Bismillah-reheem. All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. P Ottoman text All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. So, we are going to continue in this series that we've been discussing. We just did one conversation so far. going to be talking about repenting in this blessed month of Ramadan. So Ramadan is a very, very special month. It is a month full of forgiveness. It is a month full of a chance to get Allah SWT's mercy. And so we're going to be diving today into the different types of sins. And so we're going to specifically be talking about how to seek forgiveness for our major sins and our minor sins. And as you have questions, just feel free to post them in the comments and inshallah we will get to them. So as we as we know Ramadan, is this month that is full of Allah's mercy. And we are actually in the second 10 days of the month of Ramadan. So there's a Hadith or the process on indicated that the first 10 days of the month of Ramadan are days of mercy. The second 10 days are days of forgiveness. And the third 10 days are days of freedom from the Hellfire. So the second 10 days, which is the days we're in right now today, I believe is the 13th day of the blessed month of Ramadan. The second 10 days are days where we should be seeking abundant forgiveness. And inshallah, where we should be hopefully getting abundant forgiveness. So that's something that we just want to start off with. There are ample ways to seek forgiveness, a lot of different shortcuts to seek forgiveness, right? So we have, for example, Prophet Salaam said that the one who says Subhanallah will become the Subhanallah Al-Abeem 100 times, their sins will be forgiven, even if they are as vast as that amount of foam on the sea or on the ocean, right? So the ocean has a lot of foam. Somebody who says this dhikr, Subhanallah will become the Subhanallah Al-Abeem 100 times, inshallah, their sins will be forgiven. But what types of sins is this talking about?  Does that count in this type of sin? So we'll be getting into that, inshallah, in just a little bit. But generally speaking, when these types of suggestions come, when these types of beneficial reminders from the Prophet Salaam come, most of the scholars have said they are referring to minor sins. And then there are major sins, which we actually have to go out and seek forgiveness for. So we have to actually seek forgiveness for our major sins. And we're going to be talking about what those major sins are and how we go about doing that, inshallah. But these are the days, though, of forgiveness. Another shortcut just for us, you know, just to start off for us to get forgiven by Allah is that we forgive other people. So in these 10 days, not only should we be seeking forgiveness from Allah for our sins, for the sins that we've committed in private, the sins that we've committed in public, the sins that we've committed between us and other people, but a shortcut to get our sins forgiven is for us to actually forgive other people. We have a lot of people in our life who maybe we have a grudge against. Maybe we're upset at them. Maybe we're holding an ill feeling against them in our hearts. Well, when you forgive somebody, when you and I forgive someone, Allah forgives us. The Prophet Salaam told us that Allah is merciful to the one who is merciful to others. And Allah's forgiveness comes for the one who forgives others. So if you and I want Allah's forgiveness, again, here's a shortcut for us to get that type of forgiveness. So that's something else that we should be doing in these middle 10 days that we are in. So now let's dive into the categories of sins. You have two main categories that the scholars broke out when it comes to sins. You have what are called major sins or mortal sins, and then you have minor sins. So these mortal sins are sins that we actively need to repent from. You actually have to very specifically ask Allah for forgiveness for those sins, and we'll get into what those major and those kind of mortal sins are, right? And you have to feel a specific deep type of remorse, ideally accompanied with a weeping and a begging Allah for mercy and a begging Allah for forgiveness. All right. So those are in the mortal or the major sins. And then there are the minor sins. The minor sins are things that happen on the day to day basis. So these are ones like, okay, maybe you looked at, you didn't lower your gaze, or maybe you listened to something wrong.  These start to accumulate minor sins throughout the day, right? And we all do. We all do all types of sins, but we definitely all get caught up in various amounts of minor sins. And the minor sins, there's actually a lot of ways to get these forgiven. So there's various hadith which indicate that from prayer to prayer, right, Wudu, for example, washes away sins. The Prophet ﷺ told us that praying between each prayer sins are forgiven. Jumma to Jumma sins are forgiven. Of course, in the blessed month of Ramadan, sins are forgiven just by the act of fasting, just by you and I sitting here right now. The fact that we are fasting, we have sins being, inshallah, forgiven for us. Most of the time, these are referring again to these minor sins. So, Alhamdulillah, that we have a religion where we don't have necessarily seek repentance for every single thing just by us doing certain acts of worship. Allah takes it easy on us and he forgives these minor sins. And many of the, again, the hadith that talk about, you know, you do this, and your sins will be forgiven, many of the scholars say that those are generally referring to minor sins. And then there are the major ones. So let's get into the major ones because these are, you know, these obviously major and these are ones that we want to try to work on throughout our life. So the major sins are sins like, the major sins are, I'm going to break these out into four segments. So these are, I'm taking these from Imam Ghazali's book on repentance. So he's basically segmented out the major sins for us. There are many categories of major sins. The scholars will break them up depending on, you know, which scholar you look at. Sometimes it lists 10, 20, 30, 100. But for this list, I think it's like about 20 or so. So hopefully manageable for us to remember. So then he breaks it out into the different parts of the body. Right. So we're going to start with the sins of the soul or the sins of the heart. He says the first major sin that you have to repent from for the sin of the soul is unbelief, disbelieving in Allah. Right. So that's actually a major sin. We know that, of course, which is it's cover. So inshallah, none of us have been in that category. But if we ever have been in that category where we have fallen into disbelief or we stopped believing in Allah, we stopped believing in the Messenger of Allah, we have to really sincerely repent from that. And then, of course, if we converted into the religion, we already had a conversion process by which those sins, inshallah, were forgiven. And we know now we are on a different path where we are believing in Allah. The second one that he lists as the second category of major sins of the soul is you are, you despair, you despair in the mercy of Allah. And think about this. The fact that you despair, what does despair mean? Despair means you think Allah will never forgive you. And this is a point I really want to drive home today. Just by you thinking that Allah won't forgive you, it's a major sin. Like you can't, because what are you and I doing then? We are limiting Allah. Don't ever limit God. You just by that you might not even done a major sin. Like you might have done something pretty bad, but it might not be like the craziest thing in the world, but you thinking God will never forgive me is a really, really dangerous thing, because that actually limits the potential for forgiveness. You and I cannot think that Allah won't forgive us. No, that's Shaytan's trick.  It doesn't matter what you've done. It does not matter what you've done. It doesn't matter how many sins somebody has done. We have in the Hadith, the Hadith, I believe we shared this last week, that there was a mass murderer, a mass murderer who was was forgiven according to the Hadith. There's Hadith that indicate prostitutes were forgiven. There's Hadith that indicates people of all types of backgrounds, all types of backgrounds were forgiven. There's a story of one of the great one of the great Olia that he mentions. It's mentioned in the books that this man used to be a robber. He used to be like a highway robber. What is a highway robber? So back then, in the days of caravans and whatnot, they would basically travel in camels with all their goods and they would be going through very, very, very vast deserts and whatnot. What happened in this case is that this man would be the leader of a clan. Imagine a gang in this modern day and age.    They'd take their stealer stuff. So this man was known as the head of the highway robbers. So now what happens? This man at some point is sitting and he's sitting with his crew and somebody comes, someone whose goods that they had stolen. I need to get my goods back. So he's traversing his way to this place, basically this head of this gang. And he asks him, he says, where is the head of this gang? And he says, oh, he's over there, but he's praying right now. And he's like, he's praying. It's not even prayer time. Like, okay, it's not even, it wasn't like, though her time wasn't us. There was no, no, none of this.  He's like, he's praying extra prayers. Okay. And he later found out that this man would also keep extra, he would do extra fasts. So outside of the month of Ramadan, he would be doing these extra fasts. Now we're all thinking like, all right, dude, you're, you're like the head of a gang. Why would you be doing all this stuff? It doesn't really add up.  Like, why are you stealing and then doing these deeds? It doesn't really work. And he basically tells him, he's like, look, I always keep a door open between me and God. It doesn't matter how much bad I've gotten into. I'm going to keep one, a door or two open between me and God. And now this man eventually repents. So later on, like not too long after this incident, he gets an indication like he needs to change his life. And he goes and sincerely repents to God, sincerely repents for all the wrong that he has done. He finds from what I've, from what I've read, he finds the different people of the things he'd stolen and he returns them. So he does it, what he can to rectify the wrongs that he had done. And he goes on to become one of the greatest saints of our religion. This man's name was al-Fudail ibn al-ayyad and it's mentioned in many of the books. This man's story, he goes on to become a scholar, a very righteous man, a very pious man. What his, his beginning wasn't good, but look at what, where he ended up.  There's a lot of different intensity that he would approach things with.  They would bury their girls alive, their daughters alive. So he had done that. But look at what, look at what he turned into, that he became the, not only the second caliph of this, the amazing religion, he became one of the closest companions to the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, that after Sayyidina Abu Bakr Siddique Ali Al-Hu'an, the next rank goes to Sayyidina Omar bin al-Khattab Ali Al-Hu'an, that what he started from and what he turned into, that's what Islam can do for you. That's what Islam can do. Islam can change you from being somebody who you don't, there is no, you might not think there's any path for you to change. You might have done the worst of the worst.  