This is John Dickinson speaking for an introduction to OpenStack Swift. So, my name is John Dickinson. I am the project technical lead for OpenStack Swift, which is object storage piece of OpenStack. And so I was on the original development team for Swift when it was first open sourced. I've been around OpenStack, been from forever. So it's been a really fun ride. And what I really want to talk about is not so much like, here's how all the little pieces work of Swift or things like that. I want to give a little bit of an overview, just because I think it's always good to keep in front of people. Here's what Swift does. There's kind of some of the big features in there, especially some of the later features that have been talked about. And I want to talk about maybe some of the more operational concerns. I'll focus on those more than say, like, here's what a developer would do for API usage, or here's what a contributor would need to know for, say, data placement and stuff like that. So I'll try to focus on that. And I don't have a lot of time, so we'll dive right into that. So the first question just in general is why do we need this? And I love hearing especially about some of the new things that are being talked about inside of OpenStack to give a little more dynamic deployment options and scalability things, which is really, really exciting. And one of the reasons it's so exciting is, of course, because we can't get away from the fact that the reason we need all of this is because people are using applications differently. And they want to do different things. And we've got mobile devices and we've got websites and we've got little embedded devices and everything in between that just basically means you have a lot of data that's being generated and consumed and accessed all at the same time. And you need it now. You don't need it later. You need it as soon as you can. And you need a way to store that in a way that's scalable and in a way that you can have access to it right now. So that's kind of where we got to. That's where we are and why we have this thing. And inside of, you know, some of the first initial use cases inside of OpenStack in general and then a lot of the things that people first approach Swift with are just the kind of basic day-to-day things that we've been doing, we should have been doing for decades and stuff like backups. You've got data and you're just like, great, well, I need to back it up. Let's put it in Swift. Great. If you're inside of the OpenStack deployment, just like the full cloud deployment there, you're going to say I have images and snapshots for VMs and for block devices and things like that. So where do we put that so that I can persist it and get it later? So that's kind of the use cases that we have is that data that can grow without bound that needs to scale but also needs to be available all the time and it needs to support just a whole lot of concurrency across the entire data set. So that's where Swift fits in and why as part of a complete cloud deployment, you need something like that. You need something more than what we used to do. So what is it that we used to do? Used to you had data, you want to put it someplace, you plug in a hard drive and you're good to go and then you hard drive fills up and you think I'm going to buy another hard drive and then that one fills up and you just keep going with that and you really haven't solved the problems because now you've got all the complexity of figuring out where things are going to be placed and how you're going to do that. So that was kind of the beginning of the journey towards where we are today. You start trying to figure out how to place all your data out there so it can be persisted and then you have your really bad day when one of your hard drives fails and you started to realize I need some redundancy in this and then you go buy a raid card and that's going to solve all your problems. So now you have raid volumes and you're going to fill up a raid volume and then you have to get a second raid volume and then you've really just not solved your problems, you've just made them bigger and harder and so the point of Swift and this is kind of the intro, the whole like here's the elevator pitch of what the point of Swift is, is to be a system that will abstract your content away from the media on which it's stored because that means that you can change any of those at any time without affecting the other one. So if you upgrade to some new technology for storage media, you move from spinning drives to flash to non-volatile RAM to competronium or whatever the next thing is going to be then you can do that without actually losing the data because the system itself is managing, here's how you durably store it across these and you're built into the system itself is handling those failures and working around them. So it matters as over time as you're dealing with capacity and moving with new things but it also matters when you're just dealing with I need a patch of kernel and reboot a machine and those are the kind of things that you can do without worrying about impacting the data itself and losing it and losing availability to it and on the other side it also means that the data itself you know is then going to be long lived and decoupled from the media so that you don't have to think about those hard problems of storage. What are the hard problems that Swift stores solves? So I wanted to, I'm kind of going through quickly here but I wanted to say basically from two perspectives what are those hard problems and why does, why is Swift able to solve those or why is that important? First off, from the developer perspective, so the people who are actually writing the applications you don't want them to have to actually think about those operational concerns. You don't want to have to think about where do I actually, which particular hard drive am I putting my VM image on? Where am I specifically snapshotting this blog device to and where specifically am I storing this video file or this cat picture or you know whatever it's going to be? The developers don't want to have to worry about that because that's not actually the value that the application that they're writing has. The value that the application has is they're able to, it's going to be like the next awesome game or it's going to be some document management system or it's going to be anything along, it's the radio astronomy telescopes that are being talked about in the other rooms right now. It's the new things, any application that's being built is trying to build some kind of value on top of a process and things like that, but the hard problems they're doing is not, you know, I'm going to figure out how to store all my images that are uploaded. That's not what they need to concern about. They need to treat that just as a utility as in, throw some data at it and later on I can get it back. But the other side, and this is what I wanted to focus on a little bit more today is from the ops side. I want to solve this guy's problem. I want him to not have to worry about what's like that. So the point is, okay, so the ops guys, what do they have to do? What are the hard problems there? You want to have to deal with capacity management. You're going to have to deal with durability of the data that's persisted there. That's kind of the responsibility of those ops guys. You need to figure about scale. Like how much capacity do we have available to provision for storage? How much capacity do we have for serving it in and out? Those are things and sometimes they need to be scaled independently. You want to deal with upgrades. Like maybe there's this flag day where some common library has a bug and you have to reboot the world. I'm sure that would never happen. But if it did again, then you need to worry about that. Then there's just the day-to-day stuff of I need to upgrade my kernels. I need to add new functionality. Maybe I just need to reboot because I needed some new monitoring tools. I don't know. You have to deal with, as the operators, you've got to deal with other things that integrate alongside of it that aren't actually part of this. Like I want to put a cache on front of it, whether that's just something like Squid or Varnish or that's a whole CDN infrastructure and things like that. Those are kind of the hard problems that the operators have to think about. I would argue that just like the developers need something that they can offload the hard problems from, they need to be able to not think about... They need to focus on providing value in their application and not the storage. The operators also need a system that they can offload the hard problems of storage to. They don't want to have to wake up in the middle of the night to swap out a hard drive. That should just be handled seamlessly.  Because that happens a lot, especially if you have a lot of servers. Those common things should be taken care of automatically. That is why we need something like Swift alongside of the things that are able to run those applications scalably and dynamically, the things that are provided by Nova and Neutron and Cinder and the other pieces of OpenStack. That is how it all fits together and the why of Swift in my mind. That being said, just extraordinarily briefly, that is how Swift works. The client talks to something called a proxy server and the proxy server talks to something called a set of storage nodes. The proxy deals with API requests and the storage nodes deal with persisting the data. The really cool thing is that if you need to scale out one of them, you can and you can do that independently. If you need more capacity on your storage hardware, you can add more storage nodes. If you need more capacity on your throughput and your bandwidth or connectivity or something like that, you can add more proxy servers. They don't share any state so they're all horizontally scalable and they can come and go as they need. You'll generally end up putting something behind a load balancer and running it that way. That is how things work. A couple of other features I want to talk about, just a few things. Not this big list. This big list is really cool just because these are things that were all developed as a result of people from the community saying we need something to actually... We need to solve this particular problem. To me, looking at every single thing except for... It's on this list except it's not even on that list. Basic CRUD operations are things that people running Swift in production have come to the community and say we want to contribute these things back. I do want to talk about two specific things that especially are nice from an operator's perspective and are kind of newer features. One of them is global clusters and the other one is storage policies. Global clusters very briefly allows you to deploy a global cluster, one logical cluster. This is how it works. If you have a multi-region cluster, say on different sides of the world, you have your cluster configured safe for Portland and Hong Kong. When you upload your data into the cluster, it's going to be routed to what's the closest. One way you could do that is something like the GATO DNS or something like that. The data is sent into that local region which gives you nice kind of locality of access and things like that. And then the cluster can either at the time of the request or as it's shown here, kind of asynchronously replicate it across the network to the other regions. So now you have that kind of full durability across all of those failure domains and that's kind of nice. Now when you have your data stored in there, you might send it to a friend and they could be on the other side of the world and you send your cat picture to the friend and they get the link and say I want to look at that funny cat picture. So they are again routed to their closest thing, the data sent back and that's how that works. So that's kind of how the fancy video I love about how global clusters work. But the point is on this and especially combined with the next thing I want to talk about which is storage policies is as an operator you can configure your cluster to reflect exactly the kind of things you want to expose to your users, whether that's geographic access or particular tiers of storage or things like that. And this is something called storage policies that was completed in July of this year. So this past year I guess. And what storage policies allow you to do is set this up to say that here is a part of my cluster that is going to be identified by a particular set of hardware. So that could be hardware that's only in my particular location and it could be hardware that has a different class of service. So it could be things that here is something that's going to stay inside, something that's going to stay in Europe. And here's data that's going to stay in Asia and here's data that's not going to be in North America or something like that. And then you can also configure