As-salamu alaikum, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, Alhamdulillah wa-s-salatu wa-s-salam, wa-ala Ashraf al-anbiya'i wa-al-mursaleen. Sayyidina wa-mawlana wa-habibina Muhammad, Sallallahu alayhi wa-sallam, wa-alali wa sahbihi wa-sallam, tasliman kathira. Welcome all of you to the fourth session of purification of the heart. Alhamdulillah, we are going to go ahead and maximize our time as much as possible and jump right into the first part, which is the review, right? We do a bit of a review and I do that by actually asking you guys some questions. I'm hoping that you remembered what we covered last session on Tuesday and I'll go ahead and ask you who can tell me and remember these answers are coming to me only, okay? So I'm the one that is able to see exactly who is providing the answers and I will list off the the answers as they come in and make sure to recognize, you know, the order so that those of you who are, you know, doing what we should be doing. Repta, remember we talked about repta, which is competing for good. It's a good thing to do. So I like healthy competition and I'd like to see you guys jumping into the chat box and answering right away. So the very first question is, this is a disease of the heart that prevents you from speaking up, from acting when you should.  What is that called? Very good. So Ma'sha'Allah, Aiman and Athman, I don't know which of you answered. Maybe you guys can put A or O first. So that way I know who to address. But great job. You guys answered first. Ma'sha'Allah. And oh, Aiman, you came back with the, with the Arabic as well. Hayyad Dameem, very good. So blame worthy modesty or Hayyad Dameem is the modesty that prevents you. It's being shy, but not in the shyness that's good. Right. We have shyness and shyness is a beautiful quality. The Prophet's way cinema was shy. And so wonderful quality for us to have. But blame worthy modesty is when the shyness actually prevents you from doing the right thing. Right. And the right thing is making sure that if something's not clear, that you're being taught, that you get clarity because you don't want to walk away confused.  And I'm going to defend or speak out against this thing. So good job. All right. You guys are not going to be able to see the answers because the chat box is not open to everyone. Okay. We are controlling the room for many reasons, but primarily for security reasons. Okay. So the answers are coming to me and I'm seeing them. So don't worry about your friends or other people seeing your answers. I'm seeing them and I will make sure to acknowledge who is saying what. Okay. All right. So good job. So the next question I'm going to ask you is let's see here. I got to look up my presentation. How many thoughts roughly do we have every day if you can give me the range and tell me about how many of them are negative? I know this is a big one, right? And how many of them are repeat thoughts from the previous day? So first question was how many overall thoughts can we have? What's like the maximum that number? I gave you two numbers. I said anywhere between this number and this number of thoughts every day people have on average. Who can remember? Oh, Mariam. Mashallah. Excellent. You came right in with the full range. So people can have anywhere from 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts a day. Excellent job. Mariam and Zechariah. Mashallah. You came in answering 95% are repeated thoughts. Excellent. And you also said Zechariah that 80% are negative. So great job. You distinguished between the two, which is so important. So when we're asking questions make sure to be clear, right? In your response. So Zechariah actually wrote 80% negative, 95% repeated. Awesome. That's the kind of focus that I want to see attention, right? That you're paying attention to the question I'm asking you and your answer reflects that. Because if you just give me a number, I'm not sure what you're answering, right? And I'm making it a little bit challenging because I don't want it to be too simple. I know some of you are, Mashallah, too quick and I got to give you a challenge. Otherwise, it's not going to be fun, right? So great job on answering that question. All right. Let's see here. Hmm. What other question can I ask you? Okay. This is again, I'm getting a little tougher with my questions because I see that you guys are too sharp, Mashallah. This is the treatment for, or the treatment for this particular disease of the heart is to know the names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay. And if we study the names of Allah, it helps to control something. It helps to control this particular disease. Who can tell me what the disease is in English and Arabic? One answer. So it's, I want the full answer in English and Arabic. And this, by the way, is not, is from last week's, or on Tuesday's session. So we're only focusing on those three diseases of the heart that we covered on Tuesday. Some of you are giving me answers from far back, but nope. We're looking at again thoughts, excuse me, the last three sessions. So let's hear. I have, oh, Mashallah, Afnan. Excellent. Afnan, you came through, you gave me exactly what I wanted. You gave me the English, and then you gave me the Arabic. Excellent. The disease of the heart that is treated by studying the 99 names of Allah is called blameworthy thoughts in English, which is blameworthy thoughts in Arabic. So Afnan gave me both answers. Awesome. Great job. Afnan, next time, just for your sake, because I don't want anybody to beat you to it. Try to type them all in one answer, because you gave them to me separate, but I want you to do it fast, but do it also consolidated. Okay. So that way you get both of them in. Great job. So khawd fima la'iyani is when you have thoughts that are blameworthy, you shouldn't have them. And a way to control your thoughts is to, one of the treatments is to remember the 99 names of Allah, very good. Okay. Let's look. This is something that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said will clean and purify our wealth. What is the thing that cleans and purifies our wealth? It's something that we all do. Very good. Zakaria and Zoya and Dania, Masha'Allah. Both of you answered correct answers. Zakaria, you came with Sadaqa, which is awesome. And then Zoya and Dania, you guys came with Zakat. So both of those aren't correct answers, right? Sadaqa and charity is both giving, so that's why you both got a great job. And that we covered under what? We covered under which disease of the heart when we talked about the importance of charity, right? And the Prophet also, I said him, he actually said that contentment is a treasure that is never exhausted. He was speaking really about being in a state of gratitude. And when you're in a state of gratitude, it helps to protect from this particular disease of the heart. Again, we're talking about the ones we covered on Tuesday. So which Hadith or which disease of the heart was that in reference to? Very good. Amen. You guys got it, Masha'Allah. Excellent job. Fear of poverty, Khawf, Al Faqar are very good. So when you're afraid of being poor or becoming poor, it's a disease of the heart. And the way to treat that disease of the heart is to increase in your gratitude to Allah SWT.  When you have contentment, it means you're very happy with whatever Allah gave you. So that's one of the ways. Awesome. Okay, you guys, you did fantastic. May Allah reward all of you. Very proud of you guys. You all did great. So we're going to go ahead and move on to today's lesson. Okay, let me quickly do the screen share and hopefully we'll get this going right away. Insha'Allah, I'm going to present. Just give me a minute, present, and here we go. Okay, so also let me open up the chat box so that I can see what you guys are saying. All right. Whoa. Oh, there we go. Let me drag you over here. So hopefully you guys can see everything, right? So here we go. We are beginning week two. This is the second week Thursday's lesson. So let's start with a quick summary of the disease of the heart that we've covered this week. Okay, so remember Tuesday we did blame or the modesty blame or the blame or the thoughts fear of poverty. Today I said we're going to go over the next four. We have ostentation, which is Riyah. We have relying on other than God. We have displeasure with divine decree. And we have seeking reputation. So this is what we're going to cover today. Okay, so let's go ahead and start. So ostentation. Okay, this is a very, I know it's a big word. It's kind of like, huh, Austin, what ostentation? Okay, everybody should say it if you're home to say it to yourself. Ostentation. What is ostentation? This is the Arabic of it is Riyah. This is when you show off or you're doing the things to get attention and praise from other people and not for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Okay, it's dangerous because it means that you care more about people and what they think about you than you do about pleasing Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So ostentation, right? And this is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us that in the Qur'an that everything we do will be rewarded appropriately. Okay, and that means according to our intention. So whatever your intention is, then Allah will reward you. And so there's a hadith, a famous hadith where there's three people that in this dunya, they achieve things and they did things because they made a claim. They said it was for the pleasure of Allah. But on the day of judgment, Allah reminds them, no, you didn't do it for me. So the first person is the knowledgeable person who went and became very knowledgeable. And they said that they did that for the sake of Allah. But Allah tells them on the day of judgment, no, you went and got knowledge so that people could call you the most knowledgeable and praise you for your knowledge, right? It wasn't for my sake. The other person is a wealthy person who gives, you know, their money for, they say they're doing it for the sake of Allah. But Allah really knows what's in their heart. And he reminds them and he says on the day of judgment, no, you didn't give money for my sake. You gave it so that people could say about you. You were so generous, such a generous man that man was. And so Allah tells them on the day of judgment, you get the reward for what you did. That means that you get your, this is your, you already got your reward. You did it for the praise. So you got the praise, right? And then the last category is a man who goes to Jihad, right? They fight for the sake of Allah in a war and they die saying that they did it for the sake of Allah.  He fought with such valor and strength. You did it so people could praise you. And that's the reward you already got because people praised you so you got your reward. So ostentation is really dangerous because if your intention isn't for the sake of Allah, then this is what happens is you actually end up losing the reward of what you're doing. And whatever your intention was, that's going to be what your reward is. You won't get the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? So that's why we have to remember. And yes, thank you, as Taslim says, this is why we're taught, that every single thing that we do is based on our intentions. So if our intentions aren't right, we are not going to, we're going to get whatever our intentions are. And that's why it's so important to always make sure your intention is for the sake of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So let's look more at this disease of the heart. So Riyadh is so dangerous that the Prophet ﷺ actually gave it a special name. So this hadith, he said, indeed the thing that I fear for you the most is the minor shirk, which is associating partners with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when we associate partners, that means we say that Allah has help, like he's got helpers.  