Like, how could somebody even do that? Right? But Islam can change you from that into somebody who is not only one of the most righteous people to ever walk the face of the earth, but one of the most just people to ever walk the face of the earth, one of the fiercest warriors of this religion, one of the people who bring so much respect and is that to this religion, Sayyidina Omar al-Hu'an? That's what Islam does. That's what repentance does. That's what getting on the path of change does. So that is what you and I need to be doing in this month of Ramadan. Then make it a goal. I don't care what sin I've done, and we were talking about this, I expanded a little bit upon it, but I will not despair in the mercy of Allah. Make sure you never despair in the mercy of Allah because Allah's mercy is vast. Don't limit him. Don't let shaitan limit him. And don't let other human beings limit him. Sometimes Muslims limit people. They're like, oh, you've done this, you've done that, you can never be forgiven. Forget all of that. Don't let your parents limit you. Don't let your siblings limit you.  Don't let anybody say you've done this, you've done that, and guess you can't be forgiven. It does not matter what you have done. You can be forgiven. Allah's mercy is vast. So that is actually a major sin in this religion to think that you cannot be forgiven is considered a major sin. Okay. But the third thing that's a major sin is actually on the opposite side where you are like, Oh, I'm everything's good. I'm forgiven for all the stuff I've ever done. That's that's equally as bad. Right. It's called getting complacent and thinking it's all good. I'm forgiven. Right. So you want to avoid that as well. So we've talked about these three unbelief, despairing of Allah's mercy, literally being hopeless. Don't get hopeless. Don't let anybody make you hopeless. And number three, also getting complacent and thinking, Oh, I'm forgiven. I don't need to do anything. This does happen. Many times we get into a state where we're like, Oh, you know, I don't really have to pray anymore. I don't have to do anything. I'll be fine. You know, get into heaven. It'll be good. Like we kind of just get into this very relaxed mindset. This happens if we hang out with the wrong types of people. So we have to be careful. The fourth thing he says it's a major sin is actually doing a small sin regularly and basically belittling it and doing it regularly. Like, like it's no big deal. What does that mean?  I'm just going to keep doing it. And I continuously keep doing it. It can become a major sin. So like not lowering your gaze, just not lowering your gaze once is not considered a major sin. You can say I stopped for a long between the prayers and you doing will do and when you wash your eyes and whatnot, the sins are falling away. Right? So you can be forgiven in cello for that. But if you think it's no big deal, and every time somebody walks by, you look at them and you just don't think it's a big deal. It becomes a major sin. So persisting in small sins can can or minor sins can make it a major sin. Right? So that's that's something to keep in mind. Then we go into now we're going to go into the four major sins of the tongue of the tongue. So we talked about these are ones of the soul or of the heart. Now we're going to get into the sins of the tongue. If anybody has any questions about the first ones I just mentioned, please feel free to post them. Now we will do our best to address them, inshallah. And the four of the tongue, the one is that you bear false witness. What is false witness? That means you're in a court. Okay. Like let's say this, this trial that just happened with, you know, that really, really corrupt police officer, Derek Chauvin, right? And then they're the trial that he what he did that he murdered George Floyd, right? So in that trial, if somebody had bared false witness, so if someone had seen him do the murder, but had said, no, I didn't see him do the murder, you lie about that, right? You actually lie. Oh, I didn't see him do anything, right? Lying in those types of situations is not just like lying to your friend about what you had for lunch, right? Or lying to your mom that you didn't come home on time or where you were. No, lying in those types of situations is a very, very big deal because you're bearing false witness against somebody in a judicial system where there is major repercussions and crimes that are trying to be adjudicated and discussed. So that's one of the ones for the tongue. The second one for the tongue is swearing false oaths. So like false promises, committing to do things that we aren't going to do that type of thing. The third one is a black magic and like casting spells. So somebody who is in this field of, you know, for example, the magicians who were there at the time of Musa alaihi salam. I mean, they repented, right? They repented, but they were actually doing a type of black magic. And so they would do magic in order to make it seem like their sticks were moving, even though their sticks were not actually moving. And then of course, Musa alaihi salam had a real miracle. His staff turned into a snake and he ate up everything else. So that was, but those magicians in the Quran, we know that they, when they saw the miracle, they repented and they submitted to Allah. But if somebody does ever get into that field, obviously that's a really, really, really major sin. And then there's another one, which is defaming. So these are mentioned in the books. I won't get too into this one because I don't really know too much about it. Like in our time, like defaming married women is mentioned in the book. So somebody like accuses a married woman and ruins her reputation says she did this, she did that, you know, accusing them of adultery, defaming them, the type of things that in the Quran or the type of things that in the time of the Prophet's son, they did this to say that they accused her of doing something majorly wrong, even though, of course, that she's, you know, the station that she had, she would never do something like that. Right. So those are the four of the tongue. Then we're going to get into other parts of the body. So now we're talking about consumption. We're going to get into consumption. So the next one that's a major sin that we need to repent from is consuming any type of intoxicant drug or wine, right? Or alcohol. So like if somebody had a period of time where they drank, somebody had a period of time where you went to parties and, you know, you drank beer, you drank a hard alcohol, anything like that. If you had a period of time where you are doing drugs, so whether someone's smoking weed, if somebody's doing cocaine, if somebody is doing any other type of drug, these are major sins that require us to sincerely repent. And those sins have not only a very, very deep impact on the heart, but if someone takes them lightly, which in our time that does happen, it can become a problem. So the way to think about it like this is okay, maybe we got caught up, maybe someone is in, you know, in college or they were in a situation and they decided they did some drugs or they drank or something like that. And this might happen to your kids. It might happen to your family members. The most important thing here is to not close the door of repentance and to let them know, Hey, you just need to repent from this and your life can completely change. You don't need to worry about it after that. That's one big thing with regard to repentance. Once you repent and you do it sincerely, you need to trust that Allah inshallah will forgive you. You do not need to keep worrying and thinking that, Oh my God, you remember that I once did that as a way to keep yourself humble, but you don't go back to that thing and say, Oh, I was the guy who used to drink. So that means I can never be a good person again. No, that's again, Shaytan coming at you because we just talked about all these people who were murderers, who would bury their daughters alive and then their lives completely changed and it became some of the most righteous people ever. So there is always a path to change. But if we have consumed alcohol, if we've drank before, if we've partied, if we've done drugs, if we've smoked weed, if we've done any of these things, we got to repent from that and we have to remove that from our life. It's not just repenting. It's also removing it from our life. Now, the one thing I want to mention here is we got to be careful about making light of these things. In the time we live in, for example, I'm in California. In California, weed is legal. Marijuana, weed I'm referring to in marijuana. In this case, it's legal. Most of the United States is becoming legal. There's a lot of scientific research that talks about it. So as a result, many people, including many Muslims, think, oh, it's really not a big deal. Taking a couple puffs here and there, like, it's not a big deal. Oh, I've heard the argument that, oh, it's from the ground and because it's from the ground, it means that God created it, which means if God created it, it's probably okay for me to use. Very, very, very elaborate arguments. I mean, it's somebody clearly puts thought into that to try to justify something. Look, the big thing here is just don't justify it. It's still haram no matter what kind of justification we come up with. But the most important thing is that we actually seek the repentance. Try your best, whether it's you or somebody in your family, someone you know who does this, to not come up with justifications for doing any type of drug or drinking or anything like that. Because the justification, as we just mentioned, can make it a lot worse.  And he's done this in Western society with every little thing. A lot of stuff we do in Western society, I'll be the first to admit, is problematic. We do a lot of things that are problematic. But when we are doing those things, Shaitan makes it like when we might feel bad about it, but Shaitan comes at us and is like, oh, it's not a big deal. You don't need to worry about it. It's not even a sin.  