السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته إن شاء الله I'll start the live lecture in two minutes first quran recitation أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ألم نشرح لك صوادرك ووضعنا عنك وزرك الذي قد ظهرك ورفعنا لك ذكرك نما العسري جسراء نما العسري جسراء فإذا فرغت فنصب وإلى ربك فرغب أمنت بالله وصلق الله لعليج العظيم أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين وبهي نستعين والصلاة والسلام وعلى خير خلق الله المصطفام وحمد وعلى هلبيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعسومين أما بعد فقط قال الله سبحانه وتعالى في كتابه الكريم أعود بالله من الشيطان في رجيم ثم لا تسألنا يوم إذن عن النعيم الله مصلي على محمد المقالي محمد My dear brothers and sisters in Aberdeen, Scotland and all other places around the world who are watching live السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته This is going to be the second and the last lecture of this short series titled When God Opens Closed Doors Yesterday's lecture was mainly about how God opens closed doors When it comes to closed doors it often happens that we are so occupied so zoomed in on the closed doors that often we cannot see the doors that are open we do not appreciate the doors that are open we cannot see them The topic for today's lecture is seeing the open doors So what you are going to learn in the next 50 or so minutes is the following First of all I'll give a quick summary of yesterday's lecture so that we can connect from there And after that I'll discuss what do I mean by open doors The open doors are the blessings that we do have So first I'll discuss what are the open doors, the blessings and what does it entail to see and appreciate the blessings that we have from Allah SWT And then in the second part of the lecture I will give a few examples on how practically we can appreciate the blessings And I'll spend some good time on explaining that And then in the third and the final part of the lecture I will speak about a great blessing of Allah SWT The greatest blessing of all And that is when I'll start to wrap up this lecture And in doing so I will also speak about the فبايل of our مولا Imam al-Sajjad, peace be upon him And the بابل حواج أباس ابنعلي, peace be upon him And also discuss how we could pay tribute to these great personalities And how we could celebrate the birth anniversaries of our مولا Imam al-Sajjad and Abbas, peace be upon him But before I proceed, wherever you are From the bottom of your heart Please recite a full of love صلوات على محمد وقال محمد Yesterday we discussed that Allah SWT is the الفطاح And it was based on verse number 2 of Surah Fater in which Allah SWT says that when Allah opens doors When Allah grants from his mercy Then no one can withhold it And when Allah withholds something from his mercy Then no one can grant it And Allah is العزيز and الحكيم And we also discussed that Allah SWT Is above all causes and effects Allah is the cause of all causes And nothing has effect in the existence But Allah SWT Because And when he opens the doors Then no one can close them Because he is العزيز The mighty one And also الحكيم And العليم And الفطاح Means the one who opens all the doors All the closed doors Because الفطاح Is the one who removes all the pains All the tribulations All the confusions And opens all the locks That was a summary of The key point from yesterday's lecture Now today In the beginning I recited last verse of Surah Taka'athuri In which Allah SWT says ثم لتسألنا يوم إذنه عن النعيم Then surely that day You will be questioned about the blessings The blessings are the doors That are open The open doors in our lives Yes, we do have some closed doors Opportunities that are lost Chances that are missed But at the same time We do have many things That we should appreciate That we should cherish That we should thank Allah SWT But it often happens that We do not even see those doors As I said Because we are zoomed in On the closed doors So what I'm going to do In this first part As I said What does it entail To appreciate the open doors What does it entail To thank Allah SWT To be grateful For all the blessings He has given to us Allah SWT says In the holy book If you count Allah's blessings If you try to count them You cannot count them You cannot count them There are so many blessings So in this lecture We cannot discuss many blessings But the purpose of this lecture Is to learn How to become aware of those blessings All those positive things That we have in our lives Allah SWT Explains That what it entails To be grateful for our blessing He says That there are three elements of شغر Three elements of being grateful For the blessing Number one Recognizing the blessing First we have to recognize Become aware of the open doors In our lives Recognize the blessing After that Recognize the one Who has given the blessing to you And we all Recognize Allah SWT We all know And we all believe That all the blessings Are from Allah SWT So it is just a reminder And then the third element That Allah SWT explains Is that To be grateful for our blessing Is to use that blessing The way He wants you to use Who has given that blessing to you But the first step Is to recognize The blessings Recognize those doors That are open But we take them For granted And do not cherish them When it comes To the blessings Of Allah SWT To start from the very basic When it comes to the blessings The first and the foremost Blessing of Allah SWT Is The blessing of existence Yeah Existence And I want to ask you a question Do you exist? Someone might say What's our question A strange question Yeah, I exist But how often have you Thought about your existence How often And I'm not talking about Your existence As a human being As a man Or as a woman With all these features Existence Being present Being You see Everything that exists Is a sign Of Allah SWT Things that do not exist And cannot exist Just cannot exist Because They do not exist In the knowledge Of Allah SWT And please bear with me Please pay attention And those who Have been listening to me They know that usually The first part Very first part Of my lecture Is relatively more academic And after that It becomes relatively Easy And more practical But this lays the foundations For the rest of the lecture So please bear with me We have this live session And live session Has its own challenges So I'll try my best And pray to Allah SWT That he makes me Convey what I intend to convey We Exist because We are In the knowledge Of Allah SWT In the knowledge Of Allah SWT Therefore Everything that exists Is his sign Is his Is worthy to be existing Is worthy to exist Otherwise It would not have existed This is a great blessing We should be proud Of ourselves That we do exist Because Allah Made us worthy Of existing In that sense Everything is Aya Of the Creator أمير المؤمنين عليها العسرام He said that All praises Due to Allah Who manifests For his creation Through his creation تجلال خلقه بخلقه He manifests His attributes His name For us For the creation Through the creation So if we look at ourselves We ourselves Are a sign of the Creator But some signs Are not just signs They are the greater signs As in دعال افتطاح This دعال Refers to the أمير المؤمنين as آيات القبراء The greatest sign The greatest sign Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى The infallible ones His representatives The fourteen infallibles Are the آيات القبراء Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى But we are also his signs Everything is his signs And this is a blessing To be his sign And when he has brought us Into existence Then We need to think Where were we before? Allah سبحانه وتعالى In the holy book هل أتا حين من الدهري لم يكن هل أتا على الإنسان حين من الدهري لم يكن شيئ مذقورا Hasn't there been a time on man When he was nothing worthy of being mentioned Not worthy of being mentioned When you do not exist You are not worthy to be mentioned But then he brought us into existence And when he brought us into existence As a human being Then what did he do? سميعا بصيرا He gave us the hearing And he gave us the sight With the help of hearing With the help of sight We do what? We analyze the information we receive And that's why He has put the light within us أل أقل The intellect Which is a great blessing With the help of this intellect With the help of information do we have We analyze the information And we take decisions in our lives And he has also given us The إرادة The will With the help of the أقل And the إرادة We perform actions We perform things We say things We write things We take actions From أقل comes the وهم وهم is an idea before the idea Then وهم From وهم comes الخيال خيال is a little bit more refined idea And after that It turns into an action Into speech These are all blessings of Allah We have to think about it We have to reflect on it And then how can we be grateful For this blessing Of خيال Of إرادة To create beautiful thoughts To create beautiful إرادة To have good intentions Not the intentions to hurt others Not the indecent sort of Fantasies and thoughts When Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has made us to exist In the form of human beings And has given us أقل And the إرادة And the hearing And the sight Then he says that I've also shown him the way إِنَّا هَدَيْنَهُ السَّبِيلِ إِمَّا شَاكِرٌ وَإِمَّا كَفُورًا Now I have shown him the way Whether to be grateful Or be ungrateful So then it comes to the point Whether be grateful Or ungrateful It is up to us Whether we are grateful to him Or not But everybody will be asked On the day of judgement ثم لا تُسألُنَّ يَوْمَ إِذِنَ عَنِ النَّعِيمَ Then surely that day Everybody will be crescent About the blessings All those doors that are Open in our lives But we do not focus on those doors We do not look at those doors We do not appreciate those things that we have Rather we focus on the closed doors On the missed opportunities So the purpose of this lecture Is to become more aware About those things that we do have And what do we have Most of us Most of us Allah SWT has blessed with Is health Usually if people And may Allah May Allah grant all of you good health And keep you safe If you are healthy Then you should be Very very grateful to Allah SWT Because if one does not have health Then wealth and career And all those things do not help much One cannot Cannot cherish those things Cannot cherish career and wealth And other comforts And one does not have health Health is a great blessing And we should pray for all our brothers and sisters Regardless of ethnicity And background and religion And culture Who are struggling for their lives At this moment Who are victims of COVID-19 We should pray that May Allah grant them speedy recovery May Allah remove the pains from them And when it comes to health When it comes to health There is a story in the Quran That is very relevant And I want to tell you about that And discuss that And you all have heard that Quranic story And this is the story of Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him No one has suffered In the history When it comes to ailments And sicknesses And diseases And other troubles As Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him What is the story of Prophet Ayyub Peace be upon him It is said that he was a very healthy man And he had many children And he had many gardens And he had a lot of wealth And he was all the time Thanking Allah SWT He was constantly in gratitude He lived in gratitude He thanked Allah SWT constantly That was his test Because Allah SWT Test people With both by giving And also by taking it away Allah SWT says in the holy book That we will test you with And both So Allah SWT Tested him by giving him so many blessings Health, wealth Children, gardens Land, fields And he was thankful to Allah SWT And then Allah SWT Tested him by taking them away First took away all his wealth And then took away all the gardens The fields The land The agriculture The fruit Then the children But he was in gratitude He thanked Allah SWT He thanked his lord And then Allah SWT Made him sick He kept thanking Allah SWT It is written that He became so ill that everybody deserted him Only three men and his wife They were beside him All the people left him He was left all alone No one wanted to be near him Because he was so ill And people also thought He is not a prophet Because if he were a prophet Why would Allah punish him so severely And he kept thanking Allah SWT He kept thanking Just imagine It is easier said than done It is easier said than done It takes the belief of a Yub Peace be upon him To keep thanking Allah SWT Under such circumstances So what happened next Only three men Were left beside him And who did believe That he was a prophet Despite everything One day They also left him And they thought No, he could not have been Really a prophet Because if he were a prophet Why would Allah punish him With so many diseases It is said that Only his heart was beating And his tongue And with that tongue He could thank Allah SWT And that's it He kept thanking him He kept thanking him He kept thanking And what is his دعا أني مصن يضر وانت أرحم الراحمين Indeed Affliction has befallen me And you are أرحم الراحمين He did not even say to Allah SWT I am in so much pain Remove my pain He did not even say that أنت أرحم الراحمين That's it You know You are the most Beneficent The most merciful No one can be merciful Like you So you know my condition And then Allah SWT Cured him Miraculously Through a fountain of water There is a great lesson for us If we have health We should be grateful To Allah SWT Jobs come and jobs go Careers come and careers go But health we should cherish We should take care of ourselves And whatever we have In whatever circumstances we are We should be thankful To Allah SWT So my dear brothers and sisters Take care of yourselves In these days Try to do some exercise Some physical activities Eat healthy Eat more vegetables and fruit Well the thing is that Many of our traditional cuisine Especially the ones from Pakistan And India And also Iraqi And Iranian and Turkish cuisine They are very oily And they are very tasty The thing is that Most things that taste so good They are not that healthy And this Reminds me of a A story A true story A friend of mine told me About a gentleman Who was from the Northern areas of Pakistan From the Korakorum Area In the Beltestan area And this gentleman Was quite old And he had developed several sicknesses So One day his doctor said That You know you have to stop Eating Unhealthy food You have to stop Eating oily food You have to stop eating Spicy food And you also have to stop Eating sugary foods And also You have to stop smoking And by the way Smoking is bad I'm telling you Smoking is bad I should tell right away So he told him All these things The old man said Okay if I smoke And if I eat sugary foods And if I eat oily foods What will happen to me And the doctor said You will die The man said If I cannot do All of these things Then I better die What would I live for Now This was just a story The point is that We have to take care of Our health Take care of our The blessing of health And our body That Allah SWT Has given to us And then When it comes to Allah's blessings When it comes to Our existence in this world There are so many blessings That are around us The blessings that are Around us That we have been Taking for granted What are those blessings For example The nature The climate The oceans All those things That exist around us Human beings in general Have not been Doing justice To those things We see that Now as a result Of COVID-19 What has happened recently You must have seen the news Like there is 40% Less use of coal In China The local environment Has started to improve The world's carbon footprint Is going down Even the canals in Venice Have become cleaner They are talking about These things as the benefits Of the lockdown Of course These things cannot offset All those pains That many families Are going through All those problems That the mankind In general Is going through Because of this disease But the point is That we have been treating Nature so badly Human beings have been treating Nature so badly That it has started to react It has Perhaps this is a way Of nature to correct itself I was speaking to One of my teachers Who is a philosopher And also An expert in In Rome And he said to me That this Nature has reacted Could be a way Of correcting Correcting itself As a reaction To all those things That we have been doing To it Those people Who spearhead the campaign To mitigate climate change For example Or to work For the environment Usually those people Are seen as Those who are non-believers People who are agnostics Or atheists But as a matter of fact Our religion lays Anthesis On sustainable living On green living Our prophet The holy prophet Peace be upon him Told us Over 14 centuries ago Than planting a tree Is a sustainable charity So the pahdariah And that time People could not Really understand The benefit of trees For example And the role in Local environment And the absorption of CO2 And all those things But the holy prophet Peace be upon him Of course knew those things But he talked According to their intellect And said It's pahdariah So have we thought about it Have we told the world About the beauty Of our religion When it comes to Green living And sustainable living But we can only do that If we are aware Of those things ourselves How green are we How green are our Islamic centers Our lifestyles How sustainable is Our Hajj How sustainable is Our Arbaeen Do we leave Hapes of plastics Behind You might be thinking What I'm talking about This is a blessing Nature Earth Environment This is a blessing From Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala If we had to live In an environment In which there were Temperatures were very high And the air was not clean It would become Very difficult for us to live So we have to cherish This nature This environment The earth That is a blessing Of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala It is said that by 2050 There