From Chicago, we invite you to enjoy life. Life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Cy Howard and starring J. Carol Nash with Alan Reed. A year ago when Luigi Basko left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would write her and tell her about his adventures. So now we look over Luigi's shoulder as he writes another letter to Mama Basko in Italy. Dear Mamma Mia, is a now big shopping season in America. Everywhere signs, news of papers and radio, they tell people there is only 24 shopping days till Christmas. Mamma Mia, with the money I got I can do all of my Christmas shopping in 24 minutes.  In Chicago, main shopping section is called The Loop. I guess that's because everybody run around in a circle.  It's called revolving door. People walk in and the door walk in with them. It's also many other wonderful things. Like in old country, when a man wants to go to the second floor, he walks upstairs. In a department store, man stands still and the stairs walk up. Yes Mamma Mia, everybody here getting ready to celebrate the Christmas. Except the Pasquale, my country man, who brings me to America. Only celebration he wants is for me to marry his daughter Rosa. And the Mamma, that Rosa is so fat. If she ever stand on a street for five minutes, policemen give her ticket for double parking. Anyway, this morning I open up my antique store and I'm talking with my 12 year old general manager Jimmy O'Connor, who's like a son to me, and Jimmy he say, Hey boss, here's the mail. Is the letter from my mamma? Not today boss. Then who write to me? There's quite a few here. It's a wonderful country. I don't write anybody but I get answers anyway. Today is the 30th. It's the end of the month. So what? It happened 12 times a year. Like Uncle Pietro say, everything has end except sausage. Sausage has two ends. But tomorrow is the first, so the bills come in today. Is it too bad the month don't start on the fifth? Then we have more time to pay bills. With the money we haven't got it won't make much difference. Someday I pay. Right now we keep a record. I write on the page, bills are standing out. That's bills outstanding. Okay, read the bills. It's from the Edison company. It's a pleasure to hear from Mr. Edison. Fine man, electric light is a wonderful invention. If Edison don't invent electric light, Edison and company go out of business. How much we owe Mr. Edison? $4.38. Is it worth the money I'm gonna owe them? If you don't pay they'll turn off the juice. Then we use candles, like in old country. If we do, then this place is sure gonna be spooky. All these old statues and old furniture, candles? In old days everybody used candles. Even Abraham Lincoln. He was a poor fellow Jimmy. He lived in a log cabin, walked every day to school in the snow. Work in the store just like you. And then study at the night by candle. And then he become a president. That's getting you the White House the hard way. Even harder Lincoln was a Republican. What's next Bill Jimmy? Gas, $4.12. Maybe we better cut down on our cooking. From now on we boil three minute eggs in two minutes. Guess how much the telephone bill is? $3. Try again. $4. You hit the bell. I think Mr. Bell hit me. Just the same is a wonderful intervention. If there's no telephone, then there's no telephone or books.  What are you gonna do with these bills? When we have the money, we pay. Aren't you worried? It's a no use everybody worrying of Jimmy. Right to now I let the companies worry. But what are you gonna do boss? I got a surprise for you Jimmy. See, here's the $15. Where'd you get that? You remember all colonial letter case? Sure, cost you $20. I sell it for $15. But boss... I get stuck when I pay $20 for it Jimmy. So I sell it back to same a fellow for $15. But you lost $5 in the deal. Oh no Jimmy. I make a $5 because there's only worth $10 in the first place. What's the next letter Jimmy? It's from the president of the Windy City Investment Company. From president himself? Yep. John C. Shaw. Let me see that. Dear friend. Jimmy, do I know Mr. Shaw? Oh it doesn't mean a thing boss. Your name is on what they call sucker lists. That's a pretty good Jimmy. Only one of you here and already I'm on a sucker list. I wouldn't exactly call it an honor boss. Must be Jimmy. Here's the fella I don't know. He's giving me a chance to invest in a gold mine. Maybe we invest a little money huh Jimmy? What money? Next the letter Jimmy. It's from the Jackson Hospital Plan. Gimme, I read it myself. Look, say here. Dear Mr. Bosco, this is a personal letter. Believe me boss, there's nothing personal about it. Never mind Jimmy, listen to a letter. Consider this invitation from us to join. How you like that Jimmy? Invitation. It's just an ad boss. They don't mean that. What this means? Hospital Plan. They pay your hospital expenses.  Natch. Huh? Natch. Natch? What the natch means? Well, it's short for naturally. Please Jimmy, I like to learn a long English, not a short hand. How you know about this plan? I've seen the ads in the papers and I've heard them on the radio. They got the longest commercial. Then why you not tell me? Oh boss, you can't take on any more expenses. Well let's say here only cost two cents a day. You can't even afford that.  I see about this right away. Why the hurry? Mr. Jackson say here in his letter, hurry, hurry. I hurry. Mr. Luigi. You watch the story Jimmy, I go see Mr. Jackson. Erica, I love you. You like a papa. Luigi my friend. Hello Luigi, hello hello. Hello Pascuali, I'm in a bigger hurry. All the way see you in a bigger hurry. Not always Pascuali, only when I see you. Where you going this time? To hospital. Who's sick? Me. What's the matter with you? I find out later. You talk but you don't make sense Luigi. Speak a play. I explain to you Pascuali. See this? Show is a letter. No, it's invitation. Invitation to what? Invitation to hospital. That's a nice invitation. I'm here 26 years. I never hear of an invitation to a hospital. Wait, I explain. Is invitation for hospital insurance plan for two cents? Luigi, why you always a sticky or two cents in everything?  Is it called Jackson a plan? Luigi, why you gotta be different from other people? Why you must join a Jackson a plan? Join a Marshall a plan? If you sick, Jackson take care of a whole thing for two cents a day.   Pascuali, you pay Jackson a plan two cents. Jackson, he pay hospital. What's to happen if it's raining some day and you're not gonna run to the mailbox and send the Jackson his a two cents? Then there's no insurance to that day. Luigi, you always a buy policy.  Is there no fire? It takes time. I explain to Pascuali. Look what it say here in a letter. If I get a sick, Jackson a plan is pay for doctors and nurses and all kinds of sickness. They pay for everything except the maternity. Why? Is it contagious? Pascuali, you know understand. I'm understand the plenty but what's to happen if I'm catching this a maternity? Is not the possible. Maternity is meaning having a little bambino. Oh, that's a fine. I tell you what you do. Forget it, it's a crazy two cents hospital. Marry my Rosa, she's a have a bambino. I pay you two cents a day for the rest of your life. Please Pascuali, we're not to talk about the Rosa. We talk about a Rosa? I'm breaking your arm. Pascuali, how is the Rosa? I'm glad you asked you my son. Luigi, you couldn't find a nicer girl. Or a bigger. Is there nothing in my Rosa can do? She's got lots of talent. What kind of talent? Oh, she's a wonder. She's a first class cook. She's a handy with a needle.  You know Pascuali? Yes, my son. I bet you Rosa could have find a good job someplace.  Is it too bad Pascuali? Right now she's a feel of very bad and she's got a broken heart. Maybe she joined a two cents hospital. Is there no hospital like you're for her? Only you Luigi, you the doctor. If I'm a doctor, I go find a new patient. Luigi, you're getting me so mad. I think I'm going to break you into little pieces. Then I better go join a Jackson a plan a quick. Excuse me, lady. Is this Jackson a hospital plan? Yes. I like to speak to Andrew. What's the nature of your business? Antique business. 21 North Holster Street. Open night and day and we always... I mean, what can I do for you? I get the letter this morning. I like to join two cents a day hospital plan. Oh, you want to see Mr. McRady? First order your ride. Thank you, lady. Hello. Girl outside, she tells me you're Mr. McRady. Yes. She says you can tell me all about Jackson a hospital plan. I'd be glad to. You see... You see, Mr. McRady, I'm not alone in this country, and it's harder for me to understand everything it says here in a little book about a hospital plan. So maybe you explain some of the things that it says here. I'd be glad to. It says here, no physical examination is necessary. I guess if there's no examination necessary, it means I don't have to see a doctor. Well... I'm glad you explained to me. Another thing, it says here, you have a choice of 90 member hospitals. That means I go to any hospital I like. Well, there are 90 hospitals. It's wonderful how simple is everything the way you explain it. It is say here. Also say here, if I marry, plan also cover my wife.  