it say on, say this is flash media, this is going to be spinning media and you can expose those in various ways. And the other piece of it is with each storage policy you can configure how things are durably stored across there. Say what's your replication policy on it? Is it 2x, 4x, 3x, whatever you need. And then right now we're actively working on supporting erasure codes on top of that too so you can have non-replicated storage. So all of that, how do you get started? This is the company I work for, but we do have a free sign up you can do that. It's really a very easy way to do that. You can go to SwissStack.com to get a little free trial there. It is 100% of the open source upstream code so it's not that. But if you wanted to roll your own you can come ask us questions on IRC, go look at the code and some of the developer docs there. And also there is an O'Reilly book of which I have some right here. So if you'd like a copy of this book come find me and I think I've got 13 of them to do that. So unfortunately I'm not going to have time to talk about fun stuff like failure handling and sad servers and things like that. But as far as important things to worry about inside of your clusters from operators, when you're deploying these clusters you're going to have to build out some sort of monitoring system and you're going to want to be able to have your graphs. You want to integrate with Nagios plugins. You're going to want to know more than just what's your disk capacity but what are your actually Swift metrics and those things that are going on. I want to, there's lots of stuff I'm not covering in here like your data placement and your production designs and API features and stuff. But I do want to kind of highlight a little bit of this even though I say I'm not talking about it. Kind of on the operational side things that I wish people would think about when they do this is building out Swift. Don't try to build your global cluster immediately. I'm going to start with, I'm going to have 500 petabytes in my cluster and it's going to span 13 continents and it's going to be this massive huge thing. I'm going to store 10 trillion files in this thing. How should I scale my cluster to do that? You're like wow man this is going to be really big. Well you're going to have to account for 10,000 hard drives and all this kind of stuff. Where are you starting? Well I've got two servers and I've got 30 hard drives and so when you try to shoehorn all of that kind of big scale ability very often people come in and try to shoehorn this massive thing that they think they're going to have five years from now and they try to put in the two servers they do have today and that doesn't really work very well. It odds a lot of overhead to what you're doing. So some of the things that we've seen over the years is just kind of grow piecemeal, keep things balanced as you're growing. Don't try to work against Swift's placement algorithms to say that well I'm going to have 90% of my capacity enabled over here but I really want to have all these different failure domains so will that work, will Swift balance it out? It's like well you're kind of really underweighted in one area or another. So anyway all of that being said those are kind of some of the gotchas. You've got to let things expose the failure domains to Swift that you actually have. Don't unbalance things.  Don't try to run everything virtualized. That's kind of the... I love hearing about all the containerization of stuff but it hides some of these things from Swift itself which it actually relies upon. So I feel like I'm kind of going scattershot on a few things here but I apologize for that but I'm getting signals from Michael about hey you need to hurry up, you need to hurry up. So that being said I probably do have time for a couple of questions on that. I have some books and some other people around here. So as far as operational I know several of you are running Swift today and have been doing that so how can I help? What kind of questions do you have or are you curious about where Swift would fit or how it would work for you or questions that you have about it? You talked in your elevator pitch about the distinction between the object stored and the media on which they're stored as being the distinctive of Swift. How is that different from a distributed file system? What's the distinction in your mind and what are the pros and cons? Well I would say that is not a distinction that is unique to Swift. I think it is a distinction that is unique to what I would consider modern distributed storage systems. So there's several of them out there. I think the big distinction that you would find from distributed file systems is it has to do a lot with the access patterns. So specifically with object storage one of the defining characteristics of object storage itself is that the entirety of that data and metadata for that object is updated atomically. So you're not going to have say a partial overwrite of a particular subset of this piece of data. In other words, you're not going to say I have a 10 megabyte image and I'm going to overwrite the 100 bytes right in the middle of it. You're going to update that entire thing all at once whereas that's kind of a supported common thing inside of a file system. The biggest differences between file systems and Swift specifically, not all object storage, but Swift is the difference in the fact that the file systems are strongly consistent so that you're going to be able to have a consistent view of the data itself where Swift is an eventually consistent system which allows for kind of different access patterns as far as the conferencing and scalability of how things are accessed. Basically it answers the question of what happens when there's failure. Is your system going to stop failing? I want to say what happens if 50 or 60% of your servers are unavailable because of a network partition? Are you going to be able to still respond to requests or not? And Swift can and strongly consistent systems generally wouldn't. Was there another over here? Okay, Bruno has one. Sure. John, last year you were giving people advice in terms of what Swift needs, what are the hardware requirements for Swift on a single region? And now the question is, what about global clusters? What would be your advice to people who are deploying global clusters in terms of what to do, what not to do and what are the caveats there? I think there's a general high level advice for deploying a global cluster and what's going on. The first thing I'd say is keep them even. So if you've got say 100 terabytes or you've got a petabyte in one region, you should probably have the same in another region just to make sure that the placement works that way. So that you can know that you're not going to lose one region and lose access to sets of data because all of it was in one particular region. The other thing is looking at your connects between them and seeing how much network capacity you have so you can shuffle data between them as necessary. And that's something we're continually looking at in Swift to make more efficient but it's still the truth of the matter is data has to move and you want that to happen. You want that to happen as little as possible but it still has to happen so you have to deal with that sort of thing. It really comes down to a lot of what your available hardware and use cases. There's lots of people doing that in production today so it is kind of this well-tested thing. You can do it but keep things balanced is really the thing I would say upfront. That's the big thing to do. So as a reminder, I've got some books here. Come find me, I think we've got one more talk than lunch. So come find me at lunch and I'll be happy to give you one of those if you would like and if you ever have any questions you can find me online or in person at various events or later this week. Thank you very much, Michael.


It's the mat work This morning, it was very very very, you know get really Shifted in my perspective because a lot of people have been coming to me, you know Oh, bro, you know you should look into Bitcoin and blah blah blah and like you were saying that's not your lane You know you're not gonna be able to capitalize and monetize on that If you haven't been prepared for that which made so much sense Really helped me but um the question I had that stemmed from that was when you started talking about private experiences Like I have friends who you know, they make adult content or only fans and stuff What platforms would you recommend for an artist to take advantage of that? Of these private spaces or what app would you know be the best for artists to do that, you know I've heard of twitch but Yeah, there is no best honestly right because you can do unlisted links on YouTube You can do this zoom type of video you can do Vimeo you can do twitch you can do only fans and make a thing out of it Even though it's not going to be that type of content, right? But still the novelty of it in and and share it that way, right? It's really just up to you But there's no platforms that are truly built for an artist in that way But there's a lot of platforms that you can use to do it almost anybody That as a video sharing platform today, you can just you know, it's a provide a private link How else will other people even know it exists? So just it's up to you which one you're most comfortable with Okay, cool. Definitely. Yeah, I got some ideas for for these type of live Of sharing apps, you know, definitely want to do something where I'm just basically I'm just freestyling You know people come in and they just freestyle I was thinking of a listening party But I don't know how the audio how good the audio quality is on here So I was thinking instead of like people coming in to listen to you know links or like, you know Leaks or whatever whatever. I'm gonna drop next, you know, they can come in and give me freestyle Or just you know, I can present something to them exclusive that you ain't gonna get on other platform Yeah, I mean you can freestyle you can test it out with the audio right if you listen to Joe Like Joe Budden podcast or whatever whenever they play the sleeper music at the end It sounds just as good as everything else because they have the setting it up into the board Right and I have a mixer that allows me to do stuff like that if I wanted to so you can test out and Do something like that if you want to it's just it's once you have the idea then it's just spending time on figuring out Execute the creative idea in a way that's up to the quality standard But we know like I've been saying this for years to do these type of experiences and all now All of you see all of a sudden you see because of the quarantine thing Now a lot of people are doing it like this DJ nice dude had like a hundred some K people on one live stream Over a period of time, which is crazy and I don't even know how I like I even know who he was Which is even crazier. I'm like, yeah, he already had this deal of following and you're supposed to be hip-hop And I never know who he was but whatever right the point is he was able to do that Erica by do had her private Well, you know the concert she did John Legend and Chrissy all it's it's so easy Right now it's just about because they're not even they're branding it in that way and I always suggest it not only to brand it that way to truly package that way where it's Creatively Executed to take advantage of that type of environment and that's when you want to get the big win Because now people are already familiar with the brand right in the packaging of hey, this is a Private event, you know because of like the quarantine there. I've seen conference calls people have done Happy hours via video chat and all those types of things which is nothing But what we're doing right now except now they're branding it to leverage what's going on right now so now That doesn't he lost that novel idea from that aspect just a fact of it being Because so many people are used to it and now they'll just think oh you got this and you start doing this because all the corner scene stuff That's what everybody does. It's nothing new and interesting now. It's about you doing it to an extent where there's Like creative execution in a way that's not just hey I got a camera set up and you were watching me because that's more so how people have done it right now They still haven't tapped in to really utilizing the The creative boundaries of that and you know we talked about that a lot in the content You know gauntlet so what that looks like so That part I would I would ask you to go in don't just be yo I'm freestyling and doing that figure out whether it's deeper engagement or whether they're Really tapping into almost a a play like experience, you know, I mean where you act it's up to now I like I don't know. There's so many different ways to tweak it, but find out what makes sense to you Hmm. Have you have you heard our quarantine con?


