your transition if you decide, you know. But now the world is such that you can learn, you know, there are people who have learned and speak the Arabic language and they've never stepped foot on in the Muslim world, period. Literally.  After years, I just had a first class today with him and he was on the phone, literally, on Viber. Ah, yes. I read the book. I boomed. Okay, what was that? So, okay, with the teacher. And this is one of the things I wanted to mention because a lot of people, something that I always tell the student is, listen, you just need to, you need to, you need to consider yourself again a baby. Babies, they don't, they don't, they don't, they're not shy. You know, the person who was shy, he doesn't learn. So, I think one of the things, I remember the same teacher that I had a class today. I remember once he corrected one of my sentences that he wrote. You speak like, basically he wrote something like in a poem type of style. He said, you only learn because you speak a lot. Basically, I was always running my mouth. And these are the things that I tell my students. You only need three things to become fluent in Arabic, which is memorizing vocabulary, hearing it, being used and using it yourself. Literally, that simple as that. So, what was your, like, what do you guys start with? What was the book that you guys start with that, you know, private teacher and what was the, what was the program for the month? Like, where was he trying to get you in one month? So, we were, I think I started on about level three, basically. So, I did level two, level three and level four, Arabic, not the books, but the levels, the way they break it up in the Marrakes in one month. And that was one portion of the program, but we also had grammar, right? And we would go through many of the grammar lessons. Fortunately for me, I have a brother who's studied extensively, and also my father as well, who studied extensively in grammar. And so, I had already gone through Ajrumiya before I even stepping foot in Egypt. Even though I didn't even take notes the first time going through it, it was just more like, just get it in there, you know.  And that also helped me understand the explanation, the sharp of the teacher when he was explaining it, because I had already been introduced to that particular grammar. But I think, so that's the program that you, that they give you, but you have to have also a program for yourself, right? So, I don't know if you remember, but you gave me two books when I first came to Egypt. Oh yeah, dictionaries, right? This one looks familiar. Oh man, I need that. I was like, where is it? I just got these books. I just got these books. Literally, I didn't have my books. I still have books in Riyadh, man. Oh really, Subhanallah. I have like three books, I have books. But yeah, that was very beneficial, Subhanallah. Yeah, this one really helped me out with the verb conjugations, you know, in the beginning. And then it was another book. It was simply for vocabulary, organizing your vocabulary. And like to me, when you, when you're approaching the learning of the Arabic language, you have to have your notebook organized. You have to break it down systematically. So you have vocabulary, right? But you have nouns and you have verbs. You have ism and you have fi'il and you have harif. And sometimes the fi'il comes with the harif. The verb comes with a article or a particle, right? And so I was taught to organize my notebook in a certain way. Have my nouns. And for that noun, you're going to have the plural. You're going to have the opposite, right? And that's how you organize your nouns and you memorize them. And then you, and then it's the khadam. Like you have to use it. If you don't, if you're not able to use it, your knowledge of that word is like complete, essentially. Right?   You have, I have one. You have the maldi, mudaria, al-amr. Then you have ism fa'il and ism af'ud. Right? And so to organize your notebook in that way, you should keep your verbs together and you should keep your nouns together. But then you also have ta'abirat. You have the, what would you translate that? The expressions. Right. Things that my, like for example, ahlan. Or ahlan wa sahlan means something separated, but together it means something else kind of. Exactly. Right? Like in English, if I say never mind. Right. Never mind. I was going to show you, actually, so people have the visual, you know, type of like understanding of what we're talking about. So this is how we do it in our program. This is for the nouns. So you have the mudra. You have the jama. Jama and ma'ana. And the minna. And ma'ana. And then you have the af'ail as well. The af'ail, which is somewhere here. But yeah, just do not waste time. Something like this basically organized. Yeah, exactly. And this is good in terms of a teacher should be able to organize his student in this way because that's going to make his learning process much easier and make his teaching more effective essentially. You know, so that's good that you're doing that. Alhamdulillah. And may people, you know, use it and also benefit from it. InshaAllah. So that was that was a big part of my process is that having my notes organized in a way. Another thing that I would do is that at the end of a lesson, I would just get a card like this. And I would write the nouns on one side and I would write the verbs on the other side. And I would just walk around with that card all day. Right. And I would actually use those words anytime I just got a free moment. I would pull out my card and I was like, OK, yeah, this word, this word. How can I use it? How can I use it? You know, Alhamdulillah. So that was also a part of my learning process. It's not just about what book you're studying and, you know, what your teacher gives you, but you need a organized system and you'll see over time it will just become so natural. You'll begin to see that card. You'll begin to see that page like in your mind, you know, in that exam. And I'm like, oh man, what was that word? It was right after this word.  No, Alhamdulillah. Actually, I was going to show you. I just posted, well, I just, this was a few months back, I think. I posted a post, I say three indispensable books. Any beginnings to read needs. And I just say the first one, yeah, it's this, it's that one. But that's so beneficial, man, because that's pretty much all you need. And to like, you know, make it wider or, you know, gain more vocabulary is good to have, as you said, the opposites or the opposites and the synonyms as well of words. It just makes it easier to understand. But yeah, man, that's just so effective, man. Like everyone that I see using this method, you really just need consistency, stick to it for like a year or so.  So, I actually wanted to say something, but go ahead. Let's go ahead.  