is going to be more Plastic in oceans Than seafood And I'm not talking About the Shia seafood Because Shia seafood Would make food Would make it Even more difficult There will be much more Plastic in proportion To this Shia seafood Because we are Very strict And then if we talk About the Jewish seafood Which is even stricter Because they cannot even Eat shrimps And for them Fish has to have Scales as well as Bones It would be even worse But general seafood There is going to be More plastic Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala In the holy book Allahر الفساد في البري والبحري بما كسبت أيدي الناس فساد appeared In the lands And oceans Because of the deeds Of human beings فساد اللامة رحمة الله عليه Says فساد is everything That is And detrimental to mankind That is That brings destruction Whether it is Manmade Or it is from the nature So perhaps One way of looking At this verse Is that Maybe we have ruined Our land We have ruined Our oceans Human beings So what we can do As believers What we can do We can also play our part إن شاء الله The times will Become better The doors will open This disease will go away And then What we can do Maybe we can start campaigns To educate people Within our own communities And then afterwards On community level On county level On borough level And we talk about The Islamic perspective Of sustainability And green living A teacher of mine Told me a hadith Recently And I do not have The reference to that hadith I could not find the reference So I would tell it right away But he is An environmental engineer Turned theologian And he told me this hadith He said that The holy prophet Peace be upon him Is reported to have said That to me Breaking a branch Of a tree Is like Breaking the angels' wings Breaking the wings Of an angel Now Wings Angels These are metaphors We are not getting there Insha'Allah If I go to Taufiq I will talk about What once someday I will speak about What are angels And what does it mean Their wings And all that But the severity Of the language So I would not speak More about it Because some of you Know that Before I formally Started to study theology I used to work In climate change Metigation Area For several years And so I don't Want to get carried away Before it becomes So boring for everyone The point is We have to Cherish The open doors We have to cherish All the blessings That Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has given to us And those blessings Are not only material They're not only physical They are also Spiritual blessings And one important And spiritual blessing That we take For granted And we are not Being Just to that blessing Now I'm going To talk about that But before I do that Please Recite From the bottom Of your heart A full of love Salawat Ala Muhammad Wa Ali Muhammad Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Has given us A great blessing In the form Of His Final Message The Word Of God The Holy Quran Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Says In The Holy Book That on The Day of Judgment The Holy Prophet Peace Be Upon Him Will Complain To Him In The Qawm To Take This Quran Mahjura Mahjura My Lord My People Had Taken This Quran As Mahjur Mahjur I Deliberately Did Not Translate The Word Mahjur Into English Its English Translation Is Abandoned Something Abandoned But Actually It Is Routed In The Word Hijra Hijra Means Something Useless Worthless Something That Is Of No Use Of No Benefit You Know When We See Some Manual When We In The Rear A New Gadget A Phone A New Car Anything That We Find Useful Then We Look At Its Manual And We Want To Read It When You Find Some Piece Of Paper Of Significance Of Importance We Read It Carefully And We Understand What It Says And If We Do Not Find It Of Any Use We Just Put It As Hijra Mahjur It Is Just And Many Things In Your House I'm Sure Because I Also Have Which We Never Even Look At Mahjur Now If We Never Look At The Quran Which Means That We Have Also Taken It As Something Mahjur Abandoned There Can Be Different Forms Of Abandonment Of The Quran The Worst Form Of Abandonment Of The Quran Is If Someone Open The Quran No One None Of The Believers Is Like That But Then There Is Another Type Of Abandonment Of The Quran Which Is When We Recited We Parroted I Used To Parrot Quran For Years I Used To Parrot It I Would Just Recite It Without Understanding It Never Had Recited It And Read It And Try To Understand It I Wouldn'T Have Made Certain Mistakes That I Did Make In My Life My Life Would Have Been Much Better This Is Another Form Of Abandonment Another Form Of Abandonment The Third Form Of Abandonment Is That You Read The Quran You Recite The The Quran And You Never Act Upon Those Things And You Don'T Go Deep And Try To Understand The Depths And The Beauties Of The Quran This Is Being Ungrateful To This Message And Then The Final Abandonment Type Of Abandonment Of The Quran Is When You Read The Quran You Recite The Abandon Yourself And Just Tell Others And This Is More True For People Like Me We Try To Teach A Commentary On The Quran But Do Not Act Upon It Themselves So How Can We Be Grateful To Allah For This Blessing You See This Is A Comunication He Has Said Everything He Had To Say Now He Will Speak On The Day Of Judgment And If We Never Listen To His Words In This Life Then God Forbid He Might Say On The Day Of Judgment You Never Paid Attention To My Words In You Not Speak With You God Forbid This Is The Final Comunication So My Brothers And Sisters What Is Important For Us In These Days Especially When We Sit At Home And Spend More Time At Home That We Develop The Habit Of Reciting The Quran First Of All Please Do That Now Please Try To Start And If You Are Not Reciting It Every Day Try To Start Reciting It Every Day Start Reading It Every Day And Read The Translation Of The Quran And Try To Understand What Allah Is Telling Us This Will Open The Doors Of Your Heart This Will Bring Peace To Your Hearts That Makes You Understand The Laws Affairs To A Certain Degree The Imam Says It Is Not The Abundance Of Salat And Sound That Is The Ibadah But Ibadah Worship Is A Reflection On The Affairs Of Allah When We Start To Read The Quran And Understand Start To Understand The Fundamental Principles Upon Which Allah's Scheme And Allah's Affairs Are Based And Then Many Doors Will Open For Us Many Spiritual Doors Will Open For Us Now The Quran Is A Very Broad Topic And A Deep Topic And We Have Already Spent About The운�وا window Where When Okay So For Our One And You Dare When Ever We Get Some Whatever Okay So A Day Instead You Get A رب is the one who nurtures, who gives all sort of blessings to his creatures Therefore, in the Holy Quran, whenever some نعمة, some blessing is mentioned then the name رب appears next to it Please pay attention next time you recite the Quran Pay attention whenever the word and the name رب appears it is in connection with some نعمة For example فبأي جي آلائي رب كما تكذبان Famous verse that we all have heard Which of the blessings of Allah you will deny رب كما شور الله you will deny رب is there And then الحمد لله رب العالمين You look at different verses wherever the word رب appears It is in connection with some blessings some نعمة And then I'm going to talk about one particular blessing That is the greatest blessing of all That is the blessing Which appears in the That reference to that blessing appears in the Holy Quran In one particular verse that also uses the word The name رب There was time when Allah سبحانه وتعالى said to the Holy Prophet يا أيها الرسول بلغ ما أنزل إليك من ربك Oh messenger بلغ Make it known, announce to the people ما أنزل إليك من ربك What has been descended upon you from your رب From your Lord, from your رب The one who gives all the blessings And if you did not do that It is as if you did not do any of the work of the Prophet What a severe tone Announce that And if you did not do that Then you haven't done anything Any work of the Prophet Apparently the whole work of the Prophet The whole message hinges upon The announcement of that blessing And if it is so Then that blessing must be the best blessing The most important blessing The greatest blessing of all And that is when the Holy Prophet Announced in غلير ما أن كنت مولاه فهذا علي جن مولاه If whoever takes me as his Mola This Ali is his Mola This is the blessing of willaya The greatest blessing of willaya And why it is the greatest blessing Why is it so? First of all الله سبحانه وتعالى Says if you did not announce it It is as if you did not do any work Of the Prophethood Because the Wali after you Is going to defend the religion To protect the religion To protect the sharia To protect to be the guardian Of the affairs of Muslims Not only that This willaya is the greatest blessing Of all because it takes us Straight to Allah That is why one of the names When the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Is When the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Says that ask me Then he says that ask me I know the ways in the skies Better than the ways in the earth