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Welcome to the Plenipotentiary Conference, PP22, ITU's major conference every four years, here in Bucharest in Romania, where I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by her Excellency Emilia Stominova-Du, who is the Minister of Digital Transformation for the Republic of Slovenia. Minister, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me.  How can governments bring the benefits of digital transformation to their citizens? Unfortunately, the answer is not so quick, so it's a longer one. Digital transformation is very important and is changing our lives. But if we want to make sure that the government is doing its best, then for sure we need to consider connectivity. And as a minister in Slovenia, I'm very happy to share that we have already received our national plan for gigabit infrastructure. So by 2025, we plan to cover 100% all urban municipalities with high-speed broadband. And then by 2020-30, also the rest of the areas, so the rural areas as well. Another thing what we are doing in Slovenia, access to the internet, is a universal service, so everybody has the right to be connected and we are very proud to share that as well. So, as mentioned, connectivity is definitely the first thing. But then we need to consider equal access as well. So we need to consider that no matter whether you're living in an urban or rural area, whether you're a woman or male, whether you're young people or older persons, so they all need to have access to the internet. And we have many projects. We also have an act on digital inclusivity in our country. So for us, it's very important, not only the infrastructure, but also the other access to the internet as well. Now technologies in connectivity are important, of course, but in order to make digital transformation successful, we should invest above all in people and skills to be able to use these technologies. How do you tackle this issue in Slovenia? Definitely. So first, we need to start with the children, with the young ones. And we need to make sure that they learn how to think logically, how to solve problems, because this is the basic when we are speaking about developing digital competencies and skills. Then we are aware that the labor market is changing. So there are major changes nowadays. We need to be aware of these changes. Everybody should be aware of that, the employees, the employers, and of course the education system. We must be prepared for that. So lifelong learning is definitely a thing to consider. And then once more, the problem in Slovenia is that we have this gender digital divide. Not so many women are involved. And we would like to change that with different projects, with different campaigns raising awareness. And this is also very happy that ITU is so active in these fields. And I applaud to the network of women that is existing in the ITU. And they have so many campaigns to make sure that they breach the gender divide. Indeed, that's very much one of our major preoccupations. And we hope that we will be able to bring more women to the conversation and bring women to the table and in positions of being able to make decisions. Our society is also currently experiencing a transition in the digital green economy area. However, we need to ensure that digital technologies don't consume more energy than they save. Do you have any good practices in Slovenia in this field? Yes. In Slovenia, we believe that digital and green go hand in hand. So we were working a lot on this topic in the past years. For example, I would like to share a very good example using Internet of Things in the agricultural sector, using Internet of Things so we can reduce our carbon footprint in addition, we can reduce the use of fit of pharmacy in the agriculture. We know that this is very important in the agricultural sector, not only in Europe, but also worldwide. And another very good example is a new modern data center we plan to build now in Slovenia. The building will be built from the sediments of a river. The data center will be at the island in the river. So we will use the water of the river for cooling the whole data center. And the heat waste will be used to heat residential buildings. So we're very proud of that one. Now, it's been a while since we all met up together since we were able to have physical meetings like this. I know that you're here for a limited amount of time. And of course, we appreciate your presence. I really wanted to find out, was it worth coming to Bucharest here for this meeting? And what do you hope will come from it? Definitely. So ITU is a very important organization. This year is 30 years of membership for Slovenia. We're very proud of that. During that time, we believe that we went a long way to connect our citizens to make sure that the internet is available for everybody. We believe that we're not that strong to do all this work on our own. So we are committed to the partnership of ITU. We would like to share best practices. We would like to learn from other member countries as well. And meetings in person are better than we're told, even though we're digital ministers here. Minister, thank you so much for joining us in the studio. And hopefully we'll get to catch up with you soon and hear some more success stories from Slovenia. Thanks a lot for inviting me. Thank you.


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Tell me when you're ready check check one two one two Good morning, and welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison My name is Kelly Crocker, and I'm one of the ministers here today I am joined by the worship team of Dan Carnes deep Gregorius Linda Warren and Drew Collins Along with our special guests Andy Carlson. Are we okay? No, these are the same. Oh, that's that okay brilliant It's rising body and our spirit to sing him number zero need more Good good morning, and welcome to the first Unitarian Society of Madison My name is Kelly Crocker, and I'm one of the ministers here today I'm joined by the worship team of Linda Warren Drew Collins Daniel Carnes and Stephen Gregorius And we are joined by our anybody choir. Thank you all very much, and We are also joined by the Reverend Andy Carlson. Thank you very much The vision of first Unitarian Society is growing souls Connecting with one another and embodying our Unitarian Universalist values in our lives in our community and in our world If you are visiting us today welcome We are so very glad you are with us if you would like more information about first Unitarian Society Please stop by the welcome table located outside these doors in the commons We hope you'll be able to stay and join us for our coffee hour immediately after service It will be held right out here in the commons today Our after service all ages activity will be in the education end that end of the commons down there and Our activity today will be the 12th century Japanese process of Sumina gashi or Floating ink. This is the process of marbling paper with water and ink Transforming it into something vibrant and colorful. The process is easy. I am told and the results are stunning and For those connecting with us virtually today. We are so very glad you are with us as well We hope you will be able to join us for our virtual coffee hour Immediately following our service the information for joining will be found on the home page of our website FUS Madison.org as well as on the slide that will be shown at the end of today's service Our announcement slides will also be shown again briefly after the service And we encourage you to take a look at those to find out more about upcoming programs and activities here and now I Invite you to join me in a moment of silence as we center ourselves and bring ourselves Fully into this time Joining together once again in community How about now I've got the green light Was I I was I was occluded by my mask Well, I'll try again. Good morning. It's a pleasure to be here today and I would Like to share for our opening words a poem by Mary Oliver Entitled some questions you might ask Is the soul solid like iron? Or is it tender and breakable like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl? Who has it and who doesn't I? Keep looking around me The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus the swan opens her white wings slowly in The fall the black bear carries leaves into the darkness One question leads to another Does it have a shape like an iceberg like the eye of a hummingbird? Does it have one lung like the snake and the scallop? Why should I have it and not the anteater who loves her children? Why should I have it and not the camel? Come to think of it. What about the maple trees? What about the blue iris? What about all the little stones sitting alone in the moonlight? What about roses and lemons and their shining leaves? What about the grass? Those are the words of Mary Oliver and If you will rise and join me as we light our chalice With the kindling of this flame We reaffirm our commitment to accept life's gifts with grace and gratitude And to use them to bless the world in the spirit of love Remain standing for our first hymn Rise up, O flame And now let us sing together our opening hymn And if anyone would like to come up closer for our message and you and I are gonna tell you a story this morning Yeah, come on up Charlie Yeah, make sure you can see the the pictures up there too because then it'll make sense Mmm-hmm duck rabbit see what you guys think maybe we should have you vote on what you see hey look a duck That's not a duck. That's a rabbit Are you kidding me? It's totally totally a duck It's for sure Rabbit see that look there's his bill. What are you talking about? Those are the ears silly It's a duck and look.  I Heard duck sounds. Did you hear duck sounds because I hear distinctly hear rabbit sounds Now the duck is wading through the swamp. No the rabbits hiding in the grass There see it's flying Lying it's hopping Look the duck is so hot. This must have been yesterday that is so hot.   