I don't, my teacher doesn't speak English. For example, I don't speak Arabic, you know, but like, look at a baby. So like you said, I'm a baby now. A baby is not exposed to any language until they speak, you know, or hear their first languages. And they're hearing that language, hearing that language. But they're in an environment of examples and experience that the meaning becomes attached to that. And that's really when the words actually stuck stronger when there was a story behind it or something happened. And then, oh, now I understand that word because language isn't essentially learned in like a void, but it's learned through interaction. And it's actually also developed that way. Right. So hearing the language over and over. And in terms of vocabulary, a baby doesn't have any grammar. No. When they start speaking, they're just kind of putting words together. Right. Caveman speech, as I call it. Caveman speech, huh?  One thing I used to do is that I kind of picked up this habit just in the process of trying to use as much Arabic as possible. Is sometimes I would just fill in the blank with it in English word. Then I would just keep going, you know, and then if I learned that word, I would write it down or I tried to basically record it to memory at that at that particular point. And this is outside of the classroom, of course, but just when you're engaging with the other people, just, you know, trying to practice your language. Use the English word here and there, but get back to the Arabic. Get back to the Arabic. And you know, you need to go back and learn whatever that word it was. No, for sure. So, so, well, I know already that you use it out of everything, but do you use any other book with that? Um, I'll be a bane and your dick was the main book for he will for conversation and where we took our vocabulary from. We also studied. Um, what I mean, the, and as you know, Mia for grammar, and we studied a book that was organized by the mother cast. For Balala, it was an introduction to Balala, which is like high expression. Something like that. Yeah. Those were all of the other books that I use. So while you was learning Arabic, because this is something that that I always advise my students with. Mainly for beginner students of knowledge, you know, for the student of seeking knowledge culture. Students, they are, and I'm, you know, I've been part of, of this. And sometimes I am. It's just that it's the agile, you know, like just wanting to wanting to get, you know, you see all of these books, you want to get into everything basically. So you start learning different fields at the same exact time. So I know that after you went to finish your program with Arabic or into Quran. So with everything you was doing with Arabic, do you think you was able to do? You know, anything else in terms of studying? No. Okay. Husband of one, father of four. Right. And then being a studying Arabic. Very difficult to give your full attention to Arabic and something else.  We have one track minds, you know. So I did see students who had this, it's the agile. They were, they were in a hurry. They were just like so ready to kind of, you know, and I saw that lead them to switching teachers, switching institutes, switching programs, starting with Arabic. Switching teachers, switching institutes, switching programs, starting over again, starting over again, going from this science to that science without grasping the subject entirely. It was like dabbling, you know, but not delving into anything and any type of detail, being not even a jack of all trades, you know, but definitely a master of nothing, you know. Because it's the agile and, you know, just trying to get the home run and get everything and master one thing, you know, and so I gave my full attention, literally to that, the Arabic language. I mean, of course, you're going to have a, you should, at least as a Muslim, have a natural regiment with the Quran. You know, I would still give the Quran its time in the mornings and so forth and so on. But Arabic was my main thing, you know. Yeah, there's something that when I, you know, when I say, when I say, like, study in it, a lot of people say, yeah, but how are you going to, how can you say, like, you leave the Quran for a whole two years or what? No, I'm saying one thing is reading the Quran. One thing is memorizing the Quran is a whole other level than, you know, with revision and memorization and what is this word? Let me look at the tafsir and that. So yeah, you can do, you can, you know, there is different, I would say, levels of study and something or just reading about or just going over it.    You know, without taking away from the quality of one of which science that you're studying. No, I wasn't going to say anything else.  So yeah, so. So okay, now you, you start with it. I'll be in there taking whatnot. A lot of things, a lot of a question that a lot of people ask is how are you going to start memorizing random vocab like table. You know, light and whatnot, and then start forming sentences that and at what point does grammar come in as well? How did that happen for you? In the beginning, if I was in the teacher's position, and I'm just a student and I deserve that rank, you know, according to my Arabic level. In the very beginning, I would focus very little on grammar. It will be more of an obstacle in the beginning. And I use the example again of a baby, a baby doesn't have any grammar. If you were to sit there and correct the child, they would stop speaking out of frustration because they're going to make mistakes, right? But the vocabulary in the beginning is the most important thing, right? Actually, grammar actually comes second. So somebody who's born in the Arab world, they're going to go to grammar school. They're not going to go to a morphology school because it's already, they know that naturally just based on life experience. But then they have to go to grammar school, right? But somebody who's learning the Arabic language knew he needs to go to vocabulary school first and start building his vocabulary. And then I would say learning the structures of the sentences and mastering that concept. So literally you have two types of sentences. The minimum is two words. That's like easy. Oh, I just put two words together and I have a sentence in the Arabic language. Heather, bait. That's a sentence in the Arabic language, literally, right? And so you focus on those short sentences, those two word sentences. The second word describing the first, essentially, right? And then you build on that as you build your vocabulary. It's a natural process, you know? Where else would you start? I mean, essentially, you can't put grammar on nothing. You have to have vocabulary before you can put on grammar. Yeah, a lot of people, they as well are not patient enough, man. I remember a student who joined our program, he took, there's 48 lessons, right? For the original three books that we set it up. He did two lessons and he was worried that he couldn't form sentences yet. It's like, you just literally didn't even start yet. Because the first five lessons, they are translated, I translate them into English. And then from the sixth lesson, he's all in Arabic. So he's like, you didn't even start yet. Like, you got to be patient. And yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's because I did it four times already with the other languages in a natural way, like French and whatnot. But yeah, sometimes I think that people see it, like that you need to actually have patience to it. And one quote that I always say is that the day that you plan the city is not the day that you eat the fruit. The day I plan the