But I have a little boy, Jimmy. Is it good for him, huh? Yes. Thank you so much, Mr. McRady. You speak a beautiful English. Here's my two cents. I enroll in a plan. I'm sorry, Mr. Well, if you hit to my fault, I don't look where I'm going. Are you hurt? No, but maybe I hurt to your car. Are you sure you're all right? I feel fine. We can't be too sure, Mr. Basko. Mr. McRady, what are you doing here? Right on the job, Mr. Basko. The Jackson Hospital plan will take care of everything. Yes, sir, there's a room, nurse, a choice of any one of 1,000 doctors already in waiting for you. Mamma Mia, all for two cents. While you're wondering what Luigi is going to do next, I have a $16,000 announcement for you about CBS's popular quiz program Hit the Jackpot. Later tonight, $16,000 worth of breathtaking prizes will be given to the lucky contestant at home or in the studio who can give the correct solution to the secret sentence. MC Bill Cullen will give you more clues to help you solve the secret sentence. For fun and prizes, be sure to tune in Hit the Jackpot tonight over most of these same CBS network stations. And now, for the second act of Luigi Basko's adventures in Chicago, we turn to page two of his letter to his mother in Italy. So, Mamma Mia, I never think when I go to join a hospital plan that five minutes later I'm in a hospital. This gives you idea of a kind of a quick serve as a fellow gets in America. So now I'm in a hospital only because I'm reading a hospital advertisement book when I cross the street and I don't see the card. But don't worry, Mamma Mia. There's absolutely nothing wrong with me. Only trouble is that nobody believes me. There's a very nice nurse here. She takes my pulse. There's first American girl who holds my hand. It's a very pleasant, Mamma Mia. But now Jimmy visits me and he say... Boss! Hello, Jimmy. I rushed down here as soon as I heard about it. Who tell you? It's all over the neighborhood. I feel fine, Jimmy. What happened, boss? I'm walking across the State Street when suddenly I hit automobile. Did you get the license? No, just a piece of a right-to-front fender. Where were you hurt, boss? In a safety zone. What were you doing on State Street?  I'm not going to be angry, boss. I go see Jackson Hospital plan. Then I have an accident after I join. Please, Jimmy, do something for me. Write a note to my teacher, Miss Spaulding. I know I can come to school tonight. Same as I write for you. Well, I can tell him, Mr. Luigi. You don't have to write a note. No, Jimmy. It's the better you write. Please excuse my parents. Luigi Basco from school tonight. Yours truly, Jimmy O'Connor. Well, if that's the way you want it. Someone's here to see you, boss. Oh, he's the man from a two-cent hospital plan. Well, goodbye, boss. I'll see you later. Okay, goodbye, Jimmy. Mr. Basco, I take my hat off to you. Thank you. You're very polite. Yes, sir. You sure are a fast worker. We're going to make a big thing out of this. Imagine a man signs up for the Jackson Hospital plan and five minutes later he's in the hospital. Why, it'll make us the talk of the country. You're not angry with me? Angry? Certainly not. On the contrary, we'll see to it that you get every operation that's coming to you. You get tonsils, adenoids, appendix, and that's only the start. Sounds like the finish. Please, I'm feeling fine. I want to go home. Mr. Basco, you gave us your two cents. You enrolled. We have your signature. You agreed to accept our benefits and you'll get your benefit. Please, I just want to go home. Stay right there. Don't move till you hear from us. You're in a soft, comfortable hospital bed. You'll get the best of doctors and nurses for two cents a day. You're entitled to all this for 21 days. Live, man! Live! Nurse! Doctor! Mama Mia! Luigi, you sleeping in my son? Oh, Pasquale, I'm even glad to see you. How do you feel, my little man? I feel fine, Pasquale, but I... Don't talk to Luigi. Here, drink a little soup. A rose that she cookin' a special for you. That's nice. Is a love, and every spoon a full, Luigi. She's a putter her heart in it. Taster like it. Luigi, I'm already take care of everything for you. Then when can I go home? Take it easy. The lawyer says you're critical of sick a man. Lawyer? I don't even see lawyer how he knows. He knows. But, Pasquale, I don't need lawyer.  Even when you're sick, you argue. If a lawyer says you're sick, you're sick. But I'm not sick. I'm a fine. I don't care what you say. I already give a lawyer $50,000. $50,000 I give him. He say we're gonna collect... I never have a $50,000.  He say we're gonna collect a $10,000. We? Sure we. Is it your accident so I make you a partner? Next time, if I have accident, I make you a partner too. It's a fair exchange. Thank you, Pasquale, but there's nothing wrong with me. Lawyer is out the side. He's a teller. What's the wrong with you? Here is Mr. Sykes, your lawyer. How are you, Mr. Pasquale? I'm fine. Delirious, eh, Pasquale? Sounds alike. Now, don't try to talk, Mr. Pasquale.  Just leave everything to me. I don't. I leave it to my mama. I will sue that car owner for every penny he has in the world. We'll strip and clean. We'll take the clothes off his back. You having a thing to worry about with John Sykes as your attorney? I'm worried about other fellow. I've had lots of cases like this, but chasing ambulance is all my life. You must be pretty tired. Mr. Pasquale, I saw the whole thing. You did? Why, certainly I did. There was this car coming in a very northerly direction at approximately 75 miles an hour. You were standing in the safety zone. But I wasn't after that. Don't interrupt, please. Suddenly, this automobile swerved. Knocked you down, ran over you, backed up, and ran over you again. No, no, no. No, Mr. Sykes. It was all my fault. I crossed the one a lighter was red. What's that got to do with it, aren't you entitled to your choice of colors? Sure. Sure, Luigi. Everybody's got a right to choose a color. Don't worry. We're going to collect the plenty. Pasquale, you got a hit by a car, too? I'm just to look out for your interest. But I feel fine. I don't even hurt a little bit.  Looks alike. Ah, Mr. Basco, where were you on the night of July 21st, 1928? July 21st, 1928. I don't remember. Ah-ha. Amnesia. Magnesia. Ah, it's even worse than I feared. Now tell me, Mr. Basco, do you hear ticking noises? Pasquale, take your watch away from my ear.  Yes, sir, mighty sick. Please, Mr. Sykes, are you giving me a headache? Fine. Don't fight it, Mr. Basco. And my back. My back is hurting from laying in bed. Ah-ha. Wonderful. Wonderful. Now you're talking. But I feel fine. Stop saying that! Just keep on quiet, Pasquale. I'll be back in a moment. Pasquale, I don't trust you, Mr. Sykes. I'm as surprised at you, Luigi. Mr. Sykes is as honest as I am. That's what worries me. No, Pasquale. I don't swear to fellow. Isn't that honest? I don't want his money. I want to go home. Look, Luigi, you don't worry about this. All you think about is your health. I worry about your money. Hey, lay down, Luigi, as a doctor. Well, how are you feeling, Mr. Basco? I'm feeling good. Not so good, a doctor. Excuse me, I'd like to look at the charts. Sure, doc. Here. What does it say? Mmm. It sounds bad. Is a bad doctor? Temperature? Mmm. Blood pressure? Mmm. Is it got a temperature and a blood pressure? Yeah, these X-rays. Mmm. X-rays. But I'm feeling fine. Stop arguing with a doctor! You'll excuse me, Mr. Basco. I'll be back. Pasquale. I hear you, Luigi. What? What did doctor mean when he said, Mmm. Don't sound good to me, Luigi. Hey, Luigi, hold my hand. Pasquale, you see X-ray pictures? It's all black. Is there nothing left inside? What does it say on the chart? I'm not supposed to tell you, Luigi. Please, please, Pasquale, it's better if I know everything. All right, all right, I tell you. Temperature 98 to period of six. That's not too good. Please, Pasquale, if anything happened, you take care of Jim. Sure, sure, I even adopted him. And when he grow up, don't make him marry Rosa. Luigi, Rosa's always going to be true to one man. You, Luigi. It's all right with me if she lie a little. Listen, Pasquale, there's one more thing. In four years from now, I get to my citizenship papers. Can you hear me, Pasquale? I hear you, Luigi. I give you permission to vote for me. Anything else? I wait until the doctor comes back before I make more promises. All right, Luigi, now I tell you what I'm going to do for you. When I collect the money from accident, I'm going to take your share, and I'm going to build a new antique store with your statue in the front, with the biggest sign in your honor, Luigi Bosco Spaghetti Palace. Why spaghetti in antique store? Got to pay expenses, Luigi. Pasquale is suddenly getting very dark. Hold up both of my hands, Luigi, my friend. Maybe now you do something for me, eh? Anything. Maybe you see, Rosa, just the one thing more. Is it dark enough already? Then is it making no difference, Luigi.  Marry Rosa. Does this make her happy, Pasquale? Sure, sure. It's to make her the happiest widow in the Chicago. All right. Rosa, what is she? Oh, she's just a happener to be waiting outside. Rosa! Say hello to poor Luigi. Hello, poor Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Luigi's a dyin', and before he goes, he wants to marry you, Rosa. What are you thinking of?  Luigi, I go bring you the judge. Is the judge also happener to be waiting outside? What's going on here? Doctor, you're just in the time. Everything is dark. No wonder, someone turned off the lights. Who would do a thing like this? I see everything now. Doctor, I'm not a dyin', huh? Not for a long time to come, Mr. Bosco. There isn't a thing in the world that matters with you.  You hear that, Pasquale? Doctor, you sure? Of course. It's impossible, doctor. I just give a lawyer $50. Luigi's got to die. I feel fine. I'm going to leave the hospital. I got my two cents to work. Pasquale, I'm going back to the store. Wait, Luigi. You promised to marry Rosa today. Oh, no. I already have my accident for today. So, Mamma Mia, now if I get sick, is there nothing to worry about?   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My name is Azadet again. I'm an animal scientist working in IPMS project at Erie. Yesterday, we started a workshop on small-holder commercialization in Ethiopia and one of the components that we presented was knowledge management and capacity building. Knowledge management, we displayed our outputs in establishment of the Ijodian Agrippaja portal. We demonstrated that to the participants in terms of linking knowledge to the end users, basically the ministry people and also the research community. On top of that, we also emphasized the use of capacity building in different forms. One is the informal type of capacity building, basically short-term training, practical training for farmers, producers and the private sector and also the formal training BSE, MSc level at Ethiopian universities. IPMS has trained about 200 MSc, BSE graduates and the relevance of that is very much a type of problem solving, practical issues linked to universities and to the research system. So that was it yesterday in knowledge management capacity building. Thank you.