Perhaps he means to say It's not the galaxies It is not the ordinary ways in the sky Because even NASA can know those things Even the servants of the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Can know those ways Perhaps the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Want to say yes I know those ways About the galaxies About the moon About the stars But I also know about the ways That lead to Allah SWT Straight to Allah SWT God knows what kind of ways He was talking about But this willaya Takes us straight to Allah SWT That is why this is the greatest Blessing of all But there were people who Recognized this blessing And yet they rejected it There were people Who knew who the Amir Al-Mu'mineen Was They had seen him in Zul'ashira In Badr In Ohad In Khandaq In Haibar In Mubahila And then in Ghadir And yet they rejected it They recognized the blessing of Allah Then they rejected This is the worst of the Quran According to the Hadith based About those people who rejected The Amir Al-Mu'mineen They knew who he was And yet they refused to Accept him Accept his willaya But we We do not do that We recognize this blessing But are we grateful for this blessing What does it mean to be grateful For this blessing of willaya Allah SWT says in the holy book إعملوا آلذا ودا شكرا And children of David Do something إعملوا واق To be grateful شكرا When it comes to being grateful When it comes to being To do شكر One has to do something Allah SWT did not say تلفلوا شكرا إعملوا آلذا ودا شكرا And interestingly in Persian they say شكر كن In Urdu they say شكر كرو In Syraiki, Punjabi شكر كار شكر كرو Maybe in Turkish and other languages as well It is always كن كار كرو It's never just speak شكر شكر You always have to do something To be grateful to Allah SWT So how can we be grateful To this blessing The blessing of willaya You and Mashallah in Aberdeen Have built this mosque And many other places Have also believers Built Islamic centers and mosques And this is one way of being Grateful to Allah SWT For the blessing of the willaya So that in those centers We can learn about the Quran We can learn Hadith We can learn about the Ahlul Bayt About their lives This is a way to be grateful الحمد لله But more needs to be done More needs to be done Because just recognizing them Is not sufficient Just saying that We recognize them Is not enough There were people Who recognized them There is another true story That I'm going to tell you about There was a man Who had met one of the Imam And recognized and was convinced That he was the Imam And yet he rejected him It is in the kafi It is narrated that There was a man Ali bin Muhammad And he belonged To the Waqfiyah sect Waqfiyah sect Was a sect in the history And they believed that Imam Musa Al-Qasim Peace be upon him Was the Imam Al-Laghhaib And he was in occultation And he would return one day So they rejected all the Imam After that Imam Reza Peace be upon him Imam Taqi Imam Naqi Peace be upon them all Imam Asqari Peace be upon them all So they rejected them And he belonged to that sect And he narrates that The narrator tells that This man told him That we were very poor So one day My father who was apparently Mainstream Sheer He said Let's go to that man Which man Imam Hassan Al-Asqari Peace be upon him Let's go to him He might help us So this man says I said Okay let's go to him But does he know you Have you met him Do you recognize him My father said No I've never met him I do not recognize him But you know We need 500 Dirhams So I hope He can give me 500 Out of which 200 I'll use to pay back loans 200 I can use To buy clothes And 100 To buy food items And stuff And this man says that I thought okay I'll go with my father To this man Hassan Al-Asqari And I thought And I thought Well I also need 300 At least Of which I can pay My debts For 100 100 I can use on clothes And 100 I can use to buy a donkey And go to the mountainous regions Of Kurdistan And that's what he thought He said that We both went to The house of Hassan Al-Asqari And then as soon as We approached his house A servant came out of the house And he said Muhammad and his son Ali Should come in And we were surprised That he already knew Who we were And what our names were So he says that We went in And we met Hassan Al-Asqari And he asked my father At this time What brings you here And somehow His father was shy To ask the Imam What he wanted The man says That we left The house of Hassan Al-Asqari And we had gone a little further And in fact The servant of Hassan Al-Asqari Came running after us And he gave 500 To my father And said 200 for paying back the loan 200 to buy clothes 104 food items He says I was surprised That he knew that And I thought Okay But what were my 300 And as I thought The servant said And here are 300 for you And use 100 To buy food items And 100 To buy a donkey But do not Go to the mountains Of Kurdistan Instead go to the city Of Surah Such a detail The man says That I acted upon those Advices I went to Surah And I got married To a woman there And I started business And now I earn 1,000 Therein 1,000 Therein A month Then the narrator said What more do you need To know That He is the Imam He says Yes, you are right But I cannot help it Now the work of fear Has diffused Into me What a classic example Of someone Who had seen the Imam Recognized the Imam Had seen the miracle And was convinced That he was the Imam But the wrong sect Had diffused Into him So he could not leave that sect So my brothers and sisters We are not like that We are not like that man But Do we Truly appreciate What we have got from What the kind of treasures We have The treasures That our Imams Have left for us Have we thought about those things Have we thought about Sahifa to Sajadiah The treasure of supplications And prayers It is easy to Set up Have programs And cut cakes And eat sweets And recite beautiful poetry And have happy occasions To celebrate The birthday anniversaries Of the Imams And to pay tributes to them But when it comes to To do shukr For this wilaya Then it requires something from us Quran As I said Quran we should recite But Quran alone is not sufficient We also need the hadith We also need the Ahlul Bayt And the Quran tells us What Allah SWT Says to us Quran is the communication From Allah To us And Sahifa to Sajadiah Tells us How we should communicate To Allah SWT What we should say to him The Sahifa to Sajadiah Is full of love For Allah SWT Full of Tawheed For Allah SWT What do we get to hear About Imam Sajadiah Usually In our lectures And in our programs Usually We hear about Sahifa to Sajadiah And many speakers And scholars talk about it But there is also a tendency Among the public To think that He was only morning After Karbala And he cried a lot And he was Ill in Karbala And he is called The Bimar Imam The Maried Imam But instead of that Focusing on that We should try and understand What is in Sahifa Sajadiah What beauty Sahifa Sajadiah Is nothing but a commentary A Tafseer of the Quran If we start to look into it If we start to appreciate it It will open the doors for us Sahifa Sajadiah has Over 50 supplications Now what we can do today As I said I will speak about a way To celebrate And pay tribute To Imam Sajadiah Peace be upon him Please do this Please I ask you to do this You start looking at The 7 supplications That are for the 7 days Of the week For Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday If we recite one Supplication From Sahifa Sajadiah Everyday On Saturday We recite the dua For Saturday On Sunday The dua for Sunday Takes 2-3 minutes And we pay attention And we try to Understand the meanings Then I Guarantee you That the doors to your hearts Will open Because the Sahifa Sajadiah Is powerful It creates love It melts hearts And it teaches us How we should converse To Allah And when it comes to Opening of doors We are also celebrating The birth anniversary Of Abul Falil Abbas Who is called Babul Hawa'ij People used to go to Israel And ask Allah SWT For their wishes And they went to him And they used him As the wasila And their wishes would come true So many wishes So many people's wishes come true That his name became Babul Hawa'ij When all the doors are closed Then take Abbas As the wasila And then pray to Allah SWT The doors will open Why Abbas is so special Abbas is Abdu-Sualih What makes Abbas Peace be upon him That special That he has such a status Near Allah SWT He had absolutely Submitted to Allah SWT Through the submission To the Holy Prophet Through the submission To the Amirul Mu'mineen Through the submission To the Imam Hassan And Imam Hussein Peace be upon them both Imam Sadab Peace be upon him Has written the زيارة for Abul Falil Abbas Peace be upon him Abdu-Sualih المطيع لله ولي رسوله ولي Amirul Mu'mineen ولي Hassan ولي Hussein This was His strength This was What made him That special According to the Hadith On the Day of Judgement When Abbas Will appear Then all the Matters would think Oh Only if we could also Get that status His status is so high Compared to all other Matters