city is not the day that you eat the fruit. So yeah, it's just about being consistent, man, at what you're doing and building your vocabulary and forming sentences. You're going to go from caveman speech to fasih, eventually. So now, for how long was the program that you did with the Arabic and the Deg and Balagha and all that? Like I said, I started on level three. So that's like the fifth level. They had like tahtasifr, sifr, you know, below zero, zero, one, two, three. Yeah, yeah, that was like, you started from scratch. Like you don't even know your own language, right? You know, so I started on like the fifth level, most of the third level, basically, and I finished at the 13th level, which was the final level at that particular time where you can attain the certificate of completion and everything. And alhamdulillah, it took... So I was still imagining it like, I was still imagining you getting there. I don't even know how to talk in my own language. I don't know, you're before zero, man. Tahtasifr, right? No communication skills whatsoever, like gestures, not even... No. It took time a lot. Yeah, so it took about, I want to say a year and two months, you know, so each level was about six weeks. That's with Arubiyah, Manny, Yadak, the completion of what we did, the three book series before they broke it into six books. I think it's six books now, right? I think it's four, from what I've heard, but I didn't even... Well, each book has two books, so it's like book one, part one, book two, part two. So yeah, it's eight total books now, I think. But before it was just a three book series and they broke it up. So completing that, completing the Balaqa book, completing Ajurumiya and completing Mutammima, that took about 14 months starting from level three. Most people do it in about a year and a half if you start from scratch, basically. Now, the exact period of our program, 15 months. Yeah, that's kind of like the perfect timeframe. Yeah, yeah. I was going to say, now within four months, four to five months, and this is where the Istitijan kicks in when people get in a hurry, because you can go to the store after four months, and three and a half months, and you can buy what you want to buy, and you can talk a little bit. People start feeling like, oh, I got it now. No. Right, and then they start looking for... That happened to you, right? And they start looking for other things, but they haven't really mastered the grammar. They haven't practiced it enough. They haven't gone to higher level concepts in terms of understanding the luga. Now, if your goal, and this is my goal, was to strengthen my relationship with the Qur'an, really be able to read the Qur'an and understand it entirely. Okay, hearing the khutbah and also hearing the recitation in the Salat, those have their places as well, but the Qur'an is at the heart of all of that. And those people who get out early just because they can order a cheeseburger, these type of things, and get the vegetables and stuff like that, and, oh, I could get a taxi and stuff like that. No, that's normal. That doesn't mean you're there yet. At least you need to put on another four months on top of that just to secure it. And Allah Ta'ala, He knows best. So I saw that a lot, man. People just four months in, I got it, I got it. And then they just leave it and they still make it some of the basic mistakes. When you go back and talk to them and stuff like that, you're like, you didn't learn that. The whole journey is beneficial. Because once you set foot on that path seeking knowledge, you're on a path to Jannah, you know. But to really gain... And I think that happens a lot in Egypt. It's funny sometimes. Like this brother will come to you and he will throw at you this verb that he just learned, that even you never seen a hadith. This time it's like back in the desert of the Arab, not even in Medina, like outside of Medina. And people are like, yeah, I learned that in a book. That gives you a lot of... Allah, what did you say? Say it again, say it again. And you want to keep growing your... Competition is a good motivator basically. And pressure. So... So now you get to a point where after all of this program, what do you feel like you have achieved and what you are able to do at that point? That you couldn't do before. I mean, I could grammatically analyze the ayat of the Quran to understand that at one point is what it helps you like. When you get started, what is that? Ya'lamun or I mean... Khalidin or Khalidun? No. But then you have more intricate things as well, just like grammatically. Because the Quran is an Arabic Quran, and part of it is connected to the linguistic aspect of it. So there are certain things that understanding the Arabic grammar will help you appreciate and value the Quran. I can explain something to you because you speak Arabic and you'd be like, oh man, I never noticed that. Wow, that's amazing. But somebody who doesn't have a reference point to the Luga, is going to be able to appreciate the Quran on that level. And if we go back to the tradition when the Quran was revealed upon people who were masters in language, so they were the ones who could appreciate it the most essentially. They were surprised.  They seen a lot. But they were surprised at the Quran. This recitation is Arabic Quran, so there's just certain things in it. And for me, that was the best of its fruits, is that I can hear the Quran, or even when I was memorizing and reviewing, I would catch myself making a grammar mistake that somebody else who was memorized wouldn't be able to catch and understand how the one word is connected to the next word in terms of grammar. You have Muqaaf, Muqaaf-u-Nile. You have the compound words and how they... So those type of things were of the best of its fruits because it strengthened your appreciation for the Quran, the Book of Allah, Ta'ala. And there's much, much more, masha'Allah. So after those one year and so few months, you went into the Quran. So how was that, man? Or khatmul Quran?  I thought I was like doing something when I was studying Arabic. I'm like, you know, getting up in the morning, I'm taking my notes, being organized. But like once I transitioned to the Quran, I had to be that much more organized. I had to be that much more keen and disciplined in terms of protecting my time and so forth. But at the same time, the system that I had with the Arabic language, this is my time for Arabic. This is how I'm going to organize my notebook. Just like I had notebooks for Arabic, I had notebooks for Quran. And I would have to catalog it and so forth and so on. And memorization was so much more easy, or excuse me, so much easier. That's an English grammar mistake, so much easier after being able to understand the meaning. Because you know what you're saying, essentially. But if you're just memorizing the Quran by rhythm and by sound, yeah, you could do that and you could be stronger that way. But understanding it, it just makes it so much easier to memorize. Yeah, that happens too. When I see my daughter, for example, memorizing, if she forgets, she just goes like, She memorizes by the melody, basically. Yeah, she will have to stop and be like, Wait, what did I just say? Okay, so I'm talking about the genes. All