You don't really need to worry about this thing anymore. But that's one of the tricks of Shaitan. We do need to be very, very, very careful. At the same time, we do need to know the hierarchy of sin. So the hierarchy in this case would be that, okay, if somebody is doing a really, really, really, really bad drug and they are progressing, progressing, progressing from growing one thing and doing something less and less. And let's say they have a really strong addiction and they're like, okay, go to cigarettes and then they go from there to hookah and then go from there to a pen, then they eventually stop. There is that progression that you go from major evil to less, to less, to less, not saying any of those are okay from an objective point of view, but you just have to know as a human being where you're at with the types of things you're struggling with. So that's one of the things that from the stomach with regard to drinking and smoking and doing drugs and any type of intoxicants. The next one here with consumption is, and they bucket this with consumption in the books, taking interest or giving interest. So this is another really major one in the Western society, that any type of loan that somebody takes, whether it be a student loan, whether it be a car loan, whether it be a personal loan, whether it be there are there are small differences of opinion in that there are some of the mortgages are allowed, but there are Islamic mortgages now. So that is just something we can go for. But the any type of interest is considered a major sin. And it's a very, very, very serious very serious sin for somebody to take interest and again, to take it lightly most of the time, most of us Muslims who we like live kind of living comfortably living in the suburbs, a type of thing, we think it's light, we always take this loan for the car, we take this loan for this, take this loan for that, and then problems start happening in our life. And we wonder why it's happening. And we don't examine the financial things we're doing that could be wrong. So we have to be very, very careful. It is among the major sins to take interest. And it's it's it's amongst the courageous aspect of a believer to confront themselves. Sometimes you just have to confront your own nuts and your own ego and be like, when am I going to stop doing things that I know displease Allah. Allah mentioned in the Quran with regards to interest that Allah and his messenger wage war on the one who takes interest. Right. So we have to be careful. We have to examine our transactions. Is there interest involved? Am I involved in a transaction with his interest? Am I involved in encouraging or helping people and facilitating them to take interest? And I do I absolutely positively have to take out this, this specific loan for this situation, right? We have to examine it whether we're student loans, car loans or anything else. So that's another one of the major sins. Just a quick unrelated question. Somebody asked, can we take the COVID vaccine while fasting? Yes, you can take COVID vaccine while fasting. You are you are you can do you can do that vaccines do not invalidate the fast. Just be aware there will be side effects most likely. And if you take the vaccine while fasting and there are side effects, you should of course do your best to keep fasting because, you know, you don't want to break the fast. But if you're unbearably sick, then you should seek the advice of a doctor in that case on whether or not it makes sense. But just the fasting itself is good. Okay, so we will keep going on inshallah. And we somebody said, please talk about qadr inshallah, we will talk about the qadr inshallah towards the end or in the future class. Okay, so that is another thing related to consumption is regards to interest. And we keep moving on. And we get to the the two sins with relation to the sexual sins. So here the major sins are that we need to repent from any type of adultery that one that one engages in, right? So Zina fornication, adult three.  That means intercourse before marriage or intercourse while someone's married, and they had relations with another person.  Those are among the major sins. They require significant repentance, not to be taken lightly. And in the traditional societies or back in the day, of course, there was a very, very serious punishment that was prescribed for this. So again, in Western society, we take this lightly. Most people before they're married, they're living with, you know, their girlfriend or boyfriend, they are obviously engaging in all types of activities with them. And it's a very, very major problem. So for us as Muslims in Ramadan, many Muslims, we like, you know, for somebody who's young and they're in a relationship, they're not married, of course, if they're a girlfriend, boyfriend, they might take a break from that relationship. Oh, I'm going to take a break in Ramadan. But then right after Ramadan, you get back into it. Look, in Ramadan, you just started, or in Ramadan, you just got all your sins cleaned, inshallah. So don't get back into that Haram relationship after the month of Ramadan is over. It's very important in the month of Ramadan to repent from these things. And then of course, anything related to, it's also listed here, anything related to homosexual actions is also considered among the major sins of the, of the private parts. So those are the two for the great relation to our sexual desires that we have to sincerely deeply repent from. Again, among the major sins we're talking about, that we need to repent from. Then there's two that are related to the hand. One is killing somebody, of course, murder. So if somebody killed somebody, they have to very, very sincerely repent, seek forgiveness ideally from that person's family. There's a very deep process of repentance which is going to be involved here because Allah says in the Quran that if you killed somebody, it's like you've killed all of humanity. And if you've saved the life, it's like you've saved the life of all of humanity. So it's important to take obviously that one very, very seriously. And then stealing something major would also be considered a major sin. So if somebody who steals, they steal people's property, they steal things from stores, they steal what doesn't belong to them, that would be considered a major sin that somebody needs to repent from and considered a specific repentance. Again, major sins require specific repentance for that sin. One of those, there's one of the scholars describe of the feet which is to run away from like a valid battle. We don't really fight those battles anymore. So that's not going to apply for us, but it's good for us to know if that did ever come. And then there's one of the whole body. Okay, so this is really interesting. This is very important. The thing about the scholars mentioned the ones of all the different parts of the body, then they say there's one major sin relation to the whole body, major sin, which is disobedience to one's mom and dad. Disobeying your parents and my parents, disobeying our parents is considered a major sin. So it's not to be taken lightly. Not to be taken lightly. And we'll get to that in just a second. Somebody asked, why do people think all our sins are forgiven in Ramadan? Is it the truth or not? So your sins are forgiven in Ramadan. There's various hadith, too many hadith to indicate that the sins are forgiven in Ramadan. So what it is, it's probably some said that the one who fasts all of Ramadan with iman and with hoping for reward, their sins are forgiven. And the one who stands in Ramadan and the night for prayer, referring here to my understanding, we're Taraweeh or Hajjah, the types of prayers, their sins are forgiven. And the one who stands for leilatul qadr, inshallah, their sins are forgiven. So there's a lot of, of course, ways to get our sins forgiven in Ramadan. But again, we mentioned this at the beginning of the conversation. Ramadan, the sins referred to in many of these hadith, hopefully they refer to all of our sins. But most of the time they are referring to the smaller slip ups that we have the major sins, they need to, you need to really deeply, sincerely ask Allah and what we're covering in this conversation of repent, you have to repent to Allah. You have to fulfill the three requirements of repentance, which are feeling bad about the sin, feeling remorse, committing to stop doing it, and really begging God to forgive you with, with ideally your weep, you the tears flow. It's a conversation between you and Allah and you say, Allah, I'm really sorry. I messed up. I really messed up. That's what we want to be doing this month of Ramadan. Every night we should be saying, I'm sorry, I messed up. Please forgive me. Forgive me for that thing I did. Forgive me for this. Forgive me for that. Right. So this one is, and I see this question about the, I'll answer in just a second, inshallah. This one that we just mentioned, the one that is the relation to the whole body disobedience to one's mother and father is serious because most of us in our life, we obviously have gotten to a point, especially those of us who live in the West, we've probably disobeyed our parents from time to time. So this one, when I read it, it really hit me because I was like, dang, I didn't realize it was that big of a deal. So Allah says in the Quran, like right after obeying him, he tells us to obey our parents. So in anything reasonable that our parents ask us to do and we disobey them or we outright disobey their instructions, we got to repent from that. Two ways, you have to actively ask Allah to forgive you. I'm sorry for disrespecting my parents and you have to of course go to your parents and say, can you please forgive me? If any of you or any of us are beefing, like having a grudge or a fight with your parents in Ramadan, please go and try to fix it. Do not let this month end except that you have patched things up with your parents. Even if you have problems with every other person in the world, you should never have a problem with your parents. Your parents are a door, they're a door to heaven. They are a door to Allah's pleasure. There's so many hadith and statements that indicate the rank of parents and do not let your whatever fight, it doesn't matter what it was over.  That argument that you had with them that with some of their attention or you're not really loving each other or talking to each other in the way you should, it's not going to be worth it anymore. It just won't be worth it because they're your parents and at the end of the day, we will remember all the things that they did for us when we were young, right? The parents they did, they really, really, really took a significant amount of care of us. So let's just try to do that, inshallah, in this month. So those are the lists. So that's the list. I'm going to walk through it one more time, inshallah, and then we will go ahead and end and do have some question and answer, inshallah, and some comments that people have mentioned. So the list of major sins we need to seek forgiveness from again, all of these everything you have done, everything we've done, requires that we have an open mind and we accept and hope that have a good opinion of Allah. Allah will forgive you, inshallah. One quick question somebody mentioned in relation to this. If what if your parents are the ones in the wrong? Many times our parents could be in the wrong, that's understandable, but there is like a level, it depends on how serious the wrong is. There's a level of respect which comes where even if they're in the wrong, because of the fact that they're our parents and we are their children, we should still go out and seek forgiveness from them. I'm sorry.  I know I wouldn't care who's in the wrong because five, 10 years down the line, I wouldn't remember what the fight was even about. I would remember that, dang, I was arguing with them and then they passed away. Try to have that mindset of if somebody were to pass away in your life that you are fighting with or that you have not forgiven, what would you feel? And it doesn't mean that you need to accept everything that that would disobey. Your parents doesn't mean that you have to accept everything that they say intellectually or they have to accept all their beliefs or something like that. It just means that you shouldn't disobey them. They tell you to do something, you should do it. They ask you for something, you should do it, that type of thing. So again, the list is for all the major sins. It's disbelieving in Allah. It's hope. It's believing that despairing in Allah's mercy, so it's a major sin to despair in Allah's mercy. On the opposite end, it's to think that you don't have any work to do and you're forgiven and you're totally an angel. That's also a big problem. It's persisting in small sins continuously.  