So this باب الحوائج What we can learn from His life How we can pay tribute To Him Is that We accept We resort to تقوى We resort to إطاع Of Allah SWT Submission to Allah SWT And تقوى And also Submission to The Holy Prophet And the imams By trying to Understand What they have said What they have ordered Us to do And That way We seek nearness To Allah SWT So we pray To Allah SWT That yesterday's Lecture And today's lecture Whatever has been said He accepts it From us And we pray To Allah SWT That he makes it Easy For mankind That he opens All the closed doors And he also To appreciate The doors That are open In our lives The blessings He has given to us Oh Allah Oh Allah We cannot understand Your wisdom We have limited intellects We have superficial understanding Of Your scheme of things We have a superficial understanding Of Your mercy We cannot understand In how many different forms Your mercy manifests So Allah You show us What we perceive As Your mercy Nothing happens In Your kingdom But it is a manifestation Of Your رحمة It is a manifestation Of Your mercy So Allah Make it easy for us Allah Make it easy For the whole Mankind And eradicate This A disease This virus From the face Of the earth Sooner Than later So that the doors To the shrines Can open again Doors To the Islamic centers Can open again Doors To the mosques Can open again Doors To the businesses To schools To restaurants Cafes Small and medium enterprises All those people Whose livelihoods Are dependent on those businesses Which are closed They open soon again And lives Of people Your creatures Become Easier Again And give us the Tophik And give us the strength These times By being Grateful to you Grateful To you For the sake of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Allahumma sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Wassalamu alaikum ورحمة الله وبركاته


This is a presentation of TFNN. The Tom O'Brien Show is produced every business day. Tom takes your phone calls toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Let's go to our man, Alan Homo-Sasa. What's going on, brother? It's, isn't it wonderful? I went ahead and invested in your Tiger dollars and I went ahead and got the gold report. Four year and also your morning, your, your call letter and stuff like that. And I got over 50% return in one day, not counting everything else. But I just want to thank you. Tom's not perfect, but he tells you how to put your stops in and keeps your losses small. You can take your small losses, but then all of a sudden you'll be like Dave Root and you'll hit a home run. I mean, a big home run. Yeah. And put the money in your pocket. Okay, brother. You're awesome, man. Thank you. Tom O'Brien. Welcome folks. We have the now industrious right now trading down 16 Nasdaqs up 65 S&Ps up eight and a half. Let's take only one of our four agreements. To master love, you have to practice love. The out of relationship is a whole mastery and the only way to reach mastery is with practice. To master a relationship is therefore about taking action, not about attaining knowledge. Market-wise folks, we have the now right now down, well, now it's flat. You get the Nasdaq up 75, S&Ps are up 11, gold, gold contract down $24.80 trading at $18.95 an ounce. We have silver down 37 cents, $22.71 an ounce, light sweet crude, bidding it up 338, 93.77, notes and bonds. Let's end your note down 15-6, trading 107, 20 to 30 here of 25 at 113.19 and Kingdoll. You just can't stop it, man. The market just higher Kingdoll, lower the market. Here we go. So you get Kingdoll up 377 ticks, 106.608, yours at 105, Yen's trading at 149 British pounds, at 121 to 1 US dollar. Let's get over to our mammoth to Teddy Kegstad. Teddy folks is going to be doing a live workshop coming right up after the show, four to five Eastern standard time. He is going to be talking about how to capitalize on time with calendar stock option spreads, four to five this afternoon. It's only $97, folks, to really get to understand how calendar spreads work inside the option market. Teddy Kegstad, how you doing, man? I'm doing well, Tom. Good to see you. You also. You also. So tell us a little bit about, yeah, you have a market for this. That's for sure. That's right. We have volatility. It's kind of funny with the S&Ps and the NASDAQ tanking. We'll be able to look at some definitely some put calendar spreads. So yeah, it's going to be, I'm interested in looking forward to the webinar. We have a lot of nice opportunities in the market that I'm going to go over. They're fresh and they've recently happened. And show all the viewers how they can incorporate calendar spreads into their option strategies. There's all kinds of options strategies out there. And there's times when calendar spreads actually give you a lot of bang for your buck, especially when you can use it when you own a stock. And if you don't own a stock, or if you're thinking about getting into a stock, there's reasons why calendar spreads sometimes are the way to go. And Teddy and folks, OK, this is what's so cool. It's all about decay, right? Yes. Yeah. And so if Teddy was a professional down on the floor, OK, anyone that's down on the floor, folks, OK, they wake up every morning and they say, OK, how much decay do I have today? Right? It's, you know, yeah, I mean, directionally, folks, OK, we know that there's no crystal ball out here. But you know what's funny to me? They're really, it's not a crystal ball. But because there's so many people that don't understand options, they don't understand decay. And the case, the heaviest part of the whole freaking deal. You're trading time. Yeah, right, right, right, yeah. Absolutely. And it gives you a really good reward to risk ratio from your decay, from the front month to the back month leg as well. So that's what you look for in any trade to begin with is you want a good reward to risk ratio. Exactly. I'll tell you a wild story. So in the run-up in the 90s, I put on a couple of options trades. I knew nothing about options, like everyone else. I had a Dell trade, and it was a call I had. And I woke up, Dell came over with their numbers, right? And Dell was up like, at that point, we were always dealing with small numbers, folks. But Dell was up like $10, right? And I said, oh my god, we're going to make so much money. It's unbelievable. Well, the bottom line is, folks, is that I broke even. Because I didn't even know what a premium was. You know what I mean? It's like, I looked at him and said, hold it. What's wrong with him, man? I was right, I paid like a buck 20 for this. It was 10 bucks out of the money. But guess what? Yeah, right. So I got to learn a lot after that, because I love the OEX. This is how we learn, right? Yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately. But guess what? You don't have to learn like this, folks, OK? Because this is the type of class that you can understand. You get a full hour to capitalize on how calendar spreads work. So what do you think about this dollar move, man? Well, you know what? It's all yield indicative right now.  The cycle of businesses right now is really working. You have interest rates, gold, and equities. And you can see that right now yields are driving those moves incredibly right now. And the pricing also, Tom, you got to remember, we just made recent new lows in the 30-year and the 10-year. But we're at a level where we were a year ago and we hadn't had all these rate increases. So fair value is below where we're at right now. We're getting to basically fair value. Right. So when you're pricing in, which you have explained to us and educated on this, so the yield of the country is going to have a lot to do with the currency of the country and where it's going to go, right? OK, cool. Right, wow. Yeah, pretty wild, man. Because these yields still look relentless. I mean, last week I was thinking, hey, man, I think we're topping out. And then it was like these wide price spreads, even today. It's like, this dollar, man. The next swing point is that. It's funny you say that, Tom, because Friday, the 30-year, I even had it in the Tiger Forex Support. We had a short-term counter-trend buy signal. It was negated right away on Monday, you know? So I mean, that tells you the momentum of this scenario that it really is fighting for a fair value right now. That's cool, man. I like that, because I get it. That's a lot easier to digest, right? I mean, it really is in the context of where it is. Well, listen, folks, it's very easy to get into this workshop. Come over to our website at TFNN. You're going to see it right under featured content. And Teddy Cakes that. He's going to be up at 4 to 5 this afternoon. You're going to learn a great amount. And as Tommy says in the morning, even if you don't trade options, folks, it's great to understand what the derivative is doing, because you're going to understand the equity market a lot more.  And it's intriguing because, you know, reading it, I got, I understood what they were doing. But if you don't understand options, you don't understand like, okay, how can it keep driving lower?   