right, so now they're going to, okay, that. And basically it's easier for you to remember. Mainly if you're praying in front of people or not. And just the na'hu may always happen. You always, I always see mainly with, I think it's hadad, hadid, I always get stuck there. Yansuruhu wa rasulahu. Oh, yeah. Yansuruhu wa rasulahu, I always, and he only helps me to remember because I know Nasirah is muta'addi and he makes the maf'ul bihi and whatnot. But yeah, it's a big benefit, man. People, you know, always have this argument with some people on like, Yeah, but how can you not memorize? It's just, it's not that I don't say you cannot memorize the Quran the same time you learn the Arabic language. But for me, it's about like really like mastering that thing because how do you learn, how do you, do you go to a school for Hezul Quran or was it private with the teacher? I just did private. From beginning to end, Alhamdulillah. So the teacher was coming to your house, right? Yeah, coming to me, yeah. So how many, how many, what did the program look like? How many pages and then how many you will memorize, revise, I mean? For Quran? No. Okay, so you know, I'm 35. No.  And I don't know how much that impacted my studies of the Quran. I know I began with one page for memorization every day, six days a week. And the way my sheikh does it and did it with me is that for every page that I took, he would have to read the ayah to me and I would have to read it back to him. He would read it to me, I would read it back to him. And then once we complete the page, I would read the entire page back to him. And then he'd say, okay, you can go and you can memorize that page, right? Before that, we just did mura'ji. So whatever I had memorized up until that point, we would do like four pages a day. He wanted me to write that page of the Quran. And again, he would read it to me. I would read it back, read it. I would read it back and then I would read all of it back to him at the end. He'd say, okay, you can go memorize it. Why? Because he wanted to make sure that I was pronouncing everything right, that I wasn't missing any words, that I wasn't missing any haraqat. It's so intricate, down to the very haraqat. SubhanAllah, we count the pages of the Quran and even the words, but how many haraqat? Every haraqat has a value that affects and impacts the meaning. And this is why the Arabic language was codified in the first place because people were making grammatical errors when reciting the Quran. No. You know, the famous example from At-Tawbah, it's what it's called, Tawbah. Mm-hmm. You know. And other examples as well, when they were changing the meaning. That's what I'm talking about. The example in At-Tawbah is in Mushrikina warasulu. You know, it's Madmoum. It has the dhamma on it. And so it's not saying that Allah is free from the Mushrikina and the Messenger is saying that Allah and the Messenger is free from the Mushrikina. Mm-hmm. So that's where the language in and of itself was codified. So I started off doing one page a day, then we moved up to one and a half page a day, and then eventually we would move up to a rule by day and he wouldn't give me anything more than that. And in terms of moraje, review, we tried to do a juice a day, basically. Review 20 pages plus whatever jadeed you have. So that would be my regiment for about, like a year and four months total, even though he went to Umrah, I went to Umrah, I went back to the states during that period and we ended up taking off about four months of memorization and we just only did review for a while. So just in about that period of time, Alhamdulillah, by Allah's permission and by Allah's favor and mercy, Allah granted me the Tawfiq to complete the first. I would say, I don't say that I'm Hafid al-Quran. I feel like that's a degree that's, we give people these titles very lightly. I say, Khatam tul-Quran. I did complete the Khatam of the Quran in terms of memorizing it. But it's more than about memorizing. My teacher told me in the beginning that your review is more important than your memorization. If your review is weak, your memorization might be strong, but if your review is weak, then you're not getting anything new. Because I mean, it's more than just like a casual thing. It's the book of Allah Ta'az. He said the Quran, it has an izzah about it. It has a type of dignity about it. It doesn't just let anybody do whatever it wants to it. You have to approach it in a certain way. You have to give yourself to it, literally. If you become distracted or if you turn away from it, it will leave you. It will leave you in an heartbeat. And we know. You just made me realize maybe I'm a little bit too shadeed with this subject. Because for me, as you said, everyone has their own program. But when I talk about memorizing the Quran, I'm talking about the same how we used to do in Haramain. Once you have more than five juice per day, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten juice, you know, that's my mindset. You shouldn't be reading less than five juice. Otherwise, you're going to get to the beginning or you know you're going to complete it.  So this is what I'm saying like, because just five juice per day. If you know one juice good, it takes you 20, 25 minutes. Five juice per day, it will take you a few hours of, you know, memorizing and repeating it for the day after and then what? It's like, it's no way you can do two. You can memorize the Quran like that. But then if you memorize one ayah per day or whatnot, perhaps you can do that. Yeah, I mean, I would say, yeah, that is a shadeed position, you know. Well, no, without, without any details, it would sound that it was, you know, severe. You know, I think age is a factor.   Then your situation is different than somebody who's 35, four kids and so forth. You know, I wish that I could do at this point five days a day. Of course I'm working towards that, you know, but I wouldn't say my memory is strong enough at this point. And I would say at the same time, if I knew certain things in the beginning, I would have approached it a lot differently. Right. And then the last factor is time constraints. No. Right. A lot of people have, okay, I only have one year to do this, you know. And so, yes, that is ideal. 