All right, Sabra traders welcome on back here this Tuesday post traders talk edition, pre onsite edition. How about that of our afternoon meeting? Great to see Chuck and Wendy still here with us this afternoon. Long side I'm sure a lot of us though actually if you're not in on the SLNO perhaps you were just kind of more of an observer on the sidelines but it has been a phenomenal trade altogether here thus far alongside a few other trades. It's been a really great day really from beginning from pre market up until this very moment. So great to see John, Leda, Chuck have a couple members chatting me on the side from just before Alex, Charles, Thomas just now. It's great to see all of us here and of course all of us back on social media, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Hey, I love days like today. You know, it goes to show at least that even with the market dropping and I mean dropping really tanking from the gap down we had this morning up until right now new low of the day. Spy looks to be on the way down towards 425 but you know, hey, that goes to show that we could still make money on the way up even in a down market. So I'm a little for clumped right now. Pardon me with that. We got our onsite course coming up tomorrow and Thursday. I flew back from New York that or flew back to New York from Florida and actually in my parents house right now. So, you know, obviously visiting some families and friends later on but I'm on a laptop actually. So I'm only on one screen. I'm working remotely on this computer here that you could see this is my main computer in Florida actually I have Google remote desktop. So I'm on one screen actually but tapped into two computers. So let's see if I can get this right dude in one shot here. Let's go right from top to bottom. What we'll do is really just go right from top to bottom and build up our watch list here. You know, hey, needless to be said SLNO to begin. We're going to put this back on our watch list for right now. You would think that at a psychological level like $30 much like you could have said the same 20 perhaps that that would be a major level of resistance for this to top off that and that's it. Well, you know, just before there was an iceberg of 30. So, you know, I called that out just before one of our members Thomas was asking about that just like why 30 and I answered him in private chat just on the side went over it with him a small bit but actually before let's see if it's still there. Let's see if it's still there again. I'm doing this just kind of on a different setup here today. So pardon me if it's a little sloppy but otherwise I sought $45 this was from a little earlier today. Maybe even $46. There is like a decent sized order out there here on this SLNO. Let's see if I can go back here a bit. It's not sticking out as much right now. It popped up only for a moment then the order got pulled. So, it led me to think like in the rare complete rare event where this just keeps chugging on along across the afternoon breaks over 30 perhaps even. It would be pretty crazy if it ended up moving all the way up to $46. So, I wrote that in the chat board. Don't hold your breath. You know, holding a breath is dangerous for one's health but otherwise though what's not dangerous is setting a stop and being hopeful. So, if this ends up continuing to push on up. Hey, that would be crazy. I ended up getting out on half the last trade I just took. I was writing Chuck earlier in the chat board. I wanted $25.50 as a pullback level. Didn't get it. Just moved right on up higher. So, I moved my support up higher and it's $26.75 and right there as it pulled back there prior to $215 it led to a nice entry. It ended up bottoming out pretty much right there and now is like a big moment of truth. Do we get a lower high or a higher low? Lower high, higher low. Right now it's kind of in the middle of both. So, hey, during this meeting this thing might tank for my sake. I hope it doesn't. I got a stop set at least but you know, I have this on the side on book map. So, if this ends up actually going the other way completely popping back on up. I'll come back to it during this meeting. I'll come back to it during this meeting but hey, I'd said just before this. That's not the only stock that we did well on from earlier today. The Femi trade and it looks like it's still pretty active here. Looks rather choppy but more from pre-market. This thing made a great move early on from a dollar up to a dollar thirty. Ended up actually from that point getting really crazy. So, you know, once this pulled back and tanked, I completely wrote this off. I was not expecting this to make another move back up. Well, not only did it make one bounce. It made not just two bounces. It made like three real bounces on the morning where you could have gotten about like fifteen, twenty cents a pop and we're talking for a dollar stock. That's pretty crazy. That's a nice return. So, to have that actually three, four