Yep, exactly. Come over to our website, folks, at TFNN. You're going to see Teddy right under featured content. Get in that webinar, folks. Teddy, we look forward to the webinar in 45 minutes, man. Thanks, Tom. See you there. Bye, right there, folks, we'll come right back. 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Okay, so here we go. So 98, well, even the lows of the high, see this is gonna be pretty intense, man, because the lows, not of the first high, of the second high, committed at 101. The high itself comes in at 110, no, 130, no, 110, 110. You're going right at this particular point, you're just going over one swing and you're coming up to another one. Yeah, this looks like to me, you're gonna have 103, man. That's where this is looking. Let's go to the XLE and take a look at the XLE because what does happen, this is what ends up happening also in the oil market, which is pretty wild. So to get oil, and this is what the differences between oil and other commodities actually did, you can get, they can accelerate oil out of the ground folks, okay? In about 30 to 45 days. So when you get higher prices like this, remember our man, Mr. Ed Young, you know, bottom line, the way you get lower prices is you get higher prices. You know, the higher it goes, the more that, okay, production's gonna be done and that's what brings it down. Now, when we put in the XLE up, this gets interesting because now you're coming up to like, this is the fourth high. It's pretty wild actually. That being said, it's gonna need a lot more volume. Well, see, no, it had the volume up here two weeks ago. So it was hitting high volume two weeks ago. So, and if this bust it, it's gonna be huge because what you have is that you have a base on this that goes back to January of 2022. You get a year and a half base. So if you break top side, man, the XLE, you're gonna get some big action, man. It was a year and a half base is a long time. That's the whole building cause that drives people out of their mind. That's how that works. Let's go take a look at some of the NDX stocks first. You get the serious satellites up 5%, Dex comes up four, Paychex, that Paychex. All right, we're gonna look at that. That's up 4.2. Taking away from it, PayPal's down two, Microsoft, no, Monster's down one. Let's go back to Paychex for a second. Because what ends up happening here is that you know, look at this, man. Okay, so they come up with numbers. Let's look at this. This is kind of cool to see. Okay, so gains on first quarter adjusted beats estimates. Paychex bounce balance. Let's read this here and see what this says. Okay, so Paychex rose more than 3.6%. Intraday, after a payroll and benefits company reporter adjusted earnings per share for the first quarter, beat as expected, Paychex affirmed the 2024 guidance. See slide upside from higher interest rate income. Oh, interesting. So they're like a bank also maintains in line rating. They were looking to make a dollar three. They made a dollar 14. Revenue is 1.29 billion. Estimate was 1.28. Funds held for clients, 32.7 million. Huh. Estimate was a 4.21 operating income 536 million. That's intriguing, man. Let me look at this chart again, because what does happen if we're looking for recession, you know, the last thing you're gonna see is a company like Paychex go higher. Let me see how much it's got hit prior to this though. Okay, so you're down off a high of 128, which is not bad. Let me put this on a monthly note. Unreal. Yeah, this is still strong, man.  You know, we use Paychex, I love it. They do everything. And, you know, that makes it a lot easier, man.   But the bottom line is that, you know, we're talking about well worth it, whether it's direct deposit, whether, you know, you have your retirement funds that are in there, they can match them up for you, if you're employees. There's just a lot of things out there that are pretty easy. And it's probably more than that, I'm probably paying, but it's not a huge amount. When you don't have to worry about, you know, the filings, it's a big deal. Let's go to syntax. Let's see, because syntax, now this was getting hit last week and we'll come back to that one, but the bottom line is that, you know, these clues for how long are these rates gonna be high are a big deal. And the real question is, is that are they going higher? Are they flattening out? Or coming back? When you read the deal about these commercial loans that are out there, it's pretty wild because most commercial loans folks are predicated on the Fed funds rate. And what has happened is that the Fed funds rate, of course, has gone from zero, you know, to 4.5 right now. So you have huge companies that were paying basically, you know, 3%, now they're paying almost 7%, but they're paying it on billions of dollars. In fact, the story this morning, yeah, PetStyle.com is, okay, so that's still in business. So this company here, the amount of interest that they're paying is astronomical.   Now the interest rate structure's taken all the cash flow. 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There's no doubt about that, but I think where the pushback is gonna be, it's like, okay, do we want to pay more for stuff that we buy? That's what it really comes down to. And the convenience aspect. I'm not quite sure that's gonna shake out, but it seems to me that what has happened here, is that the companies themselves have got so much larger than most of these regulatory bodies that, yeah, it's gonna be pretty tough for them to bring them to heel. That's what it comes down to. If we look at Amazon, you're gonna see, just made a nice run off this low of 80 bucks here, 126. You're pulling back with life volume. The thing is they're all set to go to higher price. I mean, you take a look at their numbers. Number wise out here, you're talking 141 billion. Look, just look at this, man. They did 70 billion, which is a lot, 2019, right? 141 billion this year. And bringing 58 cents to the bottom of mind. Well, that's for a quarter, not this year. 569 billion. It's just amazing. And what is amazing, of course, is that they keep adding on services. All these big companies definitely keep adding on services, which now the whole big deal is gonna be the AI. In Amazon's case, the AWS is a huge deal. They get in delivery right away is a huge deal. And I guess you're making pennies, but you're making pennies on billions of dollars. What is gonna be interesting is this. This is gonna be the next case. So the way that, if you remember the, what happens is that if you're a bank or a broker dealer, folks, okay, what happens is that they have strict compliance that every type of communication that gets done between anyone and everyone inside of those banks or those broker dealers, supposed to be able to be traceable so that if something comes down for a client, the SEC, NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange could all basically get a traceable deal. And what ends up happening is that when you are actually, you wanna be part of that club, you are saying that you will adhere to that deal. Now, we know that the amount of fines that all these big banks have already got, they didn't adhere to the deal, they paid a couple hundred million a piece, didn't say they're guilty, but here's a couple hundred million, we'll move on. Well, what happened yesterday is that now they're gonna go after hedge funds. And it's gonna be really interesting because Ken Griffin, okay, who flat out does more trades than his firm does more trades than anyone in the world.  Yeah, it says something. Anyway, he's gonna fight them in court. So this is gonna get really intriguing as to, you know, what subsidiary are they actually going after? And we'll see how it's going. They're all using WhatsApp. That's the real bottom line, using WhatsApp. So, you know, the thing that's wild is that you know that everyone can get everything, if in fact, you're gonna end up in court. And if you have enough money to get it. That's the, it's two different things. It's, you know, the government doesn't need the money to get it, they get it. Whoever they're going after absolutely needs high-end lawyers, time and money in order to basically get what they need information-wise, you know. So, you know, the next, the next deal, which is also happening as I bring this hedge fund deal up. So this gets pretty wild actually. So you get the high-frequency traders, right? And when this first started off, picture when it first started off it was just the so's being that's, then it went to the deal about having the pipe right beside the offices. Meaning, these hedge funds start putting their main servers right beside the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, as well as the options stock exchange in Chicago. Then it went from there to putting underground cables in across the ocean, just to shave off one-tenth of one-second, okay? Well, here's the new deal. The new deal is that the, and what has happened is that they have an organization and all the high-frequency traders to get together. The new deal is that they want to be able to use the bandwidth of all the ham operators, you know, because right now what ends up happening, the ham operators have their own band. They're small bands, but what they are, they're very efficient because that's where the national communications are and the whole ball of arcs. Well, this is going through right now and it looks to me like they're gonna get it. And what that's going to do, so check out what that's gonna do. What that's gonna do is that's gonna shave off another one-tenth of one-second. Now, picture what happens here, though.  