It is to bear false witness. It is to swear false oaths or false promises. It is to cast spells and do magic and stuff on people. It's to defame married women. It is to drink alcohol, to consume intoxicants, to smoke weed, to do any type of drug, cocaine or anything else. It is stealing the property of an orphan. I actually forgot to mention this one. This is considered among the major sins. It is to give interest or take interest, so any interest loan. It is to engage in illicit sexual relationships with somebody. It is to engage in homosexual relationships. It is to kill somebody. It is to steal someone and it is to run away from a valid battle and it is to disobey one's mother and father. Those are the major sins. The quick round will talk in detail about this. We will talk in detail about this next week and right around the same time, inshallah, about how do we go about seeking forgiveness. There's a lot of ways to do it, but just a very basic outline is you feel bad. Number two, you sincerely beg Allah for forgiveness. Number three, you stop the sin and you make a commitment to stop. Inshallah, if we do that, we will be on a good path.  We will be on a path towards change and we will be on a path towards seeking and getting Allah's forgiveness, hopefully, for all of these sins. Inshallah. So now we will go ahead and end for the content part. If anybody has questions, I see a couple are posted. Please feel free to post them and we will go ahead and get to them. So somebody said, what is the best time to make du'a to get accepted? Four best times in Ramadan to make du'a. The time of Suhoor and right before Fajr comes in, the time basically of Suhoor slash the Hajj time. Amazing time when du'a is accepted. The hadith that says that Allah is asking at that time, is there anybody who may be forgiven or anybody who is seeking forgiveness that I may forgive them? Is anybody who has a need that I may fulfill that need? Or the hadith says something similar. I'm paraphrasing it. The second best time to make du'a is the time after Fajr until sunrise. Early mornings are a very good time for us to do worship and to make du'a. The third best time to make du'a in Ramadan is the time between Asr and Maghrib and especially the time right before Iftar for hadith of the Prophet ﷺ says that the du'a of the fasting person, when they break their fast, is accepted. And the fourth best time to make du'a is the time of any time in the night of Ramadan, the nights of Ramadan, especially with tarawih prayer after tarawih prayer, that type of thing. Okay, somebody said a little Qadr. Okay, cool. Let me talk about that in a second. What does somebody said, if we break fast because of being sick from the vaccine, do I give Fidya or make it up? If you broke your fast for a valid reason because of being sick for the vaccine, you have to make up the fast, not make Fidya. Fidya is for people who cannot fast. So it's like older people and whatnot. Fidya is not, if you have able body and you're able to fast, then it would be best to fast. Someone says if we do not forgive someone, are they punished in grave and cannot take their good deeds on the day of judgment? I believe if you do not forgive somebody, yes, they will be held to account for that because the day of judgment is the day where all the reckoning happens and you will be able to take their good deeds according to that deed. So yeah, the only thing though is if that person is a Muslim, the Prophet ﷺ wants all of you and me to forgive each other as Muslims because the Prophet ﷺ on the day of judgment is going to have a lot of things to do. He's going to be fighting for every single one of us to try to get into heaven and there will be people who will be prevented to get into heaven because of another Muslim holding a grudge against them or another Muslim not forgiving them. So even if you don't care about the person to please the Messenger of Allah ﷺ who hopefully we all do love and we all do care about, we should forgive them because that's what the Prophet ﷺ would want us to do. Ideally that is what we try to do if we are able to, inshallah. Okay, somebody said if we are always reminding, yeah, if we're someone said if we are always reminding that we might pass away or we might die, then we will try not to fight with our family members. Generally speaking, it's a good principle to keep in mind one of the last Sunnahs of the Prophet ﷺ is the Sunnah of remembering that death can come at any moment. Prophet ﷺ would always be aware of death. It was very, very, very much top of mind for the Prophet ﷺ and for the Sahaba that death can come at any time. So if we are aware of that, we will stop ourselves from doing a lot of Sunnah, we will, sorry, from doing a lot of sins and stuff like that and from following the Sunnah and we will stop ourselves from arguing and fighting over stuff and just creating things that aren't really that big of a deal. Sometimes we get in fights.  Most of the time it's not worth it. Of course, there are times when like there's valid, you've got to part ways. Of course, abuse, any type of abuse, unacceptable. You've got to find a way to fix that or to get out of that situation. But I'm talking about when you have disagreements with people. It's not worth losing that person over a disagreement. Okay, let's see. Somebody had said, what does the Qur'an and Islam say about how to deal with those who are sneaky? So I don't exactly understand the question. If someone could just clarify what you mean by somebody who's sneaky, that would be good. If you mean like someone who's kind of conniving and plotting and whatnot, it would be best to avoid those types of people and avoid any plots and whatnot that they might have. But if you could clarify what you mean. Okay, so we'll just wait for another like two minutes and we'll go ahead and wrap up. If anybody has any other questions in relation to repentance, in relation to Ramadan, in relation to what we talked about today or talked, spoke about last time, please feel free to post it in the comments and we will go ahead and or in the chat and we'll go ahead and do our best to answer it. How do I know I'm sincere in my repentance? This is a really good question. So I have something on this right here. We're going to talk about this next time, but just to help out. The first is that you have a serious supermorse and you really, feel bad. Like you feel bad that you messed up. That's the first sign of the sincerity and repentance. That was the question.  And the third is that you start to see your life change in the better direction. So if somebody really sincerely repents, they will start to see that what they were doing before, they're very, very different. Sorry. What they're doing now is very different and they have progressed significantly from what they were doing before. Those are a couple of signs of sincerity and repentance, but don't overthink it either because we should always hope that our repentance is accepted. We're kind of in this pendulum between hoping that it got accepted and not knowing if it got accepted, but don't overdo it in the sense that we think like, Oh my God, I'm never going to be forgiven because of something I did because what that does is it falls in that first category of you and I limiting Allah's mercy. And Allah's mercy is too vast for us to limit it since these are easy for Allah to forgive. And if you didn't want to forgive them, he didn't have to, but he can and inshallah he will if we beg and we ask him. The next class, inshallah, will be for somebody who asked and it will be Sunday exactly one week from now at 6 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, inshallah, which is 9 p.m. Eastern. Yeah. All right. If there is any other questions coming in, please just let me know. Okay. I don't see any other questions. Go ahead and add inshallah. Oh, somebody had asked a question about student loans. What about student loans that do not accrue interest six months after graduation? If you pay something before it accrues anything, you will be okay inshallah. You'll be good. If you pay something like before any interest accrues, but you got to be really careful about that because ideally you don't engage in that situation in the first place, but if someone were to take out something and no interest is accrued and they absolutely make sure no interest is accrued and then they pay it in child, they'll be good. And obviously if some interest accrues, but they pay it before it gets too bad, it's better than if they wait till later. So it's all about just reducing. Islam has a goal of reducing harm. You reduce the amount of sins, reduce the amount of sins. You can't do, can't get rid of all of them. You reduce them. It's not black and white, right? If we ask forgiveness, if we ask for forgiveness every day multiple times, are we forgiven? Inshallah. Yeah. So that's a good question. The Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam would ask forgiveness in some hadith 70 times a day and some hadith 100 times a day. He would be saying all these different ways to ask Allah to forgive him. So think about it like this. If you are asking forgiveness multiple times a day, that's the least we could be doing. We got to be asked forgiveness because we're following the sunnah of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. However, if we don't specifically ask forgiveness for the major sins we've done, I don't know. Only Allah knows. I'm not really qualified to answer like if the major sin would be forgiven. So like for example, if I'm just saying astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, but I'm not really deeply repenting for that one, that time that, you know, I stole something or something or majorly haram I did that I just covered. I got to single that one out and try to really deeply ask forgiveness. But if, but because we do so many sins throughout the day, and remember there's ways to elevate. So, so why is the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam repenting if he didn't do anything wrong? He is teaching us number one and number two, he is constantly ascending in states. And so he's just, every time you ask forgiveness, your inshallah, your state is increasing and he is making toba from that previous state. So you and I should repent for our thoughts. We should repent for our like as we advance spiritually, we should just keep repenting for everything because we do so much wrong throughout the day. But we start with repenting from the major sense and then repenting from the minor sense and asking forgiveness. So inshallah, yeah, if you ask forgiveness every day, hopefully you and I will be forgiven inshallah. There's a lot of ways to get forgiven in this religion. It's a religion of mercy and forgiveness. It's not a religion of, yeah, it's a religion of mercy and forgiveness. That's why it says, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim, the most merciful and most compassionate. Okay, somebody asks, are credit cards permissible under the same construct if paid off with no carry over? Yeah, if credit cards do not have any, if somebody does not take, does not let the interest accrue on a credit card. Most of what I've learned, Allah knows best and is that the credit card would be permissible. When it comes to credit cards, the best thing to do is you pay off your balance in full every month and you just treat it like a way that you can transact in this kind of world. Otherwise, yeah, it should be okay inshallah. Okay, while fasting, can we use perfume or not? Yes, you can use perfume, you don't need to worry about perfume. Somebody asks, can you go for Umrah or Hajj if you have student loans? Okay, so I would not go for Umrah if you have student loans because you should prioritize paying off the student loans for sure. If you, for Hajj, that's a good question. I don't know the answer for that one. Yeah, I'm sorry, if you want to send me a direct message, I can look into that one for you. I don't know the answer though. Okay, anybody have any other questions? We'll end with a prayer with a dua. Someone asks, while fasting, can we use perfume or not? Or any other makeup?  