times across the morning, even just there as it's now moving back on up a little bit here. Normally a stock this low flow trading this, you know, much volume where it normally doesn't. It's going to just tank, right? We know that with the CCG trade from last week. We know that from Arnaz this week. We're going to get familiar with that on SLNO, I bet you. That's for sure. If it's not going to break over thirty soon enough. Do I put this on our main list here for the afternoon? It's trading a hell of a lot of shares a minute. About seventy, seventy-five thousand shares a minute this thing is. For right now, he'll make the cut. Hopefully more ice even catch on to this trade and not in the downward direction. Just hopefully another higher low building here, another pop. But again, that's kind of being hopeful at this point. There's not as much confidence. You know, just kind of the activity on it, which allows me to say, all right, we'll give it a stab at it so far. What we're not going to give a stab at here is this DMK and move on from that and move on from IMVT. Nice mover from this morning. Actually, join us tomorrow at our on set course. If not in person then over the webcast, you know, the webcast version as well on top of being there in person. I'll go over that IMVT, IMVT trade. That was a huge runner from earlier today as it was if like there was no ending to that trade, but it ended up topping off like little around forty, forty one dollars. You know, it looks like the run is done though for the meantime here. Buy out. Let me keep it moving. Bullfrog, B-A-B-F-R-G, right? Ended up having a nice little pop earlier, but man, we did really well on this stock earlier in the year with the other A.I. trades. It didn't really move nearly as well as it did back then. So, you know, once you got that feel, once you got to him there a little bit, which was pretty early on, you know, made a nice bounce that bullfrog, but I wasn't taking part in it. If you made money on it, it worked out in your favor, hopefully.  I'll tell you on a day like today, even with the market down, I mean, you do have some ETFs littered in here just kind of in between like the UVX. While I will get to SQQQ with the market down, H-U-Y-A up a little bit here. Cosmo, Cosmo back up again. Kind of just a slow stagnant move up though. I mean, we've seen that do a lot better. All right, what else we got here? What else we got here? ARDX. Here's the VIX ETF, LABU. So, here's all of our ETFs here. This thing's not doing anything right now. UVXY is doing a lot of something. All right, so UVXY definitely put back on our watch list as the spies obviously at the low of the day. We said that just before, but, you know, that's a better correlation right there. You know, UVXY inverse to the market, same with SQQQ. This is more expensive and moving slower even. So honestly, I mean, hey, this is tradable. If you prefer SQQQ and you trade that, then stick with it. I'm not going to tell you to change habit there, but, you know, UVXY is more bang for your buck, I think.  It's as tradable, let's say. All right, so I think maybe like one or two more others here if I may. I think the Rivian trade, I was saying earlier is just pretty choppy though for like mid-afternoon where you normally expect shop. Well, this was pretty flat around the 2230. Dropped down towards the VWOT price even a bit, but there's still a chance to see Rivian try and go higher. It's up over five percent.  That would actually go a long way for a trade like Rivian, which is kind of somewhat near the highs still as little ways to go, but I'll come back to this if I need to, the Rivian. I'll come back to this at the end. All right, so I bet you will find a lot more on the loser side. Let's see what we got here. Well, hey, we talked about one of them just before Arnaz. We cannot stress this enough folks. This is like day one, sentence number one in our classes and in Fausto's free webinars. You know, even if you're not a student, you keep taking Fausto's free stuff, it's like the first thing he says. Like you can't turn a day trade into an overnighter. And granted, we do say this here in this trading room of ours, 95% of what we call out Fausto myself is a day trade call out. And we'll tell you for swing trading something, I'm looking for a swing trade on AMD once we get a solid bounce within the market. Once Bitcoin eventually crashes down towards 23,000, I'm looking for a swing trade on Coinbase and Mara. There's something like this Arnaz that was up like 300% plus yesterday. You know, it should be common sense and I know 99.9999% of us don't hold on to a stock like this overnight, but we care about 100% of us, not 99.9999. So we want to reiterate that statement over and over to make sure no one gets stuck holding a bag like this overnight. As soon as the market closed up, this thing got clobbered and then some into the morning here today. So, you know, again, same thing is going to happen on IMVT. Same thing is going