Okay, good morning and welcome everybody to BC314. It's our second lecture this week on media and technology. Hope everyone's doing fine, everyone's doing good. Let's take a moment to pray before we get into talking about digital equipment today. We'll talk a little bit about software and a few things about hardware that's used. Could somebody please pray with the class and we'll start. Anyone? Great. Pastor? Yeah, go ahead. Asha. Dear God, thank you so much for everything that you're doing. Thank you for this day and thank you for all my classmates and Pastor God. Lord, as we're about to learn about the digital equipment Lord, that we may understand what it is to know the digital skills God has learned. Yeah, thank you God for this time where we learned, where we interact and know what it is. I understand everything you have for us to understand God. Lord, we pray your spirit to lead us and guide us. I just want to join you in praying. Okay. Good morning, everyone. So today, today, maybe we'll take maybe one or two more lectures mature. We will go off digital equipment, a little bit about software side of things. And then of the physical equipment. Mainly from the perspective of graphics, audio, video production, live streaming. Now, as I said yesterday, this goal is not to train us how to use all of this. Obviously, that we cannot do in a very short time. Some of the students who are here, they get to do it during our Sunday services and other occasions. And in fact, some of them have become very good. Some of our students who were studying with us, who were serving with the media team, then eventually became part of the media team, they joined us as staff. So that happens for the students who are here physically and when they get involved in those areas. But the purpose or the intent in going over this lesson on digital equipment is just to give us an exposure. The goal is for us to have enough information so that when you are interacting with your teams, you may have a graphics team, you may have a video production team, you may have people who you may even hire vendors to do this for you on special occasions and so on. So you will just know at least how to communicate with them, understand what you're saying, make decisions and so on. So from that perspective, I'm sharing this information because personally, I had to make this journey. So I thought, okay, I'll be a pastor and I want to minister and teach the Word of God. True, that's good. But then you soon realize that you've got to deal with all these other things about audio equipment, media teams and they are coming to you and asking you for information and guidance and so on. And if you don't understand what they're doing, it's very hard to make decisions. So it was a learning process for me also and I'm continuing to learn. I tell them, hey, please tell me what are you doing? The people are doing the video production, the live stream and of course I go up online and read so that I understand. So from that perspective, just to give us enough information. Some of you may be in places of leadership or you may have to make some of these decisions. So at least you have a little bit of a background. Okay, so that's the intent. I'm not here to kind of train you on these things. I'm not an expert myself, but at least we'll have some information to work with our people. So when you talk about this equipment, we are referring to both the software and the hardware that we need for media work. So graphics software and there are several software packages that are generally used. Adobe cloud, Creative Cloud is something that's very commonly used, very popular. And if you are a registered nonprofit, you can get a discount as well.  So I encourage you to tap into that if possible. That's something we've been doing for a number of years now and so we kind of benefit from that and all our media team people have access to it. They do their work using the Creative Cloud. Of course, there are also free web applications for graphic software that you can tap into. And I've just mentioned a few of these and I'm sure there are several more web based. Now, a lot of these are web based cloud based. So you don't need necessarily to install anything on your machine. Just set up an account and you can do it very easily. So you can explore using free applications as well. On the video editing side again, you've got commercial as well as free video editing software. I've listed several here. We use Adobe Premiere Pro for our video editing work. Of course, there are a lot of other commercial versions available as well as there are free editing software that are available. And it's good to, I mean, either if you are interested in it or your teams are interested in it, you let them pick one that they are comfortable working with. And there are definitely a lot of tutorials, video tutorials that they can train themselves and do well. Now, when it comes to video and video editing, it's good to have some sort of understanding of it because, you know, you as a communicator. So you may be a pastor, you may be an evangelist, you may be a preacher, but you are the communicator.  They know the tools, but they don't know what you want to get across. So for you, it's important that you understand a little bit about what can happen, what cannot happen.  If you just let them do it, they will do whatever they think is in their minds, which may not be what you want to get across to the people, right? So to that extent, you need to influence, you need to speak into the work that is being done even in the video editing, right? So it's not your micromanaging, but you're being careful of what is getting across to the people. Otherwise, if you let them on their own, they'll do just random, all kinds of things which may not be what you want to get across to the people. So, you know, just even as recently as a couple of weeks back, you know, we've been doing this video editing and all of that for a long time, but a couple of weeks back, one of our graphics people decided to change the what we call as thumbnails, the cover graphics for our videos. And they started, you know, I'm just saying this example. This is a small example to say that, you know, you need to be watchful of what people are doing, what your media team is doing. So for whatever reason, this person decided that they're going to put for our Sunday sermon videos, they're going to put the, you know, the pictures of the preacher on the video, on the thumbnail graphic. Now, right from the very beginning, and this is just a personal and an organizational decision, right? Other organizations would work differently. I'm just speaking from a personal and organizational perspective. From the very beginning, we said we don't want people's images to be put out simply because we want to downplay as far as possible. We want to downplay or focus on the preacher or the pastor. Let it be the content which is a draw for people to come and use the resource rather than the picture of the preacher. So that was just a guiding principle right from the beginning. One change we made along the journey was, OK, for the daily devotional, OK, just for the daily devotional videos, it's OK. You can put the picture of the person speaking because it changes week on week, and it's kind of helpful for the audience to know who's speaking from that perspective, but don't change it for anything else. We don't want people's pictures to appear on any other graphics. That was the only exception we made. Because our other, the motivation was, let's not put the focus on the speaker. Let's keep the content as the main reason why somebody should come and watch the video. Then suddenly this change was made when I let it go one Sunday, but then later on I saw this thing and I said, oh, this is not what we want to do. And then I had to give feedback. And this happened recently, just maybe about a month ago or so. So I did give feedback. I say, guys, look, this change is not good. Let's stay with what we originally had in mind. Keep the people off the cover graphics, the thumbnails. Just put the sermon title, keep it that way. Now, it's a very small thing, but it is an important thing for us, meaning we always want to keep people out of the way and let the content speak for itself. And we want to keep it like that. So I'm just mentioning this because you as a leader, as a pastor of the ministry, you decide and you need to be able to speak to your media team. People tell them, hey, this is what should be done. This should not be done. They understand everything, but you are saying it. So similarly, when you get into the details of the video production, you should be able to, you know, communicate your thoughts and ideas. So here are some things that will be useful to know. One is about multi-track editing and multi-cam editing. That means you can have different cameras coming in on the shoot on your subject. If you're preaching from the stage or if you're speaking into the camera, you can have multiple cameras coming in. And then at the time of editing, they can, you know, edit what's happening. They can show different angles. And that's good for you to know because sometimes you can tell them, hey, don't shoot from these angles in the auditorium.  