Yeah, mortgages, someone asks about mortgages. So mortgage, the best thing to do is try to get an Islamic mortgage if you are in the Western world, like US or Canada, the places they have Islamic mortgages available, that would be what I would recommend. Toothpaste while fasting, there's a difference of opinion. Most of the teachers that I've heard from recommend not using toothpaste while fasting. So that's what I've learned, but I have also heard that it's okay from other scholars. So yeah, you just have to be really, really careful.  Wouldn't brush them while you're after doing it, especially these days, most of us are like remote, we're not really seeing people, it should be fine. Our reward points okay to take if we pay the credit card statement off in its entirety each month. That's a really good question. I've always heard, I got to look into that one. Yeah, I've generally heard the reward points are fine, but I have heard some people say that we should be careful about them, but I've always taken them. So I need to look into that one. Yeah. Okay. The reward points from my understanding, many times they come as an incentive for you to use the card. And they're coming like credit card providers are getting transaction fees from Visa and from Mastercard that are unrelated to interest, their pure transaction fees. And so they're taking a portion many times of those profits from the transaction fees. And they are giving those in points and incentives and whatnot. So if it's not coming from that interest, generally speaking, what I've learned is fine, but you know, we should ask a proper scholar for that one. Okay. Alhamdulillah. Cool. So I'll go ahead and end with a prayer with the dua. And if anybody has any of the last questions, please feel free to post them. We'll do our best to get to them, inshallah. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah. We ask that you pardon all of us. Yeah, that you forgive all of our sins, all of our inward sins and our outward sins, everything wrong that we've done, everything it is that we've done intentionally and unintentionally. Allah, we ask that you forgive us and that you pardon us and you accept our forgiveness in this month. Yeah, Allah, many of us want to change our lives in this month. Allah, many of us want to become different people. We want to become better people. We want to leave the bad that we were doing. We want to leave whatever harm it is that we were doing or that we were seeing or that we were engaging with. Yeah, Allah, we ask that you help us and help us all to become better people. Yeah, Allah, we sincerely turn towards you. Yeah, Allah. Yeah, Allah, we ask that you make this possible for us and for our family members and for our loved ones and for the Ummah of the Prophet ﷺ. Yeah, Allah, we ask that you allow us to leave all of the major sins in this month and that you allow us to leave all of our minor sins in this month and that you allow us to immerse in this month completely pure and completely people who not only are pure but who help others become pure. Yeah, I mean this is very easy for you. Yeah, Allah, we are your slaves. Yeah, Allah, you are our Lord. Yeah, Allah, we are broken before you.  You're the only one who can forgive us. You are the only one who can help us. Yeah, we turn to you and we seek your your assistance and we ask Allah that you pardon us.  Please erase all of our sins and please pardon us for all the wrongs that we've done for anything it is that you have not liked about what we have done. Please forgive us, my Lord. Please forgive us and please make our lives transformed after this month and please help all the people who have listened. Please help all of us implement this knowledge into practice and please pardon us for anything we have said that was found displeasing to you and please allow us to make an effort after this month and during this month and after this month to get on a path of knowledge and to get on a path of implementing knowledge into our lives. We ask you for everything good that the Prophet ﷺ asked for and we ask your protection for everything evil that he asked for protection from. He is some of the last question here. If we struggle with tajweed is my prayer Qur'an accepted. It's a good question. So there are different rules of tajweed. There's like a level of tajweed that we have to have tajweed is by the way it's like the science of how to recite the Qur'an. So like you see you have to say certain words in a certain way. You have to bounce certain letters that type of thing. So if you struggle with it and you're trying to learn it inshallah that's the first thing I would do. The second is as long as you're still saying the words inshallah your prayer will hopefully it will be accepted. There is a point at which not like everybody has to be a master of tajweed. Right. So there are many of the scholars who have said that if even if we are doing some form of you know we might be making small tajweed mistakes we should be okay. But if we're making major tajweed mistakes that change the meaning of the word that's a big problem. Right. So like let's say that somebody is instead of saying Alhamdulillah they're saying Alhamdulillah right instead of Haad they're saying Al-Qa'een or something like that. That would obviously be a problem. Right. And so you have to just see what level you're at with that tajweed and kind of work on it accordingly inshallah. And there's many resources available on YouTube and on online classes but not for tajweed. So I would check those out inshallah. Okay somebody asked okay this will ask two questions. Okay watching TV is okay especially some serials like Turkish dramas. You know I would stay away from all TV in Ramadan. It's not like it's not like a sin or something unless you know you're watching them in Haram. But just because Ramadan should be a time of focus it should be a time of prayer. It should be a time of learning. I would generally stay away from television if possible but you know if you can't then it's better to watch some Islamic type of content versus not yet. Someone says any recommendation how to really study Islam. A guide courses anything to help us study. That is a good question. So I would start with just three different books for how to just kind of begin studying this religion. I would get the book of assistance by Imam al-Haddad.  That's actually where I would go. If you are really trying to start the path to studying seekersguidance.org has actually a thing that's called seekershub.org. They have a bunch of courses for free guides for free and a bunch of other like free content that's available for us to start studying Islam with the three main areas that matter thick which is the law spirituality which is purifying this ourselves and the leaf akida what are we supposed to believe what are we not supposed to believe. So I would start there that will have all the resources again seekersguidance.org if you Google it you should be able to find that yeah. Alhamdulillah. Okay well jazakum Allah khair everybody inshallah we will see you next week. Wa sallallahu wa sallam wa barak ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa la alihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi


My name is Claire Siwa Prisha. I am a Welcome International Intermediate Fellow based at the Mahedan Offered Tropical Research Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. I lead a team to investigate the genetics basis of a bacterial infection called myeloidosis. So my research has been collecting and profiling the genetics of the bacteria that cause myeloidosis, the bacteria that can be collected from patients and from mental exposures as well as the genetics of the patients themselves. So we're creating the database to try to investigate the genetics factors in both the host and the bacteria that influence the disease acquisitions as well as the disease outcome. So one of the research highlights from our recently collected data sets is being that we could identify the bacterial genes or alleles that are more prevalent in disease-causing isolates compared to environmental isolates. And one of the top hits are genes that the bacteria use as the needles to puncture and get into the host cells. And coincidentally, this gene, SCP-1, has been ready-picked as a vaccine candidate. So these examples highlight how genetic studies can support the vaccines decide and the vaccines community seems to be quite pleased with the result. So the big questions in the field right now is how we can speed up the disease diagnosis. Currently, the gold standard to diagnose myeloidosis is the culture-confirmed approach. And this typically takes three to four days for the culture-confirmed result to arrive. However, within that waiting window, about 20% of patients died before the noted have got myeloidosis. And for the patients who know they've got myeloidosis, another 20% died within a month after admission. So there's a call for a demand to develop a rapid diagnostic test. So we team up with the local researchers to develop the cryptocast-based diagnostic. And this is based on the detections of nucleic acids of the bacteria. And using the genetics data that we've been collecting, we can identify the conserved regions as a target in the bacteria that are unique to the species that call myeloidosis, but cannot be identified in all the species as well as the human host. And our Crippus assays reduce the diagnostic time from three to four days to less than three hours. And currently, it has higher sensitivities of any rapid test of up to 93% as compared to 66% of the culture approached. And we hope that it can be a game changer. We strongly believe that with rapid diagnostic, we can identify patients faster. We can treat them with correct antibiotics faster. And we hope that that will help save more life from myeloidosis. I think a direct impact to save life worth a lot of funding. But the other message I would like to deliver is that any technologies developed in resource limited setting has its own advantages. It's not easy to develop something in resource constrained setting. But when we operate in this area that force creativity, and we have to decide our equipment to be very light, I strongly believe that any assays that are up and running in such setting can be operated in anywhere in this world. And that's why we think it's worth funding. I think we are very fortunate to be able to work in our current setting, even though it's resource limited. But we connect to patients. We learn how they suffer from myeloidosis.  And we receive so many blessings from patients and relatives for the success of our research. And hopefully that's helped improve the life.