to happen on SLNO, Femi, you know, all of those. Was it the other one, DVT, whatever, DMT, DMK it is, whatever. I'm on a tiny screen here also. So, I got a squint here right now as I'm going through this meeting, reading all these stocks on this tiny font here that I got. For you, it might not be tiny actually. For me, it is. All right. So, what I'll tell you is a good short for right now as we continue to go along the UNFI. I called this out earlier, just a little late to the party perhaps, but there's still room here. Dropped off a little after I'd called it out. So, you know, perhaps even more to come. Order a book, just be careful of it. Does have a spread at times here and there. Just definitely thin volume, thin tier size as well. So, you know, just nice drop off, right? For as much down as it is, it's easy to borrow. I did think that there could have been more room on the way down here as well, heading into the afternoon. So, good to see it back at the lows here. Oh, also don't want to get about MLGO. MLGO, we ended up doing really, really well on back from the end of last week. But again, goes to show that's like, you know, a stock up 200, 300% you cannot expect any more than like a day's worth of a pop and then from there just for it to completely fall off. This ended up breaking way lower than it even started its run from. All right. So, definitely folks, I'll need your help here. Let me know if there's anything else looking good here on the way down as a short actually as well as on the way up, but just with the way the markets are moving, just if there's any good shorts that you got here for me, not cargo or Chino, I'm talking stocks, shorts. Let me, let me know. Yeah, dish here down over 7%. Looks pretty damn good actually. So, this I could easily put on our watchlist right now. This is, is this at all time lows? 601 is that the low there about from June? Yeah, that looks like an all time low to me. That looks like an all time low to me. All right. So, there is no historical support on this trade. It looks a little slow, but I mean that's like the icing on the cake there. The fact that there's no real bottom on this outside of like the order book, you know, looking at what's out there on level three and level four, there's definitely some orders out there some volume. It's not like a low float stock. Obviously everyone knows dish. So, you know, with everyone going on a streaming lately, it's not a surprise that they're getting crushed and they have been for a long time. But yeah, I mean, even with the big orders that you see here, this could still be a fairly steady short going into the close or maybe, maybe even a pretty fast short heading into the final 30 minutes. All right. So, you know, folks, let me know just check or I'm going to check in with the chat board right now that I'll go to YouTube, Facebook Live, all of our streams right there. If you wanted to join Ron and John Rod and Wendy and Chuck and all of us here myself inside our live trading room, scan that QR code on the top left if you're joining us on YouTube or any of our streams. Ron saying SLNO crazy spreads could not agree anymore there. That's a level 5 stock through and through. I think even when Fausto was saying it's like went from 3 to a 4, I was like eh, you know, that's a 5, you know, in pre-market even where you can't even set a damn stop. That's like on a crazy spread and even got larger as it ran up here today, goes to show I even just got stopped out on the remaining part of my position there. So, you know, if it's not going to break any higher, there's only one other way this thing is going to go, especially with it up 5. All right, I got a squint here a little bit. Is that 516%? I didn't even realize that was a 5. I thought that was a 3. It was a 3 maybe a couple hours ago. Holy smokes. This thing's up over 500% today and it was up even more before. So yeah, big trees fall hard. Remember that. That's our lesson for this past week. I mean, every day pretty much here with us. Join us live, but this whole week past week Arnaz, MLGO, CCG, perhaps this coming up swing trading is risky in the spare market. It is. I mean, especially with the gaps, right?  All right. Well, if my support level got broken, then if anything on the way back up, you got to get out because support should become resistance. So unfortunately, that is a psychological issue that I see a lot of traders go through where it's tougher for them to get out as the stock is moving up. Like, yeah, you're maybe, you know, going break even or you're maybe just down a tiny amount now. But you all want more. You all want more. And no, that's the tough part because oftentimes we don't get more afterwards because we were down to begin with if the markets gapped on us overnight and, you know, from there, it leads to a sharper drop. You're left hoping again. And it's like, that's what happened today on a few different trades. Like my AMD, you know, gap down overnight, closed so strong