It might disturb the people or we don't want people to become, to come upon the screens. They become very self-conscious on that. So because you know that you can tell them, don't do these things. Keep it like this. Other things you can do with video editing is motion tracking, which is we can zoom in on a particular object in your video. And you can track that object through the video. So if you want to blur over somebody's face, you don't reveal their identity, or you want a text box displayed throughout, you know, throughout a particular object during the video, you can ask for those kinds of things to be done. You can color grade. That means you can change the whole color scheme or the color grading of the video. So sometimes you might say, hey, you know, usually I let these kinds of decisions be made by the video editor. I'm not directly involved, but sometimes, you know, because you know it can be done, you can ask for it to be done. That, hey, change the color grade and make it look a little brighter. Maybe it can enhance the mood of the entire video that's being produced. And of course, there are special effects. You can create some animations, transitions and so on. So for example, when we were under lockdown, you know, during the pandemic time, we were under lockdown. And so, you know, the Sunday sermons were being pre-recorded. They were actually being pre-recorded in an apartment.  And so that pre-recorded video would be released on Sunday. So how can you make that recording a little bit more engaging for people that you can ask them, hey, okay, you know, I'm pre-recording this video and we upload it, we send it off to the media team. Okay, guys, when you're editing it, make it a little interesting. You know, and so we did request that during those days. You know, show the script just come again, show some graphics come again, or maybe even do some things because it's a very kind of dull recording, you know. I'm just standing in front of the camera and recording the Sunday sermon. And we had to do that during the pandemic. But you know that during the editing process, some of these things can be done. So you specify and say, hey, while I'm talking about this, do this. While I'm talking about this, please do this. Please show this picture. Please show this video in between, et cetera. And you can ask for the special effects just to make that video a little bit more engaging. And so you can ask for those things. You can work on the action. You can speed things up, slow things down and reverse what can be done. Video editor rendering. So basically once they finish the video work, they have to render it. That means they have to put the video into a format that can be then released. So that rendering takes a lot of time. So, you know, when you are planning for things, you need to keep that in mind. Because if the longer the video and the greater the resolution of the video, of course, the rendering will take longer time. So keep that in mind as you are planning something. So, okay, I'm going to record it. And I need this thing to be released tomorrow. Well, you know, suppose whatever you're recording is certain high quality and it takes a couple of hours to render. Some of these high quality videos will take hours to render. You need to factor that in as you plan, right? So don't just think that, okay, the video they'll edit and they can, you know, release it. No. They record the video, they edit it, and then they have to render it. And depending on how long your video is, that rendering itself can take sometimes a couple of hours. Just keep that in mind.  Okay. So there's just a little instruction here on video editing software. One more thought, and I'll pause for some questions. It's about desktop publishing. So when you are creating maybe books, graphic, brochures, magazines, newspapers, things that are going either for print or for digital editions, eBooks, you will typically use what we call as desktop publishing software. Something all of us are very familiar with, of course, is Microsoft Word, which can be used as well. But then as you want to do a little bit more complicated stuff, more, you know, more control things, we, our team works with InDesign. And so, and also our printers, they work with InDesign. So for example, the books that we physically print, I would send the content as a Microsoft Word document to our publications team. They would do all the proofreading, all of that. And then they send it off to the printers. And the printer then typesets the page in InDesign. So they would, the final layout with all the whatever needs to be done, formatting, everything is done by the printer in InDesign. So the person who does it, we usually refer to him as the desktop publisher, does it. And then they send back the proof for us to look at a PDF document. We look at it, everything is fine. Then when we give the go ahead, then they go ahead and print the books. So that's just something for us to be aware of. And, yeah, so, yeah, that's about what I wanted to share. Yeah, so this is all, this is another interesting part. When if you're printing things or getting things ready to be printed. As far as media presentations, this is something we use when we are presenting inside, you know, auditory window, putting things up on the screen during a service or a presentation. Typically you use this for showing your song lyrics, your scripture versus your sermon slides, so on. So there are church presentations software. Now there are commercial versions. When we start, you know, several, several years ago, we started out using EasyWorship. That was, you know, simple for us and sufficient for us at that time. Then we moved to ProPresenter, which is what we are using now. So we use this to, you know, show the lyrics of the music, the worship lyrics, along with various backgrounds. It helps you change all of that makes it look nice when it comes up on the screen. Then we also can show scripture verses and we also bring in our sermon points as the sermon is going, sermon slides come in. And then now we also are doing live streaming. So we have something that comes up in-house for those inside the auditorium and something that comes up on the video that goes on the live stream. So all of that we work with ProPresenter. And there is a free open source version as well that you could use in case you don't want to use a licensed worship. Okay, let me pause here before I get into the camera stuff, camera side of things. Is there one with me so far? Say go ahead. I was just going to ask pertaining sermon slides. In your course of experience and years pastoring, what has been or what would you advise preachers not to do when it comes to preaching the word and then having their slides projected? I know there's a danger of getting people distracted or getting the attention away from what you're saying on all ANOVA dependence on the slides versus speaking heart to heart. So I don't know if you could just speak to that to help us, you know, so that we don't fall into a situation whereby there's so much emphasis. There's so much emphasis on the slides, which is good versus we speaking from our hearts and trying to create that picture in the minds of people based on the words we're speaking. Good. Yeah, good question. I'm glad you asked that. So I'll just share my experience. I'm not saying my experience is universal or everybody will agree with me. I'm just speaking, you know, my experience. So, you know, there are two things that personally I wanted to achieve. One was one is we understand the impact of, you know, of people hearing and seeing. So if you do have some supporting slides coming in while you are speaking, it definitely has an impact on the audience. So that's a good thing. But there are some downsides also. One big downside that I have not been able to resolve, of course, is that because people know that things are coming up online, they have stopped opening up their Bibles and they have stopped taking notes. So I feel a little sad about it because for me, I love to see people opening the Bible or I love to open my Bible myself. And secondly, it's a good thing to take notes when you're listening. Like there's an old saying, a blunt pencil is better than a sharp mind because our minds can only retain so much on the first hearing. But even if you write down with a blunt pencil, you can go back and refer to it. But anyway, so that's been a downside. I don't know how to resolve it. But anyway, from my personal thought process was, yes, when all of these presentations, software and all of that became available for us, of course, it's been a long time now. But I said, let's use it. There's nothing wrong in using it because it actually will enhance our communication. So in addition to listening, people can see, you know, you can reinforce a point or whatever you're showing, you can help reinforce your communication. So that's a good thing. It's not a bad thing. So we decided to use it. But then there was the challenge where of how can we, one, it shouldn't look like a presentation. It should be a message that's being brought as opposed to, you know, like a, like we have a typical presentation, you know, slide after slide that it shouldn't be that way. And second is the point that you brought up is how can we have freedom that if I feel like going off in a certain direction to emphasize a certain point, which may not be on the slides, how can we have the freedom to do it? So here's how, you know, I'm just, again, speaking my own personal experience, how we reconciled it. So from the beginning, we, when we started using slide, the PowerPoint slides and all of that for as part of the sermon, I chose not to pay attention to the slides, meaning I know the slides are there. I have my notes with me, but I'm going to speak as though I have always been, you know, as I've always been speaking, which is deliver the message. I told the PowerPoint, the person handling the presentation, I said, you follow me. That means you pay attention to what I'm saying, and you change the slides accordingly. I am not going to pay attention to the slides. So