You scared him away. Oh, I didn't scare him away. You scared him away you know Maybe you were right. Maybe it was a rabbit. Yeah, the thing is now. I'm actually thinking it was a duck Well, anyway, now what do you want to do? I don't know. What do you want to do? Hey, look an anteater. That's not an anteater. That's a Brachiosaurus What do you think? What did you see? Did you think how many people thought duck and how many people saw a rabbit? All a matter of perspective, huh? Thank you so much You guys can go back and I now invite you into the giving and the receiving of today's offering Each week we give freely and generously to our offering and this week Our offering is dedicated in its entirety to our partner church in the Transylvanian village of Najweta For 30 years now first Unitarian society and the Unitarian Church of Najweta have been partnered learning about one another Visiting one another sharing our stories our lives our struggles and our celebrations The village of Najweta has recently completed a stunning renovation of the historic Fortress Church, which was constructed between 1360 and 1380 and you can see the beautiful results of that renovation on your screen our partner church minister Levin to Feketa and his wife Yutka wrote to us recently to let us know of a huge event They are planning in the village and to ask for our help. They are hosting the first ever Fortress festival a unique event in Transylvania and the first festival organized by their community People will attend from all around the surrounding area There will be music organ concerts in the church on their newly renovated organ workshops for children and adults art expositions and more it is a huge Undertaking for them and as you can imagine it is an expensive one as well Yutka wrote to us this event is very important because the people here need light and joy in their lives and We believe this event will bring them that and will bring the power of community to them as well So all of your gifts today will be sent to Najweta to help bring that light and joy to their community So you'll see on your screen that you can donate directly from our website f us Madison org You'll find our text to give information there as well and in addition there are baskets For those of you here in person at the end trends and exit of this auditorium We thank you for your generosity and your faith in this life We create together with our partners who may be physically very far away Yet always close within our hearts eating today from Victoria Safford To confess my faith or my beliefs out loud And I were scrambling for some place to begin I would start in the desert In the lonesome valley And say that first of all and ultimately We are alone No god abides with us caring watching mindful of our going out and coming in The only certainty is chance connections both chosen and involuntary That matter most of all and ultimately help and heal and hold us We are alone yet intricately bound Inextricably connected to soil and stream and forest To sun and corn and melting snow We are alone yet bound by stories we cannot get out of To ancestors and descendants we will never meet And all these natural conditions these bonds we did not forge ourselves and yet cannot deny Are the strands of a theology The seeds of a faith The beginning of religion the binding of all things When I say god and sometimes I do because sometimes there is no other metaphor No other symbol no other poetry no other offering When I say god I mean that place of meeting That place where solitudes join The space between my hand and the dogwood The space where the tiny feet of the ant brush the dry dirt beneath her The space between mercury and venus Between electrons which we unblinkingly believe in without seeing God is the space in between the bridge between solitudes the ground where we meet you And I or any to by grace If I were asked I'd say that all of us together Are alone and the emptiness between us Is waiting to be filled Let's rise and body under a spirit to sing together hymn number 23 Bring many names It is always a delight to preach here at first unitarian society in madison wisconsin The congregation in which I grew to young adulthood and which has been my own lifelong tether To the my unitarian universalist faith I went to sunday school here I sang in the kids choir and the meeting house choir here I journeyed out of the country for the first time on a choir trip that departed from this parking lot I experienced leadership and community as a why are you you participant here and that's uh the the Former unitarian youth group young religious unitarian universalists Which was so important to so many you use of my generation And just before moving to california for seminary With my wife sarah and my parents davin trudy and the church choir and other folks from the congregation Uh, I traveled to transylvania with a group from f us Where I was fortunate enough to stay for a few days with reverend leventa and yutka in the najoita church parsonage And uh as i'm speaking on my own uh from my own ministry and not as a representative of uw health i'll take off my name tag I uh Wearing my work clothes So this community and most importantly the practice of unitarian universalist values and principles that I experienced here This is my foundation in my profession as a chaplain and in every way in which I am a human being And uh for the last year as I've been serving university hospital as a chaplain supervisor and palliative care chaplain I have the the joy of getting surprised a few times a day By uh views from the of the landmark auditorium through different hospital windows And I say surprised because if you've been in that hospital, you know how easily it is to get turned around in Reflecting on my work in palliative medicine is what got my gears turning about my topic this morning The often invisible power of binary thinking in our lives And what it can require of us to make more room in our lives for The nebulus the uncertain the ineffable the contradictory the queer It wasn't that long ago in the big picture that the work of healing bodies and the work of connecting with the divine Was the same work And there are times when I am walking the halls of the hospital and and catch a glimpse of that Influential sanctuary prow of mr. Wright's That I recall that I'm standing inside of one edifice of enlightenment era thought and gazing out at another One venerates the use of intellect and conscience in the creation of beloved community And one venerates the use of intellect and conscience in diagnosis and treatment of illness and injury that word diagnosis has Greek roots and in literal definition It means to know what something is by knowing what it is not To know what something is by knowing what it is not It is a powerful way of looking at and understanding the world and seeking deeper knowledge And it's the wellspring of tremendous healing. I don't want to get twisted around on that It's there's a there's much good that can be done from the work of of Knowing what is by what is not at the same time That way of thinking is seductive In that it enables a fantasy the fantasy that everything about the body and what can go wrong with it Can be known and therefore solved Palliative medicine Is a discipline that tends to be consulted when the usual answers have run out To palliate is to relieve pain and suffering And while the palliative care clinicians do have special expertise in medicinal pain control More often the suffering that we are called to address is Existential in nature There are no more chemo options. What now? The doctors are recommending hospice, but isn't that a death sentence? What now? Granddad didn't want to be kept alive on machines, but he got intubated anyways. What now? They say mom has no meaningful No chance of meaningful recovery, but her sister is her decision maker And wants to keep doing everything even though it's been a month and the rest of the family and her nurses All think she wouldn't want this suffering. What now? palliative medicine is To me counter cultural to the medical mainstream in that its clinicians practice the medical discipline to move into those places Where the unknowns outweigh the knowns and the diagnoses lose their power because the treatments have run out They enter into relationship with folks in maybe the hardest moments of their lives And offer guidance and support in charting a path forward that fits the needs and values of the patient and their family Every day that I work with the palliative team Doing my small part to help meet our patients and families religious and spiritual needs Every day that I do this work is an education in empathy courage and companionship To persist in relationship when the answers have run out But decisions still must be made is one of the deepest acts of caring that I know It is a practice of radical intimacy with lives of fundamental uncertainty those gnawing doubts and anxieties That we are so accustomed to concealing behind a thin veil of false certainty A thin veil of false certainty that so often takes the form of binary either or always and never thinking we and All of us we not just folks working in the hospital or in healthcare. We are all so accustomed to these habits of thought so well practiced in their applications that That it's often invisible to us. We don't We don't see what we How we behave and what it is that's pushing us forward in certain ways of Action and thought and relationship It's hard to recognize when we are defining one thing against another when we are knowing what something is by knowing what it is not Because we do it all the time even a spiritual exhortation to Let all that divides us remove and pass away as we sung together a short while ago Is itself practicing a false binary as it divides time between an imperfect and now and an aspirational eventual undivided then I can't help but think of these words from the reverend theodore parker by way of contrast I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the ark of the ark is a long one and my eye reaches but little ways I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight I can divine it by conscience And from what I can see I am sure it bends toward justice Reverend parker's words situate us in the present moment and more than that we feel his presence and companionship in them There is no critical or comparative distance But rather acknowledgement that he is right with us on the journey to that time approaching When all shall dwell together secure and manifold now Did you catch my slip up in that example? It was these four words by way of contrast I I decided to leave that phrasing in as an example And as a reminder that this is