وَأَقُولُ فِي القُرْعَانِ مَا جَاءَتْ بِيهِ آيَاتُوهُ فَهُوَ الْكَارِيمُ المُنزَالُهُ وَأَقُولُ قَالَ اللَّهُ جَلَّ جَلَالُهُ وَالْمُصْطَافَ الْهَاديِ وَلَا أَتْ أَوَّالُهُ الحمد لله رب العالمين له الحمد الحسن والثانار الجميل وأشد أن لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له يقول الحق وهو يهد السبيل وأشد أن سيدنا ونبينا محمد صلى الله عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه والتابعين لهم بإحسام إلى يوم الدين أما بعد أحبت أخوة أخوة أخوة اليوم نحن نأخذ أتفسير نحن نأخذ أتفسير لكن ليس أين نحن نحن last week لأنه لأن أخوة التي أخذت أخوة التي أخذت من قصة أصحاب أخدود نتكلم أن يتكلم 14 أخوات أخوة أخرى 16 أخوات لا أعلم أين أخذتها لا أعلم أين أخذتها إن شاء الله أتعالى أتمنى أن أجد أخوة أخرى أو إذا لم أجد يجب أن أترى أخوة أخوة أخوة أخوة أرى أن أجد أخوة أخرى أجد بإذن الله الكريم إن شاء الله أتعالى يجد تفسير أبن آية الله سبحانه وتعالى سنة القرآن إن الشيطان لكم عدوهم فاتخيدوه عدوه إنما يدعو حزبه ليكونوا من أصحاب السعير هذا هو الثلاث آية الصورة الفاطر صورة الفاطر آية 6 الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول في هذه الآية إن الشيطان الشيطان هو لكم أخوة فاتخيدوه عدوه أخوه كأخوة إنما يدعو شيطان يدعو حزبه يدعوه those who are of his group شيطان يدعوهم إنما يدعو حزبه ليكونوا من أصحاب السعير so they can be from the inhabitants and those who reside in Hellfire this آية tells us that الشيطان is our enemy الله تعالى instructs us in this verse he says فاتخيدوه عدوه he's your enemy and take him as an enemy and then الله تعالى tells us that الشيطان is calling those who follow him and those who go in line with him الله tells us إنما يدعو حزبه ليكونوا من أصحاب السعير شيطان he calls those who follow him to the Hellfire brothers and sisters the الشياطين are two types number one is شيطان الإنسي humans some humans are شيطان and some شياطين are jinn الله سبحانه وتعالى he says in the Qur'an من الجنة والناس from the human there's a shaitan and from the jinn there's a shaitan وصوين النذاء الله سبحانه وتعالى he says وكدالك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوه وكدالك جعلنا لكل نبي وكدالك جعلنا unlike that we have made لكل نبي every prophet عدوه we made an enemy for him every prophet and messenger that came الله سبحانه وتعالى he said we made for them an enemy then الله تبارك وتعالى he tells us that the enemy that he has made for them he says شياطين الإنسي والجن يوحي بعضهم إلى بعض الزخر فالقولي ورورا the enemies that Allah plays for the prophets and the messengers are too شياطين الإنسي والجن شيطان which are humans and شياطين which are devils or urgins then الله tells us سبحانه وتعالى يوحي بعضهم they send onto each other the shayateen the humans they talk to the jinn and the jinn talk to the humans يوحي بعضهم they talk to each other with what زخر فالقولي ورورا decorative speech indelusion the form and the way that they speak to each other is words that are beautified الله then says وَلَوْ شَاءَ رَبُكَ مَا فَعَلُوهُ فَدَرْهُمْ وَمَا يَفْتَرُونَ if Allah willed they will not have done this then الله تبارك وتعالى says to the prophet فَدَرْهُمْ يَفْتَرُونَ وَمَا يَفْتَرُونَ that which they make up and they invent so what we take is that the shayateen that the people generally tend to care about and to be concerned about are the ones that which are a jinn but many don't realize that the humans that are jinn who humans that are shayateen and Allah tells us in the ayah الله took a covenant and an oath with us to not wash the shayateen الله says in the Qur'an ألم أحد إليكم يا بني آدم ألا تعبد الشيطان إنه لكم عدو مبين وأني عبدوني هذا سراط مستقيم ولقد أظل منكم جيبلا كثيرا أفلم تكونوا تعقلون الله سبحانه وتعالى He tells us ألم أحد Did I not take a covenant and an oath and an oath with you or mankind for what يا بني آدم and the children of Adam Did I not take an ahad with you A meethab a covenant What is this covenant that Allah took with us الله تعبد الشيطان that you do not wash him shayateen إنه لكم عدو مبين He is your true enemy شيطان is your enemy الله tells us that he took a covenant with us that we don't wash him Who should we wash him واني عبدوني wash him me هذا سراط مستقيم That's the straight path That's the path that will lead you to Jannah And don't take the path of what obeying شيطان and worshipping him Then Allah tells us سبحانه وتعالى He says ولقد أظل منكم جيبلا شيطان He misguided generations and nations Many people misguided الله says أفلم تكونوا تعقلون Are you not ones Who are then going to ponder and look at what الشيطان has done to many What is it? واشيب الشيطان What does it mean? واشيب الشيطان means that you listen to him As Allah told us in سورة المريم والنبي الله إبراهيم came to his father And he said to his father يا أبتي لا تعبد الشيطان إن الشيطان كان للرحمان عصية يا أبتي my father لا تعبد الشيطان I don't worship shaytan Why? إنه شيطان يا أبتي لا تعبد الشيطان إن الشيطان كان للرحمان عصية شيطان was one that disobeyed its lord قمته here الله tells us here that إبراهيم spoke to his father And he said يا أبتي Oh my father لا تعبد الشيطان I don't worship shaytan How is he worshipping shaytan? ابن كثير says يا أبتي لا تعبد الشيطان اي لا تطر الشيطان Don't obey him by listening for a thousand to do Don't follow his speech Don't follow what he is calling you to Why? إن الشيطان كان للرحمان عصية الشيطان disobeyed Allah Why did the ayah say إن الشيطان كان للرحمان Why are rahman? Why no other name from the names of Allah Why specifically was the word are rahman here used Because the word sin is mentioned Your Lord is very merciful إبليس should not have disobeyed Allah A very merciful creator Who was kind and generous To Iblis And Iblis disobeyed him سبحانه وتعالى إن الشيطان كان للرحمان شيطان was to Allah الرحمان The most merciful عصية and the one who disobeyed him When did the enmity of Iblis start? When did Iblis start To show this enmity towards mankind The day that mankind started The day Allah سبحانه وتعالى Created Adam الشيطان showed his enmity and hate Allah tells us in the Quran وإدقنا للمنائكة تسجدوا لآدمة Allah says when وإذ The time that we said to the angels was to do to Adam a prostrate to Adam A prostrate to what? Adam And pay attention here وزدو A prostrate A prostration is the greatest symbol of servitude إبن القيم And that's why the masjid is called masjid It comes from the word sujood The whole masjid was named after sujood And أقرب ما يقول لعبد الله It's the time when the person is the most closest to what? Allah سبحانه وتعالى So Allah commanded سبحانه وتعالى To prostrate to Adam Everybody prostrated The angels they listened and they prostrated Look what Allah says in the ayah فَسَجَدُوا The word that's used here is a fat Fat shows Sur'iyah It shows as soon as Allah commanded them to prostrate The angels prostrated It didn't say وَسَجَدُوا Because وَسَجَدُوا means it can be days later It can be months later It can be time later But the word فَسَجَدُوا shows that the angels As soon as Allah تبارك وتعالى Told them to prostrate They prostrated straight away They did a delay فَسَجَدُوا All of them did it And then Allah تبارك وتعالى He said إلا إبليسة except إبليس إلا إبليس What did he do? He refused وَسْتَكْبَرَهِ Became arrogant وَكَانَهِ And Iblis was He was from the kafireen The disbelievers of Allah Iblis refused to prostrate to Adam This is where the enmity of Iblis starts now Allah said No, I'm not going to prostrate Who was he saying this to?  Because he refused to go against Allah's command And you need to know Anyone who goes against Allah's command Is from the صاريرين However high he thinks of himself However high he thinks he is noble Iblis was with the angels But the minute he disobeyed his lord What did Allah say to him?  قال أن ذرني Oh Allah Let me live for a duration A time What do I want to?  قال فبيما أغويتني Oh Allah Because you misguided me Through Adam This is what I am going to do to these people فبيما أغويتني لأقل دني لهم سراتك كلمستقيم And Allah says above ألم أعهد إليكم يا بني آدم أن لا تعبد الشيطان إن الشيطان قال ألم أعهد إليكم يا بني آدم أن لا تعبد الشيطان إنه لكم عدو وموبي وانعبدون هذا سراط مستقيم ده سراط مستقيم سراط مستقيم لأقل دني لهم سراط كلمستقيم The straight path That every Salad that we pray ظهر عصر عشة فجر Five day we pray is right إترك عودي ويسأهدر سراط المستقيم That's the straight path That's the straight path لأقل دني لهم سراطك المستقيم And what will I do ثم ألأتي لهم من بين إيديهم I will come to them from the front I will stand right in front of them ثم ألأتي لهم من بين إيديهم ومن خلفهم I will come to them in the front and from the back سبض المصصرين They said من بين إيديهم And behind them means the dunya I will make them I will deceive them in their worldly affairs So it corrupts hereafter affairs And I will also come to them on the right And I will come to them on the left ثم ألأتي لهم من بين إيديهم ومن خلفهم وعن أيمانهم وعن شما إيليهم I will come to them from the front from the back right and left The mufasri They said He couldn't say that I will go لأن الله تبارك وتعالى مرس يأتي And he can't get in between الله and his creation So Iblis made that oath And he made that So what does he do? إبليس will make you brothers and sisters become the one who falls off that path That's what he wants That's his aim and objective And the scholars they say أشد سلاح إبليس The greatest weapon إبليس carries إبليس is now standing in front of you On your right On your left Behind you All directions But the biggest weapon that he's carrying The greatest weapon that Iblis has أشد سلاح إبليس Is a tasweef It's procrastination It's the biggest weapon he has He will never let you achieve something today He will never let you do something The good that you thought of doing And the khair that you wanted to accomplish He will never let you do it today He will make you do it tomorrow And when tomorrow comes And then tomorrow And then tomorrow And he will never let you achieve it That's his greatest weapon إبليس أشد سلاح إبليس He said a tasweef The greatest weapon That Iblis carries And uses against the children of Adam Is to procrastinate And is to never Achieve what you're looking And the Great leader He said عبد الله إبن مروان إبن الحكم As an Imam إبن أبي الدنيا Brings in his Kitab أزهد He said ولا ترجي فعل الخير يومن Never delay A good of today Never delay it Pay attention to this statement ولا ترجي فعل الخير Never delay A good of today إلى غدن to tomorrow لعل غدا يأتي وأن تفقيدوا Never delay A good of today A good that you can achieve today Never delay for tomorrow لعل غدا يأتي Because tomorrow can come وأن تفقيدوا And you're upset You're not alive الله has taken you from this world And you're from those who are residing in your grave He will use that against you He will say to you Don't worry Don't memorize today شاء الله tomorrow I will organize my schedule on Monday When this time comes I will do this You guys all know the famous story قصة الأعشاء الأعشاء Was the great Arab poet And his statement Was given great weight الأعشاء If he spoke his words would go around Makkah Arabs would read that line of poetry He was a poet From the great poets of the Arabs الأعشاء أعشاء At a very old age He decided to take Islam He said I can't live this life of kufr This belief of Allah So he made his mind up He got out of his bed He got his Riding vest ready He mounted on it And he made his way to Medina قريش heard of أعشاء حلي towards Medina To take Islam And if he does The man has influence in Makkah So they grabbed him And they said to him الأعشاء We heard you're going to Makkah To Medina To meet Muhammad He said I am And I want to take Islam They said have