100% and you should be aiming to do that from the very beginning and you should have a system in place that's going to help you do that. Right. And that should be, but at the same time, the Quran is the journey to life. Right. It is the journey of a lifetime. You know, essentially. And so, yeah, you know, my shaky will always say, you know, if people didn't forget, they would never turn back to the most half. They would never go back and open up the most half. You know, so forgetting is also a part of the process. Some of the verses that are strongest in my mind are those verses that I forgot or messed up when I was reading for my sheikh. Mm-hmm. And because he corrected me, I know when I get to that ayat, it's just like that correction is right there in my mind. No. You know. Well, yeah, I'm super passionate right now. I'm trying to, just this morning, man, I went to sleep at 5 AM last night. I was working on the program and I sent a WhatsApp message to my teacher. I have a private teacher as well right now and he contacted me for Arabic or Quran. So I sent him a, you know, more Italian as they don't play, man. I sent him a WhatsApp message. I was like, you know, I was still awake at 4 AM. I was sleeping at 10 AM. I got up. He came in. I'm like, I sent you a message. I said, yeah, I don't care about your message. We have to read the murajah. It's Friday. Subhanallah. So, what's your uslub? Okay, with this teacher, to be honest, the uslub in Egypt, in Haramain, and I'm so glad, that I was in Haramain. If you know how many times do I think about, like, let me just try and get back into, in Egypt. Let me go or Ghada or something and try and go to Cairo. And Haramain is the way how they did it there. If I ever, if Allah ever blesses me to open a Quran school, I'm going to take the same method. So that method was for people if they want to benefit from it. Obviously everyone have their own Qadr of memorization. Half a page, one page, two pages, whatever it might be. At that time I was doing two pages. So I was doing, I think it was one juice every two weeks.  So every juice you get tested. Every five juice you get tested. And every ten juice, you get tested. So every juice you will get tested, Akhi is not even a joke. Like all the Mut'shabi had you might imagine that you don't even, while memorizing, you don't even even think about it. And then he might ask you a question and like, like sometimes I might be listening from my wife and I just, literally I go to Anaya and I remember times where I even cried Akhi. I cried with my, with the Sheikh there in the halameen. He made me cry one day. I just, he said, nah, go. You're not ready. I got home when I was crying. But anyways, that was, they were, the teacher, the first thing he wants you to do once you get there is revision. You need to revise.  And that's literally how your memorization becomes so strong because you revise those three juice on someone and that as well revise those three juice on you. So not only you, you're revising it, you saying it, but you as well looking at it while listening to your, to the other student. So it's like you're revising it twice basically in a day. So basically every three days you revise in everything you have. If you have less than 10 juice, once you get to 10 juice, then you revise in at least five. Obviously not everyone, not everyone does it like that. But if they see you mustahed, they will push like that. But here with this teacher, over there what I would do is I would just read the teacher, he would tell me, he would tell me, you know, read the page. I would read it.  I studied, So I guess I know the Qawai. So I would read it once then he would say, okay, go. Then I will memorize it throughout, you know, in between the evening and between the morning of the next day. Then come to the teacher, read it and go into the murajah literally and just like that. But here the teacher, he comes to my house. He wants me to read first the Al-Hibdul Qalib as he calls it. So what I memorized for the past week or two weeks, everything literally every day. And then if it's weak, he tells me, he gives me five or ten minutes to revise it. And he wants me to read that rubah again. Then if then when I'm done with Al-Hibdul Qalib, then he wants me to revise one juz of Al-Hibdul Qalib. And then he wants me to memorize to repeat it from 50 to 100 times that page. I'm doing one page right now in front of him before he lives. You want it? What? 50 times one page? Reading it to him. And he told me that this how we memorize, I'm returning this why we don't forget it because we just repeat it. Because what I would do is I would repeat it and I would be like, what are you talking about? And then I would look at it and he would say, I didn't tell you to memorize it right now. I told you to repeat it 50 to 100 times. So I'm like, okay, but I'm like, I cannot memorize it if I don't try to get it in my mind. He's like, yeah, but I don't want you to repeat it 50 times. Just from reading it, huh? Yeah. So I was like, okay, I'm going to do that then. So I started to bring it up, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. Some pages after 50 times you find yourself like, 50 times it takes you at least one hour. You lay down. Next thing you know, you're like, without even imagining it. So, so yeah, you know, everyone has their tariqa. And I think it's important that you just follow and trust the teacher, man. He's done it away. Every way he works is just about keeping consistency on that, on that, on that way. Obviously I give him some suggestions on how he's easier for me and how I feel like I should go about. But, but yeah, he takes, you know, I let him take the lead basically. And that helps, that helps a lot. Masha'Allah.  You know, some people, it takes five years. Some people, it takes 10 years for it to be like fabric.  That's the third page of, you know, like that.  But it really, you know, for me, it starts with the Arabic language for sure.  I mean, and then he said, he told me something else. Okay, Shadeed, he's now, I said, yeah, but the accent of Yassir, he can only be Yassir. So why you say the accent? And he laughed.  So he helps a lot, man. He helps a lot with having the Arabic language first. So, yeah, I think this is kind of like a long, a long episode. Yeah, man, it's too long, man. You have to cut that out really, man. I said too much.  I think when he's organic and like, you know, they listen to a conversation of people who have experienced into something or have experienced something, I think you benefit more from realness in an organic thing. So, yeah, that's why I like to keep it long and organic. However, yeah, man, I think that's it, right? Yeah, absolutely. Alhamdulillah. But like I said, man, I really appreciate the opportunity. I really hope that people will benefit and, you know, get connected to the Book of Allah, you know, start building that foundation, be patient. There's edger. There's edger. A lot of times, we focus on the wrong things. We just, you know, my Sheikh, even when I had a bad day of reading Quran that day and it's all edger. No. For real. Yeah, it's all edger. It's all rewarding.  You know, think about the incentive of the person who reads the Quran and struggles while doing so. He gets a double reward. You know what I mean? So it's all whether you're having a good day or a bad day or you feel like you're progressing and everything, the intention is going to be what really drives a person at the end of the day.  But when his intention is in place, solid, that's when you're going to really see the fruits. That's when Allah Ta'ala is going to actually put the barakah in it and he knows best. No InshaAllah. So yeah guys, for those who got it all the way here, please leave on the comment section. This live or something? No, but I mean for those who are going to watch the video all the way here I want you to write a comment and say realness. I want to know the loyal watchers and the loyal, that's not even a word in English right, viewers, I mean so comment realness down below if you got it all the way here and yeah, InshaAllah I would say Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you and bless you for giving me your time. I know you're busy right now.