that was from the very beginning, we started off like that. So I said, Hey, you just follow me. I don't even have a controller for the, for the presentation. I don't use it. I just, I have my sermon notes for my, for me. And I just speak and let the person who is in charge of the presentation just follow me. So that way I'm a little, I'm free. Right. I'm not being controlled by the PowerPoint. I don't have to pause and tell the person next slide. I don't have to do it. I can just, just flow, just flow, just deliver the message as I had originally planned. So that was something we started doing very beginning. So our presentation people, all the people who serve in the media team were going to be responsible for the presentation. That is the projection of the sermon notes, sermon slides. They are trained to do this. That means they have to follow the preacher because I'm not going to stop and say next slide. Nothing. I'm just going to flow. Keep pay attention. Keep following. That's one thing. Now, there are times when I, when I make glance at the monitor and I see that they're not following me, then I correct them. You know, this is sad because I have to correct them publicly and say, hey, please move, you know, please move, move ahead and move back. That happens rarely. I generally don't do it. But if I glance at the monitor and I see that they're not where on the same slide as what I'm speaking on, then I just please move forward. But otherwise I don't, I don't, you know, I don't interact with them. I just like to flow. The second is if I need to say something that is not part of my notes. It's not part of the slides. But I feel that we need to go there and, you know, speak about it. I take the liberty to do it. And that all our pastors are free to do it. Okay, yes, it's not, it wasn't, you know, so many notes, it wasn't in the slides, but you feel that you need to, you know, talk about it and address it. The Holy Spirit is moving in that it go for it. Doesn't matter. And again, here, our media team is trying to do it. They know that I'm off the slide. And so I might even tell them, I said, I might just say, okay, this is not on the slide. So just follow me. So what they will do is then they will project the scripture onto the screen, which I may be referring to. Even though it's not on the slide. So they, there is freedom to move. And the media team follows along. So this is how we've struck. We've set ourselves up so that one, we're able to flow freely. And two, if we need to flow into something which was not there before, we can do it and the media team will follow. I hope that helps. That helps. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. So just to give you a little insight into what happens on a weekly basis. Now, you know, in order to prepare the slide presentations, the media team, of course, you know, needs time. So what I do is at the beginning of the month. Okay. So in the beginning of the year, I prepare, you know, just a general idea of all the 52 Sundays. This is what the sermons are going to be. I shared it with our pastors and the media team. So they have an idea that, okay, these are the sermon topics for the year. Of course, we can change it. It's not set in stone, but they have an idea so they can start thinking about their graphics and what they want to do and all of that. Then on a monthly basis. Towards the end of the month. I send them the topics for the sermon topics for the coming months. For example, today, I sent them the sermon topics for the month of what's April. And I made some changes from what I had sent them at the end of last year. I said, okay, three Sundays I'm changing the topics. It's on the same team, but I'm changing this topic title. So there is that freedom to do it. So they will work with that. I sent it to them today for the month of April. They can start preparing the graphics and all of that. Then each week, usually by the Wednesday of the week. So this happened. Yeah, Wednesday of the week. I have to send to our media team. We simply call it as the text, the text for the presentation and the lower third. So I send them the text. So this is what we're going to have in the PowerPoint. So I have to send that by the Wednesday. So the sermon has to be ready or at least the main points. I have to get it ready. And by the Wednesday of the week, I have to send it to the media team. Now, sometimes I slip up, meaning I need a little bit more time. So I might send it on a Friday, Thursday on some really rare occasions. Hopefully I send it on a Friday, but generally I try to send it by Wednesday. This contains the main points of the sermon and the scripture text that need to come up. So what happens, the media team, they prepare the PowerPoint. And they also prepared graphics for the lower third. The lower third goes on the video. And the PowerPoint is used at all our other locations. So that same sermon is going to be preached at all six locations. So only one location is on live stream, but all the other five locations, they have in-house presentations happening. So the PowerPoint is used at all those locations, five locations. And in the central location that goes on live stream, they use the lower third. But the content for that is sent by Wednesday. So the media team will prepare that and they will send it out to the, we refer to them as the media presentation team. That is the team that's responsible for projecting. Usually by Friday, they'll send it out. So they already have everything ready. Then of course I can always prepare my sermon to add the meat to the bones, all that I can do, but it's following that outline which I've already sent to them. So I can add scriptures, I can add anything else to the sermon. And so then when we are delivering the sermon on Sunday, it's like as I explained, we follow the same thing, the sermon that we've prepared. The person doing the projection will follow us as we're going. Now on some rare occasions, I will tell the team no presentation, which I did on the last Sunday of January this year. I told the team, hey, everybody, you guys can have a break. No need PowerPoint today. No presentation during the sermon. I'm just going to preach. So that was one particular Sunday when I intentionally just said, no presentation, I'm just preaching. And it was a simple sermon. It was a sermon on the baptism of the Holy Spirit. So I just told the media team, hey, no need to project anything. Just keep the sermon title throughout because the purpose is just to share about the baptism of Holy Spirit and get and pray for the people in Mass to receive the baptism of Holy Spirit. So that particular Sunday, nobody prepared any PowerPoint, no slides, nothing, because it was just going to be free flow and be planned for that and let it happen. Okay. Any other questions on this whole presentations aspect? Okay. I hope this information is useful and hope I'm not boring you. Just to let you know what actually happens behind the scenes. Okay. All right. Let's go back to where we paused. What was it? Oh, yeah. Okay. So now, sorry, that was the end of, you know, what we do in terms of software presentation. Now I'll just quickly try to talk a little bit about we have, yeah, I think we have enough time. Camera and photography. So again, you know, I'm personally, I'm not an expert in this. I don't, you know, do this myself. There are people who do it. And maybe some of you in the class are great photographers. And so you probably know a lot more. But I put this information together just so that we understand certain things.  Like, what is that camera? And then they will tell me, you know, this camera is better than that camera because of this reason or et cetera, et cetera. Then I had to like understand what they're saying in order to say, like, okay, does it make sense? Do we really need to buy that kind of a camera? All of that, those things, you know. So from that perspective or sometimes when they say, oh, we have a problem, there wasn't enough lighting or this and that, then at least I understand. I can, you know, empathize and understand why things didn't work out. So I'm speaking from that perspective. I'm not myself, you know, a great photographer or something. And you don't need to be. But it's just for you to make those decisions as a pastor leader. Right. So basically, you know, nowadays you can use your smartphone, your basic smartphone to take pretty decent photographs and the settings that are typically recommended. If you can, if you can do this 1920 by 1080 pixels, 30 frames per second. If you want to do a recording with your phone or photographer with your phone, you ensure good lighting. If you're doing a video recording, just make sure there's no background noise. Now, there are a lot of things that go into getting good quality photos when you're using your cameras and some other things that you think about when you're considering buying cameras. You know, how easy to use the weight and the size, the economics, what are you controlling the settings and can you grow the camera? Meaning if you buy a camera, so I ask these people, these questions, okay, you're buying a camera. How many years can we use it for? Because it's very expensive. How many years can you use it for? Can you add lens to it? Because that's a very important part of it, right?  And of course, price is also important. If you know these things, you can ask them, you know, before you make a decision to buy a camera, you look at all of these things and say, hey, how easy is it to use and if you're using it for outdoor or you're taking it for on travel, for events outside your location, is it something that's doable, things like that? So generally, your smartphone cameras are pretty easy to use, you can use anywhere, anytime, but it may not necessarily be the kind of quality you want. It may just not always be there for you to use in further use, like if you want to use them on videos or use them on print graphics and so on. It may not be there. So that's where you then decide to, you know, go one level up to buy cameras. And when you're buying cameras, of course, there are different kinds of cameras.  