All right good afternoon cyber traders welcome on back here this Wednesday July 26th shortly after 2 30 p.m Eastern time grids to still see Sydney and Manuel and John and Jeffrey and Brian perhaps a lot of us still with us here right now because the Fed meeting just concluded great to have all This back on social media as well Facebook live LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Instagram, etc So from Michael and all of us here just joining us as well here inside our live trading room a lot to discuss So perhaps to a lot of us here as expected the Fed ended up raising their rates again another 25 basis points You know, there's some people out there that thought maybe they'd be remained unchanged again They kind of alluded to it right from the last Fed meeting They they're saying it and then even though in the smaller minutes meeting just in between the last big one and today Well, they are discussing that as well So no surprise to a lot of us I feel right well because of that perhaps not as much of a reaction so far Now as I'm talking we have a little competition here Typically during this Fed day because our good old buddy Jerome Powell is actually doing his big press conference right now So a lot of folks tuned into that if you see my five-minute chart if you see the spy That's the S&P ETF here. So just keep your eyes on that I mean as we go through from top to bottom just keep your eyes peeled out for there But in the meantime a couple trades to begin because regardless if the spy the markets dump off heading into the close or not well Top where it's been a phenomenal trade all afternoon. So, you know, there's Tupperware There's Tilray, which actually right now live finally just popped above that big iceberg at two bucks There's a lot to go through here first. So top aware easily enough. We're gonna put this on our watch list to begin I know that we have a lot of new trial members joining us here from a couple of events that we've done from today And then even one from yesterday too So, you know welcome on a board to any of our new members joining us with that said hey Just make sure that you give a call to our office get in touch with one of our education advisors here They'll be able to at least explain all the lingo how this is all broken down. What to look for More than anything Fausto is like screaming it from the mountaintops earlier in our audio commentary just in the morning But you don't want to be risking anything just yet. Just take a step back just observe, you know Hey without knowing really why a stock is making the exact move that it's making not just that news came out or what? But you know the levels if you're not used to really day trading a stock then just sit back Just see that this is something that we are doing on a day-to-day basis Heck perhaps even at times on like an hour-by-hour basis, you know, there's gonna be like a new stock every hour I feel like that makes some sort of move. So no Tupperware has been rolling across the you know afternoon for us And we've been trading it back from Monday this week. So easily enough gonna put Tupperware on our main list That said though I have book map open for this to have level four open for this trade. I may not even I may not even All right, so we're in expedite time here just because we have class on ahead here as well The phase one stock course concluding this afternoon. So we're gonna be talking about shorting So we're gonna be focused on stocks moving on the way down there But hey in the meantime here you got about 17 I saw about 23,000 just a moment ago pop up at two bucks on the bid So just keep your eyes out for two for potential support. Oh We're talking right now just nipped underneath it there So be mindful make sure it doesn't make the lower high into a lower low here But for right now still worth watching till ray finally just now I was saying I was really looking forward to this potentially breaking over to Let me ask us here for any of us inside the live trading room right now Perhaps just you know, everyone's kind of in and out throughout the day might not be speaking to the whole team here But does anyone recall 2018 for any of our long-time students of C2 that have been with us for a number of years now Does anyone recall 2018 with this stock till ray? I always have to bring this up because well off its IPO this was but you know till ray ended up making this Crazy move. So let me just do something really quick. I'll actually show you the actual day here that it moved not just a week Yeah, we're talking this days not just one day, but days off its IPO here broke over like 25 30 bucks and then from there flew. That's a legitimate run. It's not like that was like I mean if there was a reverse stock split if there was maybe there was just one over its time But man, it made a hell of a pot basically six X over that like two three weeks span there Well, hey, if you hold your breath waiting for that type of move every time you're gonna blow up your bank account So I'm not saying that but here's What I'm interested in this is something I did a little digging on earlier today this is very just kind of speculative right, but That run was back in August September of 18. Okay. Well, that wasn't the most recent run It actually made a fractional type of move like that back in the beginning of 2021 in in February. Okay, so I did a little math. What's like the timeline there? Well, it's about two and a half years. Let's say two and a half years Okay, so what is two and a half years or so from here? Well, technically, it's like April of Or no, it would be technically August of 23, right? February of 21 plus two and a half years that would be six months and two years there So that would technically be August of 23 here. We are at the end of July Hmm Hmm We have a gap to fill this just broke over resistance at two Hmm Hey, that's all I'm saying hmm. I'm gonna put this on our watch list here. I wonder if history could repeat itself though Sure would be fun. Don't hold your breath though assuming it's gonna make that move obviously gap down So there is a small gap there where you can see it fill run up towards perhaps 225 maybe a smidge more But this is a nice start breaking over resistance breaking above to it's got another iceberg here at 203 I saw one in pre-market at 225, which was my initial target on the morning. So this is a good sign here So yeah Tupperware Tilray two good stocks right now. Wow Powell didn't soil the market. Whatever you're saying is actually so far get an initial squeeze So, you know, we'll just go across the percent gainer's list here and see what else is out there Ryan says that's a reach in terms of what in terms of Tilray Hey, I mean it's pretty interesting that it's a Two and a half year timeline essentially from the first one to the second one and then that kind of leads us like to this like timeline now so You never know never know folks just it's food for thought. I wouldn't be saying it if I thought it didn't make sense So is it gonna happen? Well, it's just shaking around to right now So it's got at least continued old higher lows from this very point or at least will invalidate it for today Still got maybe we'll guess we'll call it like a couple weeks if we're calling it August time on there So, you know, maybe give it a couple weeks. We'll just kind of see that if it confirms or not But let's go from top to bottom here though. Let's see what else we could put on our watch list at least I was surprised to see how expensive this was early in the morning. I think this is a buyout on top So si mo I don't know what the hell happened here. This might not be a buyout. There's a crazy move down Whatever it is. It's flat now. So we're gonna pass on it here Actually MNK just leapfrog this one is now the top percent gainer. So it's a cheapy We had called it out earlier in the morning, but it's not really doing as much now at this point You'd say the same with the ABVC little sharper of a trend back up like little second-win move here But running right into the VWAP running right into six as you're assumed resistance there So I'll put it on the side list, but not fully committed to it just yet Yeah, but it was up these expensive stocks the VICR here visor corp Let's let's a big pop and slow trend up But when like two of the top four gainers here on the on the gainers list here like stocks $90 stocks That's pretty odd. Just interesting. I Tupperware on our list. You got a couple of cheapies here on top as well All right, so of course we got to go over XPF right news came out on XPF this morning with the Volkswagen and them some sort of agreement strategic partnership or whatnot Welcome aboard to Ira here. Perhaps one of our new trial members. Perhaps just joining us right now We'll send we'll make one more just message announcement to any of our new members joining us here just coming into this meeting here So we've made a quick little housekeeping announcement just at the top But we'll just make one more at the end here for Ira or anyone else just joining us right now So as we continue to go through XP EV what a move this had this morning, right? This is like the dream type of trade stock coming off a good news Popped at least pretty big in pre-market one might think that it's not going to squeeze up as much after but yeah Played by the cyber clock rules and you're having a pretty smooth run on this XPF ended up topping off a little prior to 1030 but From 16 up to 22 that's as good as we could ever Ask for not to say imagine we've seen some crazy moves here and inside the cyber group room just of late But with that though, we don't want to get greedy This was all over the place from yesterday afternoon. So Look at this pop right now on the spy Nice pal with a little sweet talking right now, I guess T-Doc nice trend back up to the highs here So pretty interesting play because this also could be a potential short squeeze too You know stock ended up taking a huge hit from 300 down to sub 20 or sub 25 You know, hey easily enough we're gonna put this on our list here for anyone that has traders dyslexia here like myself and Faso of course would admit himself to a lot of us here perhaps The three stocks we have on our game on our on our watch list are stocks that start with tea get top Tilray and T-Doc. I sure hope that we have more stocks to put on this list because I like spacing those out I don't want to get anyone tripped out tripped up on those We watchers. Okay. Okay. We watchers right now beginning to get back over a really big level It was holding above throughout most of the day just nipped under it here briefly And I was gonna write it off actually heading into this meeting But for right now, it's given it one last lick and much like Tilray This stock also is like a huge short squeeze potential has already squeezed up thus far from four up to 12 From this year so far, but hey right now actually I'm gonna give it a look see if we could you know Get this to run back up off the 1155 ish area It's got thin volume on the book. You got to be careful in that though. So as we just kind of Delicately go across the gainers list here to wrap up Nikola. Look at this. It's not really a new oh, it is a new high Okay, I'm sorry. I'm tough. I'm so I'm looking at the weekly chart there. Look at the daily chart Yeah, of course, this is at a high the day of course starting with the intraday highs right now and Making a nice recovery. So Nikola definitely gonna put back on our list. We all like Nikoli here nice level one stocker So to keep an eye on GOTU got you another stock back from like pandemic time or roughly around then, you know