you not heard That Muhammad prevents Zina Did you not know that he says You can't do Zina He does not let you do Zina أعشاء said I'm an old man The desires And the shahwa Of women They died out on me I have no need for it They thought They said الأعشاء Do you not know Muhammad prevents And he prohibits alcohol The consumption of alcohol He said really They said yes He doesn't allow A person To drink alcohol So الأعشاء I said okay That's the case He doesn't allow that That's something my nefs is inclined to I will go back to Makkah This year I will spend drinking alcohol Until I am finished With alcohol This year And my desires goes I will make my way to Medina And I will testify That there is none worthy of worship Except Allah That Muhammad is a slave and messenger And الأعشاء died that year Drinking alcohol So what did Iblis do And what did the shayateen Or insidue to him And what did the shayateen Or jinnidue to him At Tasweef They made him delay the good That he could have done that day The poet also said مَا مَا بَا فَاتْ What has happened in the past Has happened in the past It's gone It's the time that has gone There's nothing you can do about it وَالْمُؤَمَلُ غَيْبُنْ And what you are Desiring And you want Is the future So it's not in your hand The thing that you're saying I will Is in the future It's not in your hand And the past is gone And the future is not in your hand Is in front of you وَلَكَ السَّاعَةُ الْلِتِ And تفِيها The only time that you Actually have control over Is the one you're in The one that's gone is gone And the one that's going to come Allah knows if you're going to see it The real time that you're going to see it The real time that you have control over Is the one that you're living in right now Many brothers and sisters That we will know today If we speak to them and say Brother You're on the streets Brother And sister What you're doing is not right Allah has prohibited this Stay away from this Don't worry I'm taking my time now Insha'Allah I will come to my senses soon Insha'Allah I will come to my senses soon Insha'Allah And And And And majority of them They die in the way that they are And this is from Brothers and sisters This is from the plots And the plan of Shaytan And this is what pleases him That you stay in the way That you are And your tomorrow just never comes So upon the today Any good that comes to you If you're not going to do it That minute you're in Then trust me You're not going to do it You won't do it the day after And the day after إبريس إبن القيب He mentions He has six stages And six steps This is إبريس's guideline He follows If he doesn't accomplish the first one He moves on to the second If he doesn't accomplish the second He moves on to the third And then the fourth And then the fifth And then the sixth إبريس has these six steps That he follows He did that from the time His enmity started with Adam Until today And people follow him Or with this And he makes a group The first of them is إبريس works to making people disbelievers He works towards كفر That's the first stage He makes the person Insult Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Or leave the religion of Islam Or never take Islam That's the biggest thing That he wants to achieve This belief Is the greatest stage for him Why? Because the person who falls into disbelief Will stay in the Hellfire Forever And for him That's what he wants He will work hard To bring doubt to you About your religion He will bring doubt to you Regarding your angels This Prophet Muhammad If God does exist Then why is this evil Taking place in this Doubts about your own religion If that doesn't work For إبريس And he doesn't accomplish that And he doesn't convince you To become a disbeliever Don't ever think to yourself That إبريس will give up And walk away He will Easily move to the second option That he has And the second option That ملوقائيو mentions Is that He jumps to Innovation He makes you Introduce matters into the religion Or do acts That are not part of the religion Either you are the one That's bringing these things Into the religion And you're the one Who's introducing it Into the religion When it's not from it Or You are doing an act That has been introduced Into the religion By somebody else And you think You're getting closer To Allah about it سفيان ابن سعيد أثوري رحمه الله He said He said that innovation Is more beloved To Iblis than sins Iblis loves innovation more Innovation And falling into acts of innovation And beliefs of innovation Is more pleasing And more beloved to Iblis Than what Than a person committing sins لأن المعصية To يتابوا منها Because Since people generally Repent from it The alcoholic The one who's committing He knows what he's doing is wrong As for the one Who is committing Innovation Actually believes He's getting closer To Allah about it وَالْبِدَعَتُواْ لَا يُتَابُواْ مِنْهَا Since are generally Repented from But innovation The person doesn't believe What he's doing is wrong So why would he repent for شيخه الإسلامي بلو تايمية He said إن أهل البداع The people of innovation أشهر من أهل المعاصي That the people of innovation Who innovate in religion Are worse than the sinners من أهل المعاصي أشهوانية بسنة والإجمع They are worse than them By the sunnah of the prophet The prophet sunnah shows that And the consents Of the Ummah show this The Kalam woman Whose speech is this This is the Kalam Of إبنو تايمية رحمه الله سر إن أهل البداع The innovators Are worse than the innovators Which is Which What are they worse than They are worse than the sinners Sorry من أهل المعاصي أشهوانية Those whose sins Are based on desires بسنة والإجمع And Ibn Taymias explains why There was a man at the time Of the prophet Who used to drink He used to drink alcohol And when he used to drink alcohol Some of the companions They cursed him And the prophet He said to the companions Don't curse this man فإنه يحب الله ورسوله This man loves Allah Don't curse him This man was a man Who used to drink alcohol The prophet Said don't curse this man God is what God is what God is distant from you The prophet said Don't curse this man God and his God and his messenger But when it came to the خوارج Who were a deviated group Who went short In matters pertaining to عقيد and اعتقاد They fell into innovation This man was drinking alcohol This problem with his was المعرصي الشهوانية الشهوى was towards drinking alcohol And the خوارج Who fell into bid'a The prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم He said لإن أدرقتهم If I meet the خوارج لأقتلنهم قتل عاد I will kill them The killing of what عاد right The prophet said that What does Allah say About the people of عاد In the Quran فهل ترى لهم من باقي ومعنى فهل ترى لهم من باقي When Allah destroyed the people of عاد Allah is saying Was there any remaining of this In other words الله تعالى He destroyed them of the face of this earth And then the prophet said to you That if I meet the خوارج I will not let one of them live I will take them all Of the face of this earth And here the one who was Drinking alcohol The prophet said to him What The company said don't curse him Let alone kill him So this shows what The innovation is what It's worse than sins That it's worse than Sins So Iblis would push you to innovation And he would make you do Acts of innovation If he doesn't succeed in that The second option He was saying this He doesn't succeed in that He doesn't accomplish that He moves on to the third Which is If Iblis will take you to what Major sins He will take you to major sins When he takes you to major sins Listen to these brothers There were some people Who Iblis succeeded In making them do major sins He succeeded in that He accomplished that And they fell into Acts which were major sins But don't you ever think to yourself That Iblis will just stop They will be content that way If he could push you up A bit more He would push you to the innovation again And we see a people today Who sing Music And they believe they're Getting closer to Allah By doing music Music is a Kabirah to you And Kabayah But it became an act of what Innovation for them They believe They're getting closer to Allah They believe they're Getting closer to Allah By what By this particular act They believe it's a form of worship Which then makes it a what Innovation So they say in their music The lyrics that they are singing And what they are saying in the music They say Allah You know Muhammad So it comes across as what Something that is That is Halal It's good So don't you think to yourself And then after that Within that music We find them saying lyrics of what Which Iblis does not stop at Bida'a He pushes it more to what Kufr and Shirel Don't you ever think He will leave you at one point Each stage he will push you To the worst of it And he will never make you go down So he will try hard to make it You fall into a Kabair He couldn't succeed in the kufr Okay He couldn't succeed in the Bida'a Iblis won't give up He will move to the third option What's the third option That he will move to El Kabair Major sins He couldn't succeed in that You're a tough person Mashallah Hardworking individual You're not accepting that from him You've got some strong iman in you He will say Okay Minor sins He will make you do minor sins The Prophet Say to us إياكم ومحقرات ذنوب Be cautious From the sins that are belittled محقرات ذنوب are sins That you say This is mine I'm not the worst here There are people doing Zina out there You know I mean There's worse people than I am إياكم The Prophet said Be careful and cautious Of what محقرات ذنوب The sins that the people belittled فإنهن Those sins that you're belittling And that you seem to be small فإنهن يجتمعنا They will come together على الرجل حتى يهلكه These sins will come to him These minor sins that you're saying They will come together One here One minor sin here Another minor sin here Another minor sin minor coming together What is it going to do to you It's going to destroy you The Prophet he said لا تحقيرنا صغيرة إن الجبال من الحصة Don't belittle a matter For verily The mountain that you see Is made out of small pebbles That came together Pebbles that came together Is what this mountain is from You're belittling this one sin And then you're belittling this one And then you're belittling this one And it's going to become a mountain What is it going to become A mountain رضي الله تعالى عنه A statement which is عتمان فع knee That the Prophet columns You can find him في الصحيح And that Вот That And that is he stated He said And that What And that And that وعطا ابن أبي رباح ومعكلمة وعالية ومعالية من هذه المنزل تابعين ومعالية ونوبل أنا فيسين لهم أمدني في السورس يقول إنكم لتعملون أعمالة هي أدقوا في عيونكم من الشعر وكننا نعدوا في أهدي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم من الموبقات أنكم يفعلون أكتنية today أنكم يفعلون هذه المنزل هي أدقوا في عيونكم من الشعر أنها أدقوا في عيونكم من الشعر وكننا نعدوا في أهدي رسول الله من الموبقات أسوا المنزل في الوقت المنزل كنا نعتقد هذا المنزل أنكم ينظرون كنا نرى في الوقت المنزل من المهلكات نحن يخطأون من المهلكات نرى في المنزل من الأسر that will destroy you that will annihilate you هذا how we used to see it at the time of the Prophet ﷺ هل أنتم أعجبوا أنوا في مقابلته أي حديث أن المنزل يخبرون لهم أنهم يقولون something to them ويقولون يا رسول الله هل هذا المنزل المنزل من أسر ومسجل الله هل هذا المنزل من النسل هل هل أذكروا هذا؟ لم يفعلوا هل أعجبون أم لا أن يقوم بعمله هل أذكروا أنهم يقولوني يا رسول الله هل هذا أجب؟ هل أنت سنة؟ لا.  He tried to make you fall into Saga'ir but he couldn't succeed. He will move on to the fifth which is المباح. مباح means things that are not haram. They are permissible. The Sharia has allowed you to do it. It's your choice. It's legislated. He will make you spend too much time in that thing which is مباح. كثرة to know. Sleeping is مباح. You can sleep if you want. And if you want you can leave it. But what he would do to you is because he couldn't throw you into the Saga'ir. اي بليس is not going to give up. He's going to make you overdo the مباح. Look at your enemy. Is he not a true enemy? He's a true enemy. He's taking every step to bring you closer to the Hellfire and distance you from Jannah. even if he can't stop you from entering Jannah اي بليس he wants you to go a level lower than the level that you can go to. That's what Allah said in the ayah that I started with. إن الشيطان لكم عدو وانفتخدوه. عدوه. He's an enemy. He's a true enemy. In any way he can cripple you. He will do it. So what would he do to you? كثرة to know. Sleep. كثرة to دخل. Excessive laughter. And also كثرة to الاجتماع. Too many over-gathering with people. Always meeting people. The answer is that you can meet people if you want to. You can socialize. He will make you overdo it. He will make you overuse your phone and your internet. He will make you overdo it. This is what he wants. If he believes he realizes this cannot happen. And he cannot achieve this. And what he will do to you is that if two things have come that are good. There's a father and there's a مفضول. Which is the sixth stage. One thing is greater than the other. He will make you take the one that's less. He will make you stay away from the good thing here. He will push you to the lesser of the two good. And he will make you busy yourself with that which is less. He's at a point where he's what? He's weak. If Iblis realizes whispering to you. Talking to you. Trying to misguide you. He's going to make you stronger. He will leave you alone. As he did for Omar. Iblis approached Omar. And when he spoke to Omar. Omar being who he is. قوي. Strong in his Eman. As soon as Iblis whispered to him. Whatever Iblis tried to tell him to do. He will double the effort. Iblis you're telling me to do this. I promise I'll pray more. You're telling me to do this. I promise I will fast even more. So Iblis realized that tampering or trying to touch Omar. Or even trying to misguide Omar. Makes matters even worse for him. So if Omar walks on that road. He walks on the other side. He believes he's misguiding Omar by leaving him alone. That's a true enemy. It's an enemy that's not going to leave you. And if he does leave you. He's only leaving you. Because there's a good in it for him. Because he said. I'll write. يا محمد. سحما واخي. يا سحما واخي. يا. So this is what he would do. And he would make sure that he comes to you from every direction. Brothers and sisters. Iblis has taken what many methods I've just told you. Those six stages. There's one final point that I want to conclude with. Which is very common that you see today. Which is that Iblis has a methodology in what he does.  There's something he does. Particularly to his users. And that is that. He will always try to make you to change the name of that thing. When the thing has a bad name. Your nefs is not inclined to go towards it. Your fitla. Your natural disposition will go for it. So the name has to be changed. And then it lets the nefs to go towards it. And this is common. ربا. What did Allah say in the Qur'an about ربا. Interest. ربا. Usury. What did Allah say about it? يمحق الله الربا. ويورب الصدقات. Right. Allah destroys ربا. Does He not say. Did Allah not say He will destroy ربا. Huh? So why do we call it interest for? Why do we call it profit? Did Allah not say I will destroy ربا. Who brought this name? Where did this name come from? Profits. Or interest. And then this is the part that شيطان said. When did he bring? When was this the first time that he did it? Allah says in the Qur'an وَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِمْ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْطَانَ شيطان whispered to who? آدم الحواء. Allah says for what? وَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِمْ شَيْطَانَ شيطان came and whispered to Adam and Hawa. He both said. What did he say to them? قال يا آدم. هل أدولك على الشجارة. لخلد وملك الله يبلا. He said to him. يا آدم وآدم. هل أدولك. Shall I not show you شجارات الخلد. The tree of eternity. عودي بالله. It's the tree that's going to take Adam out of the heaven. He called the tree of? Eternity. Why? Because this is going to make Adam want to eat from that tree. And why did he call it the tree of eternity? ابن القيب. ابن كثير. بغاوي. ابن جرير. قرطوري. من المفصلين. They all mentioned the wisdom and the reason why Iblis chose that term. خلد is because humans love eternity. We love that word. So he learned our nature. He knows our essence. So he used a term that will make our nefs inclined to it. He said. ألا أدولك على الشجارات الخلد. And what do we also like? We like leadership. وملك لا يبلا. And a kingdom that's not going to perish. هل لا تريد أن يتحدث عنهم؟ وعندما يستخدمون هؤلاء يتحدث عنهم. ربما الله يتحدث عنهم. ما حدث؟ يتحدث عن الشجارات. هذا هو طريق الشيطاني. هو طريق الشيطاني. يتحدث عن الأمر. Our youngsters, what do they call drugs? الهاتف. لأن الهاتف is good. It's got nutrition in it. What do they call alcohol juice? They call alcohol juice. What do the kuffar call zina? They call it a fae. Do you have an a fae? The zina. They call it what? They call it a fae. What do some people call shirky? They call it shafa'a. توصل. They give it terms that are. شمعي terms. يا أخي ش what? This is what? شرك. What do some people call? سحر magic. What do they call it? قرامات. سحر. He's a magician. They call it kramat. كرامات. What do they call a shaitan? They call him a willy. He never prays. He doesn't pray. He stopped praying 20 years ago. They say our chef doesn't pray anymore. Why? Because he reached a level where وعبد ربك حتى يأتيك اليقين. He reached a level where وعبد ربك حتى يأتيك اليقين. So he doesn't pray. He doesn't pray. Okay now. He's a shaitan then. No, he's a willy. So the term has to. Do you see brothers how it is? The name is changed. The people then are now. Because everybody likes the word willy. The left likes kramat. The left likes food. We love juice. We love interest and profit. So when that is changed. At least that's what he makes. The person and fall into this. Music is called. It's called anashit islamia. Music. It's music. It's called what? Anashit. It's called Shi'a poetry. And it's what? It's actual music. Do you not see that brothers? The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلم يسان. In the Hadith of Abu Dawud narrated. In the Hadith of Abu Malik Al-Ashhari. Hadith of Abu Malik Al-Ashhari. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم يشربنا ناس من أمتي. A people from amongst my nation will drink الخمراء. They will drink khamar. يسمونها بغير اسمها. They will give it a name other than its name. Look at that. Juice. The Prophet told us they're going to do this. They're going to drink khamar. And the Prophet said يسمونها بغير اسمها.  They're going to call it what? They're going to call it a name other than its name. And that's the reality that you see. It's called juice. Shaytan does the opposite as well. Which is what? The good he gives it a bad name. The way he gives bad things good name. He gives bad names to things that are حق and the truth. This is a طريقة Shaytan here brothers. That the things that are good. The things that are righteous. The things that are piety. He will make you give it a bad name. For example. He will make prophets be accused of being magicians. And fortune tellers and liars. When they're the opposite of exactly what he's. What's what he's saying. What they're saying. Allah tells us in the Quran. قال الملأ الذين كفروا من قومه. There are a group of the people of the Prophet. They said to him. إننا ننراك في سفاحة. We see you as to be a dimwitted individual. The Prophet is from the what? The great the most smartest of people. This is the people Allah chose. الله عالى المحيط يجعله. رسالة. Allah knows who he's going to give his message to. Allah unpicks سبحانه وتعالى. And chose سبحانه وتعالى. Who's going to be the Prophet. And the Messenger. Right. So they said إننا ننراك في سفاحة. وإننا لنظلمك من الكندي.  إننا لله. Will Allah entrust prophets to be liars? The prophets are what? Truthful ones. Allah also said. In the Qur'an. نبي الله موسى وحارون. What was Musa and Harun? What were they both? Prophets from Allah. And what was Pharaoh, the man that he was using? What were they? Magicians. Look what the table got turned. قالوا هاداني لساحراني. This is what they said. إن هاداني لساحراني. نبي الله موسى وحارون are magicians now. Both of them. And what's their problem? What do they want? أخرج من أرضكم بسحرينا. They want to take you out of their lands out of magic. No, they want to take you out of disbelief. But what did they turn it into? What did Shaytan make them turn it into? That they want to take you out of what? The lands. When Musa and Harun is trying to take them out of what? From the shackles of disbelief to the what? The freedom of faith and religion. Are we all together? Look how he changed terms. And he makes prophets look bad. And the people of the Sunnah and the Haq. People upon Haq. That's how he's always been. God said to the Prophet. كدالي كما أتلذيل من قبلهم. ومحمد. No messenger and prophet has come before you. من رسول. Any messenger. إلا قالوا ساحرون أو مجنون. Except they said that he's a magician.   You will always find that brothers. When you start practicing. Before practicing you were foul. You were ignorant. You were every. When you start to become sensible. And you start practicing. What do they call you? Look at him holy. And they start giving you names. To belittle you. They mock you. When in reality before you were worse. If all of those names were said to you. When you were bad. Then it makes sense. Now that you're practicing. They give you the worst of three titles. So don't get fooled by it. This is a طريقة الشيطانية. It's a satanic path. Look what نبي اللهي محمد said. He said. نبي اللهي محمد was sitting one day at a place. And then Abu Bakr was sitting right next to him. And the wife of Abu Lahab started to run. She came walking towards. She came walking towards who? She came walking to Abu Bakr and the Prophet. Abu Bakr got scared and he said. يا رسول الله. She's coming to our direction. I'm scared that she might see you. And then the Prophet ﷺ he said. She will not see me. She will not. She will not see me. When she came. She said that your. Your صاحب. Your friend. Abu Bakr. And the Prophet ﷺ is right there. She can't see him. She can't see him. So she said to him. Your صاحب محمد. Has come with lines of poetry. She's referring to. She's referring to. She's referring to. She's referring to. She's referring to. She's referring to. He said that. محمد does not read poetry. He was rejecting the concept of her. Saying that he came with lines of poetry. Not the fact that the Prophet. Did not. That the Quran didn't speak against her. And then she stood up. She turned away. And then she said. مُذَمَّ من أبَيْنَ. مُذَمَّ من أبَيْنَ. وَدِينَهُ قَلَيْنَ. وَأَمْرَهُ عَصَيْنَ. مُذَمَّ من أبَيْنَ. The blame where the one, we have what? We refuse them. وَدِينَهُ قَلَيْنَ. وَنِسْ رِلِجِبُ we reject it. we hate his religion. وَأَمْرَهُ عَصَيْنَ. And his matters we have what? He commended us, we've disobeyed it. They're calling the Prophet Salah A.S. what? مُذَمَّ. What's his real name? محمد. What does مُذَمَّ mean? The blame where the one? What does محمد mean? The praise where the one. انظروا how they changed his name that was good and his characteristics that were good and they gave him a bad title عليه الصلاة والسلام عليه الصلاة والسلام And then the prophet said to the companions ألا تعجبون كيف يصرف الله عني Do you not see how Allah diverted them from me شتم قريش قريش have insulted and they've cursed And Allah diverted them from me يشتمونهم with a moment they are insulting a blame worthy one وانا محمد but me and Muhammad so the blame is going and the insult is going to blame worthy one I'm not blame worthy one I'm a praised worthy one عليه الصلاة والسلام يا إخوة الكرام my beloved brothers and sisters Your enemy Iblis has studied you and he has learnt you And he takes every single step out there to misguide you right You need to take time out to learn your enemy To study what he's like what he thinks what he's doing How he's planning and he's plotting against you And علامة have actually taken time out to write books against them Against him sorry And to explain to you what type of individual he is العلامة الملوقين He wrote a Kitab which I gathered some of those points from His Kitab إغاثة اللهفان في مصاعد الشيطان And he talks about the deception of Shaytan الإمام ابنو جوزي رحمه الله He has a book called تلبيس إبليس The Deception of Iblis And many other scholars have written books on it So take time out And study inshallah who is this individual And what methods and ways that he takes Anything which I have said that was incorrect and wrong Is from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهمة بحمدك أشجر الله إلا إلا الله أستغفروا قاموا أتووا إلي Questions and answers Before I take questions I just wanted to say that there is going to be a lecture tomorrow A follow-up that's going to start inshallahه تعالى It's in the Somali language To please participate those of you who speak the language inshallahه تعالى And those who don't inshallah maybe Start coming to this Somali message More often you might give me the nationality And also the تفسير إن شاء الله Will be back on next Friday The way it should be There's no seerah tomorrow There's no seerah at 6 o'clock tomorrow There's that event that I just told you inshallahه تعالى So there won't be a seerah But we have a class tomorrow at 7 o'clock in the morning Tomorrow at 7 o'clock in the morning We have a class where we speak about 20 Things that a student of knowledge When he starts to embark on knowledge 20 things that are very stressful for him So we'll talk about the problems Those 20 things that we all go through When you first want to seek knowledge And how can we overcome those obstacles I think they're 20 And I don't think they get out of those 20 These are the 20 I think Everything you mentioned that you go through Will be one of those 20 And the way to get out of it That's on Saturday On Sunday We're going to speak about practical steps Step by step Because a lot of people talk about The virtue of knowledge and whatnot But on Sunday 7 o'clock We will talk about practical steps Of how to seek knowledge How can I physically What do I do If I want to seek knowledge Are we all together Practically A physical way of studying And learning the religion of Allah SWT And researching And becoming a person who's grounded in In knowledge So 7 o'clock in the morning on Saturday To 9 o'clock And at 7 o'clock in the morning on what Sunday to 9 o'clock in the morning Brothers and sisters are welcome Any questions Allah SWT Mashallah So what's the best way To avoid the worst worse off Shay'a God The best way That the Prophet SAW Is mentioned to us Is that the person They do their atkar You all know the Hadith Of رضي الله تعالى عنه But That the Prophet SAW Told us that A person who ran away From the enemy And they went into a fortress And they locked themselves In that fortress Can the enemy get to them The person who does his atkar Is like that That's why the book That you guys see The fortress of the Muslim Comes from the حبيث Comes from the حبيث Of the Prophet A fortress of the Muslim A fortress To defend yourself From Shay'a God The greatest thing is what The atkar And the remembrance Of Allah SWT اللى يزالا اللى يزالا لسانك رطبا من بكر الله That your tongue Doesn't become dry Of the remembrance of Allah Wherever you're sitting You're doing your atkar This is what prevents you What? But Allah SWT And those who are concerned About the remembrance of the Most Gracious Are guided by Shay'a God So he has it So he has it So he has it Shay'a God becomes a Misguide a person Whispers to a person When they leave off their wad يا إخوة Don't put your gods down أحمد ابن حمبل On his last moments Before he died His son was Who next to his father Abdullah He saw his father And he heard أحمد ابن حمبل And he said What did that mean? Yet Not yet So he said to his father After that I heard you say this word What did you mean?  إبن القيم Said the reason The secret behind Why Iblis is shackled In Ramadan Is because he's running through the veins And when the person fasts The veins get tighter إبن القيم رحمه الله Shay'a God is taken out of your system This is the time you can work hard If you want to work hard So that's why If you find a lot of people In a mission in Ramadan And you find They're very easy in Ramadan Have you realized لسو رمضان Finish the day Read this announcement So Isha is hard for the people And before you saw تراويح Brothers praying تراويح Those are the brothers That only come Juma'a They only pray Juma'a Now they're able to pray تراويح Because The Shay'a God is Is shackled So the two things That Shay'a God will use is شهوة So how do you destroy شهوة brothers I just told you By fasting a lot By what? By fasting a lot That's why The Prophet said فعليه بالصول فعليه بالصول فعليه بالصول Anyone who's Able to get married Then get married If you can't get married Then what? Fast Because fasting What does it do? It destroys The shahwa The desires That's there That's there The only thing That's going to be In your mind Is a piece of burger The scholars Of the Zulah Used to not Recognize praying all night So that you Are not overcome By Fajar So What about the person Who only wakes up An hour Or 20 minutes Before Fajar Can that be Considered قيام الليل Now قيام الليل Is as the حديث Mentioned that the first إن ربت ينزل ثلاث الليل الأخير Allah comes down The last Last third of the night So any time Before Fajar If a person wakes up That's قيام الليل But what time is the best Is the last Third of the night The last The person Does it The first First Third of the night Or the second That's no problem Like the best Is the last Third of the night Because it's not just مجرد قيام الليل It's also what It's also That Allah is This is the seventh سبحانه وتعالى و لذلك إمام محمد نصر المروزي إمام محمد نصر المروزي This is the book قيام الليل He expands on it I think it's The best Written in this affair And I believe In this world This is the book قيام الليل The person tries The last third of the night They supplicate They make دعاء من الله تباركت عالى And obeys their دعاء And gives them what they are asking for امام ايه فبر What's the best way to overcome Admitting that You're a person who has that Many people don't admit it Oh my God I don't have لدانك عدم الاتراف You see generally This is a big problem With many people Lack of acknowledgement And being aware of something The first step to cure Is admitting that You have a deficiency صحب لو this Our mother عايشة رضي الله تعالى عنها When she was falsely accused of zina Unjustly Falsely accused of zina But the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I heard some news He went to our mother عايشة What did he say to her He said يا عايشة ان الممتع عليهم عايشة If you went out of your way And you did this sin The festival he said to her He said عايشة Admit what you did was wrong ثم توبي إلا الله Then repent to Allah صح But if you're in a state of Denial You don't believe you have a problem Then are you going to go forward in anything So many people when you speak to them They say This is a problem Stop doing this He said It's just the way Allah created me So whilst you're saying that I've tried every means there is And I don't think I can work on this Whilst you're saying that I don't think you're ever going to change this regard صح You're not going to So you have to admit That this is an issue that you have The second thing I feel like That a person needs to do is a dua We have to ask Allah everything that we need Right So there's no act of obedience That a person can come with Unless they want Do you I ask you all a sincere question Who today came to this class Before they came Lifted their hands up And asked Allah Or Allah increased me in knowledge Allah فقهني في الدين Or Allah gave me comprehension of the religion And they walked and left their house And came here That's the way they were Today we give sadaqah on the road They've got money out Give sadaqah For them to understand the lesson For them to This is how they were You just walk in You throw your shoes over there You come in And you say This lesson is a bit too complicated for me You see what's the problem here So we have to be Connected to Allah Supplicated to him Begging him Asking him to take this problem Away from us A third problem that happens Is you're with a people Who are procrastinating themselves You have to be with people With high aspirations They're people who are working hard People whose life is To sleep on sofas To sleep on the floor They're going to go through volumes of books They're going to read For them tomorrow doesn't exist When it comes to knowledge and khair They believe now Today I don't care about tomorrow If you hang around with those type of people Your aspiration goes And many of you here Who feel like they're procrastinating I'll ask you guys When you hang around with people Who are strong in their e-man And are very dedicated What does it make you do? What does it make you do? You do your job straight away Isn't that the case? Isn't that the case? Also the other thing I believe that helps with procrastination Is changing the environment that you're in Okay What do I mean by that? If you want to seek knowledge And you want to learn A lot of the times If you want to learn In your bedroom And you know you're a person Who has a lot of procrastination And you want to sit in a living room And just drink a cup of tea And it's not going to work for you then You need to go to the library Where all you can hear Is the paper being turned over Right? This will then force you Because you've put yourself In that type of B In that type of environment That will make you work harder And it will make you get your work Done at that particular moment Someone asked Mohamed Ibn Salih If a person says The Shahada before they die But they never prayed Are they still entitled To a janaza? Ibn Utaimin replied And said A person who leaves the Salah Is a disbeliever And same as The idol worshipper So if my parents die And they didn't pray Am I allowed to do a janaza For them Anybody who took a Shahada And died straight away And they didn't pray Of course they're a Muslim In the time