Again, there are little, maybe sometimes now the smartphone cameras are almost on par with these point and shoot cameras. And but, you know, they bring in some additional benefit. You can have control over certain settings like your shutter speed and aperture and the amount of light you let come in, which of course you can't do with your smartphone camera. And then you have the higher ends coming in, which are mirrorless cameras and your DSLRs. So at the top of the range, you know, on the higher side, you know, it's okay. I want to buy a DSLR camera. I'm going to get good pictures. I can do a lot with that and so on. Or if you don't want to spend as much, slightly less mirrorless cameras. They're much more easy to carry. They're not bulky. They're not, they don't have, you know, they don't need too many accessories and you can take them around with you easily. And they are pretty good in terms of giving you the kinds of images for what you want to use. So mirrorless cameras are more compact or easy to use and so on. And you can think about that. So typically when you're considering buying a good camera for your church or your ministry, it's most likely you have to make a decision between buying a mirrorless camera or a DSLR camera. And again, a couple of factors you take into account, how much you're willing to spend. What is the long-term use? Are you going to be carrying it around a lot? Et cetera. So you think about these factors. Some other things that generally, again, this is not necessarily something you need to remember, but just for you to know that, you know, when you're using it in manual mode, you have full control of over the settings as opposed to just leaving it in auto mode. Your aperture determines how much of light you're going to be letting in into your camera to fall on the sensor. So you can play with the aperture. You can play with the shutter speed. So, you know, if you want to let more light in, you can have a slower shutter speed. More light hits the sensor. Image becomes a little brighter. But if the ambient light is already pretty good, you don't want that much light coming in. So you minimize your shutter speed. You also minimize your aperture. And then also if you're shooting in darker conditions without a flash and you want to, if you have a more sensitive camera, it's going to stand you good in that situation. So if you're going to be shooting in those kinds of conditions, you want a camera with a better ISO for if you're going to be doing it there. But if you're mostly doing it in-house, where you have full control on the light, you don't necessarily have to have higher ISO and sensitivity. So these are small things to keep in mind as you make a decision to buy a camera for your ministry. Other things, of course, this is common knowledge. Higher megapixel means better quality. If you shoot with higher frames per second, you can take action types of shots with your camera if that's of importance. And some of the higher-end cameras, of course, will save images in a raw format as well as a JPEG format. The raw format allows you to further work with those images. You can do a lot more with that. So the DSLR and mirrorless cameras can give you both. So that's a big advantage of investing in that kind of a camera. Let's just talk a little bit about public address system. Let me pause and say, everybody's with me. You're with me so far? OK. OK. All right. Thank you. So we've talked about software. We've talked about cameras a little bit. Now let's talk about sound. So when you are, especially this is true about Sunday services, when you have an auditorium hall, like if you're sitting in a house and with 10, 15 people, you're not worried about, OK, can everybody hear me, et cetera. But when you're in an auditorium, then the whole issue of sound is very important because if you have an auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there and people cannot hear you, you may be preaching the best sermon or your worship team may be doing wonderful worship. But if the sound is not good inside the auditorium, people are going to, they're not going to be happy. They're going to be struggling to hear what you're saying or they're going to be struggling to participate in the worship. So this is where having a little knowledge about sound is important. So that's one thing. The other thing is if the sound is too loud, it can be actually very painful. I remember, this was before the pandemic, of course, I visited a church, this was in the US, I went to a very, very famous church and all that. OK, I said, OK, I'll go there and visiting, let me go in. I went in and I couldn't sit there. The sound was so loud.  It is so painful.  For whatever reason, the sound was turned on so loud that it was very, it was hurting, you know, the years. And yeah, but I was a visitor. So I had no say in any of this. But I'm just giving an example where it was so uncomfortable sitting inside that hall over there. I don't know who was, you know, maybe the people in charge didn't check, you know, what the sound field was inside the auditorium. And so anyway, so you need to be aware of this, that if you are an auditorium, you need to tell your sound people to make sure you have a good sound field spread across the auditorium. So if you look at this graphic, you can see that, you know, the sound just because you have, you know, you've got your speaker set up on your stage and across your auditorium doesn't mean the sound field is going to be uniform everywhere. You can see by the shading of this, the red is okay. It's pretty good. Orange is pretty decent. Yellow and green is pretty like these people sitting here are going to find it difficult to listen, right? In these zones where it's yellow and green. And I will explain the decibel level. So typically, and then, okay, so here's a better sound field, right? And we'll talk about, you know, your audio equipment, of course. So if you have your audio equipment, so you can see that a larger portion of your audience is getting good sound, right? And it kind of vanes, of course, as you go on the edges. So, you know, we may need to address covering these zones with, you know, with speakers and so on, but a good portion of your auditorium is well covered. And if your most of your congregation is going to be sitting in this area, fine, pretty decent. You know, they've got it pretty good, right? So that's very important. And additionally, you need to make sure that the sound levels are at, you know, at something that's comfortable, right? So typically 65 dB, 65 decibels is a good decent sound, right? So you can just look at, you know, if you look at here, when you're about 30 dB, you're down here. It's like a whisper. People are not going to listen to you. They're not going to be able to hear you. If you're at 60 dB, that's decent. They can listen to you. If you get up above 85, it's like the motorcycle. It can be, you know, starting up. It can be pretty loud. Yeah. Oh, okay. Oh, you didn't see my PDF. Sorry. So sorry. The PDF. Oh, I'm sorry about it. Thanks for alerting me. Anyway, you can see it now. Yes. Okay. So this is what I was talking. I thought all of everybody was seeing this. I'm so sorry. Anyway, I'll just quickly recap and we'll pause. I think we're already out of time. So what I was saying is, so, you know, you've got your speaker set up here and, you know, you can see the sound levels, how it's distributed inside the auditorium. It's not always uniform. You have places of red where it's good. Orange is okay. Yellow and green, not good.  So centrally here, it's pretty good. And it vanes off on the side. So these people sitting on the side will not be able to hear much. Right. So you need to adjust it. So that's, you know, you need to work with your sound system to improve that. We'll talk about that later. And I was talking about this sound level here and this graphic. I'll just quickly recap and we'll continue this next week. So what I was saying is when you're at this level, so when you're at 30 dB, it's whisper. Decent level talking audio around 16. Above 85 is like it's going to be a little, it's going to start hurting on the years. Right. So basically, if you can keep the DB level around 65 to maximum, don't push it beyond this. It's a good decent level. But you need to make sure the sound field throughout your auditorium, that means in all, wherever you go, it's uniform and it's at about 65, between 65 to 80 dB, then it's a good level. Right. So if you can measure it in a very simple way, you can download this free sound level meter. If you go, you know, you can download this app or there are a couple of other apps as well. Put on your phone and you just walk around. You tell somebody, hey, just walk around the auditorium, make sure that, you know, everywhere. The DB level is good. So when you've, when you've got your sound system turned up, you tell people to go around and we do this regularly. Like even, I think a couple of Sundays ago, we did a full check once again throughout our auditorium sound levels all good. Everything is perfect. So then we're happy. People will come in and they'll be able to listen. Okay. We'll continue this next Sunday. I'm sorry. I was, I forgot that. I mean, I didn't pay attention. I wasn't sharing the PDF. Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. So Abraham CPAP application. Yes, Abraham. We will send it out maybe in a couple of weeks. We'll, we'll open it up. We'll send an email to all of our college students and invite them to submit applications for their ministries so that we can, you know, support the ministries. We will do that. We will do that. I think in April we'll do it before graduation. Okay. Okay. Any questions so far? All right. Yeah.  