I've been trying to upgrade my brain and achieve limitless performance for the past 7 plus years. In this unconventional quest, I've came across tools, strategies and hacks that dramatically impacted my performance, but I've been still looking for this final step to the limitless, this one hack that would get me to the next level. And then I came across this book, Limitless by brain coach and author Jim Quake. Now the question I immediately asked myself was, can this book actually make you limitless? So I decided to read the book and the short answer is, ah, forget it, there is no short answer. Hey friends, welcome back to the channel. My name is Greg and I'm a certified brain health professional. On this channel, we have professionals achieve peak brain performance. So if you're interested then subscribe below and join our amazing community. Now I've recently read the limitless book and based on the thousands of positive reviews, my expectations were extremely high. I did know exactly what I was going to learn in the book, but based on the title and the short summary I read, I really hope this one is going to deliver some of the most advanced brain hacks to upgrade my brain. I mean the title of this book is limitless, so having high expectations is the bare minimum here, right? Well, we'll get back to that.  I'm also going to tell you a couple of things I really love about the book, we're going to talk about important things that this book is missing and finally at the end I'm going to tell you if this book is going to make you limitless or not. Now just before we talk about the learnings, let's clarify what does it mean to be limitless. Now according to the dictionary, being limitless means being without end or boundary. This practically means you can do whatever you want to. Now if you watch the limitless movie, you saw that being limitless means that you can unlock your brain to achieve extraordinary performance, have a photographic memory and be able to stay focused for extremely long hours. But as you've seen in the movie, being limitless also comes with a set of horrific side effects, especially because such extraordinary performance was achieved by taking an illegal drug, presumably named NCT48. Now for me, being limitless means having lots of brain power and energy, remarkable focus, stunning cognitive skills and ability to stay calm and relaxed even in the hardest of situations and unlike in the movie, being extremely healthy and living a limitless life without any unwanted side effects. And that's basically what this book promises to help you achieve. But does it really do that? Well just before we dive into the topic, who is Jim Quick? Have you heard of him before? Let me know in the comment section below. Now Jim Quick is a life coach, a teacher, an author and a motivational speaker. He's a self-proclaimed brain coach without any real certificate. Now as many other self-proclaimed experts, he suffered from a traumatic brain injury at a young age, which resulted in severe struggle in school. Later on he started relearning how to actually learn to speed up the process and to be more efficient and that's what led him towards where he is today. Now to the book. Now this book is divided into four main parts. The first one is to learn how to free your mind and why is that so important. Now the second one is to create a limitless mindset. The third one is about limitless motivation and the last one is about limitless methods that can lead to transformation. So first the good things about the book. Now if you never read any self-development books and this one is your first one, I promise you, you will be positively surprised. Jim covers a whole range of exciting topics like how to speed read, how to get into the flow, how to boost your memory, how to change your mindset, how to boost your energy and even how to change your thinking. It's a lot, that's for sure. And for the beginners out there, this must be very exciting. Now another great thing is that this book comes with some free resources. If you go to limitlessbook.com slash resources, you're going to find a list of additional tips and hacks. Now this is nothing compared to what you can find in the Ben Greenfields book boundless, but it's still good to get some additional tips for free. And lastly, each chapter ends with actionable steps, which is a great way to help you take action. You know, just reading a book is actually not enough to upgrade your brain, sorry. By the way, do you want to know how well does your brain work?  Now let's talk about the things in this book that I really didn't like. First, if you read at least a few self-development books in the past, especially books about your mindset, memory and brain, you're not really going to learn a lot of new things from this book. This one actually reads like a short summary of 20 or 30 books combined, so for the more experienced people, expect to skip a couple of chapters. Now the second problem is that there are a couple of tips that are completely wrong from the scientific perspective. For example, Jim recommends that before any reading session you should actively review what you learned in the session before. Now what we know from the neuroscience is that you should never start a new learning or reading session by repeating what you already know, but you should always start by learning something new, because that's the best scientific way to increase your awareness and attention, which are crucial factors that will later help you remember more. Now Jim is also partly wrong about the best brain foods, etc. So there are a couple of things that could be better researched. Now yet another problem is his constant self-promotion, and there is a lot of that in the book. Now I get it, the more you promote yourself, the more business you will probably make, but there must be a line, and in my opinion, Jim crossed that one. Then there is something that bothers me a lot, and that is the fact that he only briefly covered really important topics like nutrition and sleep. He didn't even talk about brain supplements and tropics, which are one of the most important things of any working brain. He also didn't talk about the most effective brain hacks, how to protect your brain from damage, and much, much more. Now he was very vague about various types of meditation, breathing exercises, etc. While he shares a lot of different anecdotes and his personal stories. Now if he would cut all the stories out, or at least half of them, the whole book would probably be just about 50 pages long, or even less. Actually if you don't want to read the whole book, but you still want to get the most important know-how from it, I actually suggest using short form. Now short form offers the best in-class book summaries, and it's going to save you tons of time by skipping the unimportant parts from the book. By joining through my link, shortform.com slash your inception, there's a link below, you will receive 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discount on annual subscription. And this will give you access to thousands of books for the price of only one book a month. Now just before I share my verdict about this book, let's talk about a couple of important learnings that impacted my life and may change yours as well. If there's one thing that Jim did really well, is that he explained how your brain is not fixed, and that you can actually upgrade your brain performance no matter your current status. And I'm really happy he did this, because this knowledge needs to go mainstream. Now another great thing is the power of having the right mindset. Now Jim makes a brilliant