of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam And there was a companion In the middle of the battle He took his Shahada What have you said To Allah in his Salat He never prayed a Salat For anybody If a person dies After their Shahada I don't believe Shikhm Al-Rafimi said Because this person's question Is that Ibn Utaimin said If a person says the Shahada Before they die But they never prayed This is incorrect I don't believe Shikhm Al-Rafimi said this If a person could take Shadu Allah If he dies straight away After Salah He never got the chance To pray To be paid A janaza on him بإجماع يا هل الإم إجماع إبن رجل بود إجماع كتاب جامعي بيان جامعي عيوم الحكم قرطه بيبريزة لا لا إبن عبدالبارق بريزة كتاب التمهيد بريزة إجماع إبن صاحب كتاب بداية المجتهد واليهاية المختصر بريزة إجماع إجماع إبن وضز إجماع دا إلا الله بريزة باسل إتو إسلام ويوط جدا راضا دا زحاليط المسند إم أحمد المسند إم أحمد that a man came to the prophet he said يا رسول الله I can't pray five times a day I'm only going to pray one salah can I come to Islam and when you take my shahada the prophet said اسلم just say to the shahada just say to the shahada another man came to the prophet he said يا رسول الله I want to come to Islam he said the prophet said اسلم take Islam أحمد ريتن the prophet said to him اسلم take Islam he said أجدوه كاريهن I dislike it the prophet said قلها وإن كنت كاريهن say it even if you dislike it so the shahada is a big word are you with me brothers and sisters and that brings a person into a fold of Islam now the scholars differ on something they never differ on what brings a person into Islam but they differ what keeps them into Islam pay attention to that صحيح can you see the difference what brings you to Islam they say لا لن يسجل لا إلا الله أحمد رسول الله اسلم they then differ what can take a person out of Islam some said that صماء and abandoning on the prayer can take a person out of the fold of Islam and another group of scholars they said لا it doesn't أشيخ بن أثيمين أشيخ بن أباز and others are of the opinion that if a person leaves one prayer that they are disbelievers this view seems to be strong والله أعلى وعلى يدلي لأد أحمد فوزي I think أحمد فوزي أحمد فوزي his mother is waiting for him downstairs وكليدة إن شاء الله و تعالى but brothers who were in the Hive class they should come to the office إن شاء الله و تعالى the brothers who were doing the Hive class with أستار أبل أحد please come to the office إن شاء الله و تعالى هي لأس كؤشتنة it's not from the sunnah تسايا السلام عليكم إن جادم و يوصيطنوا تجدر صح so when you come in you say تسايا السلام عليكم some people so as a person of shaitan from birth or is it they become a shaitan because of the actions which they have come with the prophet told us in the hadith مامن عبدن and the prophet said مامن مولود إلا وهو يولده علي الفطرة فأبواه يهويدانه أو ينصرانه أو يمجسانه أو كما قال علي السلام that every single person is born on the natural disposition everyone is a Muslim upon the fitrah and then when the person becomes old in age or they grow their parents play a role in bringing them into a belief and pay attention the hadith says فأبواه يهويدانه أو ينصرانه his mother and father they either make him a Christian or they make him a but they didn't say the hadith didn't say that they make him a Muslim so that's why when we see brothers who have left disbelief and become Muslims we don't call them converts it's incorrect to call them a convert would you call them reverts why do we call them reverts because they went back to what they were upon already right so we said reverts pay attention to that so no one is evil from birth like that except those which the sharia'a stated like khadir when we cut the head of that kid and that kid didn't reach age of puberty we'll say that kid is evil based on texture evidence but other than that everybody who we see in front of us then as a child their fitrah is what their natural position is good later they become the shaytan that we mentioned I said that was the last question right we'll keep it for next week Insha'Allah سبحانك اللهم


How do you cope with being the less successful sibling of a traditional Asian family, a.k.a. being the black sheep? Yeah, we've got to talk about this Reddit thread from Asian American Reddit that says, are any of you guys the less successful sibling? How do you cope with it in the inevitable comparison by your parents? This person goes on to detail that their older brother is quite a bit more successful than him. He's married, he has a family, his house is worth twice as much, while I am still single and work a stable, decent, paying government job. He's very extroverted and sociable, whereas I am introverted in my hobbies. I just like to lift weights in my home gym and play games. My parents always brag about him at family events, since he's on the other side of the state. I can't even make it to most family gatherings. How do you guys deal with this? I know my parents never say it outright, but even I can tell they think that he is more successful. Yeah, I mean, this is tough. I guess we're going to go through a lot of the comments section, because Reddit had a lot of suggestions. I guess we'll just go through some of our thoughts. I'm not saying I'm a pro therapist on this topic, but I guess we're going to try to help. Yeah, I mean, this has got to be common, right? Because I've seen everything happen from all kids in a family fail to all kids be successful to it being one up, one down, one up, one down. You just see like every single sort of pattern take place. I'll tell you this, man. People oftentimes, Andrew, they either get rejected, dismissed, tolerated, accepted, or embraced in a given system. Those are my five levels. Rejected, dismissed, tolerated, accepted, embraced, but every family values things differently at different points in life. Some people, they really want you to embrace you or accept you in your early life.   It's like your career, your academic career, and then like all the other intangibles, like are you giving the parents grandchildren or making the holidays fun or participating in family events? Right. So I guess, I mean, this person sounds like they probably were in a family system that doesn't have those other two aspects as much, but pretty much ranks their kids on like either academic or career success, and they feel lesser than their brother. Well, actually, to be honest, in all three aspects. Right. Right. Right. I guess my overarching questions for people like this, and there's no quick fix because, but ultimately it's like, what were the expectations from your family and from yourself? And do you need to care what your family thinks? Right. And for a lot of people, it makes them feel bad, but also for a lot of people who didn't do the right things or didn't try very hard. Now you're at a point in your life where you're not as successful and you're feeling bad about it. But I'm like, well, you had the choices to, but now if you're happy with your life, then just be happy with it. And you cannot worry about what your family thinks because you're a full grown adult. Right. But this person does sound like they're possibly depressed about it. I'm unsure. It doesn't seem like they're super effusive describing their situation. And again, maybe that's why they're making this post on Reddit to see if anybody else feels that way just to feel like that they're not alone. And the truth is they're not alone. There's plenty of people who feel this exact way because also growing up in a traditional Asian family can be a lot of pressure. Yeah. And I do think that the one aspect that I will say before we get into the comments section that oftentimes is overlooked Andrew, in a traditional first generation immigrant family, Andrew, if there is a kid that potentially has something non-neurotypical about them, it may never be identified and addressed. And I think that sometimes that's a huge detriment in the sense that there can be medications, there can be therapy that is oftentimes more effective taken earlier than later. That's true. Yeah. So anyway, let's just get into the comments section. Somebody said, on my dad's side, I'm seen as the failure if I compare him to like what, you know, like my dad did or his uncles and their uncle's kids.  So even though I don't have like a super sick, brag-able Asian career, it really depends on whether I compare myself to my mom's siblings or my dad's siblings kids. Success is all relative to your expectations and also where you started from. That's a good point. Somebody said, you know, for me, I'm only making $30,000 a year, but one of my siblings owns six houses. My other brother is a surgeon and I tend to be very scatterbrained. I have three degrees and seven certificates, but it led to nothing.  I have ADHD and I'm highly intelligent on tests, but I just cannot get my life together. Well, how about this?  You can be helpful to the family. You can be a good uncle to your nephews and nieces. You can be a good brother, help them out. I'm sure they will appreciate it because I think usually in a family, people are still counting what you're adding. If you're not adding the accolades, as in like the degrees and the money and stuff like that, then the family still wants you to see you add something. You know what I mean? Man, it's a tough situation because obviously we're not like the actual paid psychiatrists or psychologists to analyze these people, but I would say, just find a way to actually have some long-term serotonin and short-term dopamine without being destructive to yourself or others around you, maybe with or without your family. It really depends. Like, do you make your family's life easier or harder by being where you're at? You know what I mean?  I take it as a license to explore, be more creative, wild, lazy. I don't have any kids like my brothers and sisters. That means less responsibility. I've always sort of been an outlier in my family marching to the beat of my own drum. It can be kind of tough, but I had to embrace it eventually as long as you're happy. Yeah?  They had to be in medication, go to special programs. So ultimately, even though they got older and they're not more successful than their brothers and their sisters, everybody's so proud of them because of the odds that they beat from the probability of their situation. I guess of that young being diagnosed with that situation. Right, right, right. Yeah. I mean, does that go to your point of like, everybody has a starting, as a different starting point. Yeah, where'd you start? Where are you expected to be from where you started? Yeah, if you're from like a really good educated family, you're probably expected to go to get some type of high education. But if you're starting from a family who, you know, didn't have much and didn't have much formal education, it's like, I'm sure the bar on those metrics are lower, but maybe the bar is higher for family aspect. Yeah. And there's even more internal things like self-actualization that's almost like your internal soul that only you are even aware of. And maybe you might have got to do something even become aware of it, even when inside of yourself. These are completely outside of trackable visual metrics or analytics. Somebody's saying, my sister's way more successful than me and I am over the moon happy that she is successful and happy.  