We of course, Allah doesn't need no help. He has no helpers. He is one, right? That's a very big part of being a Muslim. So he's saying here that he fears for us the minor form of shirk. So that his companions were like, wait, what? What's the minor shirk? Because they understood that shirk was just saying that Allah has partners. They didn't know what a small, minor means small, right? Major is big, minor small. So they were like, what's minor shirk? And he said Riyadh, Riyadh, showing off. So there's two forms of shirk. There's one which is saying that Allah actually has partners. And then the other is doing things for other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, right? Whenever we do anything that is not for the sake of Allah and we're doing it for the pleasure of other people, then it's kind of like we're making those people partners with Allah, right? It's not the same as worshiping them, but it is making them so important that we start doing things for their pleasure instead of looking at the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, okay? So and I see some questions, you guys. I will get to your questions, but we'll have to wait till the end. So don't exhaust yourselves right now typing too much about the questions. Save them and wait for the end, okay? So in another hadith, this is actually a really good hadith because it's giving you an example. The Prophet of Islam gave the example of someone who was making the advent, right? And while making the advent, they think, wow, I bet the people think that my voice is beautiful, right? And so that is an example of Ria, right? And another hadith, the Prophet of Islam said that Ria is so dangerous. It's sneaky that it's like the black ant on the black rock in the night with no moon, right? It can sneak up on you like this. So you have to pay so much attention to your intentions. Otherwise, these thoughts will come inside your heart. Like let's say, you know, you're at the Masjid and you're taking a class, right? With a teacher.  And the teacher looks to you and says, Ahmed, I want you to lead the prayer today. Okay, it's mahalah prayer, and you have to lead it. And you're like, what? Me? And the teacher says, yeah. When you know, Alhamdulillah, you know Quran, you've been studying it.   I'm going to, you know, get on the microphone and a whole Masjid is going to hear my voice. Wow, everybody's going to think I'm such a good reciter of Quran. That is the, it's entering your heart. It makes you want to kind of show off, right? So you want to be very careful because if you're ever asked to do something like that, it's a responsibility, right? To lead people in prayer is a huge responsibility. So it should kind of be heavy on your heart, not like, ooh, I can't wait to show off, right? And that's not how you look at it. Okay, so let's look at this. I like this example of the ant, okay? So if you look on the left, okay, I have this ant, it's in broad daylight, right? You can see ants when they're in day, can't you? You can see them if they come on your counters in the kitchen or if you're walking even on the sidewalk, you'll see a trail of ants in the daytime. But if it's nighttime, if it's super dark, right? And the, you know, there's no moon out.  Then if an ant comes up on you or a trail of ants, you might not see it at all, right? That's why the analogy is important to kind of reflect on that you, if you're not paying attention, this disease of the heart can creep up on you just like an ant that's in, that's dark itself, it's a black ant on a black rock in the middle of the night can sneak up on you. So think about that whenever you have anything that you have to do, always question your intentions. Ask yourself, why am I really doing this? Is it really because I want a lot to be happy with me?  And I want to make, I want to look, I look at myself better, right, than other people. Or I want, you know, I want, excuse me, I want other people to look at me as though I'm better, maybe better than my cousins or my siblings or my best friends or my classmates. I want my teachers to think I'm better than them. This is Ria. So we have to be so careful, okay? Very important thing. All right. So next, we're going to talk about the treatment. So how do you get rid of this? Well, the treatment that Imam al-Molud talks about in purification of the heart is that you should increase your hidden good deeds. So the things that you're doing in private, you should start increasing those deeds.  Even though Prophet Zalai said him, he didn't know his parents, right? I mean, he barely knew his mother. He never met his father. His mother passed when he was six years old. So there's so many kids your age who don't have what you have. A lot of them have been through really difficult times. So if you ever feel that great sense of gratitude, right? The next day, for example, you could come and go, Mom, Dad, you know, last night I was in bed and I felt so much gratitude to Allah and I just was praising him. And I was, you know, you start sharing what you did, right? And what you felt you could do that.  You want to do something, right? To show your great gratitude to Allah.  It really is. And I don't need to share it with everybody.  You don't need to come the next day and broadcast, right? Broadcasting is like announcement to everybody. I just prayed Turaqah or I prayed 20 Rakat or I did a thousand vikr. You know, you don't need to do that because when it's truly for Allah, he already knows. He sees it. He knew that you were going to do it before you even thought of the idea.  Oh, guess what I did? You know, just keep those things hidden. So you want to increase your hidden actions because that will make you less likely that you have this disease of the heart, Riyah. And then here is, you know, an example of the Prophet ﷺ actually making dua for protection from Riyah because it's such a sneaky disease that all of us, we have to be so careful of getting, right? Even he made dua for it, subhanAllah, because back before, you know, before Islam, the Quraysh, the people of Mecca, they used to make Hajj. But in that time, it's called the period of jahiliyyah. It's called the period of ignorance. They didn't know they weren't Muslim. What they would do is when they would make the Hajj, because remember, the Hajj was, you know, an honor of Prophet Ibrahim, and Ismail, they created the Ka'bah. So there were a lot of the people in that time, they would still do the Hajj to honor them, right? So when they would do it, they would be very arrogant about it. And they would make it a big show, like, I am going to go do the Hajj. And they would, you know, kind of brag about it. So the Prophet ﷺ did not want to do anything like those people. So he actually here, he asked, Oh, Allah, I intend to perform Hajj. Please free, free me from ostentation and seeking fame. Like I don't, I'm not doing it so that people can say, Oh, I made Hajj, you know, I'm doing it for you. But he himself would make dua that Allah protects him from that. So we should certainly make dua that we, that Allah removes that from our heart, that we don't do things to show off. Okay. So that's the treatment for ostentation. And of course, we should be humble and always know that whatever we're doing is, is because of Allah's power that he loves us and he's drawing us closer to him. And he doesn't like arrogance. Those things are not good to have showing off. He doesn't like those qualities. He loves humility. Right. And he loves things that are done in hidden secret for his sake. So increase your good deeds that way. All right. So the next disease of the heart, this is, right? Which is relying on other than God. So this is a disease of the heart because if you get too used to relying on people, you can easily forget that Allah is the one that he is the one who gives you every good deed, right? Or every good thing, excuse me, every blessing you have is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  You don't go to people with your needs, right? So here Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us, he says, do not call unto any beings other than Allah. These are, these are capable of neither benefit nor harm, right? So anybody else other than Allah, they are not capable of benefiting you or harming you, right? It's just don't go to them, right? To do so is there for a guilt, is a guilty of wrongdoing when Allah afflicts you with something, no one can remove it except him. So basically, this ayah is telling us, turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for everything, right? For good, when you need something and when you're being tested, go to him for help. Don't go to people because people can't benefit you or harm you, right? And then he also says here, seek your livelihood from him and worship him alone. Reminding us again, don't go to people for your needs, but only go to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, okay? So this is an important point because one of the things that Muslims don't do is beg, okay? We believers don't beg people. When we have a need, whatever that need is, we go to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala first and we ask Allah for help. Ya Allah, maybe you're worried, for example, about money or you're worried about your health or you're worried about someone you love, right? And that you want protection from them, that Allah protects them from harm. So if you have some need that's heavy on your heart, you go to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala first and foremost and you ask him, please help me, help my parents, help my loved ones, and you make those da'a. It's very important to always do that first. Then of course you can look to see in your life if there is a place that you can go to seek help because begging and seeking help are not the same thing. Begging is, and we'll talk about the difference, right? But begging is where you're not asking Allah for help at all. You're just turning to someone and saying, please, please, please give something to me, right? That's not the same as actually looking to places or people that are there to help you, right? So there's people, for example, in our community, excuse me, some of them have a hard time with making enough money to pay for rent and food and clothes. And so that's why we have zakat, right? We have zakat through the masjid because we are supposed to look out for each other. Allah gives to some people more than He gives other people. So those of us, Alhamdulillah, who He's given a lot to, our job is to... So that's our last path, right? And it's... Sister Hussay, your video has paused. So let's wait just one minute, everybody. Sister Hussay will be back up. It just is a little bit of an internet issue. It will be resolved. JazakAllah. Apologize for that. But I was saying that we don't beg in Islam because begging, a lot of times people who beg what happens is people can be so cruel and they end up humiliating them. They kick them out. They spit on them. They kick them. And this is... Allah doesn't want that for us. He doesn't want us to ever be treated that way, right? And so we... He tells us not to beg because we should have an honor in the way that we conduct ourselves. And so if we need help, we turn to the masjid. We turn to different places that offer support and services, hospitals, clinics, if we need certain things. And we get help, right? But we do not beg. And here, look at the problems I said on what He says here at the bottom. He says, by the one in whose hand my life is, right? He's talking about Allah. It is better for one of you to take a rope and carry firewood on his back than for him to go to someone and beg, who will either give him or refuse to give him anything. So here, the Prophet is doing the same thing. He's protecting us. He says, go get rope, go get some firewood and sell that. That's better for you, even though it's heavy labor to go get rope and collect firewood, chop down wood. You know, you might get splinters. You might cut yourself. But he's saying that's better. It's better to work hard and earn your money than to go and beg other people, right? Who can either give you something or may not and may actually end up humiliating you and refusing you. So he's also protecting the honor, our honor by telling us this. So let's talk about this a little bit more. Look at these people, right? I like this example of carrying the whack, right? Because it's showing you that working for our needs is more pleasing to Allah swt, right? Even if it's difficult, right? Because we're putting our trust in him and we're not making it difficult for others. When you go and beg someone else, you're actually putting that person in an awkward situation too. Because it's like, oh, okay, sure. Here, I'll give you my money. What if I needed the money, right? What if I was, what if I had like $10 in my pocket and I needed it to go buy something important. But now that you've put me on the spot, I feel weird and I have to give you my money and all because you didn't want to work for it, right? So when you work for it and you actually are willing to do something as strenuous as taking firewood on your back and look at this lady in the middle picture, right? She's probably an older woman. But this is what people of, you know, belief and integrity and they, you know, have strong work ethic is when you do something, right? Which is very important in Islam. They're willing to work even into their 70s and 80s. You see some people in Mashallah working because they