But generally you want to keep at a good level so that it doesn't hurt the people's ears, but it should be good enough for them to listen to the message or the worship so that they can participate and check at those points where, you know, your, your, your PA system may not be reaching well. You go and check the sound levels. Make sure it's good. You can tell somebody to do it or multiple people to do it and do it when everybody's in and all the people are inside your auditorium because everybody's in sound is being absorbed. So that's when you will feel the real effect that certain parts in your auditorium are not getting sound. So then you know that you need to work on the PA system. Okay. We'll continue this next week. Any, if there are no questions, we will close. Somebody could please pray and we will dismiss. Can you pray? We are grateful to you once again, Most High Lord, for your grace and your mercy that has pushed us through these moments of our days so that we pray, commit ourselves into your hands so God once more, continue to guide us, continue to lead us, continue to be our teacher and continue to be our counselor. We pray that whatever we have been instructed in this session, we will be able to put into practical practice in our various ministries that will be a blessing to us and to others. We bless you and we commend Pastor Ashes and the entire faculty to you God. We pray that you continue to shower your grace and your blessings upon them. Father, be your guide and be their lead in Jesus mighty name. We pray that you continue to bless the entire department and entire class in Jesus mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. I care what I do. Thank you, Pastor. Have a good afternoon. God bless you. Bye now. God bless.


فشرف بالاشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي are you there run away a brother will come up to you and he will say to your أخي I go to clubs I stand in front of them and I give people دعوة okay you run away for your religion first you protect yourself ها دان قل مفسد هذه أولا مجل بالمصوحة مخطئة المخطئة تأخذ الشرطة لتأخذ أيضا صح؟ and it's happened it's happened I know a brother who used to do that he now is a person who works in that club he works in that same club he used to tell his telephone يتخيل المسلم he works there I know him be careful brothers be careful when he did one of the things I Subhan Allah benefited from was أشيخ عبد كريم الخضير do you know him? yeah عبد كريم الخضير he said he brought a phone you know a smart phone smart phone he said I brought a smart phone okay you know he put the phone out one day and he wanted to check through his phone and get something out and then pop came a picture of a woman the woman was just not wearing a hijab that's it for us that's normal right that's normal these are the people of knowledge so what he did was he threw the phone and then he said I got rid of the smart phone and I bought a dumb phone those little old phones you know that if they hit the floor or the earth or the ground they bounce up do you remember those phones? now he brought those phones and and then I asked him I said sheikh come on isn't that bit extreme I called him I said sheikh it's extreme to let your phone go I mean it's got a lot of benefits in there you can learn a Hadith from there you can learn Sunan you can learn that خير out of it he said to me درؤ المفصدات يولام مجلب المصلحة repelling evil takes presence of bringing any good all that which you mentioned are good but I have to first get rid of the evil does that make sense for Allah so now there are small little phones those are people who run away from what الفرار من الفيطاني مرحباً من ماذا؟ مرحباً و مرحباً تساعدك تساعدك هل تعلم why؟ because this is your رأس المال لماذا أنا رأس المال؟ إذا كنت لديك بيزنس ما هو المال الذي يجب أن تظهر أكثر؟ المال؟ أو كابتول؟ أيضاً لديك بيزنس كابتول مرحباً مرحباً مرحباً أولاً لديك بيزنس كابتول حدثنا عبدالله ابن مسلمة عبدالله ابن مسلمة تلقع نبي في التلاميذة هو من المسلمة المال إمام ماليكي من أناسي رحل رضي الله وهي مواطع رواية رواية رواية القاع نبي ولكن رواية today من مواطع إمام ماليكي هو رواية اليحية من اليحية اللييتي وناسة رواية that إمام عبدالله وكتاب التمهيد وكتاب الاستثقار ما هو the difference between التمهيد والاستثقار they are both an explanation of مواطع إمام ماليكي ما هو the difference between التمهيد والاستثقار التمهيد it talks about generations which are مواطع وقفات نعم أماليكي أبدي رحمن ابن عبدالله أبدي رحمن ابن أبي صعصة أنا بسعيد الخدري أبي سعيد الخدري هو سعيد ابن ماليكي الخزر جيو الأنصاري هو صحابه هو صحابه صحابه في حالة عشر ومن خياره هو صحابه أبي سعيد الخدري من الحفاظ those we memorized a lot and he spread a lot of the knowledge and he taught a lot أنه قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يوشكو أن يكون يقربو it's going to come close يوشكو means يقربو there's going to come a time close نعم أن يكون خير مال المسلم ما معنى أن يكون خير المال المسلم it means that the best of the wealth of a believer the best بخير it means every single thing is going to consist of riba in it every other wealth that you see that the people are going to have in one way or another it consists of riba and it becomes there's actually no one out there who can say to you my money is 100% pure some of the scholars they took that from this hadith do we live that time right now a time where it's rare you can say I've just received 100% so there's going to come a time like that where the believer's wealth the best wealth that he can have the most purest of wealth the one that further is from what do you call it it's going to be what أن يكون خير مال المسلم يتبع بها شعف الجبال مواقئ ومواقئ القطر مواقئ القطر والشخص يتبع بها معلق معلق معلق معلق معلق مواقئ ومواقئ القطر معلق معلق معلق معلق معلق مواقع القطر is where the rain drops and you're trying to make sure that you know how you go to whatever you could what you call it take water from it so you can drink or you make sure that you go there to get the water to plant your garden, your farm نعم The reason why he's doing that is running away from everybody cities and the towns is what is running away from his religion There's going to come a time A person could not stay with the people anymore It becomes so hard for him So he has to go out and just live in the farm yard And stay there And that's why the Prophet SAW told us in another hadith That Imam Al-Bukhari and Rahim Al-Rabro in the hadith of Abu Huraira They're going to come fitan القائد فيها خير من القائم The one that's sitting is better than the one that's standing و القائم مع the one who's standing is better than the one who's walking to it And the one who's walking to it is better than the one that's running to it من تشرر فله تشتشرفو Anyone who presents himself to the fitna And he says yeah I'll take Iran It will take him on فمن وجأ دا منها anyone who can find that day ملجأة أو معادن فليعود بي Anyone who can find a place where he can seek aid and refuge from Then he should do so Run away from these places وقلت لنا أننا قلت لنا كل حرام يوجده وقلت لنا أن بعد محاولة my heart became connected to him وقلت لنا أن الشخص ليست even a Muslim وقلت لنا أن المشاكل now I have is not the fact that I can't see my life without him I can't وقلت لنا أن هناك مشاكل المشاكل هو أنه يقول to me every time when he speaks to me she says to him brother she says to the guy take Islam so we can get married he's like I'm not interested in Islam she's like I'm in a situation where I can't see my life without him I want him to become a Muslim but she says now it's become even a moral problem because what he said to me in response is that why is it that always you want to push down my throat Islam and you want me to become a Muslim why are you forcing me to become a Muslim have I ever told you to become a Christian have I ever told you about my religion I haven't I let you be the way you want I don't care what religion you are I don't care what religion if we do have children together what religion they take I really don't care so your religion must be a problem so she said now I'm thinking about is Islam right brother I'm confused why is it that my religion wants to force him why can't we just be the way we are we're living good why can't Islam be happy with the way I am فيت نتو شهوات تدينتو what فيت نتو شبوات it turned into شبوات now she's doubtful she doesn't know what her religion is like she doesn't believe in it so all I could say to her sister if you had a 20 pound note and somebody wanted to give you a 5 pound note for a 20 pound note would you take it from them I said however much they try to say to you your religion is better than what he believes there's no need for you to go down and accept it from him the reality of this situation my beloved brothers and sisters is that the reality is and the truth of the matter is when you open yourself to fit that however small that you might see it to be when it goes into you when it comes in it will come with a wave Shaytan as Allah سبحانه وتعالى says ولا تتبعوا خوطوات الشيطان do not follow the steps of Shaytan Shaytan doesn't do anything one time he's a gradual he builds his case gradually and he will make himself get there with you gradually and it's happening kids are starting off with with شهوات and it's leading to شبوات والله he'd be very careful it's a very serious situation that's just one case from cases and the brothers sometimes we just get to the point والله he can we even read these email messages can we even read them it makes our day so bad and painful والله he stresses you out and the reason is because as I said today in the khutbah is because prevention is not taken nobody's taking prevention people are coming to you after they've done everything they've done after they're swimming inside the problem our religions about prevention placing everything in the right place don't take one thing out of its place expecting everything to be smooth it won't happen now so brothers run away for your religion protect your religion chapter the