She's my sister and I love her. She understands that and she loves me too. And other people are saying that like, I'm the least successful person in my family and including my extended cousins. But at the end of the day, I'm still respected for being responsible, a decent communicator and creative. And you know, I just feel like love to be me. And I thought, man, these people are really well adjusted. Do you think that that's common? Or is it just like, how does one develop this attitude from these first generation families where oftentimes hard metrics and hard success analytics are so valued? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's tough because I just think, I guess, I guess the truth is you make it up in other ways. It's the best way I could put it. Somebody says, it sounds like your parents like to praise your brother as a way of feeding their own ego and look good in front of others. Basically, society tells us we need to be happy by being mega successful and rich. But if you are personally happy with your stable job, that matters more because ultimately you live for yourself and not for the validation of other people. Yeah, I do think that, but I do think we're talking about Asian families. So it's tough because you're over that filial piety will always be a little bit there. I mean, like your soul is at least in part my soul, at least one extended lineage of souls, like a list versus being like parsed out horizontally.  I think they're gonna see it, man. They're gonna count it. They're gonna count it, man. But should you even live for the validation of family? No, you don't have to. But I'm just saying if you do, then you have to do something. Dude, a planet fitness membership is pretty cheap and you get the platinum upgrade with the sauna for like 18 bucks a month. You'd be the best looking person you and all your cousins. There's just no way that you're going to still shame yourself because you value those metrics and you're not going to rank high. Then you just have to change the game. Just have to change the game, change the metrics. Somebody said you want to be respected by your family. You need to start telling them how you feel. You're an adult, so talk like an adult now. And somebody said, are you serious? Your traditional Chinese parents do not give AF about your feelings. The bottom line is your bank account is what matters. Emotional support is non-consistent. It's non-existent. So basically somebody was saying that they finally became successful after parents passed away. So it was like kind of crazy for them because they were like struggling and they had to take all the disappointment and the talks and those blank stares that your parents give you when you're not living up to them. And then they only made it after they passed away and I guess they got some issues from that. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, I hope they get over that too. Bro, get some therapy, find an Asian therapist. I always tell you, would you agree, man Andrew, you got to find an Asian therapist who understands these first generational immigrant survival, striving to thrive with dynamics because it's such a unique situation. I'm not saying no other therapist could understand it, but as a lower probability. Somebody said, the most important thing is to not let any sort of hierarchy that your parents rank you with hurt your relationships with your siblings. So basically this guy was just like, man, at the end of the day, I was the favorite sibling growing up. I always got the best grades and it turned out 20 years later, our brother who did the worst at school and went to community college ended up having the best career. So he was like saying it was like, which it's different at different eras who was like the favorite son. Yeah. Yeah. Ultimately Andrew, what do you think about this comment? Because there was a lot of people, there was a bunch of comments I didn't even, you know, wasn't even able to fit into the thread. There's like so many people and this is not like, I say this, it's not really true for our family, but I've definitely witnessed it. I've witnessed it in people that I know. There's just so many different ways to be successful, man. And I think that if you only imagine success in one singular path and you rank low on that path or you're behind in that path, then you will always feel bad. But if you know yourself and you're like, listen, I may never be as conventionally as successful as my siblings and my parents probably don't love that, but I can be like a really good family member or I can do something cute for the family or do something fun for the family or at least be a good brother. Maybe my parents will never love me like them, but at least I have good relationships with my other siblings. But you know, sometimes it goes the other way, Andrew. We know a guy who is a lawyer from like Vanderbilt, like a pretty good law school and he has a better career than his art school sister, but the parents much more find the art school sister of an enjoyable person to be around and he resents her because he has more higher analytics, but the parents prefer the sister. Right. Not all parents only care about the dollar amount. It's just true. Some parents just want to see their kid be a nice, fun, like an enjoyable, affable person, right? Like a likable, pleasing person. Yeah. Yeah. I will say this.  You know how you can fall off the rainbow road, but then I feel like Western people, they treat life more like Mario Kart eight deluxe on DS. You know how there's like a upper upper track and a lower track and a mid track. Like it starts to get real meta. Like there's more past to life.  I mean, there's got to be some way you can help your parents out and just be like, Hey, mom and dad, what can I help you with? Or can I help you do this? And then just like help them do it. And you know, just at least provide, I guess, some more like specific value to send them articles on iMessager, whatever we chat or whatever you guys are using. I said, I noticed when sometimes the Asian kid is the black sheep man early about it, they can kind of like develop this self identity of being low ranked and having this outsider status and they give up on everything and maybe they go retreat to the video game world to have some sort of dominance or a ladder to rise up the hierarchy of. I just don't recommend that. Like you said, find something else. There are plenty of ways to live a great life with like making the 40k a year or something like that. You just got to be a little bit, you know, do some more research on how to distribute it. Yeah. Alright, everybody, let us know in the comments down below. Is this something that you've seen or something that you've been through or some something that might ring true for your family? Either way, let us know how this person can cope with being the less successful, possibly less likable sibling. But I mean, listen, your life's not over. There's a lot of things that you can do. So anyways, hit that like button and let us know in the comments down below. Hopefully this discussion was helpful. And until next time, we out. Peace.


The August What's Neat starts right now. The August What's Neat starts right now. So we got a point too. Ready, set. I don't know. Okay. Hi, I'm Holly Ann. And I am Scotty Hex, and you are about to enter the wonderful world of model railroading with your host, Ken Patterson. Because the August What's Neat starts right now. The What's Neat show is sponsored by Lombard Hobbies. Your value hobby shop for over 40 years of modelers helping modelers. Big inventory, value pricing, fast shipping, and great service. And by Bachman Trains. Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com. And thank you for helping us support the best hobby in the world. This is What's Neat for August 2022. I'm your host, Ken Patterson, the host of this, The What's Neat Show over at Model Railroad Hobbies Magazine. And this month out of August, we've got a really good show in that. Our first segment of video is Jennifer Kirk, all the way from the UK. She shares with us Trevor Jones, amazing garden railroad layout. And this is not in G scale. This layout is all HO scale designed to be run outside. There's a lot of very interesting techniques that he has designed in order to make this happen. And it's sure to be a pleaser this month for the What's Neat video. Also this month, our drone pilot, Dan Scheidel, he shares with us some magnificent footage and modeling ideas from above. Whereas we're flying over the burnt landscape of the Union Pacific Railroad in California, where trestles have been burnt down and rebuilt, where the trees are blackened from the fire. And it's absolutely amazing. And it's actually made me think about how interesting it would to be modeling a segment of layout that would represent what it is we see in this drone footage. Because the way it's filmed from the air at just the right height and the way we view our layouts, it's very easy to understand how to build our scenery to look just like that. Plus there's some amazing nighttime drone footage. Now when do you ever see folks flying a drone at night? With the mountains and the blueness of the sky, I've seen so many people put blue lights on their layout to represent darkness and you can see that hue of blue in this nighttime footage as the ditch lights and the headlights on this Union Pacific mainline light up all the territory in front of the locomotive. Also this month we've got a great segment from Larry Harrington of Bachman Industries out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He shares with us again some amazing new products from Bachman. It's always a pleasure to find out what's new first on the What's New show that we run every month. I'd also like to talk about the What's New this week podcast. As you've heard me talk about it before, it's a show that we shoot every Saturday night down here to keep you updated on what's new in the hobby. We just recently passed a milestone of show number 200, whereas we reflect on all of the 132 guests that we've had in the past on the show and the more than 90-something manufactured products that have been represented on the show. You can look this up on the What'sNeat.com index, whereas you can guide through and look at all the personalities and their names and their photographs and all the subject matter that we have covered broken down per week, per month, all the way through. It's an absolutely amazing website to check out at What'sNeat.com. It's an index for just that. And so with that, I'd like to say let's continue on with the rest of this August 2022 What's New. So I've come here today to what is actually a really different way of thinking about model railroading and it's to use the outdoors rather than in a basement or an attic. And I'm here with Trevor Jones who's very kindly invited us to see his garden railway. And have you found any great difficulty in modelling in HO in the garden? No, the main thing is to have sound engineering principles for the construction of the track bed. And I've used reinforced concrete with piles every three or four feet. And then a topping which I developed using three grades of cork chips and some rubber chips, cement and SBR. That means that the track can just be pinned down with stainless steel pins. And of course, being outdoors, it's going to be subject to a lot of the same things that a real railroad track would in terms of heat, cold, expansion, contraction. Have