As a computer? Oh, my God. The amount of trades you can pull off with one-tenth of one-second, meaning that if you know trades going off in Chicago and you're in LA or you're in Singapore, it doesn't matter where it is, one-tenth of one-second means you're either gonna make money or not make money. It's that dramatic. And that's the game that is out there. It has been out there for quite some time. It's collecting that data and then doing that by the aspect here, large. So if we take a look at this, you're gonna see yesterday, you did 898 million in the NYSE, and then if we go to the NASDAQ, you did 4.7 billion. Well, Ken Griffin runs, I forget what the number is, man, but I mean, it's like 40% of the trades. So just add up 4 billion, add up, let's say we did 4.8 billion yesterday, just cut that in half, 2.4 billion times two pennies. 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Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. This program is brought to you by Vista Gold. Traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Welcome back folks, I'm down. Down investors right now, down 114. Nasdaq up eight S&Ps down eight and a half. You've had some nice volatility out here, man. So check this out inside the S&Ps today. We started the day out, we were up about 17. Yeah, you got a high at 4336. You got a low of 4277. So what do we get there? 36, 46, 56, 62, 62 S&P points. And it almost gets back to the high and then just gives it up again. So let's go back to that syntax for a second. Thanks, Peter, for putting that in there for me. I appreciate it in the Tiger's Den. So we look at syntax. What you're gonna see now, that came down with heavy volume yesterday. But when you still look at this on a weekly basis or a monthly basis, it's still pretty high, man. You know, let's actually put this on a monthly. Yeah, I mean, this is the type of deals that like, okay, still up there pretty good. Now, what does happen is this. Now, see, I remember this in 1989, a big way folks, okay? So what happened in 89, it goes like this. The stock market crashed in October of 87, right? What happened, it took all the way to 1989. It took exactly a year and a half for the recession and in particular real estate to get hit in a monster way. And it got hit, it got hit in Boston, Dallas, Anchorage, Southern California, where else? Probably New York, probably Miami. I forget these other places, but I'm familiar with Boston, of course, because I lived in Boston. I had offices up in Anchorage, Alaska, because I think that's when oil, I remember reading the paper one morning out here in Anchorage and it was like $10.21 a barrel. It was like, I think it was $6.61 actually and it stayed at $10.21 for a long period of time. And in Anchorage, what was happening is that you could buy just about any, in Anchorage mostly there are single-family houses but there's huge amounts of condo apartments that really look like two-stories and they almost look like hotels and they have one and two bedrooms. That's kind of just how they built out Anchorage at that particular time. And there were 10,000 bucks a piece. I remember it so well, because I was like, okay. So it was so intriguing, because when this rate cycle was starting, I remember saying to Besved many times, I said, you know what, man, and it started last March, so we are exactly a year and a half right now from March. And it's like all these things take much longer than you realize in order to hit. You know, and I was talking about yesterday the aspect of the amount of money that is in banks right now is that the, that 80% of the United States has less money in the bank right now than they did prior to the pandemic. So all that money is spent. And I can see the aspect of also, you know, even three months ago in the job market, what you had is that it was still very tight. Now the numbers are still very tight in the job market, but I'm watching it. People are getting fired, okay, which wasn't happening before. Okay, I mean, I'm giving you something that's just the local deal, okay. But the bottom line is that there, you know, in Florida right now, they're not worried about people not having enough people right now.  They just moved out a whole bunch of people because there's so many more people that are coming down to Florida. Now the group is bigger. That's the bottom line, which we didn't have. We didn't have that at all. So that gets really intriguing in the context of how inflation's gonna hit, you know, or, you know, one of the other, my take is we're on the other side of that, but all of those things get intriguing.  And if something breaks, what it's going to be, it's gonna be those regional banks again.  You know, when you read about the aspect of how many large companies that we hear about, that, you know, on the way up, you always, I mean, this company, Banyan, Banyan is huge, man. They've already given back four sets of keys for four sky high, you know, 15 story buildings, right? This is happening under the radar in a monster way. And now it's in the office space, there's no doubt. But watch what happens here. When it happens in the office space, well, guess what? All those workers that are in that space, meaning that works for those funds and all that, they can't go out and they can't be, they're not spending like they were spending. And that's how this whole thing gets chipped down little by little by little. You know, I would say that what we still haven't heard about that is just as bad as the 2008 is the office space.  In St. Pete, now we got really lucky because we never had a lot of office space. It was actually detrimental to St. Petersburg, Florida because of the fact, you know, office space equals jobs, right? So what has happened is that just the opposite has happened because we have beautiful high rises that are gorgeous. You have singles that are gorgeous and just the opposite has actually happened. And even when you compare that with Tampa, Tampa only has a 11% vacancy rate right now. But that's climbing, that's climbing. So St. Pete's been very lucky that they didn't have the office space that was available because that, you know, guess what? We're not gonna be using as much office space as we have in the past and there's no reason to because everything's digital. If you can work digitally, which you can do even faster, you know, I get the context of climbing up the ladder, meeting in person. I love meeting in person. I mean, I get that, trust me. I think that's 10 times better than everything else. But on a bigger basis, you know, bottom line, you don't need that much office space. Let's take a look at the Dow Industries and what's moving some of these stocks inside the Dow. So you get the oil stocks and you get Caterpill, I get, you get Chevron putting 19 positive points, Caterpill putting 19, Intel putting four, taking away from it. Nothing big, man. McDonald's minus 25, minus 18 rather, minus 28. You got Procter Gamble minus 15, Goldman minus 10. There's not a big number there, you know. And you can see why the fluctuation inside of the SMPs, inside the NASDAQ, inside of the composite, that's why they're fluctuating so fast back and forth. If we go take a look at the volumes out here today, where are we at? We're gonna go, you're at 517 inside the NYSE, and right now we're at 4.2 in the composite. Stay right there folks, come right back. Are you ready to take your trading to the next level? 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Because it's very smart how they're doing this this time, meaning that you just go after where the parts come out of that are crucial in certain vehicles, well, in most vehicles, and have to finish the vehicle off. And so that's how those strikes are coming down. And we'll just see how that thing plays out. This is definitely the amount of... Let me just look at this quickly. Because in the journal, even in the journal, which is, of course, conservative, they were talking about the aspect of the disconnect between what the CEOs and the executives were getting and pay versus the workers. So you get... Come on, come on up here. Okay, so you get Mary Barra. Well, non-cash, 12 million. Cash, 8 million. Yeah, she's at 20. Have a great one, folks. Have a safe one. Come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, 9 o'clock. Thank you.