yesterday. Well, support became resistance. It was the closing bell print from yesterday on AMD that became resistance this morning and look at where it is now. So, you know, if anything, that's like the worst case scenario because you're working with otherwise, I mean, hey, if you jump into a trade and you get stopped out, easy for me to say maybe after doing this for nine plus years, but you know, the more that you're with us, it's easier to accept defeat and just say, alright, they can get that trade today. Maybe I'll check in with it later or help. Maybe I'll check in with it tomorrow. We all know September is a very poor month historically in terms of performance. So whether it be the end of this month or straight up at the very beginning of October next week, perhaps there could be a lot more to come on the way up here. My prediction was that we would see that bounce sooner than later or at least heading into the end of this week. So I was not expecting as much of a drop today. Hopefully we have a nice bounce into the close today and then some more tomorrow. But SLNO definitely beginning to drop off right now, breaking a lower low as we speak. So I may even scrap that from our list now at this point as much as we wanted to, you know, long that actually really good question coming in from Vincent on Facebook. Vincent asking about the SLNO. Would you short it? Well, actually, I brought that up earlier inside our live trading room. I'm going to give you the straight answer, Vincent, but join us inside our live trading room. Scan that QR code on the top left. Get the full access and story behind this. But SLNO, I was saying earlier we had a historical level before it got to 30, before 30, I would say we had a historical level like at like 26 and change. So when it got to 26 and change, it was like kind of like right there. We'll say it was like right where my cursor is. I'd said, okay, it's hard to borrow and I don't think it was even optionable. I didn't check the options on this. I checked for the IMVT. That's right. So I didn't check the options on this, but I was saying it's hard to borrow and if it was just more liquid, like if there was any more orders out there all in the book to show any semblance of big money, then I'd give it a I'd give it a whirl. I'd give it a go. But that's obviously make believe land when it's not possible to do that. So, you know, I mentioned that just at the time, but it goes to show that it moved up higher after and that's where I would have gotten stopped out.  So the CCG before it dumped back down here topped off at where 118 bucks. So just it's to say that's not something we always hunt for because it's extremely risky, like too risky. There's a time and a place and if this was more liquid, it would have been like maybe possible, but and even here now, like again, same to be said, like if it was more liquid, if it was on a better spread and actually easy to borrow, I mean, 30 is a psychological level. So, you know, that would be pretty strong to focus on, right? Chuck saying BRFG pop. All right. That's one actually we said we'd get back to at the tail end of this meeting. Yeah. I mean, another little move up right there. I'm not fully sold. It's up over 27% and it's at the VWAP right now. So that's not, you know, those aren't bad signs, but for right now, I think I'll pass here. Link check Benzinga pro before we wrap up and then I think that we'll just about called a day here folks. Join us again tomorrow on our webcast or in person if you're local, but more so at this point, given it's just less than 24 hours away. You know, if you haven't signed up for a webcast yet, version of our onsite course in person, just make sure that you talk to your education advisor inside our office. They'll be able to get you signed up and get you connected with all the access come tomorrow morning. Oh, and each year. All right. So and Benzinga is giving me this. I think that's pretty much the signal folks just lastly from the loser side. I want to just check in. Not looking too bad as a short XP EV. Neo is not going much of anywhere. The lead trade and not really doing much either. Just going to kind of skim through at this point. Just go through any other sideless stocks that we've kind of called out in the past or traded of late. All kind of making the same direction here for the most part with the market, but I wanted to see if there's anything really tank and really dropping off pretty nicely. Getting back to Rivian in the event where the markets hold up and bounce into the close like a tiny bounce. Then, you know, that can go a long way for a stock like Rivian here. So I will add Rivian to our main list here at the end. This point one up. All right. So folks, we're going to call it. I'm going to jump off the mic right now. Rich will be on in about 10 or so minutes inside our live trading room. So stay tuned for that. Best of luck trading trading going into the market close. If you're joining us local tomorrow. Hey, get ready, folks.  I'm going to be there probably at like 730 in the morning. Prep up. Just be good to go myself. Make sure all of us on the webcast are good to go by 8 o'clock Eastern time. Again, if you're joining us on a webcast version, I'll look to have everything set up by 8 o'clock Eastern time pre-market. It's very quiet at that point. So nothing special really happening just yet. But if you wanted to get in on the chat, join us early there. We'll begin that by 8 o'clock. All right, folks. But hey, best of luck trading going this afternoon and catch up with everybody soon. Take care.