don't ever want to beg people. So you have people all throughout the world. They understand this. We should understand it too. And begging, right? Is making it easy for yourself, but you're making it hard for other people. And that's why it's discouraged. So we don't turn to people for our needs. We go directly to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, okay? And so I hope that's clear. This is the part of relying on other than Allah, right? So the treatment for this is get in the habit of first and foremost, if you have any need whatsoever to ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And sometimes people think like, oh, you know, as a kid, let's say, what are your needs? You know, maybe you want to go to some vacation. You're excited about summer break because you want to go somewhere. That's a want, right? You have to know the difference between want and need. But even those wants, if you really, really want something, you go to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and ask him for it, right? My boys, for example, they love Legos. They could do Legos all day long. And so, you know, if they really, really want Legos, they should then go to Allah and say, Allah, please put it in my parents' heart to get me this Lego set that I want. Please, Allah. And maybe something will happen. Maybe, you know, their parents might not necessarily get it for them. Maybe their grandparents will surprise them with an Eid gift or a birthday gift. This happens all the time, right? Where a child or someone will really want something. But that if you turn that want into a dua and you go to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala, then you start to realize that all good, everything that you ever want is always from Allah anyway, no matter who it comes through. So why even bother asking a person about it? I'll just ask Allah for it. And he will, inshallah, find a way to get it to me. So always do that first. Ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala first. And then the other thing is also to start to lower your expectations from people.  And it's just natural because not everybody can always think about everybody else. So what happens is sometimes, you know, people are there for you. Sometimes they're not. Sometimes you call your friend or your sister or your cousin or your brother and you say, Hey, I need help. And they go, sorry, I'm doing something else. I have my own family. I have my own obligations. And it gets kind of hard to hear that all the time. But if you stop asking, right, people, you stop turning to people and you just start becoming more self-sufficient, which is, you know what, I'm going to just start learning to do things on my own because it makes me not depend on people. And I'll also ask Allah for help. Like Allah send me the helpers.  I need help, but I'm going to rely on you to bring me that help, right? This is a show of great Eman. And so we should get in the habit of doing that as opposed to depending too much on other people and then dealing with disappointment and dealing with, you know, so many problems that come when someone says to you, for example, I'll be there. Let's say you're moving.  Packing up your boxes and lifting up heavy furniture by yourself isn't easy, right? So there's sometimes people who've called up their friends and, you know, whoever and they say, hey, can you help me? I need to help. And then they're like, sure, I'll be there. But then moving day comes along and all of a sudden, uh-oh, there's nobody like two people show up or not even maybe one person shows up out of all these people you called and everybody's texting you that day or calling you the night before. Sorry, I have to go somewhere else. And I didn't even know and I had an appointment and my mom needed this. And so now you're sitting by yourself going, I rented a moving truck and I don't, I don't have any help and it just gets really hard, right?  People will show up. But but the point is, is Allah will open an opportunity or a way for you to get what you need because you use the means that he gave you. If he gave you wealth, you can, like I said, call up a service and ask them to help. Or he can maybe, you know, send someone your way that is also in need of work. And now you're both helping each other out, right? So Allah will do that for you, inshallah, but turn to him first. This is how you treat this disease of the heart of relying too much on other people. Okay, inshallah. So Alhamdulillah, I hope you guys are, is everything clear? And quickly check the Q&A, make sure there's no issues with my screen or anything or my volume, right? It's good, right? All right. So let us, Bismillah, go to the next one. So, this is a displeasure with divine decree. All right, this disease is when you cannot accept when something happens or has already happened, and you keep thinking, why, why me, why did this have to happen to me?  Very easy to let your nuffs react and get mad. That's a normal response, okay? And we're all going to do that in our lives until we learn better, right?  But when you think back after your emotions calm down a little bit, if you keep thinking, why did that have to happen? Why, why, and you keep going like just over and over, whatever it was, and it replays in your mind, and it really bothers you that it happened. This is when this disease of the heart is manifesting, right? It's coming out because if something already happens and Allah decreed it to happen, which means it's His will, then you just have to accept it, right? Because we don't always know what's good for us and what's not good for us. That's really the bottom line. We really don't. And that's why this ayah in the Qur'an says what?  So this is a really good time to just kind of talk about this because as you guys grow up in life, you're going to have to do certain things that you might not want to do because you think, you know, you're looking at it from a physical or material perspective. For example, let's just say medicine, okay? There's some medicines that are bitter, all right? And when you think of even taking them, you're like, oh gosh, it's so disgusting. I don't want to put it in my mouth.  But that medicine is a healing for you. So if you take the medicine, it's going to help you in some way or another, right? That's there's certain things that Allah's made in this dunya like that, that they're not, they don't sound good. They don't taste good. Your nafs isn't going to like it. But in actuality, it's really good for you. The opposite is also true. For example, there's certain things that if you eat too much of it, it will have the opposite effect. But the nafs almost pushes you to do that. How many of you have ever eaten way too much sweets, right? Because it was so good. Whether it was ice cream or it's candy or it was cookies or it was birthday cake, right? You've eaten something because you're like, oh my God, that looks so delicious. And you end up feeling sick. Your nafs is telling you to keep eating it. Your taste buds are like because the sugar. And so keep eating it. But then unfortunately, what happens? Give it 10, 15 minutes, 20 minutes and boom, that stomach ache comes in and the stomach ache causes so much pain, right? Sorry, did you guys hear what I said? I'm getting messages that it froze again. I don't know what's up with my internet today. I'm so sorry. I was talking about the aya that says it may be that you dislike something, though it's good for you. And it may be that you love something, though it's bad for you and you don't really know. Allah is the one that knows. So the example we gave was about medicine that's bitter, but really good for you. Or candy and sweets that's good and tastes good, but too much of it is bad for you. And sugar, just generally speaking, can cause a lot of inflammation and problems in the body. So when we eat it, we have to be controlled in how we eat it. Otherwise, a lot of problems, right? So this is how the world is generally. There's going to be a lot of things that are not always pleasant to do, but it's good for you. Even fasting. Some people are not that happy fasting because it's like, oh man, I can't have my cereal in the morning or my coffee. And, you know, they kind of get caught up in all the things that they can't do. And they forget that fasting is amazing for your body. Your body is like this machine. And when you fast, it helps to heal itself. There's all this repair happening, right? So fasting is incredible. But yeah, if you're letting your nefs, you know, think about fasting, it's not going to like it very much. So Allah knows better. So when he tells us to fast, that's why we fast, because he knows what's better for us. And so when we, if something happens, we have to just accept that our Lord knows better. And we have to be happy with whatever he wills for us, right? Willed for us, if it's in the past. Obviously, thinking of the future, this is different because it hasn't happened yet. So you can make da'a. Like, oh Allah, protect me from this and don't let this happen to me. We don't want obviously bad things to happen. But if certain bad things happen already, then you have to be willing to let go instead of letting shaitan make you replay it over and over again with why, why, and why, right? That's what we're talking about. And so another really important point to hear is to know that all people in the world are in four different situations at any given time. And sometimes you can be in more than one at the same time. But let's look at, let's understand this. The first is that you're in blessing, okay? So if you're in blessing, that means everything's kind of going great for you. You have alhamdulillah family, you have money, you have education, you have a lot of good things in life, and things are pretty good, right? Alhamdulillah, you have a lot to be grateful for. So what Allah expects from you if you're in that state of blessing is that you continue to be grateful, right? That you're continuously, Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah, and you are, you're using those blessings for good. So if he's giving you wealth and money that you help people in need. If he's giving you knowledge, you teach people. If he's giving you a skill or a talent, you do it for good, right? You use that talent for the good of humanity. You don't use it to destroy people and to cause harm to people, right? That is how we express our gratitude to Allah. The second is that you're in a state of bala or tribulation, which means that you're being tested, that there's some difficulty that you have. It can be with wealth, it can be with your relationships, you know, it can be with your health, but there is a problem that Allah is testing you in and what is he expecting from you is patience. Are you going to be patient with me because you're going through this difficulty or are you going to react and be, you know, not happy? And this is what this pleasure of the divine decree is because sometimes people are tested and they have a hard time accepting Allah's will. And then shaitan comes along and says, yeah. And they start, you know, he starts putting all these bad thoughts in your heart and it can cause problems. But when people have the right understanding, then they know that when they're being tested, like Prophet Ayyubu alaihi salam, right? He was tested. He lost all of his children. He got very sick. He lost his home. He lost everything, everything, everything, everything. And though he responded with what? Sabrun Jamil, beautiful patience, right? So did Prophet Ya'ub, right, with when his son Yusuf was taken from him. These stories that we learn about the prophets, teach us about beautiful patience, even the Prophets alaihi salam himself.  As we said, he didn't know his father. He lost his mother. He lost his grandfather, his uncle. He buried his beloved wife, his first wife, Khadija, the mother of the believers. He lost her. And then he lost five of his six children. He had to bury them himself. And he went through famine, where he was, you know, him and the Muslims were starving. They were persecuted. There was so much that done to them. But through all of it, did he ever complain? Did he ever say, why me? I'm the prophet of God. Why are you doing this to me, Allah? Audhu Billah, never, never would he ever say those words because he had so much iman in Allah. And he understood that everything, even the hardships, are always good because we don't know what's good for us, right? So beautiful patience is the response. The third is, if you're guided, Alhamdulillah, we have guidance. We're Muslim. Allah loves us. He's drawing us close to him. And so we have to know though, that though we are praying and we're fasting, we should never let arrogance enter our heart and become self-righteous. When you're self-righteous, you start looking at yourself as better than everybody else. So that's the response that is expected of you.  