a habit of thought which is deeply embedded in our culture and the day-to-day habits of our lives But I do wonder about different ways of phrasing Different words or thoughts that I could have used that wouldn't have aimed reverend theodore parker At good old hymn number 144 as though he was a theological battering ram To shift to a more personal and intimate example. I invite you to take a moment to reflect To think back on the last time you argued with someone you care about Did the words you always or I never escape either of your lips One great thing about having a family or being in any kind of close relationship Is that it offers frequent opportunities to observe and participate in conflict And it is amazing How that totalizing language those always's and never's is When deployed in disagreement are like throwing gasoline on a fire Because that false binary hurts That mischaracterization that totalization that cuts It's not an accident that the word that we use for deeply entrenched political factions partisanship Takes its name from a brutal variety of european spear If you need something divided expediently from itself reach out and grab a partisan Finally and speaking of political weapons. We are in in this country and in in our world We are in a cultural moment In which this binary either or mode of thinking Is being cynically leveraged against people whose lives do not fit within the heavily policed boundaries of gender and sexuality binaries trans people gender queer people Intersex people enby people Gay lesbian and bisexual people all are being targeted by reactionary conservative individuals and groups Which know that they can build a stronger sense of in-group identity among their own partisans By scapegoating people who are simply seeking to live lives of authenticity and integrity And this country's long history of racism of propping up a white majority by systematically oppressing people and communities of racial and ethnic minorities Runs on that same dynamic of othering and dividing now my impulse this morning is to Transition to wrap things up now into a nice tidy package with a nice tidy takeaway that We can each bring forward into the next days and weeks and months of our lives but Isn't that impulse towards completeness and perfection? The symptom of that binary thought of which i've been speaking Rather than a conclusion then i want to Close this part of our service with some suggestions Some ways that might help us to remember that we are each part but not all And conveniently enough different pieces of the service can help as memory aids and guides for these suggestions From our story of the rabbit and the duck May we each strive to remember that there is more to the story than what we pull from our immediate impression and frame of reference And may we remember that Being in beloved community can guide us to fuller knowing In her poem some questions you might ask Mary oliver reminds us to be open to broader thinking and deeper love For the world around us and the ecosystems we participate in if I were asked Reverend victoria saffard suggests that we conceive of god or spirit Or whatever name you have for that which is greater than all As a space between a space of meeting where solitudes can join Like these words from khalil gabran's the prophet To let us remember that even as the strings of the lute stand alone they quiver with the same music And finally from our our hymn number 144 let us remember that What we experience now is not the totality of what we will experience And that faith is not the exercise of certainty That faith is that which helps us proceed with life Even as we experience doubt suffering and loss And that there must be a place within each of us An enviable sanctuary sanctuary of the heart In which to paraphrase the words of Him that's beloved to my heart. I know this rose will open in which we hold the certitude that That the bud contains the blossom And that our fears Are not the final word in our lives And the best news of all the the news the the reminder that I'll share to end my words today Is that there is no better community that I know of no better set of principles to practice To serve as guide and support and loving encouragement and correction To do the ongoing work of practicing that eternal becoming that sets us free from false dualities There is no better way that I have come across Than to be in this place with this congregation Doing the work of upholding our principles and building our beloved community Now I need to find out what's happening next Let us enjoy the song from the choir We gather each week creating a community of love and support a place and a time where we can share the celebrations and the sorrows of our days And this week we light a candle for eva Wright former f us assistant music director Who passed away on tuesday Our love is with bob With their children larry and danica their grandchildren And all who love our dear miss eva A memorial service will be held sometime this fall to celebrate eva's life To remember all the joy And all the light that she brought to our days And we light a candle in solidarity with the people of ukraine Both in their suffering and in their struggle Together we yearn for peace for them and for all people For an end to all wars of conquest anywhere And everywhere on earth And if you'll join me now in a moment of prayer With these words from mark belatini Holy one that holds us all May the sky above us unroll like a scroll and let us read upon it today's text for our lives You are alive here and now Love boldly and always tell the truth Let the wind arrange the branches of the maples and aspens and oaks into letters which proclaim this sacred text Your heart beats now Not tomorrow or yesterday Love the gift of your life And do no harm Let the eyes and hands and faces of all those with whom we share this earth Be chapter and verse in this great scripture text Life is struggle and loss And also tenderness and joy Live all of your life Not just part of it And now let all the poems and scriptures and novels and films and songs and cries and lullabies and prayers and anthems Open up before our hearts Let them open like all the holy words and let them proclaim Do not think you can take away each other's troubles But try to be with them Remember that you are part Not all Great Not by far the greatest Small precious brief breaths In the great whirlwind of creation And remember that every single human word is finally and divinely cradled In the arms of silence Blessed be And amen And now let us rise and body and our spirit to sing together our closing hymn number 1002 in the teal hymnal Comfort me The first four verses Of our benediction today come from the reverend doctor howard thurman mystic theologian Mentor of the civil rights movement This is an excerpt from his autobiography with head and heart as a boy in florida I walked along the I walked along the beach of the atlantic in the quiet stillness that can only be completely felt When the murmur of the ocean is stilled and the tides move stealthily along the shore I held my breath against the night and watched the stars etch their brightness On the face of the darkened canopy of the heavens I had the sense That all things The sand The sea the stars The night and I Were one long through which all of life breathed Not only was I aware of a vast rhythm enveloping all But I was part of it And it was a part of me blessed be Go in peace senses alert for the moments where you find In yourself the comforting cloak of night As well as the glittering clarity of the stars And please be seated for the postlude


So she made $97, $97 of change and an hour and 30 minutes. She was getting in it. Hey, how you doing? Can you see someone up front for the instor pickups? I'm riding, I'm riding, I'm getting, I'm riding, I'm getting. It's mine. I spent it. So a lot of people is off work today, so they probably gonna get their own food. That's probably why the order stopped like that. It's DDK though. Back today with another Door Dads video. Huge shout out to everybody tuning in. If you want to subscribe, make sure you smash that subscribe button. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. February 21st. And we already been getting to this money, baby. With my business partner getting to the money. She went out early and guess what? She got three orders. I'm just gonna tell you the total at the end. So make sure you watch this video and not skipping these ads and we getting to this bag. Order number one, Walgreens order. 19.3 miles, 14 items for 21, 44. She was an adult. Order number two, Jewel Osco 3.2 miles, 23 items for 32. Big 32 game for $32 with a holla. And then last but not least, she got a spark order. Three items, 5.9 miles for 28, 45. So she made $97, $97 to some change and an hour and 30 minutes she was getting in it. So we need $103 more. And guess what else? Right when I got in the car, guess what here? Walmart, Walmart. Six orders, 10 items, 29.2 miles for 33 dollars. We have it's not gonna be 29.2 miles. I'm gonna tell you how many miles we get. After I go in Walmart, we got to pull up there right now. Get these orders, get busy, get this money. Cause we ain't playing no games cause it ain't funny. Makes you smash the subscribe button.  Do not skip the ads. Watch us get to this bag. Let's go. Walmart we back like we never left. This is my favorite zone. We're trying to get this zone. You already know let's go. Hopefully we got somebody up there to get us right. We really do have somebody up there. I hope we got it all ready to go. We ain't got to do nothing to get this money, baby. I think I see somebody else here. I saw somebody walk past. Ain't nobody up here, they hate me. I'm about to call them. Hey, how you doing? Can you see someone up front for the in-store pickups? All right, thank you. That's it, I was there. My hand held nothing, I started it. Oh, for real? Yeah, give me a second. They need to upgrade your stuff, man. They need to brand new one. It just started, I swear it just started. So they said it works off the Wi-Fi, right? Yeah. Yeah. What's going on?  How you doing? You see, you ready to go? Yeah, I'm old, I'm old, I'm old. I'm old, I'm old. You and your brand. I'm old man, they say, they say you never know. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Oh, thank you. Guess what? It's only gonna be 15 miles, 33 minutes. So we're gonna make $1 per minute. Let's get in it. Order number one, let's get it done. So guess what? They gave us two orders to go to the same house, so we're gonna get paid double. Mop, so you gotta drop time right there, hit them with that photo. Mop, scan, I'ma scan this. Scan that down. Mop, drop that like it's hot. Go, get them with that photo, you already know it all. Mop, let's get it. Order number two, what it do? You know what I'm talking about, we're getting this sweaty, baby. Drop it like it's hot. Mop, you know what I'm talking about? Mop, do a bit of pop, let's get it. Second to last, time to have a blast, baby. Oh, let's do it. Oh, that's what I'm talking about, baby. We have to go to, I don't know what this is. It says G3, but it's unable to do it. Second card, one on two, what it do? One on three, one on two, one on two, what it do? So I'm gonna do it with that photo. Get it.  You know what I'm talking about? Drop it like it's hot. Mop, get it with that photo. Mop, drop it off. Let's get it. Order number five, stay alive, let's drive. Shakespeare Lake, 6.1 miles for 1260 full wind, and though you already know, guess what? Mop, we're here right now, let's get this money, baby. They got us right, baby. We're gonna get this money, let's go. There you go. Put it right here, I'm not gonna get to it, let's drink. And then your drinks right here. We have a good one. Order number six, let's get it in the mix. Starbucks, 3.9 miles for 870 full, you already know we're gonna get this dough, let's go. And as you guys can see, this joint is packed, boy. If it takes too long, guess what? We gotta move on to the next one. We trying to get this money, you know what I'm talking about? We ain't got time to play no game, we trying to do a hard thing, baby. Let's go. Oh, I see a bag over there. How you doing? I have a pickup for Nora's Eats. Starbucks, baby, I just wanna tell you guys this. One thing I dislike about Starbucks orders, they have these little old things, look at them, they always pop off. They need to get some bigger stickers. They say leave it on the stairs by the mailbox. My box, hit them with that phone, my box. The doorbell, box, get it. Order number seven, thank God for his blessings. Denny's six items, 8.5 miles for 1203, give it to me, baby. Guess what? No, no, no, I know you made that $2,000 a mile. I already know what you're thinking in your head, but we gotta go this way anyway. We gotta get close back to that Walmart so we can get them spark orders. So make sure you smash that subscribe button, give me a thumbs up, and do not skip the ads, and watch us get to this bag, let's go. We here at Denny's, they got people waiting in line. I ain't waiting in line, I don't get time. Hello. Excuse me. Hey, this one's packed. How you doing, sir? I have a pickup for a Don Fields. Don Fields. Okay, I got it, bro, I'm picking it. All right, thank you. All right, thank you, you have a good one. Yeah, you're welcome. You don't wanna wait, baby, baby, let's go. Hello. Ah, right on time, huh? Yeah, yep. Thank you, you have a good one. Let's go. Order number eight, don't be good, be great. It's time to skate so you can stop the hate. Einstein, bro, six items, 4.8 miles for 8.25, let's drive. Time to get this money, hey, hopefully you got it together. Uh-huh, Chris, a brand, that's his name, let's get this brand, you know what I'm talking about? Let's go.  Guess what, we showed this house like a few months ago. He just wants to party, let's get it. Order number nine, we on the grind to the end of time, so watch that shine, baby. Chipotle, two items, 3.6 miles for 8.50, get with me. Chipotle, baby, baby. He says hand it to him, that's the next one we're gonna do. Hello. Hey, doggy, here you go, you have a great one. Well, I don't know what's going on with DoorDash and Uber Ease, but it's got, it's like completely stopped. So we getting orders, we riding around them, we getting, I'm riding, I'm riding, I'm getting, I'm riding, I'm riding, I'm getting, it's mine. I spent, we getting busy, I'm talking about getting busy, going crazy, right? Next thing you know, it just stopped, all the orders just stopped, and I got like two terrible orders, and I haven't got anything since, and it's been about 45 minutes. I don't know what's going on, but they did get it together, baby, because you gotta get this 200 plus a day to keep the haters away, or else I'm about to go here, edit this video, and I might have to come back up for a little bit at night time because we already are at 183.54, you already know we in the door, let's go. And it is 123, baby.   Man, this is going terrible. It was, everything was going so good, man. It was far, I'm like, boom, we gonna get done early today, we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get on. Not on duty, not any happen, it didn't happen. Look, speaking too fast. Now, I've been riding around for 45 minutes, I went to multiple different locations, and I still haven't gotten any orders. So, well, I keep you guys updated on everything, but I don't know. Comment below and let me know if this happened to you today. Let's go. Guess what I just thought about? I'm riding around, I'm thinking, right? Guess what, today is President's Day. So a lot of people was off work today, so they probably gonna get their own food, that's probably why the order stopped like this. Let's go ahead and let me get this last little $15, man. Let's go ahead and somebody order something, have the DK come and drop it off so we can get busy. That's all I need you to do. But, I hope you guys are enjoying the video. Make sure you smash that subscribe button. Make sure you give me a thumbs up. Do not skip the ads, and if you get into this bag, go ahead and put the money bag signs in the comment section. And if you get into this bag, go ahead and hit the like button. If you're not, give me a thumbs down. Let's go. Finally, baby, order number 10 it's time to get it in. McDonald's two miles for $6, we a holla. Let's go. McGee, baby. Drop it off. Oh, we got another quarter. Nope, not taking that. Right, man, I'm dropping. Get busy. Let's go.  Walmart grocery order, 55 items, two orders, 6.2 miles for $13, we a holla. I hope there's not any issues with this one because it says he's supposed to pick it up by 157. It is now 203. Literally just got the order. So I don't know, but I hope everything's good.  You know what I'm talking about? My name is wrong and I'm rocking on the microphone. You know what I'm talking about? Let's get this money, baby. We are here to drop off order number one. Let's get it done, baby. It says leave at the front door. So that's exactly what we're going to do. You know what to do. Oh, come right here. Oh, don't get me, doggy. I don't want to pop them. I don't want to pop them, doggy. Hello, thank you. You have a great one. You too. Guess what, guys? We just finished that first order and the first order is $13. So let's see how much we get for the second one. Let's get it. Order number two, what it do? I'm gonna take two trips on this joint. They got a right, didn't they? The moment of truth. How much did we get, baby? We only got $6 for that joint, but we did get $19 all together. And just like that, it is the end of the video, baby. I hope you guys enjoyed the content. Make sure you smash that subscribe button. Make sure you give me a thumbs up. Do not skip the ads because we've got to that bag today. Guess how much we got today, baby? 208.54. Wean and dough, you already know. Look, I didn't have another order that I was gonna take. Wait, I'm gonna put it right there. It was a Jewel Osco order. Let me pay attention. Jewel Osco order, it was a liquor order. One out of 3.6 miles for $9.50, get with me. Sometimes you gotta know when to phone, know when to hold them, know when to run.  Cause look, I could've get that order. I probably went to Jewel Osco, got the thing and everything, and the next you know, you get to the customer house and they don't answer the door. So guess what? Now you gotta pay phone tag when I'm calling them a thousand times. I'm not even gonna put myself in that position. I'm just gonna get this money and keep on moving and keep on going. But I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Also, I'm gonna say huge shout out to everybody who's tuning in to these videos. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate all your support, all the love, all the comments, all the likes, all of everything. When I say if you get money, I don't mean just DoorDash, Uber Eats and all that stuff, GigEx, I'm talking about period. I don't care what you're doing. You may be a hairstylist, you may be a barber, you may have a job, you may have a business, you may have all these different things. It doesn't matter to me. As long as you get into that money, baby, that's all I care about. I don't care how you get the money. As long as you get the money. And sometimes people may, if you don't knock other people hustle, everybody get their money in different ways. I ain't, look, everything that everybody does don't work for everybody. Gig work might not work for you, but it worked for me. So, hey, we ain't complaining, we're maintaining. We congratulate everybody on all the success on whatever they may be doing. And everybody doesn't wanna be a gig worker. Everybody doesn't wanna be self-employed or don't work at a place. Some people actually like their jobs. So don't knock people who work their jobs because some people like them, you know? It is what it is. And it ain't what it ain't. But I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Make sure you lock in tomorrow because it's going down again. We're getting it in one more game, baby. 200 plus a day, we'll keep these hands away. Also, one more thing before we get out of here, I just wanna say one more thing. 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The mysteries of Islam fascinate us time and time again. This is no different from the life story of the Prophet. Who was Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wasallam, an illiterate dozen merchant who one day stumbled upon amazing Arabic rhetoric, or was he the creation of Allah's greatest light? Sent down to earth to pull man out of ignorance and bring them to the purest of truths. I, Ali Burji, am on a journey to discover the real story behind the Prophet, the real story behind our religion, the roots, the beginning, the cradle of civilization. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, Ustadi al-Azeez. InshaAllah we're continuing. We were left at Amir al-Mu'mineena alaihi salam approaching the Holy Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wasallam. And as you've mentioned quoting from the book, Amir al-Mu'mineena was very shy and for three days he'd go. So on the third day eventually the Holy Prophet understood why Amir al-Mu'mineena was coming for. So he got the proposal, he went back to Fatima al-Zahra, sallallahu alaihi wa alihi. And Fatima al-Zahra indicated through her silence that she approved and the Holy Prophet went back to Amir al-Mu'mineena.  So inshaAllah we'll continue from there. Bismillah. Audhu billahi min ash-shaytani r-rajim, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, wal-hamdulillahi rabbil al-alamin wa s-salatu wa s-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammad al-Mu'mineena, tawibin al-tawibin al-ma'asumeen, wa l-la'nat da'imati ala ada'im as-ma'in. Yes, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi went back to Imam alaihi al-salam and he reported that Fatima al-Zahra has approved because the last thing that Fatima al-Zahra said was, at least the final thing was that, I am content with whatever Allah and His Messenger are content with. So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi went back and said that to Imam alaihi al-salam and in order to clarify he said, are you happy to become the husband of Fatima al-Zahra?  And then the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi said, before you came today, one of the Malaiyis, one of the angels came down to me. And did he say, which angel by the way, Doctor? Yes, and I'll tell you, says that he came down and he said to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi that, your status in the south of Allah is the highest and there is nothing higher than that. And the Prophet said to him, oh Jibrail, I hadn't seen you in this form before because Jibrail appeared to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi in different forms, even in the form of some individuals, which we won't go into at the moment, individuals like some of the Sahaba who were good, he used to, and they passed away, they appeared to them like that. So he said, I haven't seen you in that, in this form before. And the angel said to him, I'm not Jibrail. My name is Sarsail. And I have, Allah has dispatched me and I've come to instruct you or to give the good news of the marriage between the light and the light. And I've just come down to say this, but Jibrail and Mika'il and Israfil and another Malaika Isma'il, they will come down along with 70,000 Malaika, they will come down to you in a short while. And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi says, O Sarsail, what do you mean by when you say the marriage of the Nur with the Nur, the light with the light? He said, I mean the marriage of Fatima and Ali. So the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa alihi wanted to make sure that when this narration, this report, this hadith is narrated, he didn't suffice by saying light with light and a thousand years later, people, when they read it, it's a bit ambiguous as to what they mean by it. They might talk about always the wedding of George and Sarah, whatever, yeah. So he specifically says, what do you mean by light with light? And Sarsail replies, the marriage of Fatima and Ali, Ali Mus'alaam. See, that's the thing that, subhanallah, the Holy Prophet and the Ahlul Bayt, Ali Mus'alaam, them being aware constantly of the future and obviously them being given knowledge, which we don't know, they understood of the complications that would occur throughout the time. So they would emphasize and make these obvious questions just for us to hear it, not for them or anyone else, it's for us. Exactly. It's all for the benefit of the reader who would come in a thousand years' time or two thousand years' time. How truly blessed we are. Insha'Allah. The narration says that when the Sarsail was saying goodbye and he left, the Prophet says, I saw it's written on his shoulder, there is no God but Allah, Muhammad is a messenger and he will be supported by Ali, who is his wasli and the authority after him. And when I saw this, I said, since when this is written on your shoulder? He says that this was written 24,000 years before the creation of Adam. Subhan Allah. Subhan Allah, imagine. Okay, then when he left, when the Sarsail left, Jibrail along with Mikael and Israfil and Isma'il and 70,000 Malaika arrived, and first of all they gave like some perfume to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi and they said that this perfume is for Fatma al-Zara'a, and then they brought a document from Paradise and I said to Jibrail, what is this? This was written in this document. O Muhammad, Allah chose you for the Rasala, for the mission, for conveying his message, Allah's message to the people, to creation and then he chose a brother for you and a wazir, a vice-chairman and a helper and a son-in-law so that you would marry Fatma to him. And he said, now this is just before Ali bin Abi Talib comes for the third time and he says, oh my beloved Jibrail, who is this second person? Who is this brother and wazir and helper? What's his name? He says he is your brother in religion and your cousin in blood, he is Ali bin Abi Talib. So again, another example of that. Emphasizing again. First of all, he did it with Fersa'eel, which that was some, if you like, some time ago, a short time before. Now Jibrail comes, he brings this document and this is what Allah says, Allah has chosen the Prophet for the mission, he's chosen Imam Ali, he's chosen someone to help the Prophet, to be his brother and to be his helper and to be his son-in-law and he instructs him to marry Fatma to him, he asks who is he? The Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, asked who is he? Just to make sure that who, these are all come from Imam Ali, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. Okay, so the Prophet, now this is the quote which the Prophet made to Imam Ali when he said to him, before you came, this is what happened. He again emphasized, are you content to be the husband of Fatima? He says, yes, I am content. And then he goes on to say that you will marry Fatima and she is Sayyidat-e-Nisaal Al-Alamin and Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, will grant you two sons, they are the masters of the youth of Paradise, they are Hassan al-Hussain, the Ummah will rung them and do oppress them. Oppress them and Hussain will be killed in a brutal way. So, right from the outset, the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, is telling Imam Ali, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, as to what's going to happen. But he continues that. But I'm pretty sure once again, maybe the narration was not intended for the ears of Amir-e-Mu'mineem Bakr-e-Raz. I'm sure, I'm sure, it's also, and listen, it says that the success is after me, R-12, the number of the months of a year and also Isa-e-Bin-Mari'em, Isa, the son of Mariam, will descend and will pray behind the last Imam, the last one of the 12 Imams. So, in a nutshell, very briefly, the Prophet, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam says to Imam Ali, what's going to happen? Because of this, as a result of this marriage, this holy marriage, between these two holy individuals, this is the outcome, the 12 Imams, they're there for the guidance of the people and eventually, Isa-e-Bin-Mari'em, one of the Prophets of Allah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, will come and pray behind Imam Mehdi, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, Now, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk about the mahar. About the mahar. Now, mahar, before we start, we tried finding the translation for it in English and we found the word dowry, which we use in English. But however, what I've realized is that we're using a wrong word because the terminology, the definition of dowry is a property slash money or anything of value, whether given by the bride to the husband, which is the other way around. In Islam. In Islam, because we don't have anything in Islam of an obligation from the bride to the husband. So maybe it's best to just describe what mahar means. Yes, mahar is something that the husband is required to give to the wife, to the bride, if you like. It's an obligatory deed, it's an obligation for the husband to do that. And marriage would not be complete without this marriage. As you rightly mentioned, dowry is not the right term for it. Dowry means something completely different. Whatever the origin may be, whether it's India or other cultures. As you mentioned, it's something that the bride gives to the husband, whereas we don't have that in Islam. In Islam, it's the husband gives the mahar, he's obliged to give mahar to the wife and that could be money, gold, silver, or even taking it for ziyara, or even teacher. There were cases where the muhajireen and the sardis say we are poor, we can't give mahar. He says, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam used to say, do you know some passage of the Quran, some surahs of the Quran, they used to say yes. He says, okay, your mahar to her is to teach her those surahs of the Quran. It's not just about money. It's not just about money. It's something that he's obliged to give and that is called mahar or it's called sadaq, another term for it. It seals the marriage, it's like the signature on the contract basically. I don't know whether it's like that, but without it, it cannot be, the marriage will be complete with mahar or sadaq. It's an obligation that the husband should give to the wife. And in this case, in the case of the mahar or sadaq, the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the Prophet said, what would you give as a mahar for my daughter Fatim? And he said, I have a horse, a camel, a sword and an armor. And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said that, Subhanallah, this is all your blogging, your possessions. You need the sword and the horse for when you go to jihad to do battle. To defend Islam? You need the camel for travel or also for giving water, for irrigating the farm or the palm trees. But you don't need the armor. So go and sell the armor and bring the money here. But Amir Muhammad said, oh, Rasulallah, this armor would be worth nothing more than 500 dirhams. 