What's everyone take down here back with another series on my channel as you guys know I am Canadian my best friend lives in the United States He lives down in Alabama So he actually came up with this video idea and I decided I'm going to turn it into a video series on my channel It's going to be a four-part series for now And then I'll see how it is and I might expand it in the future This video series is basically going to see if a Canadian and an American can pass the Canadian citizenship tests and The American citizenship tests the tests that we are going to be taking for this series are the official practice tests And they're going to consist of 20 multiple choice questions So I'm going to be doing the first part of the series today And it is going to see if a Canadian can pass the Canadian citizenship tests. Let's get right into this Okay, so I have the first question here. It's actually timed. I got 30 minutes to do it But I'm assuming it will not take me 30 minutes to do this. So Question one. What are three main groups of aboriginal peoples? So a little backstory. I am actually fifth generation METI So let's look at the multiple choice questions first nations, which I know is one METI which I just said that I am fifth generation and Inuit which is a huge part of the northern Canada So without even having to look at all the other ones here I'm going to say it is the first option first nations METI and Inuit Next question who was John Bouchain a popular governor general of Canada Possibly might be that one a famous Canadian general. I'm gonna say no Canadian army general I'm gonna say no first fathers of confederation. His name doesn't ring a bell. So I'm gonna use The first one, which is a popular governor general of Canada. That sounds right to me at least When did the House of Commons recognize that the Quebec law form a nation within United Canada? so the Quebec law is a political group and I think they are the last one that forms. So I'm gonna say 1972 is out 1986 is out 2001 or 2006 I'm gonna just a 50-50 chance I'm gonna say 2006 because they are the least popular group whenever it comes to the elections And I'm just gonna say it's mostly Quebec and French Canadians that vote for them in my opinion So I'm gonna say 2006 Just got feeling there. Who is Marge-ois Turner Bailey might have mispronounced her first name The options are an Olympian and a descendant of black loyalists a famous Canadian settler I'm gonna say no the first woman to become Prime Minister No, and the first Canadian female athlete. I'm gonna say no for the last three. It is whole. I think it is an Olympian Next question when did English settlement begin in Canada 1510 19 Sorry 14 97 16 10 or 17 20 Candidate formed in 1867 I'm gonna say 17 20 is out 10 rings the bell so it's either 15 10 or 16 10 I'm just gonna guess 16 10 because that sounds about right, but it's likely 15 10 you watch me be wrong We'll find out at the end Who established the first European settlements? the British are who I Believe came first they spoke English, and that's why Canada is an English-speaking nation Irish and Spanish are out French or English Given the reason I just said I'm going to say First European settlements, I'm going to say English I might be wrong on that Who passed the Quebec Act in? 1774 like I said 1867 is when Canada became an official country I believe the Canadian Parliament is out the Quebec Parliament is out French majority, I'm gonna say is out because the British are who came over first. I believe I'm gonna say the British Parliament Which act? Granted to the I'm gonna say that's supposed to be Canadians for the first time Legislative Legislative assemblies elected by the people the Freedom Acts Constitution Acts Legislative Acts Confederation I'm just gonna guess confederation because I just don't know the answer Who was Lieutenant Colonel? John Graves Simcoe Upper Canada's first Lieutenant governor and founder of the City of Toronto Lower Canada is not Toronto lower Canada is not Ottawa leader of the Loyalists I'm gonna say the first one upper Canada first Lieutenant When did the British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the Empire? I'm gonna say 1793 is out 1807 is out and I'm gonna say it's down to 1833 and 1853 Because I believe it happened right before Canada became officially a country which is 1867, so I'm just gonna guess 1853 Name