statement of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم I know Allah better than all of you do and Imam Bukhari says and knowledge is the act of the heart as it is referred to by the statement of Allah جل جلالة but he will call you to account for that which your hearts have earned صورة البقرة ayah 225 باب قول النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم أنا عالمكم بالله وأن المعرفة تفعيل القلب لقول الله تعالى ولكني يواخذكم بما كسبت قلوبكم الامام البخاري رحمه الله he chapt to the very important issue here right now which is knowing Allah تعالى having knowledge of him is from the greatest things of iman but what we have to really understand is لا يتوقفوا على القول باللسان لا أعتقد أن الامام is only just knowing Allah that's not enough ولي دالكة a group have deviated from this point and what they thought was إيمان all it means is المعرفة knowing Allah that's it if you know Allah you're a believer and this is the belief of that جهمية جهمية they believe that the iman is just to know Allah so for them if you look at إبليس is a believer if you say to become a mu'min you have to just know Allah then that means everybody is a Muslim and everyone is a believer ولي دالكة the scholars they say أخبثوا the most evilest of the مرجئة is the جهمية the belief of that جهمية they're the filthiest in terms of belief so when he's saying here وأن المعرفة تفعل القلب he doesn't mean this is all of iman because he just previously mentioned before that the iman is called عمل okay so don't confuse the two with one another okay and then he brings the ayah لا يؤخدكم الله باللغوي في إيمانكم ولكن يؤخدكم بما عقدتم الإيمان لا يؤخدكم الله باللغوي في إيمانكم ولكن يؤخدكم بما كسمت قلوبكم سريد بما كسمت قلوبكم that which your heart has earned نعم are we carrying on or we can stop for us Allah carry on yeah carry on and narrated by Aisha رضي الله عنها that whenever Allah's messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم ordered the Muslims to do something he used to order them deeds which were easy for them to do according to their strength and their endurance they said oh Allah's messenger we are not like you الله جل جلالة has forgiven your past and your future sins so Allah's messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم became angry and it was apparent on his face he said I fear Allah أزا وجل more and I know Allah سبحانه وتعالى better than all of you do حدثنا محمد بن السلام yeah محمد بن السلام some scholars they say محمد بن السلام they bitashteed some do it with takhif and the majority of them do it with takhif they say it with salam yeah قال أخبرنا عبدة عبدة his name is ابن السليمان عبدة ابن السليمان الكوفيو تقا عن هشام هشام هي ابن عروة ابن الزبير رضي الله تعالى عنه he's the son of عروة ابن الزبير عروة الزبير من عوام عروة is not a Sahabi but his brother is عبد الله ابن الزبير عن أبي عن عشة عن أبي who's his father عروة ابن الزبير and who is عشة to عروة ابن الزبير he's maternal auntie what was عروة ابن الزبير's mom اسماء اسماء بنت أبي بكر so he could just enter on to her without her wearing hijab so he used to get so much a hadith from her it was good for him that's his auntie he goes and sits with her she just tells him narrations after narrations after narrations and عروة ابن الزبير is from this from the seven jurists of Medina he's from that seven of Medina now أن عايشة رضي الله تعالى عنها قالت كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا أمرهم أمرهم من الأعمال بما يتيقون this hadith means that the prophet ﷺ was one if he commanded the companions to do something he would make them do what they were able to do he wouldn't make them do over their ability and now this is a point that we need to observe which is I always mention this and I'm always going to mention it because I feel like every gathering is different from the previous gathering that I had and I also believe that the reminder benefits the believers and that is Islam observes the essence of the people there's always a strong relationship between الخلق و الشر there's always a strong bond between the creation and your essence and the shari'a so don't ever think to yourself and don't let shaitan convince you that Islam is not applicable for you at a time or a place no, it is the most are you with me look at the prophet observing his rulings are observing the people's essence but in that case that's what Allah says يريد الله أن يطوب عليكم و يريدوا الذين تبيعون الشهوات أنتميروا ميلة العظيمة يريد الله أن يخفف عنكم و خلق الإنسان و ضعيفة رسول الله يقول لا يكلف الله و نفسا إلا وسأها ما نهيتكم عنه فجتنبوه و ما أمرتكم به فأتوا منه ما استطعتهم صح so the shari'a observes and looks at the reliability صح و لذلك فمد قواعد المقررة عند الأصولين ازوات المشاقة المشاقة المشاقة تجربت تيسير she's taken from what إنما على العصري يصرأ which is that the shari'a is most befitting for you are you with me so never think to yourself that the shari'a is on another wave and you as an individual are on another wave like الله when he was legislating he had no wisdom is that what you're trying to imply الله says in the Quran ألا يعلموا ألا يعلموا does he not know من خلق the one who created does he not know the one who created what's good for his creation does he not know that are you there of course he knows it الله knows what's good for you sisters and what brings you your rights feminism's not going to bring it for you feminism's not going to bring anything الله knows it better take it from Allah and brothers rapsters and artists and musicians and football players and whatever you guys are into they ain't going to bring you what your body needs and your mind needs are you there wallahi brothers you guys can you saw it I'm going to say his name because we don't know it I forgot his name one of these he's a comedian and he killed himself he was a white comedian Robin Williams he killed himself the mountain was rich he had money he didn't just have a house but he had houses he was a comedian he had fame he had money and fame money and fame he killed himself because ومن يعش عن ذكر الرحمن نقيض له شيطانا فهو له قرين ومن أعرض عن ذكر فإن له نعيشة ضنكا ونحشره يوم القيامة الله says من عمل صالح من ذكر أو أنت وهو مؤمن فلنحينه حياتا طيبة ولا نجزينهم أجرهم بيحسن ما كانوا يعملون isn't that the case you live a good life إخواني does that make sense a believer stressed has gone through hardship for joy comes from the religion you know why this cup was made for a reason if I use it for other than what it was made for this cup cannot handle it and he won't be able to handle it the same is my heart it's the same إِنَّ لِلَّهِ آنِيَهَ الله has vessels isn't this the utensil a place you put water in الله made the heart the prophet said this in the Hadith of Imam al-Tabarani narrated in his Muslim Dishaniyain that إِنَّ لِلَّهِ آنِيَهَ الله has cups and vessels where he places things in وَأَنِيَةُ اللَّهِ أنَّ اللَّهِ his vessels are what قَلْمُ كُلِّ عَبْدِلْ صَالِحِ in the heart of every righteous slave الله pulls every chain in there for you now when I put the water in here the cup doesn't become stained it's made for this placing it in there when I finish from it you won't tell no stains it looks good صح because that's what it was made for if I put a toxic acid in there it will rip the cup the cup will rip from the bottom and it won't work that's what we're doing we're putting toxics in our hearts listening to music giving our ears to people of innovation who are causing our hearts to become problematic الله brothers the prophet says كلَّ من every time a slave commits a sin what happens نقلت في قلبه نقطة and so that a black dot is placed on his heart فَإِنْتَابَ وَأَنَابَ سُقِلَ قَلْبُ every time he repents the heart is cleaned again and if he doesn't I made more more more take a paper place so many dots on it what happened كلا بل ران على قلوبهم ما كانوا يكسبون ولذلك حديثة حضيفة تبني اليمن what does it tell us تعرض الفتن the fitna is thrown at the heart عودا عودا thrown at it then the prophet the hadith tells us what كل قلب وشربها any heart that accepts it the prophet told us this is what's going to become watch this cup upside down now try to pour water in it would it pour water in it can I should we put it to the test هده لا يعرف بعروفا ولا يمكنه منكره he will not realize the good you come into his aqi this is good it's like I can't see it ولا يمكنه منكره he can't reject the evil that's clear that everyone can see it but it's the heart إنها لا تعمل أبصار it's not the eyes that become blind brothers الله said that إنها لا تعمل أبصار ولكن تعمل قلوب اللتي في السدور it's the heart that becomes blind are you with me brothers protect your hearts وليلالك لخوت الله تبارك وتعالى the first thing I just said to you the cup is a utensil right الله places things in there what was the first thing that was placed in the prophet's heart لا تحرك به لسانك لتعجل به إن علينا جمعه وقرآنا محمد don't read the Quran with us where gonna place the Quran directly in your heart poor in your heart وإنه لا تنزير رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على تلبك يتكون من المؤمنين بل هو آيات بينات فيه شدور الذين أوتوا لنا is it rocket science look at all of that ألم ترأين الله says ألم ترأين للذين لا ألم يأني للذين آمنوا أن تخشع قلوبهم لذكر الله لذكر الله وما نزل من الحق ولا يكون كالذين قبل فطال عليهم الأمد فقصت قلوبهم كثيرا منهم فأسقون what happened here فطال عليهم الأمد the time became long became distance from the Quran and they remember فقصت قلوبهم their heart became tainted the heart became tainted so the heart needs cleaning brothers before I put something in this cup what do I have to do if I want to drink Fanta after I drink Coca-Cola but there's Fanta Coca-Cola in there first we'll drink what's in there and then you can get more right you can get the other flavor that you're looking for if our heart are filled up with sins we need to pour that out first then insha'Allah تعالى and knowledge and every khair there is that can enter at the heart واللهي brothers insha'Allah we'll stop now and after the salah we will carry on