Chinese education companies ended up all going non-profit or look to at the time and this stock ended up tanking This was a nice trade back then and pretty strong hold here just making support E views not looking nearly as good also very expensive. I tell same thing just flat So yeah, I don't mind that. What was that the GOTU trade? Building up a nice little list here. I like it obviously when the markets are ripping right now It's quite easy to build up a list, but let's see if there's anything moving as good stitch fix You know, it's not really trading a lot of volume per minute and rather something that's trading more liquidity Uh Neo's like a little exhausted though. I feel I'm gonna write neo down on the side list. What was that last one group on here Which we skipped That's not looking as good either that Groupon one We just skipped over one right there was the neo trade my scanners always looked at refresh on me here So it kind of causes little jumbling up at times But say what's also been a long day been added with our students since 8 a.m. Eastern time a few of us at least Inside our pre-market group coaching program. That was our second of two group sessions there So I think that our team also just sent the recording out already at this point to those students So there's beyond look out for that but a Lot of talking today a lot of water here so far this afternoon Let's keep it going though across the loser side. We already have a good list six stocks to work with two on the side We'll jump back to Snapchat I was you know I was thinking snap chat would be a nice short if the markets were to crash coming off the Fed meeting just with The bad earnings so at the market squeezing up I reckon it's moving upward a bit, but I am not really like a fan of snap chat I don't really see strong strength in it overall It's been slumping off the whole damn year so far really when everything else has been You know like at least two xing off the lows so Yeah, I mean right now snap It's moving up a little bit if you're in it right now already you're making a little bit a little bit here If you're in from like 1020 share you but see if there's anything looking better On the RKOD not gonna expect to find a whole lot really on the losers list when the markets are ripping right I do my job though Not really much else All right, so that was an easier one at least so let's just go across the board though some sidely stocks If we can keep an eye on bingo rivion sling shot right now It was just the first thing on the top of my head So Rivian definitely gonna put on our list like asking about the Pac West trade We had looked at it before I think it's not really moving as well. Yeah, it's not really making this great of a move It's been through like the spin cycle the last day and a half So I feel like it's just more tired than anything at this point if I'm wrong with that then perhaps when rich is on it If it's making a better move and others aren't then you can focus on it, but That Rivian trade actually looking pretty good Loose it and with Rivian. Yeah, of course how we forget that that's that's a better heads up from Andre It's you know, not as up as much percentage wise but making the sharper of the two moves and in terms of you know Afternoon momentum and volatility You want to find a stock near the highs of course, but a stock that is making a sharper move up right now That also plays a part All right, so bunch of headlines out across the Fed meeting folks and across the Powell conference right now I'm not gonna recite it to you. It's a lot of stuff there out there So we all know what happened to end up raising the basics points 25 But have had a hell of a move up so far. So maybe in their little conference. They're saying right now Maybe they're alluding to them. I you know eventually pausing the rates soon and then hike and then cutting them You know in the near future. I don't know that's from the hill But if there's anything else though that you got from me, let me know here in the chat board I'm gonna jump to the ABVC from the side list Yeah, it's still 55% on you, but it just moved right off resistance at six We'd called that out the VWAP and it's six bucks right there as resistance and I'm just I just feel like given how illiquid it is. It's much more of a gamble stock at this point Neo I think is just more exhausted very liquid, but it's not really making that big pop You'd want to see just yet, especially with the last like 15 minutes. This has been pretty lackluster So that's pretty surprising. I would have wanted to have seen more at that point Check out some airlines and cruise lines. Just just checking And CL age moving up at the highs there, but not really up a whole lot percentage wise for right now, so I'll pass Definitely good sideless stock. You could say the same on GM. So the same on Ford bill But again, I mean we want to focus on the ones that are the most tradable But also give us as good if not the most opportunity to work with so we already have a good list folks We got Rivian we got lucid we got the three T's not you want to have the three T's tradable trend track Fousa's gonna go over that more so next week in the phase three class You know as we have in phase one throughout but you'll hear it right from him, but we have Rivian lucid we got the three T stocks, you know Tupperware Tupperware till ready T-Doc. We got weight watchers Nikola got you so in total That's about eight not bad. That's really not a big list really to pump out going into the close for the Fed meeting Typically we could be at like 12 or 13 on a day like this So I like what we have I wouldn't look to step away from this list really to begin and Then I'm maybe in about 15 or so minutes if riches on and nothing else is moving from this watch list We're pumping out then checking on your sideless stocks checking on your other trades out there That is if you're not joining me in class So again, if you're joining me in the phase one stock course coming up at 305 Eastern Rich post the link just before At 240 just scroll up right there. I'm sure all of us see it in the main chat So it's just right there you can click that link there to join I look forward to seeing most if not all of us there But again best of luck trading to all of us just here heading into the close


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What's up guys, my name is Michael and welcome to my YouTube chat today we are going to go over left rotation operation. So basically a left rotation operation on an array of sides and shifts each of the arrays elements one left one unit to the left. So now given D integer D we're gonna just have to shift everything D times to the left and return the result. Okay, so this is actually not that hard. So what we could do is we could write a method that just shifts everything to the left by one, and then we just loop through it and just keep shifting D times. Okay, so I actually wrote this already. So I'm just going to explain the code what I did. So here this is basically what I'm doing to shift everything to the left. All right, so I created a variable called start that is going to equal to the first element. So here, let's say I wanted to shift everything here to the left, right? So we have 12345. So when we mean shift everything to the left by one, we mean that this one is going to become a two. This two is going to become a three. This three is going to become a four. And this four is going to become a five, right? And then the starting one is going to now going to go to the end, right? Because when we shift it to the left, there's nothing in the left anymore. So what's now it's going to happen is go to the end. So what I did was I just started from the beginning, I set a variable to equal to the start right to start is going to equal to the beginning of the first value, right at zero. And I just loop through from zero to the end. And then I'm just going to set each element to equal to that was my timer. That was my laundry timer. Sorry. Um, so I just said each element from the first one to equal to the next one. So r at i is going to equal to r i plus one. So what this is going to do if we're looping from beginning, it's going to set this one to become the two, this two is going to become the three, this three is going to become the four, this four is going to become the five. And this last value of five, I need to replace this right with the first value of one. So that's what I do here at the end. I said r at size minus one, which is the end is going to equal to start. And then now what I'm doing this is I'm just going to do this D times. So I'm going to do while loop and then do this D, D is greater than zero D minus minus. So then I do this D times and then yeah, then that after that, I just returned my array. And yeah, it basically passed the solution test cases. So let's actually look at other people solutions. I know that there is a way to do this with, yeah, is way to do this just by using modules. Although they, I think they are creating a new array. Okay, that's just yeah, so here, what they're doing is they're creating a new array. And then what they're doing is they're going to loop through from the beginning. And they're just going to like calculate the new index to where it's going to be at. So what that means is they take the old index we're at and we're going to subtract it from D. And then because it's going to be going negative, we need to loop around the array. So one way to actually loop around the array is just to add by end. And then once we add by end, sometimes you might go over the array. So what they do is a mod by end. So then it'll come back in a circle. So that's what this new thing is and then rotation array, the new index is going to be equal to value at the old index. So we could actually do this code right now actually, if you don't want to use two loops. So we could actually do that right now. Of course, this requires creating a new array though. So it's great new array, it's going to be called new R2 R dot size. Okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to loop through from current index to the end. And what we're going to do is that we're going to actually take current index, subtract it by D. And then we're going to add it by end. Right. And is the size of our array. So we're going to add it by D, subtract it by D, add it by end, and then we're going to modify and take this very modified by end. And this is going to be R2, and this is going to be R at I. And what this is doing is basically the same thing of we said before is just going to, instead of shifting it one by one, we're just going to like take it for shifting this by two, this three is going to jump to two, right. And then this two is going to jump backwards, but because we're going two rotations down and it's out of bounds in the array, we're going to add it by the length of the original array so it loops back. So once it loops back, we could, that'll be our new position where we're putting it. But sometimes it goes overboard, like it goes overboard. If I add like at this point, add two, actually, at this one point, I go down by two, it goes like out of the array. So yeah, we have to subtract the D times and add by N, which is the size of the array. And then we mod it. So that goes back to original. So yeah, let's submit this code. I want just to make sure that this works. Yeah. So this one also works. Yeah. So this is how you do it with just one for loop. Yeah. D minus, I minus D plus N mod by N. Hope you guys enjoyed this video is all that's all there is to left rotation rate comms subscribe. I'll check you guys later. Peace.