three followers of confederation. I sadly only know one which is the first Prime Minister, which is John A. McDonald's and Since he is one I'm gonna say the first one even though. I don't know the other two and I don't know any of the other ones I know certain Johnny McDonald was a Father of confederation, so I'm assuming that's right which phrase embodied the vision of the Dominion of Canada I'm gonna say oh Canada my home in native land because I'm not sure Exactly whose portrait is on the Canadian $10 bill This is a Canadian $10 bill and that is Sir John A. McDonald I knew that one that one is easy What made it possible for immigrants to settle in Western Canada? The completion of Port of Vancouver and no the completion of the Canadian National Railway. I don't think that's what it's called The given giving free land settlers. No Canadian Pacific Railway. That's what it's called When were the Canadian and Quebec pension plans devised I want to say it was after World War two, so 1927 is out 1940 is out 1967 and 1970 that's two years difference. Sorry five years difference I'm trying to think of what jobs would be pensions back then government jobs military jobs I'm just gonna say 1967 watch it be 1970, but I'm gonna say 1967 because that sounds right to me What is love France C-phone? I don't speak French. Sorry a Region Quebec. No a French music instrument. No a French music festival. No an International association of French-speaking countries because that is more descriptive. I'm gonna say it's that one Why is Terry Fox a Canadian hero this one is easy for me. He inspired people to contribute money for Canadian research Possibly, but I believe I feel that he did more than just that He became the first elected president of Canada. No, he was a great hockey player. No he United Canada in the 19th century. I'm gonna say it is the first one even though. I feel that he did more than just that That is the most correct one in my opinion What are the responsibilities of the federal government? So in Canada? federal government federal government looks over all of Canada Provincial is individual provinces and municipality is Individual townships and cities. So federal would be all of Canada. What are their responsibilities? national and international concern national concern international concern or provincial concern has to be the first one in my opinion That makes the most logic sense Who has the right to vote in the federal election a Canadian citizen at least 18 years old on voting day and on the Voters list I Think it's that one there a Canadian citizen that is there a Canadian citizen on the voters list That is included in the first one and an adults primary resident though. I think you have to be primary resident but I think that just Changed I'm gonna say the first one Where do the majority of people live in Canada? rural areas in small towns and cities or Along the east coast east coast is east coast is out small towns. There's a lot in Canada But I'm gonna say that's a rural areas is out I'm gonna say cities because our cities are like everywhere highly populated. So this is the test This is all 20 questions. Let's find out the results here and see What I got I Actually passed I got 80 percent. I got 16 out of the 20 corrects. Which ones did I get wrong here? Who a question number six who established the first European settlements? It was in fact the French I chose the English that was incorrect Question number eight which acts granted Canada's for the first time I chose the Confederation It was the Constitutional Act. So I was incorrect When did British Parliament abolish slavery throughout the Empire? That was the 10th question It was Sorry, it was 1833. I chose 1853. So I was close. It was I narrowed it down to the two But I was incorrect on that one Which phrase embodied the vision of the Dominion in Canada? That was question number 12 I chose old Canada my home in native land It was Dominion from the sea to sea and from river to the ends of the earth Which I would never even guessed that one. Okay, so there we go a Canadian can pass the Canadian Citizenship test I passed with an 80% but you just need to get 75% or more to pass this test I passed with 16 out of 20 of the questions correct I did better than I thought it in expect to do that good But I am extremely happy that I was able to pass the Canadian citizenship test But we will find out if an American can pass the Canadian citizenship test in the future because my friend Jack Is going to be taking this test. So in the next episode of this series We're gonna see if an American can pass the American citizenship test because my friend Jack is going to be taking that test in that episode So hope you guys are excited for that that episode will be out next month. I am gonna leave this video here Hope you guys did enjoy. I'll see you guys in the next episode. Please take care. Peace