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Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Everton have announced a record number of Everton fans have taken up their season, take an option for next season, 30,500 which is a 98% renewal rate for next season. The deadline was on Tuesday, 30,500 people have committed themselves to next season, some of them knowing that we may not get back in stadiums for a while, I actually renewed mine in January so I mean I've paid quite a lot of it off already so there's not really a can do about that. But that fantastic number that I chose that Evertonians are loyal, there's probably other words I can use to describe us fans but loyal, certainly loyal, I know we want to see it's good times and obviously listen, Carlo and Cialotti, manager, I forget about anything else that's gone on I think Evertonians are expecting things to progress hopefully, hopefully fingers crossed as we go forward. We don't know when we will be in stadiums of course and the timeline of October which is I think what the Premier League has has been dealt a blow today with the government announcing that all sporting events will have no fans in the grounds for at least in a couple of weeks I think it is. There's been some trial events including cricket and snooker I believe which will have a small amount of fans within the stadiums, obviously social distancing and masks on but obviously today as everyone I'm sure is aware there's been a setback in the lockdown measures, face masks going to have to be worn everywhere as that rate goes back up again which was predictable, very very predictable, the people at the very top don't seem to be able to predict these things. So where that leaves us for next season I don't know it could be as I said I think it's for the next two weeks they're going to look at the situation and then we'll have to see where we are but we just don't know at this point when fans are going to be in the grounds obviously the season starts up in September, September 12th is the opening of Premier League weekend so if we get back in the stadiums this year I personally will be amazed so we'll have to see what happens there but well done to everyone for renewing the season together. Gabrielle the story just won't go away I played that ever and basically had a deal sorted with before Covid, apparently his representatives are in the UK and talking to a couple of Premier League teams one of those teams is apparently Everton as they try and get the deal secured for the player there was there was a source last night saying that Everton had agreed a deal for 30 million euros which is around 27 and a half million I believe and that Napoli had not been able to get to that deal. Napoli was seen as Everton's main rivals for the player Manchester United's names being thrown in there today I don't know whether that's real or whether that's just to get Everton to come back and come back with it and offer that Leal feel is suitable and closer to the offer that Everton had in the first place before the outbreak and we'll have to wait and see. Napoli have today both Victor Osmanton the striker from Leal so and that's around 50 million plus for him so whether that leaves much room to buy Gabrielle I don't know maybe they need to sell Alan to us to for I mean that'd be completely totally evident wouldn't it us we buy one of their players to fund their move for a play way to on a buy as well but they're not gonna have much in the coffers obviously they're trying to sell Gula Barley as well but for a 29 year old who's valued at around 80 million pounds as well no one's touching that at the moment either so it's it's gonna be interesting Leal have bought a replacement from Ajax Alan Myers was reporting early on today a centre-back so they're looking to get the player out now so it's whose need is more isn't it at the moment it wouldn't seem that Everton really need a centre-back but Everton obviously been very keen on this player and it might mean if they do sell him that Everton could maybe move a player on or two in the centre-back position Michael Keane we've discussed loads of times he's only got two years left on his deal Everton have to make a decision on him soon whether they're gonna keep him and give him another year leave it for another year and then decide when he's got a year on us on on his contract or they sell him and after he's been playing so well as well he you know financial wise we would get maybe back what we paid for him so Everton have to make that decision but you know with Lewis Gibson and obviously Jared Branthright playing last four games of the season Everton in the future would seem to be covered on the left-hand side but this is a player Everton have wanted for a while so we'll have to see how this all plays out. Another player that has been linked with a move away from Everton today is Fabian Delphi he's been linked with a move to Leeds a very obviously this and this is very basic link isn't it an ex-leads player leads a looking for Premier League experience Fabian Delphi has not set you know the well the light of Everton so a move back would seem the most sensible thing and obviously from the paper's point of view a very very easy link so there you go let's see what happens in the next week or two with these Everton are gonna have to move fast whatever happens they're gonna have to move fast to get some through the door and get some out the door as well I think that's another if Everton can get one or two faced more face team squad players like Sando, like a besage maybe one more face team and now maybe as well then I think Everton will be in a good position to strike for a few for a few names but it's a difficult balancing act at the moment forever and with everything going on so there you go let me know your thoughts in the comments on any of the stories I have covered today give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already and you want more great videos join us over on Patreon become a patron on Patreon you get loads of exclusive videos you get live videos every single day at the moment on there we've got the we are rating the midfield we are rating the forwards and our season review videos they're on there now you get videos before YouTube get them so and you get them all on podcasts as well so if you want to check that out the link is in the description thanks for watching see you later


So I am happy to see that you look well. All of you, I have checked. So now we are going to have, I think, very important and interesting discussion with Olivier Blanchard. I think that you all know Olivier Blanchard. He's a star. Well, I would say he's not the only star in this room. Don't worry, don't worry. But he is undoubtedly one of the best international economists. And he was the chief economist of the IMF. He has a very prestigious academic career. And he has been, he still is the president of the American Economic Association until the end of this year. So I have asked Olivier to discuss the world economy, but from a short-term viewpoint, because we have this morning with this long economic panel, we had, we took a longer-term perspective or middle-term perspective. So after the middle term, we are going to talk about the short term according to the principle that without the short term, there is no middle term and even less long term. So this is the subject. So Olivier will take the floor now. We will have Q&As as long as I observe that you are not hungry, that is, if I see that you don't need to eat, we will continue the discussion. If not, we will adjust. So Olivier, the floor is yours.


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