introduction to how the right mindset can impact your actual performance. He talks about limiting beliefs and their power. Now this is not a new concept, and it definitely wasn't developed by Jim, but it is refreshing to hear again that you can achieve a lot of things in your life if you really believe in them. Now he also shares the formula of how to get in the flow. So if you want to get in the flow, you first need to eliminate distractions, you need to block some time during the day when you won't be disturbed, you need to define your goals and of course challenge yourself. Now this is basically the formula of Mihaly, the author of the Flowbook. But still, this knowledge is extremely important, so good job Jim. And the best part for me was the section about thinking exponentially. And the best way to explain exponential thinking is that you should stop making things better but rather make things different. So you move from small incremental changes to big exponential changes. While this is easier said than done, obviously, the best way to start is by asking radically different questions that may completely change your situation. For example, if you often run out of time to do the things you love, ask yourself, what would you do if the day had only 18 hours, but you'd still want to have at least one hour a day for yourself? Yes, such radical questions are the baseline for the exponential mindset. So my final verdict, do I recommand this book? Yes, if you are new to learning about brain performance, then sure, definitely go read this book if you can stand the exaggerations like becoming superhuman, etc. But if you already read a couple of books about brain performance, self-development and mindset, then you probably won't learn much new in this book. In this case, you either skip the book or just read the short summary from short form, whatever you prefer. If you are serious about upgrading your brain performance, then watch my next video up here to learn my best hacks to do so. Thank you guys for watching and I hope to see you soon again. Stay well.


Hi, and welcome to Adobe Absolute Beginners Adobe Illustrator CC. My name is Wes Holing, and I'm going to be showing you some of the basic tools and tips for how to use Adobe Illustrator CC. The next thing to show is Alignment and the Pathfinder tool. I'm going to create a couple of extra shapes just like I have before. So I'll create a square, and I'll make that red with a black stroke, and I'll create a smaller circle about that big, and I'll just make it blue so you can tell the difference. So if I want to get these objects to align in a certain way, either relative to each other or relative to the canvas itself, or the artboard as it's called in Illustrator, I can do that very easily without having to drag and just kind of eyeball it. So if I select my square, over here on the right I have the Align tool. And you have a lot of options here, Aligning the objects, Distributing them, all that. But I'm going to start here on the bottom right. I have two options in this case. I can align to the selection which is only the square that's not going to do me any good, or I can align it to the artboard which might be more useful. So that's already selected. And if I choose the center one here, Horizontal Align Center, I click that, it's right in the center vertical, excuse me, horizontally for the artboard. And the same is true vertically too. If I want a vertically aligned center that's just over on the right, I can click that. Now it's in the direct center of the entire artboard. Same is true for top, left. I can do it any way I want. So let's return it to the center. And the same is true for the circle. If I choose that and put it on the left or on the top, I can put it in the center, whatever I need to do. It's very handy. Now if I choose both by holding down the Shift key and clicking the other object with the Shift key held down and using the selection tool, I come back to Align to. Now I've got a third option and it's key object. And I'll show you that in a moment. But first let's try selection. You can see that nothing happens when I choose Horizontal Align Center. These are both horizontally aligned already. If I choose the vertical, now they're aligned vertically to each other but not to the entire artboard. This is great if you have two things that you need to align relative to one another but not to the entire piece of art. And I'm going to undo that. So now that they're still separate, and I can come back to Align to and choose Align to Key Object. This is a tricky one, but once I've chosen it you can see there is now a thicker color around the circle. Illustrator will by default choose the latest object that you've drawn or added to be the default. And you can choose whichever default you want. So if I wanted to align that circle to this square, I click the square. They're both still selected but now it knows that the square is the dominant object. And so when I choose vertically aligned center it aligns that circle to this square. And if I undo I can show you the opposite. I'll choose Key Object again. It's on the circle like it was before. And now I'll choose Vertical Align Center. And now it brings the square to the circle. This is very handy if you've got multiple objects and you need them to line up either on the left side, the right side, the center, whatever you need. Next I'll also show you the Path Finder. So let's go ahead and select both of those and I'll bring them back to the center. Oops. Let's choose the artboard first. Now they're centered. And I'll bring this circle to the right by clicking and dragging it. So if I want to take a chunk out of this square, very easy to do, I can align an object, in this case the circle. You can just draw a new object that you need to take out of another object, whatever you need. And I'll line it up and I'll select them both and come over here on the right to the Path Finder tool. I've got a lot of options here and you may not use all of these on a regular basis. There are a few that I tend to use very regularly. In this case I'm going to use the second one here. This is the minus front. So as you can see on the artboard I have a circle in front of a square. You can tell it's in front of it because it's not hidden by the square. The square is partially hidden by the circle. So once I've selected them both I can choose minus front. And now I have a square that has just a half circle taken out of it. The circle is completely gone. That object has been deleted and it's removed the portion that was overlapping the square. Now if I undo that I can choose a different option. Let's choose Unite. Now I've got two objects that are overlapping. If I click it now I've got one object. There's no distinction between the square and the circle anymore. It is now just one single object. And it's blue because it took on the color and stroke of the front most objects. I can undo that. And let's try, this is another one that I tend to use a lot, Divide. Click that and that doesn't look like much has happened. What it's done is it's divided both objects along any place that they intersect and it turns and then it groups all of the objects. If I come up to the Object menu and Ungroup, now if I click on anything else on the canvas I've got this object. I've got this object and this object. They all intersect along certain points and Illustrator divided them all up evenly. This is great if you want to take part of an object out or divide them all up and then combine certain parts later you can do that. But the Pathfinder is very, very useful for creating shapes and then manipulating them later.