We have our third speaker this morning, her name is Lois-Chan-Petli. The topic is Breaking Language Barriers with Multilingual Sites. Please welcome Lois-Chan-Petli. Thank you so much, everyone. Thanks for the introduction, Tiffany. I want to acknowledge that we are together again on the unceded ancestral territory of the Khomeu and Slavotas Nation. And whenever I talk with elders, they stress to me how important language is to their cultures, to the culture of the First Peoples, and really how important language is to any culture. So I'm really quite honored to be talking about language at this event today. My name is Lois-Chan-Petli. I'm a web dev with about 20 years of experience. I work a lot with WordPress Nation Builder. I also work with other platforms like Shopify and stuff. I graduated from UBC ages ago. It's not mega relevant here, but if you're from UBC, hello. I've worked for the federal government where I built multilingual sites for several years. And as an IT consultant now, I get asked to do a lot of multilingual sites lately. So I thought I'd be sharing some of that information here. You can find me at frontmatter.ca or at fishtron on the socials, which I may or may not check, but there it is. So the question you might have is maybe why. I went to Japan in June with my family. We collectively spoke very, very little Japanese, but we could get around just fine. Nearly everyone there could speak a little bit or very fluently in English. All the signage was in English and Chinese and Korean. We did dual-lingual for months, but we didn't really need to maybe. So why go multilingual? Why invest in that when so many people can read and write in English? Why don't people just click the little Google translate button and choose from like a hundred languages that they so please and why bother going into it? So it's important to get to the why because the why can drive your how and the how much. And here are three big reasons why. The first one is called Can't Read Won't Buy. It is also the name, I mean that sums it up pretty well, but this is also the name of a market research series by CSA Research. They've been around since 2006 and have been refining their data and updating their data over the last 15 years. They delve into the research habits of consumers and businesses alike, business B2B, business to business as well as B2C, business to consumers. The last white paper is from June 2020 and here are some numbers that surprise even me. The first one is 40% of people will not buy in other languages. And if they're not proficient in English or that language, they're six times less likely to buy. So that means you're missing out on a large sector of people if they don't feel comfortable in that language that you're providing. Second number, 65% of people prefer content in their own language even if it is poor quality. 73% people want product reviews in their language if nothing else. And these numbers are pretty clear that having content in people's native language is pretty key to engagement and purchasing. And given these numbers, it almost doesn't make sense to not translate your content to meet your client's needs. I know for a fact that between my parents, my mom does all of the online shopping because her English is better. My dad will read product reviews and give my mom the download just because he gets a kick out of reading product reviews in Chinese. But if you can build a website that opens up his purchasing power or connect to him on some gut level in his native language, Chinese and Cantonese, more power to you. And reason number two is this crazy chart. This chart shows the top 10 languages used on the web. These numbers are from W3Tech. You can see English wildly dominates content on the internet. How many people can read or write? Oh, yes, for sure. I don't know if there's mechanisms to do that through the conference, but I can also tweet it out after the conference as well, for sure. I was wondering how many people can read or write or speak another language besides English in this room? Yeah, most of us. And how many can do that as their first language, as their native language? Yeah, a fair number of people. So that's wild because the W3Tech numbers shows that. And if you delve into it, that's predominantly American English content as well that dominates the internet. And this chart, what that shows is that there's an opportunity for search engine optimization. So even with basic SEO hygiene, you can get ranked pretty well on search engines. And if you think about most purchases starting with a search, that could be a game changer for your business and make a big difference for you. There's a bit of debate about the data and the methodology. Some people say their technique overestimates English, which I think does. Chinese doesn't even make it on this list. It's number 13. And that's bonkers. So here's another take from a different group of researchers called the Observatory. They're from France. But even here, you can see a pretty big gap between the two top Western languages, English and