you had to make any special allowances for that? Well, I don't have quite the extremes that you may have in America on mine, but it has worked satisfactory. And we have had temperatures up to the 100 mark once since it's been laid and it has happily survived that. Each yard of track is soldered to a copper paxil and sleeper. And I've left a one millimeter gap between the rail ends where the fish plates are. Some are insulated and some are the normal stainless steel fish plates. And obviously they have to be linked across to conduct electricity. And that's served as a test of time. And I think what quite a lot of model railroaders think about when they think about building a layout outdoors is that it dominates the garden space. And one of the things that's really quite apparent here is that you've made the railroad very much a feature within a garden rather than being the main feature itself. And how important has this been and how practical has it been to do that in terms of choice of the vegetation and the plants that you've got around it? Well, you have to choose your plant material carefully. And of course, there's a terrific range of alpines that you can plant and dwarf trees, which are bonsai-like. But there are specialist nurseries that provide them grafted onto rooting stock. And if you plant them in small holes and crevices in rocks which you've used to build around the railway, this will help restrict them as well. And how practical have you found it running HO scale trains in the garden for the actual, the locomotives, the freight cars, the passenger stock as it stood up quite well? Well, I haven't had much problem with the stock. Obviously the track has to be kept very clean. And here in the UK, where we have all weathers on one day, one looks for a forecast where you've got three dry days together. You spend one day cleaning and then you can sit out in the garden for two days and watch the trains go by in the landscape. And one of the things that a model hobbyist might find as a real advantage of modeling out in a yard or garden is that you've got a lot more space to play with.  Has that been a major consideration for you? Yeah, I wanted to watch full length trains go by in the landscape. So the actual layout is 2.79 scale miles round. And of course, it could be a lot longer if you've got the garden space for it. And that gives you the opportunity to run full length trains and to watch them passing through the landscape. And of course, one of the big advantages with making very prudent choices of the plant life is that actually you can change the geographical location or even the continent very easily so you can run US or Canadian or even Australian outlined stock out here. And it doesn't look out of place. So it gives the model hobbyist a lot more variety in the stock that they could collect. Yes, I do run American and continental stock from time to time. And for most of the layout, the background could be anywhere in the world. Obviously, I have created these little cameo settings which include resin buildings, which are typical British, but you would just do the same if you were building in the USA but with USA resin buildings. Absolutely. And Backman do produce a really good range of scenic accents, which would be perfectly acceptable to use outdoors in the yard. Well, I've even experimented in the small station areas outside. I do have covers on when the train is not operating. And I'm now experimenting with indoor call it scenic material just to add into the corners of the layout. And have you had any difficulty with little garden critters maybe trying to make their home in tunnels or just secreting themselves away in areas of the model? Well, I have several tunnels on this layout and of course frogs do turn up in them. You would have to watch that you're not running into a snake in the USA. Make sure that the tunnel is not longer than double the length of your arm to your elbow so that you can clean inside. My construction has been a ferris cement over the tunnel using polystyrene formwork on top of the track when the tracks have been laid. Then you put mesh over the top of that and plaster three to one rendering cement and sand onto it in two coats. And it will stand you walking on it. You can then cover the area up with proper landscaping and plants even. And one of the standout features for me on this garden railroad are the bridges and trestles over the water features. And it really strikes me that it gives a great opportunity more so than if you were working indoors to have these vast trestles that you can watch trains go across. And what have you actually used to make the bridges and trestles that we see here? Well bridges and viaducts and trestles are a great feature for outside. But obviously you've got to construct them in a way that they're weatherproof. Many of mine have used ice section brass as the main part of the structure infilled with sheets of aluminium. And then supported by structures made from copper pipe and other brass structure to some extent a real bridge. You can then of course infill the top with the cork rubber topping and then pin the track down as normal. Then some of the superstructure above has come from plastic kits. One of the things that model hobbyists might tell you that you can't have in the garden is turnouts. Because where are you going to put that switch machine to make it all work? But here is the perfect solution. We've got the switch machine hidden away underneath this lift out rocky outcrop. And there's just a little plastic container that keeps everything water and critter tight and it all just works. And if you had some advice maybe to yourself when you first started but certainly to any hobbyist who's looking to their yard and thinks this is a great space to be able to produce a huge layout. What advice would you give them? Well one of the important things is alignment with the sun. You do not want a rocky cutting which is in shade and therefore takes a long while to dry out after a storm. And that would be the main thing on the setting of how you lay out the layout. Also you will need to excavate because it's nice to be able to get down to its level. So you'll see in mind that some areas of the garden have been excavated so that you're lower down and you're in more context with the level of the railway. So thank you very much for inviting us down to take a look at your garden railroad that proves that even in the smaller scales such as HO it really is practical to be able to build a vast miniature landscape and actually make it not a dominating feature in the yard but to actually complement the other wildlife that's out there. And it's been brilliant to come out here. Thank you so much for inviting us down. It's been a pleasure, Jenny. Thank you. For this segment of What's Neat, I've got Larry Harrington from beautiful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, out at Bachman Industries. We all love it, Larry. When you're on the What's Neat show at Model Railroad Hobbies Magazine because that's where we get to learn about all the new products which a lot of people are going to be learning about now this time as this video comes out because this video will come out as the Anamari National is now in its full schedule and launch. And I know that you guys are going to be debuting some amazing products. Tell us, what have you got to talk about today, Larry? Well, today I can't talk about the top secret stuff ready for Anamari but I'll share some paint samples we got in over the last couple of weeks and it's a variety of scales and sizes here. So start off with we have a continuing to expand on our Ringling Brothers line. We have the, this is the pie car for the blue train. Nice. And I don't know exactly how many products we've done over the years but it's been a good number. And then we also did the pie car for the red train. These are an HO scale, by the way. We do other scales as well but the HO is primarily the, now this one I really love, this is the advertising car. It's got a lot of color to it. We did some neat effects with the screens over the windows and it's based on a prototypical car. So it's pretty neat. So again, we've got these three passenger cars to go along with our multiple items we have in our Ringling Brothers line. We also have Ringling Brothers and large scale some items and also in William's O scale. I love it when you call it neat because that's the whole name of this show. What's neat. And you're showing us what's neat. So, yeah, the Ringling Brothers is, you know, unfortunately the circus is no longer around but we can still relive all those memories we've had when we were kids and a young adult or whatever and going to the circus and seeing all the neat things. So again, neat things, right? So going on to, we have some, a number of large scale items in this segment. Oh, cool. Tell me we're going to talk about the Dash 9 somewhere in there. Well, we can talk about them a little bit. I don't have any of those to show with me but we are finalizing things and running into production now. So we should see those later this year. Nice. So, nice. So those will be, but to go along with the Dash 9 we made the 53 foot Evans box car and what we added to it this time was the end of train device. So we also sell this as a separate piece. This is a fully decorated sample that we have. So I'm going to show you this. What we've done with this is we know that a lot of people not only run track power, they run DCC but they also run battery control. So we made this unit so that it can be underneath there is a battery holder, holds a button battery. Okay. And then on the back of the thread we have a little switch. So you can actually see it flashing. Oh, that will look fantastic out in the dark. Yes. And what's neat about it is it will work on track power if you do have track power and it will automatically switch as long as the switch is on where the light is active the power will switch to take it from the track instead of from the battery just to conserve your battery power. So if you are running on a regular analog battery power and you stop the train, your end of train device will stay on as long as you have the battery installed in the thing. Oh my God. So that's pretty typical. Well thought out.  