Don't think you're better than people, even non-Muslims. You don't go around treating people like your neighbors or people in public, like you are better just because you're Muslim. You wear hijab and you fast or you have a beard. None of that matters. What matters is the heart. Hello? Mr. Hussain, you froze just for a minute. Yeah, my internet is not supporting us today, unfortunately. Maybe if you have two or three people attending the session right now, maybe one of them can log off. Oh, that's a good point. Yasin or Ismael, I'm going to ask one of you guys to get off of the iPad. Get off and share, because it's possible that too many people are using the internet in this house and we're weakening the signal. Get off of it, please. If you're, again, in guidance, what does that mean? It means that you should be grateful to Allah because, as we said, there are people who may be drinking alcohol today, but maybe in five, 10 years from now, they've made Toba and they're now Hufal of Qur'an. Maybe they've become a half of the Qur'an. How do you know? You don't know what their future is, so you always want to look at everybody as, you know what, not my place to judge. I'm just going to be a good person and do what I'm taught by the Prophets, which is always want good for people, want guidance for people, instead of thinking I'm better than anybody, and then the last disease of the heart, I'm sorry, the last state, excuse me, I'm getting so many messages, my brain is on, okay, so the last state that people can be in is disobedience, right?  They make mistakes. That's another way of saying they're making mistakes. So people sin, they don't do sometimes what they're supposed to do, and if that happens, then the response is to keep going back to Allah, to make toba to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, to ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for forgiveness. That's the response that you should have. So anytime you make a mistake, don't think like, oh, I'm so terrible, Allah will never forgive me, never think that.  Rather, just think Allah is the most forgiving. And like he says, even if your sins are like the, you know, the foam of the ocean or they reach the sky, keep coming back. Because the more we come back to Allah, he will, you know, the better it is for us because we're showing him that we love him and that we know he's so forgiving. And so that is the response of someone who's in that state of disobedience. So it's, again, so important to remember, if Allah wills something, you let go. Okay. And so the treatment, again, of having this is that you remember that really Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la is the only one that knows what's good for us. We do not know, right? And then to reflect on the life of the Prophet ﷺ, think about how much he endured all the things we talked about. He lost so much, but he never ever complained ever about any of it. Not even once he understood that all of it was from Allah and he accepted it. And then also remember that whatever happened to you, whatever the thing was that you're not happy about, it could always be worse, right? And or it could, you know, Alhamdulillah that it happened in some material thing, right? It was like a thing that you could replace. You can replace a bike. You can replace a phone. You can replace things like that. And it wasn't in your deen because having a problem in your deen is far worse, right? So if Allah is testing you in a material thing, not a big deal, right? So we just are grateful that Alhamdulillah, it's in that and nothing else. And then that it's in this world and not the next world because we don't want to be tested in the next world, right? We always ask Allah for protection from that, you know, from any punishments in the next life, rather for whatever mistakes we've done or things that might have, that aren't good, let us, you know, deal with those things in this dunya instead of the next life. So this is how we treat this particular disease of the heart, okay? And now we're going to enough, oh wow, we got to speed it up because I want to answer your questions. So seeking reputations, summa is the last disease we're going to cover today. We did four. Usually we've been doing three, but we're going to try to squeeze in this four. And if we go over a few minutes, it's okay, Inshallah. I hope your parents are okay with that. But seeking repetition, this is a really important one because you guys are growing up in a time where social media is everywhere, okay? You see a lot of people, even young kids, your age or younger, there's people who have YouTube pages and Instagram pages and TikTok and Snapchat and Twitter and Facebook, they're everywhere. And what's happening to them? They're getting very, very famous and they're making a lot of money. So a lot of kids tend to think, ooh, that sounds so cool. I want to be like them too. I want to be famous. I want to be known. But it's a disease of the heart to ever want to be known to people and to start sharing your talents and good deeds and bragging about what you do. That's a disease of the heart, okay? And so we have to be very careful about letting that, just because, again, it's something that we're seeing everywhere that we end up also falling into this behavior. Because Allah is the only one who exalts people, exalts bringing people up, right? Making them special. So Allah is the one. You exalt whomever you will. Only Allah does it. And you debase whomever you will. Debase is the opposite. So if exalting is to make someone important and, you know, give them that status, to debase is to lower them and humiliate them. That's only, Allah is the only one who can do that, right? Indeed, you have power over all things. So we recognize that we shouldn't look for reputation or fame with people. It's pointless. And we're going to talk more about that in a second. But also here's the hadith. Whoever seeks reputation, whoever wants to be famous in this world, Allah will expose them on the day of judgment. So this is a very serious thing. If you want fame in this world, then that's the risk you're taking that Allah will humiliate you and expose you on the day of judgment to everybody. And we don't want that. We never want that. We want our intentions always to be pure for his sake.  And here I'm going to explain. Pursuing fame, there's a phrase called chasing the carrot, okay? Chasing the carrot is something that they used to do back in the days. These poor horses and animals, right? They would have to sometimes travel and do a lot of physical labor for human beings before we had cars and all of these other things. So they would, these owners would got, you know, they thought, hmm, how can we get these mules and donkeys and horses to keep moving? What incentive can we give them? What reward can we give them that will make them keep moving instead of stopping in their tracks and resting, right? So what they did is they would tie a carrot to a stick and they would put it on the wagon or they would put it right here like in this example and it would hang in front of the poor donkey or the horse or the mule. And the animal doesn't know.  So that's how they would trick these poor animals to keep working, keep working, keep working. But that phrase chasing the carrot also applies to fame. That what the pursuit of fame is, it's like chasing a carrot. It's you're never going to get the carrot. The poor animal never really got the carrot until the end, right?  But that's what fame is like is that you work towards something that's never, you're never really going to get. And you see a lot of people working so hard to be famous, but they end up actually destroying their relationships, losing a lot of money. And there's so many people who think like, you know, someone will come because there's something called being scammed, right? There's a lot of scammers. Scammers are people who are very good at tricking people.  Just give me $5,000 and I'll do that for you. So you think, wow, for $5,000, sure. If I'm going to make millions and millions, I'll do it. And so you are innocent, right? You're purehearted and a lot of young people fall for these kinds of tricks because they don't have life experience, right? Unless they have parents and people are teaching them these things, but some kids end up getting scammed a lot because of false promises. And so it's like this. It's like they're just making you chase that carrot, but in actuality, you never get the reward that they promise you. And that's why it's sad because so many people end up getting hurt and losing a lot of things for fame. And so we never seek fame with people. We only seek to be known by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So the treatment of summa, like riyat, which is to show off, summa enters the heart because of something called ghafla. Ghafla is the Arabic word. It's actually a disease of the heart we're going to cover soon, but I'll just introduce it now. It's heedlessness. It's when you forget the priority, like what's more important. So when you have ghafla, it will lead to riyat and summa, both of them, ostentation and wanting reputation, wanting people to hear about all of the good deeds that you were doing. Okay. So heedlessness is where it starts. It's because you forget that Allah is more important than anything and anybody else. And as soon as you forget Allah, then you start thinking about fame and wanting to be popular and wanting to be known and thinking that good is going to come from people. No good comes from people, right? No good, all good comes from who Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So don't give up or don't forget him because once you forget him, then other people are going to start taking you away and distracting you from him. So hiding your good deeds and not sharing them with people, similarly to riyat, right, is a really good way to prevent summa from entering the heart, right? And again, this is a hadith, whoever displays his good deeds to others, Allah will display his bad deeds on the day of judgment. So so important that we understand not to show off. So if you're memorizing Quran or you've got some knowledge or you did something really nice, maybe $50 of your sadaqa or your gift money, maybe grandma gave you a lot of money and now you want to take some of it and you want to give it to a charity, you don't go around and tell people those things. Keep your good deeds hidden, they're between you and Allah and he doesn't need you to announce them. He already knows, right? And then know that no good can come to you from people, but all good is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And you should seek to be famous with Allah, right? Seek fame through him, not through people, because people don't do anything for you. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, if you make him your number one priority, then he will exalt you, right? That ayah, that ayah that we talked about before, he will make you important to people, because you made him important. And that's also a hadith, whoever makes Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala priority and his pleasure before the people, Allah will be pleased with them and he will make the people pleased with them. So this is also a very important message. And the opposite, the hadith says that whoever makes the pleasure of people before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Allah will not be pleased with them and the people will never be pleased with them. So if you put the making people happy before making Allah happy, nobody will be happy with you. There will always be haters, right? I'm sure you guys know that term, who are always saying negative things about you. So people will never be happy with you. And then Allah will also not be happy with you. So it's like you're the ultimate loser, not a good plan, right? So Alhamdulillah. All right, you guys, so that is the final presentation for today. I'm opening it up now to questions. I'd love to hear from you guys. So I'm going to go ahead and stop. I'll come back here and you guys can see me now, right? So let's look at the Q&A and see what kind of questions we have. Any questions? Go ahead and let's, I know it's six o'clock, but I'll, I'll go a few more minutes because we had those interruptions and we also added a disease today. So we went a little bit over, but I'm happy to answer any questions that you have, inshallah. Okay. Anything at all? Oh, some of you have to leave. Okay. Well, thank you for being here. As-salamu alaykum, Raheel and Eshan. Thank you for coming. I know it's six o'clock, you guys have to leave. But again, anybody else? I'm looking at the, oh wait, oh, you guys are on Q&A. Oops. I'm on the chat. All right, let's see here. I was looking at the wrong thing. All right, give me just a second. Okay, I'm gonna get rid of these answers that you guys put here. Someone's asking, how many more classes do we have? We'll meet, inshallah, next week and we'll see on Thursday of next week if we need one more class. Okay. Oh, okay. So some of you are unable to access the chat, but that's okay. If you can't access the chat, message me on the Q&A. I'm still going through. I just joined. How do you know if someone's talking to you? Okay, inshallah. Can people see my questions? Your video is freezing. You guys are so cute. Which one of the four diseases is the worst? Huh, captain. I don't know who captain is. Interesting name there. Asked, which of the four diseases is the worst? Well, you know, all of them are bad. All the diseases are bad, but I think you have to really look at which one is affecting you, right? For each person, it's going to be different. For some people, you know, we likely, most of us have a lot of these diseases, right? It's something that we all have at different degrees. Some people have, yeah, more than they have, you know, displeasure with divine decree. So it really depends on each individual person to look inside their heart and go, man, maybe I have summa. Maybe I do like for people to know my good deeds and I do have Riyadh. Oh no, this is not good. And so you got to work on that, especially when we remember, right? Riyadh was what the prophet said and told us. He was most worried about that for us because it's a form of shirk and shirk is the worst thing that you could ever do. It's one of the most, you know, it's the thing that Allah says he does not forgive to associate partners with him. So, you know, if you're asking me from all of these four, surely ostentation would be up there. But I think individually, it's going to differ from every single person. You have to look into your own heart to determine which one is really the worst for you. Okay. Okay, so we're getting a question about bribing. Does it mean when someone bribes someone, that's ostentation because they're willing to bribe for their approval, better scores for some tests, rigging competition. I mean, that's just broad. You know, if you're bribing people to basically get something that you didn't earn, that's broad. That's really bad.  But that's a really terrible thing to do. Okay. Mashallah, I'm getting really nice comments here. Okay, so we're getting a question that says that harm can only come from Allah. What if someone has a gun? Well, okay, so let me explain what we mean by that. Of course, human beings are the ones that enact bad things on earth. Allah is not doing those things, right? However, it's by his permission that he allows us to do things, right? He's given us free will, right? So it's by his permission that human beings can act, right? So if he didn't give us permission to act good or bad, we wouldn't be able to do things. So when we say that it's by the will of Allah that something happens, that's what we're talking about. But the one who's doing the evil act, they're the ones who are causing the harm, not Allah. He's not causing it.  But even that, if you want protection from something like that, you have to turn to Allah because he's the only one who can really protect you from those types of things. Is the Q&A a new thing? It's a feature on this webinar. Yes. How about showing off to our family members? Maya, very good question. Yes, showing off in general is not a good thing, whether it's to your family, to your friends, to your grandparents. It doesn't matter. It's a quality that you don't want to have. Now, getting encouragement is different, right? If you are starting something, let's say for the first time and you're just trying to get better at it and you like to be encouraged, then your parents or your teachers or the elders in your family, they should know that it's okay to maybe give you a little bit of attention in the beginning when you're starting off something, right?  We're all insecure when we do something for the first time. We're not sure of ourselves. So sometimes you might want people to know that you did something like you know and you might share, but this is about making it a habit, right? If five years into something you're doing and you still like to brag about it, this is a disease of the heart, right? So you want to make sure that you know the difference because encouragement from family members, like maybe you want to share with grandma what you did or your aunt or uncle or someone, that's fine. But if you're doing it because you just like the attention and it makes you feel proud of yourself or you like to make your other kids or that are your age feel less than compared to you, this is when it's definitely, you know, yeah, so I would say watch out, it's a disease of the heart. And remember, it's like that sneaky, sneaky aunt, right? That little black aunt, it can crawl up on you, so you want to be very careful, okay, to not let it enter your heart. Okay, should you still try to learn from what's written? Very good question. Should you still try to learn from a knowledgeable person who doesn't have good intentions? Now, I'm not sure who, how you would know what their intentions are, but if their intentions are bad, you shouldn't have learned from them, okay? You should try to seek out, I mean, if they make their intentions bad to you, you should definitely not, you should stay away from people like that. Because that's not good to encourage them. We would say this is enabling, right?  But if you say, wait a second, but that's not a good intention, you shouldn't do that, that's haram, that's wrong, then you're reminding them also, so you're protecting them, you don't want them to be in trouble with Allah, right? So I would say, if they make their intentions known to you that they're not good intentions, then don't enable them, make da'a for them, guide them in a good way and look for maybe a teacher who's got really good intentions, inshallah. But if you're thinking that their intentions aren't good, that's suspicion and you shouldn't have suspicion because you don't know what's in someone's heart. So unless they tell you that their intentions aren't good, don't go by what your suspicions are, that's not right, okay? All right. Oh, I have someone who said, I love your classes. Well, thank you anonymous attendee, I love you too, and I love doing these classes, so sweet. Yes, the Google form you can get for signing up for this class on the MCC Facebook page, website, you'll see it there, inshallah, so please check that. What if you're doing something for the sake of Allah, but you also want a little attention? You know what, that's a good, I hope I answered that in the previous question, wanting a little bit of attention for, you know, just to feel like I said, encouraged is good, but don't get dependent on that because it will become a habit. And now you're not even sure, am I doing it for Allah anymore for I'm doing it for the attention? But if you just, in the beginning of trying something new, like I said, you just want to get kind of used to it and comfortable with it, that's okay, but pull back as soon as you start seeing that you're doing it, that that's the first thought that comes to your mind. Ooh, someone will notice me.  I hope my mom tells them, and I hope, you know, my dad says this about me, that I won my soccer game.  That means that you like the attention too much, right? And so you shouldn't do that. You should say, you know what, Allah knows everything. And as long as he knows and he's happy with me, that's all that matters to me.  It's like, you'll never really satisfy people. Whereas Allah, just by doing something with the right intention, he is already happy with you, right? And so that's why making sure that we please Allah before anybody else is so much better than wasting your time trying to make people happy, because they're always going to be those people that are not really ever happy with you. Aw, thank you, Kinza. You're so sweet. You guys are so sweet that you're asking, giving me all these lovely compliments. Jazakulahed. May Allah reward you guys for making the time to be here. That's a great honor for me to teach you. So how do you know if Allah is talking to you? Very good question. So obviously, you know, we are in this world and Allah, when we say that Allah communicates to us certain things, it's not like the way a human is talking to us, where we actually are talking to them, but rather it's inspiration. This is called khawat, that it's a feeling that you get.  So that's a form of communication that Allah is speaking to us, right? So you have to listen to your heart. But anytime you are being drawn closer to Allah, that is a way where Allah is speaking to us, inshallah, through the khawat, through that inspiration, that, you know, telling you to get up and do something, go read the Qur'an, right? Go pray extra prayers, those extra ibadah that we do, and we do them in secrecy. We do them for Allah. Those are all ways that Allah is drawing us close to Him, Alhamdulillah. So thank you for that lovely question. And then, is complaining the same as a displeasure with the Divine decree? Excellent question Bilal. Thank you. What a great question. Complaining to Allah is perfectly fine, okay? Because He's the only one that is in control, right? So it makes sense if something happened and you're not necessarily happy about it, let's say for example you have a pet, okay? I used to have a, I mean I've had pets before, but I used to have a pet that I loved. She was very special to me, and I lost her under a very difficult situation. I won't go into the details because we don't have time, but the way that I lost her was hard for me, right? But I had to accept it the way whatever happened, it happened, and let go, right? But my pain that I was feeling, you can't just turn it off and on, we're human beings, right? It's not like a switch. So you take that pain and instead of being angry that it happened, right? Like why did I have to lose her? You say, Ya Allah, my heart hurts, but I'm patient with your decree, I have trust in you, and then you keep remembering that this world is, you know, only for a short time, the next world is forever, and in the next world Allah will give us whatever we want. So yeah, my dua is that I will be inshallah reunited with my beloved Juju in Jannah, you know? I lost her in this world, it was, you know, not a good situation, but I accepted it, that it was, it happened, not by my planning, certainly, but my hope in Allah is that he will reward me for my patience and then give me her in Jannah, and that's where you take your complaint, you can certainly not always be happy with something that happens at Allah wills, but it's that beautiful patience that says, oh Allah, this is painful for me, but I love you more than this thing, and I will never lose hope in you. That is true, Eman, and so do that, always remember, Allah never puts you through something without a reason, so even if you're being tested with some difficulty, that there is always a greater meaning to it, have sabrun jamil with Allah and watch what will happen. He will replace your loss or your pain and he will increase you in blessing and he will remove that pain and distance you from that pain, inshallah, because of your beautiful patience, but the opposite, if you just become grumpy and upset and angry and you have displeasure with the divine decree, this is all from Iblis because he wants you to be stuck in bad feelings all the time and depressed and angry, that's not from from our tradition and Alhamdulillah, we're Muslim and we have we have belief in our Lord, right? Okay, so I think I've answered all of your questions, we have gone over 15 minutes, oh man, I'm so sorry, but thank you to all of you for your, oh it was a cat, my pet was a cat, that's who I lost, my cat Juju, but thank you all for your amazing questions, I'm sorry for the screen issues that we had, but thank you for your patience, next Tuesday we'll come back for week three, more diseases of the heart to cover and I'm looking forward to that, inshallah, remember to study and go over your notes because there will be a quiz, inshallah and I look forward to seeing you guys and thank you so much and have a wonderful Iftar, keep us in your Daw's, okay? Make Daw for me and my family and everybody at MCC for making these classes possible, Sister Homera who's also here facilitating, make Daw for her and her family, all right?