What's up everybody? Jason here for JaspiesCasebreak.com. This is a wax party promo break guys, 2023 hip parade football autograph limited edition series 22 just sold out This is a dual case break round on teams number one, which is total 20 boxes guys and again guys everybody gets a random team in the NFL and This is a wax party promo break So first we do the break round my sub's names team to strip the hits out at the end We'll have the original list and we'll randomize them and we'll give away the wax party promo spot So let's click dice roll and let's do the break first. It is a one and a four or five times one two three four five Five times five times Riley down to Martin five one two three four five All right, so five five five Denver Broncos out of the Tennessee Titans All right, so Riley you have the Broncos Ivan with the panthers eating with the pack packers Michael Johnson with the Bengals Nick with the Cardinals Ryan with the Saints Ken with the Cowboys will with the Texans chat with the bills Michael with the Jets got with the Chargers Scott either it's got good men with the Patriots Tammy with the commanders Ryan with the Jags Jeremy with the Bears Chat with the Vikings Michael the Raiders Tammy with the Browns as well as the Eagles Nathan with the Falcons Ryan with the Giants Tammy with the Bucks Josh with the Dolphins Damien with the Lions Ed with the Chiefs Matthew Slade with the Colts Martin with the Ravens Michael with the Seahawks Matthew with the 49ers Karen with the Steelers Ryan with the Rams and then Martin with the Tennessee Titans All right, and there you go guys now if anybody wants to make any trades. I'll give you guys a quick trade window If not stick to what you got. All right. Let me know trades then guys. So stick to what you got All right, so it's a dual case here guys, so Two cases. All right, here we go first one is a Christian Watson little patch autograph from absolute 22 out of 99 for the Green Bay Packers Green Bay Packers Winnie-Ethan, and then we have a Devonte Adams greatest autograph there out of a playbook Football product 2022 Raiders Michael Johnson, there you go. We have a Drake London patch autograph RPA from Spectra. That's number 66 out of 99 Atlanta Falcons going to Nathan we got a sauce Gardner Little rookie contenders optic ticket for the Jets Jets Jets Michael Johnson, and then we have a Sam Howe nice from Impeccable 67 out of 99 rookie landscape Tammy with the commanders Then we have a rookie signs that is a Michael Parsons. That is from illusions. I believe 63 out of 99 For the Cowboys Kev. There you go, man. Then we have a Dalton King Kate Bowman's first 143 out of 199 From 2022 Bowman University, and I believe he didn't get drafted, right? Pretty good draft that you think he was the big tight end out of Utah wasn't he? Drafted by the Bills. Yes bills first round pick. That's right So they go Buffalo Bills with that one going to chat Tucker. Yeah, that's one. I Sprock party that is a clearly Donner's rookie autograph not numbered but still a nice one That is for the 49ers and Matthew slave Nick Chubb that is a prism, and I believe that's a rookie as well. Yeah 2018 Nick Chubb rookie autograph from prism going to the grounds going to Tammy And then we have a Marshall fault nice color match gold from classics Eight out of ten rams. That's a nice one rams gonna Ryan And what was the chaser here soon? Well, actually Nick only put up one two three four five six of them So I'm assuming it's probably maybe with a Brock Purdy That's probably the big chaser in this one Only put up six of the previous. So I'm assuming it's down. This was a solid case. Let's move to the next one. Here we go We have a breeze hall But our PF in Phoenix out of 25 Jets going to Michael Johnson. It's Justin Jefferson I believe this was actually one of the preview cards yet. It is a Justin Jefferson formula one I love these patch autographs at his 39 to 75 Justin Jefferson patch autograph for the Vikings going to chat tucker George Pickens rookie ticket Steelers going to Karen steel and we have a Michael Vic. That looks nice That is from Impeccable right yeah 45 out of 49 on card illustrious ink Atlanta Falcons win a Nathan and we have a AJ Brown Mirror signatures 10 out of 10 that Tennessee Titans edition second-year AJ Brown Martin Clark with that one and then we have a Christian Watson. That's a nice one right there I think that's a low number too, right? No out of 79 27 out of 79 That's a cool in there. Green Bay Packers Ethan cook. What's up, John? How you doing today? I'm doing well Getting close and closer on that mystery cream in Some huge hits in there Including that huge huge ohtani. That's like three four times the spot price Yeah, I think you only have a few spots left in that filler. So Potentially going off later today the next one we have Jerry Judy Patch autograph RPA from select at 75 Denver Broncos going to Riley and we have a trail ads tools of the trade triple relic and autograph to 49 and That is for the 49ers Matthew Slade. So See what's gonna happen with trail ads or that quarterback that quarterback room is kind of jam-packed now, right? Purdy's not gonna be able to play probably to like half-witch or the season if he comes in returns as a starter Just have trail ads, of course feel like they are giving up on him already although Which is kind of unfair and then they brought in Sam Darnold. So I don't know we're gonna see and we have will Anderson 123 out of 499. Hey Carl. It's going on man Feel very confident. Yeah, man. I mean we posted one up yesterday And it's sold out pretty fast. We were expecting that to sell out today, but so I was so fast that We posted up another one and now this one's flying. So There's some pretty good hits in here Nick just dropped off the cars not too long ago. So so I feel like People did like the value that they got yesterday So this one was a little bit more pricier but again a lot bigger cars as you can see the ceiling is like double of what it was yesterday and Yeah, will Anderson was a was the like the number two overall pick three overall pick Texans right? Yeah, Houston, Texas Which is will So let's give that to will with the Houston Texans and last box of the break guys So again, we won't go to that crate for a little bit guys just because we have to do a series two and it's like an hour But I think after that the way it's going and we could probably start doing that after the After the series to so right now's a perfect time guys, you know After this break to kind of sit back get some drinks and we get some dinner lunch wherever you're at and Jalen Watt is the last one Miami Dolphins going to Josh W and then we can start selling some fillers out and then doing the break at some point later tonight But there you go guys boom So I think this case was pretty solid a lot of mix of good rookies and some nice stuff in general The Justin Jefferson was the chaser. I feel like the Brock Purdy was the chaser in the first one But I appreciate it guys. We do have another two cases. So if Nick hasn't done it already I'll repost up another case of this because we do have two more cases to repost for another break So now let's do the randomizer here for the wax party spot again number one gets it Let's roll the dice boom And it is 301 four times. Good luck. Name a number one gets a wax party invite one two three and four boom four times Four just missing I was martin Clark unfortunately but Kev look at that dude came in second. I think like twice yesterday Won that from a prism pack filler man. Congratulations after four times I don't know if you have a spot, but you definitely do now And we are knocking these down guys. Just knocking them down. All right, and then this was uh Hip parade football limited series 22 dual case Rt number one So appreciate it folks. Next one will be in the store soon. Jasper's case breaks.com