500 dirhams is minus silver coins. This is not much. But he would like to sell the horse or the camel which will bring more money than 500 dirhams. And the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I will marry Fatimah to you with that. You know, I will be happy with that 500 dirhams. And that mahar became the sunnah, the tradition for the weddings? Yes. However, unfortunately, we could maybe be out of the topic, discuss with you guys where we've ended up with our communities nowadays. And unfortunately, certain families ask for extravagant amounts of money. Sometimes it's so ridiculous. And we feel sorry for men who are being struggling. They have to work for years to gather up that amount just to satisfy. And it's truly a shame when you see the best, the purest, the best of personalities, the best of existence, and Fatimah to Zahra accepted 400, 500 dirhams. Then who are we to ask for more than that? In my humble opinion, that should have been the maximum anyone could ask for. It's true that this became known as the mahar sunnah. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi always encouraged that the mahar be a small amount or at least stick to this mahar sunnah. And it's true that these days people ask for extravagant amounts. When you say that it should be the maximum, we don't have that in Islam. It's been left open. It's been recommended. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi recommended that they use this as a sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi mahar sunnah and it will be barakah in that marriage because if they choose this mahar which is 500 silver coins and this will be equivalent, if I remember correctly, one and a quarter kilograms of silver and that will be roughly about four, five hundred dollars. That's the sort of money you're talking about. But anyway, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi did not make it a mass, this mahar. So people can ask more, but there have been numerous hadiths and so on to emphasize it, to keep the mahar low. At least there are indications that if you want to give, if you are able to give gifts to the bride, on top of the mahar sunnah. So you keep the mahar sunnah which is 500 dirham and separate the gifts. So that you will have the barakah of this mahar. The mahar of this marriage will be like the mahar of the marriage of Fatima al-Zahra, and the marriage of Fatima al-Zahra, so it's recommended that scholars these days say use that mahar sunnah, 500 silver coins. But if you are well-off, if you are able, you can give on top of that, as a gift, not part of the mahar, but you can give gifts to the bride. And by doing so, you've made sure you stuck to this mahar, you use this mahar of Fatima al-Zahra for your marriage. So inshallah people will sort of do that. But yes, the Prophet didn't ban anything higher than that. He didn't say it's a must to do this. It's a sunnah. And of course you see the barakah that happened in their marriage. And despite all the animosities, we see the end result of the barakah of that marriage today and inshallah we'll continue to say it until the day of Qiyamah. So it's important that the faithful try to do their best to abide by the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi. And one of the sunnah in marriage is this mahar sunnah. And one of the most important things is not to focus on the materialistic side because at the end of the day, look at the great example of Amir al-Mu'minin in Fatima al-Zahra. You had the wealthiest of people come approach the Holy Prophet and the Holy Prophet was not interested in their money. You mentioned about how the Holy Prophet, for example, turned some stones into precious gems just to prove a point that, you know what, we're not interested in this. If this what we wanted, we could have had the whole world. It belongs to us anyway. So it's beautiful how we can learn from these incidents and apply them in our life because we think that the spiritual value of life cannot be compared with the materialistic one. There's more important things than money. You can have money, but you can't have, for example, money can't give you knowledge, money.  And it's very beautiful for us to keep reminding ourselves that there's more to life than just striving to acquire materials where eventually we're just going to leave them behind because we're going to pass away one day. Ah, Santa. Of course, material is important. No, Bismillah. I just want to comment on that material is important but we shouldn't give, you know, we shouldn't be attached to it. It's important to when it's required and needed in life. Exactly. But it shouldn't be the purpose of life. That's right. Yeah. Ah, Santa. Yes. So the mahar was decided at 400 to 500 dirhams. Yeah. Yeah. And the Amir al-Mu'minin, alaihi salam, went and sold his armor. And then? He said that Amir got up and took his armor so that he could sell it and he took it to the market and he had the armor on his shoulder. And then he came across someone and he approached him, ma'ma alaihi salam, and he says, Ya Ali, this is very interesting. He knew his name. Ya Ali, will you, have you brought this armor for sale? He said yes. And he said, what are you asking for it? For the sale, ma'ma alaihi salam said 500 dirhams. And then he got a pouch of silver coins. He said, this is 500 dirhams. He took the armor. And ma'ma alaihi salam took the money, took the 500 coins and went to the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi, and he placed it on the thing and this is 500 dirhams. And he said, who did you sell it to? He asked the Prophet, he said to ma'ma alaihi salam, who did you sell the armor to? He said, O Rasulullah, someone stranger. He saw me and he was a buyer and I sold it to him. He said, do you know him? He said, no. He said, that was Jibrail, who has been sent by Allah, to go and buy the armor from you. And so the money that you have got from is from Allah, SubhanAllah. And God knows, maybe one day in Jannah we go, inshallah and we see the armor just somewhere. Okay, you jump too quickly. Then the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi said, this is the armor. Jibrail brought it to me and take you back. So, yes, which of course this shows, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi says, this is an honor for my daughter, that Allah, SubhanAllah, paid for the dowry. He comes and buys. You said dowry, it's not dowry. That's the thing, doctor. It's just because we're accustomed to using that way. So the mahar. So Allah, SubhanAllah, paid the mahar. Yes. SubhanAllah. SubhanAllah. Can we continue or I've got another thing to say. InshaAllah we'll call it in and we'll continue next time. It is said that Jibrail, alayhi salam, went back to the heavens. And this time came back with a document in which it was written that Allah has set the mahar of Fatima al-Zahra to be the Shafa'ah of the sinners of the Shia of her father.


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I don't think about it like I'm super quick. I'm always like straight up on the rim. You don't want to be leaning. It's a good indicator here. You're not jumping. Yo, today I want to teach you what I learned to help my dribble dunk and go from this to this. Ah, perfect. If you're new to this channel, welcome to the dunk life where we do three things. One, maximize our energy with healthy habits. Two, channel that energy with mental awareness.  That's where we're attacking. I don't want anything less. Subscribe if you're into it and hit that notification bell because guess what? Subscriber dunks are back, boy. I'll be reviewing your dunk, so submit the video below. Let's get it. Let's dunk, baby. Let's get it.  We go by the tenths of inches on this channel. It's been a great couple of weeks jumping my highest ever. Restarted my daily podcast so you can get in-depth training because that's the only way I can do it. I got too much information. I feel like I'm trying to do the hardest thing possible, which is make the difficult things look effortless. Don't jump. I'm too hype and I can't wear this thing every day or every jump, but a few things I learned off the dribble recently has been just jump with it. And I used to say just jump, but now I have to say just run. So what I mean by just jump is not think about too much. And when I was thinking about it too much, I was loading up like crazy like this and trying to load up because that's the mentality I have off the lob, but off the dribble, I don't need that mentality because the ball's in my hand. I need to have that mentality, but not act on it. So what I mean by that is when I throw a lob, I have the mentality of loading up, but since I'm going for the ball, it keeps me in the right jumping position. But off the dribble, when I have the mentality, I forget to stay upright and I want to load up and I lean and then I end up going forwards and not using my jump. And now the other thing, is just jump in my mindset. And the just run mindset is to jump quickly. Just go like this and just take off quick.  Down and up, super quick. So I have to remember that off the dribble to just jump with it. Just like if I was going for a lob, I don't think about it, I go super quick and I was loading up and going a little too slow. So let's see what I got using those tips and I'll see what I feel like after this jump. I'm out of breath. Ah, perfect. I can't plan that. That's perfect. So what felt right on that jump was that I planted and I went up balance. The last couple of jumps that you saw, it felt like I was, when I finished, even though I finished and made the dunk, I felt like I was like this, which is an indicator I was a little bit leaning. I wasn't like my yams when I throw up up, which is a hard dunk for those that don't know. When I finish a lob, I'm always like straight up on the rim. You don't want to be leaning. It's a good indicator you're not jumping correctly. It's enjoyable because without that dream, you're just not happy. That's the type of dream I want you to go after. Hope you enjoyed that video and please leave a comment when that's what they want to see. Leave a comment on what you'd like. You get it. Every day that's dunk life. Oh, that's the end, the right bear.


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