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Hi friends, welcome to my channel, I am Arpita Karwa and I am here to finally talk about the big news that has been released by NTA last night. Yes guys, you are right.  Congratulations and a big, big hug from the entire team of arpitakarwa.com. I can't even tell you how proud we feel for each one of you out there. You have not just made us proud, you have made your family and on top of that I would want to go ahead and say that you have made the nation proud. Thank you so much for putting in so much hard work and finally clearing a competitive exam as difficult as UGC net. So, I know that all of you who are a part of our online course who have been in touch with us through WhatsApp groups, through YouTube channel have been bombarding us with messages, sharing your good news with us, sharing your results with us, asking us so many questions about cutoff percentage. So, here I am with a video in which slowly and steadily I am going to clear all your doubts, all your questions and I am also going to talk about some key takeaways, some key learnings from this session's result. So, if you are ready then watch this video till the end and take a pen and paper and write down the key takeaways from this exams, this terms net exam. So, let us first talk about the overall result of the nation for UGC net October 2022 exam. This time around 42,000 students sat for UGC net English exam, out of which 3,088 students qualified net and 648 students qualified net and JRF both. And if you just calculate the percentage this is greater than 6 percent, the result is not less or equal to 6 percent, it is greater than 6 percent. So, I would want to thank UGC from the core of my heart for releasing a result which is in favor of all the students of India. I know that the cycles were merged, two exams were clubbed together and that is the reason why they have ensured that the percentage, the passing percentage is higher, but this was something that was missing last year and they have finally looked into the matter and made a change in the system and this time the result is more than 6 percent. So, the first important key takeaway from this session's result is that if you work hard, there is a fair chance that you clear this exam. UGC net exam is not just for somebody who is exceptionally well in academics, it is also for somebody who is not so academically brilliant, but is hardworking. So, clearing, you know, getting into this 3,000 students range from a range of 42,000 isn't very difficult. If they would have released a result around 500 students would have qualified net, then I would have said that it was very difficult for students to crack this exam, but this time the result is really, really good and I am hoping that the same thing is going to continue in the future. So, all of you who still have this tension or stress in their mind that they would not clear the exam, I am telling you that if you put in the right hard work, if you have the right guidance from the mentors, if you have right teachers, right study material, then this exam is not a very difficult ball game. Now that I have spoken about the overall result of the nation, it is time that I also tell you the result of our online course students. I am very, very, very, very, I don't know how many very I have to add in the sentence to actually communicate the right feeling that I am experiencing right now. I am feeling extremely happy to share the results of my students till now. It has just been a few hours that UGC net result has been received and all my team members are constantly getting in touch with our students through WhatsApp. We are receiving so many screenshots from each one of you out there who have been a part of our online course and have cleared the net exam and till now we have received 263 students result from our online course who have cleared net and 71 students who have cleared JRF. All the screenshots we are gathering, we are going to share with you in form of PDF very soon. We are just gathering the screenshots, the number of messages that we are receiving right now, no device that we have with us can actually tackle so much load but still we are trying our level best to get in touch with every one of you out there. We are congratulating all our students, their family members, speaking to their elders, their parents and it is such an overwhelming feeling for all of us. The results of a few students which we have gathered so far, we have been displaying on this video so that you can also celebrate this big day with us and as I always tell that as a teacher I can just help you with the right materials. So, as a teacher it is my responsibility to ensure that learning is easy, it is relevant to the exam that you are preparing and it is customized to each student's preparation journey and I am very happy to tell that I adhere to all these three things. I ensure that through our animated video course, we provide you very crisp and simple summaries of all the lectures, all the plays, poems and novels so that the learning journey is very easy. You just have to watch our video and the entire complicated novel gets into your head in the most simplest manner and we are very, very proud to tell that we are the only institute in India who are providing animated video lectures to UGC Net English aspirants and I can see the kind of results that we have produced this time and I am very proud of the fact that my team has been with me in this journey and we have together released this kind of result. So, thank you so much everyone for the wonderful result this time and we will keep you posted with the screenshots that we are receiving from our students through WhatsApp, through Facebook, Instagram and our YouTube platform. We would be posting you posting all the screenshots that we are receiving. It is just taking us time to compile all of it together so I hope you stay with us and you stay connected to our platform. Now it's time to look at few key learnings from this session's result and something that will help you to ace the net exam next time. The first key learning that you should remember and take with you for the next net exam is that this time's net exam was not out of syllabus. The question paper was not out of the syllabus. I have already made two detailed videos one on shift one another one on shift two and have analyzed the entire paper showed you by giving all the examples from the paper that how the question paper was exactly from the syllabus. The only problem is that most of the students don't even know the actual syllabus of net that they have to study and that is where our website comes to the rescue. We have put the list of around 850 topics that are important for net on the website free of course. So, if you are somebody who is struggling to know what to study and what to skip go and check out that list. We have created that list after a lot of hard work by analyzing past 10 years question paper and then that is how we have created that list. So, that is the actual syllabus of net which we even teach in our online course. So, that is what you have to study in order to clear the net exam and after studying those writers nobody can say that the paper was out of the syllabus. The second important learning is that the paper was not difficult. If the paper would have been difficult then in that case those kind of messages that we are receiving would have been very different. Right now the students who are enrolled in my online course says that 90 percent questions were directly from what we have taught and we haven't taught something very different. We have just stuck to the question papers of the past 10 years. We have stuck to our online course syllabus and we have ensured that we cover each and every topic and if you can do that on your own or with right guidance then you can also clear the exam. It's not difficult. It's just that the syllabus is very vast so you need to have a proper mechanism in which you cover the syllabus and you also revise it because revision is the key. If you don't cover the syllabus then you are lost on the day of the exam and at the same time if you cover the entire syllabus but don't give enough revisions to it then also you will be lost in the pool of information. So that is the reason why I always tell students that get somebody who can give you the right material in a very simple manner in like they can organize the material in a way that you can understand in one shot so that you save your time to gather material from different sources and prepare your own notes. Your effort, your time should only be invested in learning that material and revising it again and again and that is what I tell all my students also. All my online course students sometimes they tell that okay can we refer to this book or this material. I always tell them that whatever I am giving that is more than sufficient to clear UGC net exam. We are providing you with thousand video lectures even if you watch 500 of them and revise it you can for sure clear the exam. As a teacher it's my responsibility to give you 200 percent of what can be asked in the net exam. I'm not just saying 100 percent we should be prepared we should be prepared 200 percent so that we at least clear it in one go we don't regret that oh I I completely prepare I was completely prepared but I just missed on these two questions that is why I could not clear it. I don't want such kind of excuses from my students and that is the reason I cover the syllabus end to end anything which has the slightest chance to be asked in the net exam we have a separate video lecture on it your responsibilities just to watch those videos in a way that you can remember it and you have to revise those notes that's it otherwise we cover each and everything every pdf every type of mock test unit wise chapter wise author wise full length mock test we provide you with anything you have to just give us those two to three hours every day in which you can be a part of our platform study from it and revise it so I would just want to share with you these two learnings number one don't be in this misconception that the paper was out of the syllabus number two don't start your preparation for the net exam assuming that the paper clearing this paper is very difficult it's not difficult it's a cakewalk only if you know what to study how to study and if you are vigilant enough to put in the hard work to learn and to revise before I end this video there's a small message that I would want to give to all those who did not clear this exam I have uploaded a youtube video and that video is coming directly from my heart it's a short video of three minutes wherein I have spoken to all the students who did not qualify the exam and I have given a small message to all of them so if you are somebody who did not qualify the exam please go and watch that video the link of the video is given in the description box below it was a video that I uploaded right next day when the exam happened because I was receiving messages from a lot of youtubers like students who are connected to me on youtube and who was saying that their result wasn't that good and on the demand of such students I have recorded that particular video and uploaded it on youtube wherein I'm talking about what should be your approach what should you think today if you are feeling a little heavy and you are depressed and you are stressed that you could not make it to the list of net qualified students this time don't be disheartened watch that video and if you really feel that what I said makes sense please put that in the comment section below I would feel good that I was able to take you out from that pain so with that note I would want to take your leave congratulations once again to all those who have cleared net exam and I would want to tell all those who did not clear net exam that you are stronger than this next time after learning from your mistakes you are again going to sit for the exam and I'm pretty sure that I'll see your name in the list of net qualified students so till then keep learning and stay connected to arpitakarva.com we are going to soon release the list of students who have qualified net from our course so stay tuned to the list and celebrate with us the big day thank you so much