Right. This truck is sold as a single unit with all the electronics already installed. It has, it's a, since it's an end of train it's a dummy coupler, it doesn't operate. It will couple up to another coupler train but what we did is we hit all the wiring and electronics inside of the coupler so that you don't have any unsightly wires or anything when you train or anything to get snag going out in the garden while you're running the train. That is awesome. Now that's cool. So switch is real easy. Just turn it off on the back and there we go. We're set. So now for the funds. Secondment of our large scale. We have some very new egg liners that we've just Oh, yes. Yeah. So this is, we've, we've had a fourth of July Independence Day version before. This is the latest one. It has our founding fathers in the window. It has a, I don't know if that's showing up too well. I do see the fireworks. That's beautiful. In gold. In gold, exactly. That's pretty. And these are self-propelled units. They have interior lighting. They also have a, some people run large scale type of track or NMRA standard. So we have a polarity switch on there. So it goes in the proper direction when you're sitting on the track. So these are, these are, and they have operating couplers on both sides. So you could put a small couple of trains behind it or you could couple the, the egg liners together and make a little mini consists like a training train. There is a prototype for that. They made a yard tower for the railroad taking two tail ends off of two passenger cars and actually made a tower that way. Yep. It was New York Central. I believe we showed that in the previous segment. Right. So now this is a little bit of fun Halloween here. It has all your ghoulish characters in the windows this time. And on the roof of this one, we have ghosts. And what's neat about this is they are glow in the dark. So you charge this up, you turn the lights out, and the ghosts will glow in the dark as it goes around the track. Yes. What a great way to bring the youth into the hobby with some fun and color. Exactly. Now this one was completely off the wall. This is Egg Force One. Egg Force One. Egg Force One. So this is a parody of the Air Force One with, we have United States of Egg Merica on the side. We have the chickens flying the plane. We have the head guy in charge there. And the two secret service hens in the back of roosters or whatever. Secret service hens. And there's the new presidential egg seal in Eggs We Trust. So trying to get a good, it's hard for me to see with this delay, which way I'm trying to say this. In Eggs We Trust. Oh my God, it's perfect.  We did. It was a lot of fun. It just kept growing. We had an initial concept of this, and it just kept getting bigger and bigger and more crazy. I bet you guys were all smiling during that board meeting. Yeah. It wasn't really a board meeting. It was kind of a, you know, a brainstorm between the offices occasionally. And a couple phone calls. It's got even the tail numbers prototypical for Air Force One. So there's actually two. It's 28,000 and 29,000. So I did a little research there when we did this to make it look like the real thing. So they should be coming out shortly. I can see the kitbashers putting wings on that. Yeah, there you go. One thing we did a little bit differently with this. It won't show up in the, but the tail light is, a little light red, just like the tail light on an airplane would.  This is not my area of expertise. This is normally Doug handles this. This is our Thomas large scale line. We have a couple of new box fans here. Okay. So this is Beckham Bay shipping company. And also we have Mr. Jolly's chocolate factory. So Mr. Jolly's was a chocolate factory is in the stories. It's every day. One of the engines goes to the factory where they pick up trucks full of chocolate for, I guess, the town of Sodor. Sodor, that's right. Doug Blaine is king of Sodor. He told me one time on the phone. It's king of Sodor. So I always defer all my questions to him. So hopefully that gives you a good idea. I think we're going to have some really exciting announcements at NMR this year as we always do. And can't wait to share them with everyone. But that'll be middle of August. And we're getting ready for our print brochures as we speak. So finalizing all the selections for this year. Very cool. How many folks are coming to the NMR Asia? I believe five of us will be there this year. Very good. I so look forward to hanging out with you guys. You guys are always so astute. I know it's top secret. We can't talk about it. But maybe next month we'll have all that out there as well. Oh, definitely. We'll have a live announcement on our website and Facebook pages and all that good stuff. Now I've said it before to you. You've got one of the best jobs in the world in that you are in a job that is your passion. And you've been with Williams for countless years and then joined the Bachman team. And there's so many folks out there in their teens that are watching this show. They're aspiring to go to college and get a degree. And maybe someday being able to be in our industry. Is that something that you could talk to in that? What would you say to those folks? How would they go about even getting into our industry like that? It's just about being ready when the opportunity strikes. We did recently hire a young man, Tyler. He's my assistant product development guy. He's great. And he told me, I can't believe I got my dream job. He's applied for the job and he really impressed me. And so we're going to eventually pass the baton to him. So once we're all getting up there in years, I'm going to eventually retire. But it's going to be a few years off. But we've got to prepare the company for continuation. Absolutely. And the Williams line is strong, isn't it? Well, I've been with Williams and Bachman. It will be 25 years this October to combine two companies. So that's a big anniversary for me. I originally started in the associated with the train business with lifelike products in Baltimore before Reuters purchased them. So that was my first job. I was working as a production planner for an associated line. We had a line called, I don't know if anyone knows about, DARTA race cars. They were matchboxes that have wind-up motors and they were stunt sets. So that's where I started. But we all had product meetings that covered the entire line for trains. Also, we had styrofoam coolers and stuff at that location. So I got to be in on the conversations with the trains when it happened. Right. And then I had an opportunity to go to Williams afterwards. One thing that I've noticed in this industry in the 33 years that I've been privy to work with the manufacturers and present my portfolios and get to know everybody, and I've seen already one and a half generations retire and then new folks come on. But one thing I've noticed is when you work for a company like Bachman or lifelike or like Athern and just go down the list of so many different companies that we are aware of, you don't actually leave the industry. A lot of people simply step stone from one company to another and their experience builds that way. Exactly. So it's always been a good industry in that. We don't really lose people. They're always still the same faces at the trade shows, but they're just that much more seasoned. Well, actually, if Bachman hadn't purchased Williams, I'd still be at the helm at Williams these days, I'm sure. There we go. So that was an opportunity for both companies to grow. At the time, the only O-scale items that Bachman had was Plasticville and also our own 30 line. Yes. So the three-rail O-gauge just fit in perfectly with Bachman and I believe that was probably the best for the legacy of the Williams line because if it would have went to another three-rail manufacturer, it just would have gotten absorbed into the name and no personal identity with the line anymore. That's absolutely awesome. And the opportunities don't just end with being able to go from a company to another one in our industry, but a lot of the folks learn the business so well as we've seen in the last seven or eight years. Various individuals from companies have actually started their own manufacturing business in our industry and really launched some neat new products. That's why the hobby is so diverse and so many different scales and it's like it used to be if you wanted something really great, something very detailed and specific, it would be in brass. And it's not like that anymore now. You can get whatever you want in plastic and the detail of plastic these days rivals what brass was in the 80s. Well, you can get whatever you want if there's enough demand for it. There's still definitely room for brass in the market because of the startup tooling costs for the items are so much less expensive. The unit cost is usually more expensive to produce, but when you consider the cost of making tooling for something it has to be considered in the final price and that's not always a good business decision to do that. And the next revolution that I'm sure makes your job that much quicker and easier now is this 3D printing to create prototypes much quicker than cutting die work and then re-cutting the die work with changes. Would you agree? I do agree. We used a good number of that for the development of our end scale charger. Yes. So we printed some 3D parts in order to test the fitting because it was such a much smaller locomotive to work with than the HO version, so we had to make sure we could get the electronics and the speaker and everything in there and work on conjunction. So we're excited. We're well past that stage now. We've actually have test painted samples. I showed them in the last, it's probably airing right around now. Those are beautiful, yeah. I've got the HO scale chargers, the three different various paint schemes here on the table and on every podcast when we're in the show we always say, let's go run some trains. And more times than not the folks grab these off the shelf. This is a locomotive they want to see, simply because the lighting effects are so amazing. It's just like the real thing. Oh, the lighting effects, the sound, everything is 100% authentic with those locomotives. There's even a feature with the strobe lights. We've had customers call that didn't fully read the manual about the strobe lights. I can't get my strobe lights to come on. Well, in the real locomotive the prototypically the strobe lights are only on when the headlights at full brightness and the ditch lights are on.  That's amazing. It's very important to read the instructions and the instructions you guys write are very thoroughly thought out. Well, thank you for that. So this is the best hobby in the world and you know what, it's because of folks just like you Larry. Is there anything else that you might want to say to close out this segment of the August What's Need video? Just, if you haven't signed up for NMRA and we're going to be out there in person so it's a good opportunity. We love going to shows. We've missed going to shows. It's when we get the best feedback. Some feedback is a little personalized for a certain person but most of the times we get good ideas or we can explain why we're not doing something a certain way and people are very understanding of that when they hear it in person. The most thing we get is like, well, I can't do this prototype but it's like I said something might have been only made by One Railroad and had maybe two examples of and they no longer exist so it's more difficult to even find any information on them but that's something for the brass market. We would steer away from something like that. You're awesome Larry. Alright folks, when you go to the NMRA National be sure to say hi to the folks at the Bachman booth and tell them that you saw Larry on What's Need. See you next week. We'll see you next month when we're out there. Alright brother, thank you so much for doing a great segment on all the new products for this month. Anytime, I'm glad to be here. Thanks again. Perfect. Next time I'll get a second pair of glasses so I can be just like you. I know George Bogatuck did that to me once too and with that said that is a segment for What's Need. Alright, take care. All of the products seen on this episode of What's Need is available from Lombard Hobbies in Lombard, Illinois or order online at LombardHobby.com Bachman Trains Now that's the way to run a railroad. Check out their website at BachmanTrains.com