What's good man welcome back to another video now.  Can she escape the horrid slaughterhouse? All right, so piggy's trapped in the slaughterhouse and our objective is to get out of there That sounds awesome and let's go ahead and begin with this game. All right shout out to the creator be kind design All right nice, and it has like 4k likes that's huge on here So it has to be like fire, you know just appearance mr. Pork Vader.   Oh Little piggy does flips and everything. Okay. Oh my god. There's so many dead pigs in the back though We will get out of here safe in town. Let's go see. Okay. It says press circle Dad are you here?  Can you walk when you escape from this now? You'll need to save yourself. My time is up No, dad. I can't leave. What is that sound? That does not seem bueno We're a little piggy run. Oh My god, what is going on? Oh, there's a hook.  Where you going daddy pig? No You always get the bit in the pig but your bae okay jump three times two times. Let's go Do they take daddy pig for me? Oh my god press circle this hat reminds me of that's probably grandma's hat Granny oink. I knew it. It looked like the one-piece hat All right, dude. Look at the way. They just stack the piggies And they just keep stacking. Oh my god. What is going dude his head is like they're flat Okay, I'm having enough. I'm being entertained a little too much by that. Let's keep on moving.  Dude, there's a lot of pigs. All right. Let's keep moving. Oh my gosh, okay. Oh Okay, what is that press X three times? Okay, cool. I guess we go through the door. Oh, it's an elevator All right, it seems like that might have been the end of chapter one as there was like a little pause there Welcome to the fifth door Dude those pigs in the back look creepy. Oh Is that a coin? That's a coin enjoying the lovely gas chamber. Oh My wow already fart in my room as it is so I can survive in the gas chamber, bro. Bring it on. Okay Let's go this way. Oh Look, they're going in the gas chamber.  Oh, he's chasing me. Okay. This is trying to kill me.  No Mario. Oh, we gotta defeat a Mario style. Okay. Oh my god Dude, this guy got combos and everything. What the heck? Oh My god, that is way too close. Okay, I don't know if you can defeat this guy or not He does 360s with the machetes. You gotta be kidding me, man.  Okay. Oh my god, Pete Chill out, brother. I'm just trying to get out of here go back to the farm and live a happy life Okay, I'm out. I can't defeat this guy Dude, they just throw the bodies like nothing. Look at that. So gruesome and all right Let's keep on going before Pete catches up and down the vent. We go. Oh my god He almost got us there. Oh press circle open door open Let's go in the the freezer out of this is a good idea But okay a press circle this dinosaur Which does that belong to pig into George belong to Piglet from another IP? Okay, let's keep on moving. I guess that's it for the fridge Now let's keep on do daddy pig. What?  There's a note Presser could read letter. Hi, mr. Portbader.  Oh Do this guy is every He chopped me. Oh My okay, I'm getting my revenge man. Where the heck is this this double? Where is he at? Okay, he's not here. Oh there he is boink. Okay, it does nothing. Whatever. Let's just keep on moving Dude, I can't go in. Okay. There you go. The heck it was pushing me back. Not cool man. Yep You ain't okay. Let's get out. We already read the letter dude. There's a half-body pig over there.  I've seen too much. I'm gonna be scarred for life now Okay, the elevator. Let's get in it. That is the end of chapter two now chapter three Hey marvelous, welcome to the ninth floor. Did I love this?  That was pretty epic Okay, I want to see it one more time. Let's go see it. Oh my god Another one goes up another one bites the dust baby. All right. Oh my god. There he goes Stop this madness beats. What is wrong with your brother? Okay jump three times. Okay? One two three presents. I'm go go go go.  He's been babe was here. He's been done it for five ten twenty thirty Five ten fifty twenty twenty five thirty thirty five forty forty five fifty fifty five sixty freakin days two freakin months My guys, he's tall. Okay. It looks like he's trying to escape.   All right. Let's keep on moving. Okay. That's a dead end Okay, let's not go that way go down. All right Nice.  How they switch up. It feels like piggy little nightmares That's what it feels like. You know, I never played little nightmares This that's what it feels like like I've seen gameplay and that's exactly what it like resembles Okay, press circle to take a closer look Here lies sir G off the third The founder of this game ends with the following quit this knife has seen a lot of bacon. Wow I'm sure it has. Okay. Oh my god. Where the heck am I at, dude? Okay, well, we're obviously escaping the the butchery But we're like underground some cave steps. Oh my god, there's pinkies down there. Dude, that one's cut in half Oh, no, dude All right pizza my fam. All right pizza the fam bam. All right. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Oh Mike we found the jackpot There's like a ton of dead piggy heads here.  Oh, oh great.  Oh The claw That's the claw from Toy Story, dude end of chapter three Wow, a little piggy will be back.  I will break the man goes next time. I see you man mark my words All right, you guys. Well, that is the end sadly of escape from pig butchered Bay Dude, this game was epic made epically made. I give it a ten out of ten The best rating you can give it on here. Let's give it a thumbs up. Of course. I mean if you can rate games I'm here. I would have rated the highest rating you can possibly give it a shout out to the be kind be kind creator I forgot the name of the guys that created this game, but it's like be kind or something shout out to him I love your game. I hope you continue on and you just don't leave off on chapter three. And yeah, thank you all for watching Thank you for the major support as always go be productive do something and I'll see you on the next one. Peace