Hey guys! How are you today? Alright, so we are back here to work in our My Year 2017 journal again and today I want to talk about nature. So this month our prompt is think spring, right? So to me when you think of the word spring or when you say the word spring I think of you know, new freshly cut green grass, beautiful blooming flowers, bright sunshine, and all of that sort of thing, abundant nature, right? So here in my studio I actually have a drawer that's labeled nature. I'm not really kidding. So I'm going to get it here in a minute and I'll be right back. Really I wanted to adjust the camera and move the table around a little bit so this is the drawer out of my cabinet behind me that is labeled nature and you know it says actually says tiny shells dried flowers nature and it really is full of dried flowers, sticks and branches. These are some little weird polliny seed, I don't know what these are but they were interesting so I picked them up when I was out on a walk with my husband and when I came home I put him in a Ziploc bag and stuck him in my nature drawer because that's what I do. These are professionally dried dry flowers that I've purchased and leaves. They're it's sort of a flower collection you get them just like this. I think there's some in here with labels on them. These are some dried seed heads, flower heads that I picked up outside of a hospital actually when my husband was having some test done and yes he's fine before anybody anybody else. So the dried flowers are called real pressed wildflowers. The brand is Nature's Pressed. They're out of Utah and I do think they're still around. Their website is www.naturespressed.com and I actually have quite a few of these in here because I used to glue them onto things greeting card fronts and things like that and sell them when I was in the Crafters Cooperative gift shop so these were something that I've actually had for a while, sticks and branches I wasn't kidding. These are some dried tea leaves that I've actually found inside of an antique teapot that I have that I inherited from my grandmother and when I was moving things around recently I've had the pot for years. She's been dead for quite a while but when I was moving the pot around and packing things up I realized there was something in it and when I opened it it had these dried leaves in it. I don't know what they are but I saved them. I also have things like these are some slices of seashell and then I have bags of little mini seashells. So there's all kinds of things in here under the label of Nature. Things that I found like these dried leaves, things that I've purchased like the pressed flowers. So whether you have, I have some dried rose petals down here, I've got skeleton leaves. Maybe you guys have some skeleton leaves still in your stash from the scrapbook days. They used to be a pretty popular thing to use.  I think for my journal for today I'm going to use this one. So I'm going to get this ready.  So when you're working with dried natural foliage you need to be gentle with it and I could go ahead and put it right into the journal on the page but I kind of really want something in the background and I was initially thinking book text but then I saw the scrap of sheet music sticking out of my bin behind me and you know spring is when all the flowers are blooming and the grass is growing, the trees all have green leaves on them, the birds are singing and I have so many birds around my property. In fact my husband encourages the birds. He feeds them so I am going to put some of these on the sheet music and then we're going to use that in the journal. So I'm going to pop this open. There we go and you could use Mod Podge. When I was in the Crafters Cooperative I didn't know about map medium. We use Mod Podge and that worked just fine. I do need a rag. Here's one. So the one thing you don't want to do is get them too wet or really fuss with them too much. You don't want to go back and forth and over and over them because they're very delicate. You really just want to treat it very very very gently. Of course I want to get this piece that's in the back because you know why wouldn't I. A friend of mine who I used to be in the shop with, she was actually the store owner, she used to put these on to Mod Podge them onto candles onto the fronts of the candles and glasses and jars and things. They were very pretty. So when you buy these little packs of dried flowers, if you buy them everything that's in here is really coordinated to work together and I'll give you a close up here in a minute. I still haven't added any more Mod Podge. I mean map medium talking about Mod Podge. This other pink flower. So I'm going to do another one down over here. I'm going to zoom in. You can definitely do this with natural dried flowers, things that you found out on your walks or things. You do want to make sure it's a dry and that it's not still damp and moist because it's you know you run the chance of it molding or something like that. If there's any moisture in it so you want to dry it out really well. Make sure I'm still in the frame. Some of these little bits may be dyed if you've purchased them and if that's the case the dye may run when you get it wet with the glue. So just be prepared for that. These little bits of baby's breath are challenging to glue down. You notice I didn't say impossible, just said challenging. So give it a good coat on top and bottom and then let it dry and then we will be back and we will get them into our journal. All right there we go. So we have our two groupings of dried nature on our sheet music which I love and usually you know some people would want to cut it out properly and take it out. I'm going to just tear them apart. I want to have some torn edges. I don't want to lose the hard manufactured edge. I'm going to throw this piece away but anything I tear off that has music on it I'm going to save for another project because it's a good little bit of collage paper. I want to leave a little bit of border around the flowers of the sheet music but not too much. Something like that. So let's do that to the other one. Just something that's organic and again that's reminiscent of something that you would find in nature. So those are really cool. I have this sheet of 12 by 12 recollections paper. It's like a corrugated cardboard type scrapbooking paper and it's black but it's got a craft paper core. So we're going to just rip a piece off. On this I'm okay with there being like one edge that has the straight cut edge and again I'm going to save those because I can use those scraps on something else. I like that one for that so we've got to cut a tear piece for that one.  I like that a lot. I have these scraps of paper from that Ulta little brochure that I tipped in to this month's journal and I'm kind of wondering if I want to use some of it. Okay then I also have a bunch of these pieces of deli paper on which I've been doing the melted metal paste that I've developed. It's a DIY. It's coming up soon here on YouTube. Actually there's a few videos on it so like probably you guys are going to get sick of me talking about it by the end of May but anyway these are the dried sheets that you'll see them being manufactured at some point here on YouTube. I'm going to pick I think the oranges. These are by the way some of my new line of stencils I have out for sale in my Etsy shop right now in the Arrows and this face the meditative face. Coming soon are the feathers and the oranges. At the time of this broadcast they may be available for pre-order. I'm not sure at the time of filming so check out my Etsy shop and see. We're going to take some of these oranges and we just need two of them cut two off. I'm going to cut around them. I'm going to leave a little bit of an edge. You could cut or you could tear it. I'm not sure why but I kind of want to cut so we're going to just go with that impulse. This is a cute little embellishment that you could make using things from nature, things that remind you of springtime and you could make them for your journal, you could make a few of them and share them with friends who are doing the My Year 2017 program. It would be a fun little swap item. Not that you have to do that I'm just saying. So I want to tuck this because it doesn't just like remind you of the sunshine. That's what I think of when I look at that. I love those. All right we are going to get the stapler. No glue. I know you're all thinking what stapler? Yes. There's just something that's, oh I need staples in it though, something that's attractive about pairing up something delicate with something really industrial like a staple. I need something pointy because there's a staple stuck in here. Or staples. There's a few of them stuck in here. There we go. Got them. Alrighty. This is the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher Stapler which has a small size stapler, staple. But you could use a regular stapler if that's what you have. Or you could glue it. You could glue it. All right so I'm going to put one here. You could stitch this too on a machine. That would be interesting. I like that. I like the way that looks. All right let's do another one. And I know you're thinking black. Black's not evocative of spring. You should use a brighter color. I know somebody's going to say that you know what? I like black. I love black and if I was a little younger and wasn't married to a conservative I'd probably be a goth because I love black and I find the culture fascinating. So that is what you make it. Of course you could use a brightly colored paper or cardstock in the background to do what makes you happy. I love this. And now let's put one of these into my journal. Here is my journal as it's shaping up so far and we're going to put one or more of these in here. I just have to figure out where. I might want to put both of them in here. Maybe over there. Yeah I might want to put it in there. Okay let's get this one in here first. Again you could glue it down. You could tape it down.  I like staples. See what's behind here. We have that purple dot that I have on that paper towel that I kind of want to save. There we go. I love that. So that works out really well. I love the way that looks. I think it makes a really nice addition to my journal and again these could be done ahead of time and you could swap them with friends. You could share them. Use things from nature that you can find in your own yard. I am going to take this little bit that's sticking up right here where my stapler won't reach and I'm going to just put some tape runner there and stick that down. Just a little you know tiny bit and then if there's any tape runner sticking out I'm going to just rub my finger over it and take it right off. Think of it as the rubber cement. There you go. So there you have it. So go out in nature. Find some things or if you are if you have trouble getting out in nature like some of us do buy a few dried flowers or something like that and use them in your journal. You can take the flower seeds and crush them up and put them in heavy gel medium and use them that way and spread them out on your page and stick them down that way and if they're suspended in the gel medium they're not going to rub off or go anywhere and they can make interesting texture under paintings and on things like this or on a card you could make these for a card front that would be really pretty. Use what you have and enjoy what you're doing and if you want to join my year 2017 and you're not a member you're seeing this on YouTube or my other Facebook group or you would like to support my channel by shopping in my Etsy shop or send me happy mail or send me an email. All the information on how to do all those things is in the description below so please take a look at it and the most important thing go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys.


I love metaphors for life, sailing a ship, running a country, and one that seems to work really well is gardening, having a garden. There's so many ways in which that seems to capture a lot of what's going on with life. This idea of we have this space and it's somewhere in the middle between being purely nature and purely constructed. So if we have like, you could imagine a house that is a fully constructed environment where we have built everything ourselves. We've designed the walls and the floors and the rooms and it's fully constructed. Whereas if it's just like out in the forest then that's something that we found ourselves in. We didn't construct it at all. But a garden is in between. We have its nature, it's something that's growing not entirely in our control, but it's sort of shaped. We give it a shape and sort of encourage it to go in certain directions and not others. And that seems to fit the way that our life goes because we don't have total control.  I do like that so you can go lots of different directions with these metaphors for life. So I like thinking of it as a house too and that emphasizes the aspects of life that we can control. But a garden, building a garden is kind of like building a house, but it's not as fully a constructed environment.  It's like we are, we don't live fully integrated with nature. We like to separate things like having our shelter and clothing and we like to have some systems that separate us from being 100% simply living in the forest. But at the same time, we are still part of that natural system. We're not living in some, you know, imaginary spaceship or something. I mean, we are living in nature and we still are open to the sun and the rain, the weather, the seasons. Those things affect us just as they affect the natural world. So we work with them. And so a garden is a place where we can be in a built and tended environment but also still be in nature, in a sense still open to the outdoors and to the natural elements. So we mix these things. Not trying to control too much and, you know, turning it into like a box or something. Because we can't completely simply decide everything we want in life, you know, in exactly just like painting a painting. Although that's another metaphor that is fun to use for certain aspects of life. The aspects that we can control. But we can shape it. So I mean, for one thing, we have the edges of the garden. Try to keep those rascally rabbits and, you know, keep the raccoons out and try to control access to the garden.  We have to be careful about the edges of the garden and tend it against intruders. Just like we decide what we leave, we allow to enter our minds. And of course the metaphor with weeds. In the garden, we want certain things to grow and not others. And so as part of tending the garden, we remove the weeds that can be seen as certain thoughts, certain habits that are not leading to a very nice garden, that are leading things in a direction we don't want, we can remove those weeds. And so working in our garden, this is how we can see working on ourselves. How do we see what, what does your inner garden look like? Is it being overrun with raccoons? Is it overgrown with weeds? Or you know, and what sort of, what sort of plants are growing there and what do you want to grow there? What do you want your garden to look like? And I think this can be an interesting way of looking at how we manage things. We can't simply design it out of nothing. It still has to be tied in with nature, but we can shape our nature and tend it to become what we want.


That is perfect right there. I think I might got him. Oh my god, there's a lot of them. Oh, they just hit me Double up the two in a row Welcome to another video today we're actually out on Lake Lanier has been so long since I've been out here Honestly been I'd say about a year this summer really didn't come out here So it's been a very long time But if you guys want to see some more like videos like this be sure to that pepper that like button up if you guys are new To the channel be sure to subscribe and hit the little bell. I'm Noah host. I'm kicking their bass TV today We're out on Lake Lanier. We're gonna be trying to catch some fish primarily on a spoon. All right That's this mainly what we're gonna try to target down. You know these ditches, you know It's super cold out right now. It's actually warmed up a lot It's a lot better now try to catch them on a spoon also throw around a jerk bait Maybe around some shallow rock as well because I know I could probably catch a couple fish on that give that a try And then we're really gonna focus on my spoon today and hopefully we'll catch some fish But thank you guys for clicking on this video. I hope you guys enjoy Yellow I Mean I'm in a nibble. Hello Yes, yes Is he big? Oh, he's a pretty decent one.  Yes That is perfect right there. I think I might got him. Oh my god. There's a lot of them. Oh, they just hit me Yeah, I do got one. He's a good one He's hold on. Oh god I'm about to say that's perfect.  There's a lot. He did choke it. You got one too. Are you serious on the spoon? Oh do this You know what happened right there, there's more than one so they I mean they were fighting over it.  Yeah, it is it is Yeah, but hold on I'm about to catch one Got him Yeah, I'll get him They're all under us. He's doubled up again. Do you have them? We need to drop back down because they're down there ready to eat to the camera Little bit bigger than mine another double up though two in a row. They drop it Yeah, they followed it down look at that right there Right there. Oh, that's a big one This is a good one Yeah, I saw them you got one. Oh That's a solid two and a half easy two and three quarters He choked it. He did on the way down. I saw him follow it. I knew he's gonna eat it He's got to fire that one fish off It's just the fact of getting that one to eat it or at least kind of start going after it I like seeing him suspend a little bit better than on the bottom because Like that last one I just caught I barely saw him on the graph But like you you could barely even tell it was a fish And when I dropped past him you could see him just chase it down and hit it midair or midfall There we go. You see that that's a school starter right there. Yep.  He's about three and a half. Yeah There's a fish chasing bait. I see him Oh, that's a big one right there. He's looking at me Oh my god, you got him. Oh, get the net. Yeah, get the net on this one He's coming up Yep Yes boy, that's a largemouth It's a freaking largemouth. It is a largemouth. What is up with me catching all these largemouth Largemouth baby on the spoon. That is awesome right there I don't understand what's up with me catching largemouth lately That is just insane beautiful bass though solid two and a quarter right there awesome All right, let me teach you something. I usually not So on the transducer you you see where your trolling layer is pointing So if you see some on the graph you drop right in front, all right, right, but it's only reading in front So this is what I do when I'm searching Is I put my foot on it if I'm tilting to the right out of the left I'm scanning to the right of the left So see maybe I'm going straight, but this is what I was doing earlier and you're probably wondering why They're not kind of like turning it for a second this way the transducer's reading that way So look see I just got that fish right there. That's a perfect one right there too Yeah, but if it's pointing hold up, hold up. Look at this right here. Look at this right here He's done. So Look at that one right there. Yeah, he's right there He's small largemouth Frickin largemouth This is a four largemouth in a video that is unheard of and catching largemouth in 25 foot right now Kind of crazy.  I hooked him in the body Uh, that's first blood drop back down. There's a lot of fish that's going to fire him out.  That's what that's called. You got a fish coming up and looking at you I actually have my go pro off. We were on some fish down here. Um right here on the bottom It's just so hard to get him fired up. I just got another baby We've got a key working and once you get these fish fired up, they're really going to start eating But uh, yeah, we need to find the absolute big mama Oh one followed me back Golly won't follow me back. The sun stays right there. Oh, there he is. Oh my god Yes, he's big. Get the net. He's not that big Pretty fat one though. Look at his stomach. That's my bow. He's gonna load up on it really hard.    I'm serious. Get the net on this one. I got him inside I'll get him. He's not even a bad one He really ain't.  There's a large mouth on Lake Lanier. That is amazing No, it's not That is a spot. Is that a spot or a large mouth?   That is so weird But a large mouth body is that not the weirdest?  You wanna get him? Yeah, I did hook him in the back.   This is just crazy. That's a dark fish too. I'm so very surprised by that All right, baby. There's this fish right here. I'm not a large one.  Show them some Yeah, there we go Back in the water. Well everyone we are going to finish off the day. We've just been out here just for a little bit It was a lot of fun.   I can do that for you guys So just all you have to do is drop a thumbs up on this video and let me know in the comment section below Seriously, just leave a comment. 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