Spanish. And, of course, Chinese macro and then Hindi and so on. There's still a pretty big gap. These numbers may be more reflective of the multilingual nature of websites themselves, even like a predominantly English website may still have components that are in different languages. And these numbers will be good to keep in mind for developing your strategy of where you want to translate and how much you want to translate. This is something to keep in mind. Reason number three is that Google and users in general don't like it if you just copy and paste in your content everywhere because that's not valuable. That's not useful. But it's different if you write it in a different language. So, essentially, you can have your same content but translate it and you don't get penalized for duplicating content. And there's also other benefits, if you're multilingual, to writing out your ideas in different languages from a neuroscience perspective. There's lots of benefits for that, but that's out of the scope of this talk. So, that's fun. To recap, number one, the first reason is customers are more likely to purchase or engage if you're connecting with their native language. Even if the translation is a bit spotty. Number two, there are fewer sites created in non-English languages, so there's less competition and organic search results. And number three, in Google's eyes, translated content is not the same as duplicated content, so you can put it out there. Great. So, how are we going to do it?  Manual or human translations have the advantage of being more accurate. We've all used Google Translate and found some pretty wonky translations of things. So, with a human translator, that's less likely to happen and you can often reduce the cost of proofreading or eliminate it entirely. You can get more nuanced or accurate translations where something sounds natural to a native speaker. And this might be very important for you if you're presenting content for a cause where you want to connect with someone on a deep and emotional level. However, one drawback is they can often take a while. You can only go as fast as your translator or your team of translators if you're going multilingual with multiple languages at the same time. I've heard of a horror story of trying to manage a team of nine translators on nine different languages and having a late game translation that all of a sudden, oh no, you have to track down everyone for one sentence and that can be a challenge. It can be also costly. So we were looking at an average of 10 to 20 cents per word and often human translators have a contract minimum. So you want to get organized and bundle up all your translations and send them up rather than doing them on a piecemeal kind of basis. In contrast, we have machine translations and I'm using the word machine and automatic translations interchangeably even though they're technically slightly different concepts. Automatic translation also refers to like the entire process from translation to proof reading to the publishing. Whereas machine translation strictly just refers to putting your source content into usually an AI and getting a translated content out of the other end. But for the purposes of this talk and most places, they're kind of one and the same. Here, automatic translations, the first benefit to using them is they're fast, they're instantaneous, available on demand. The pricing is much more predictable and a lot cheaper in some ways. They're usually $10 for millions of characters. We're looking at about 10,000 words. So that's quite a difference from having a human translator. And typically we're looking at like a monthly subscription for services like DeepL, Google Translate or Microsoft Azure. And they are getting more accurate. You probably still want to prove reader which can then add to the cost. Okay, so then with your translated content, how do you make the site? If you need another language, does that mean you have to build a whole other site? Yes, sort of, that's the sort of short answer. The simplest thing that you can do if you have a simple site is just to spin up another site. Copy your whole site over and then just swap out whatever content you have with your target language. And that's something that's viable for a smaller site. You have four or five pages and you only have to manage maybe two or three languages. That is totally doable to do all of that syncing up manually. And conceptually it's very easy for clients to understand if you're working with clients who has content for an English site. They can just update it on the English site. If they have Spanish content and they want to change it on the Spanish site and they don't have to touch the French site. Don't even have to think about doing that. And then any account of syncing up, you just do that manually and you turn that into a human process of synchronization rather than a technical one. Totally doable for a small site. However, if you have something a little more complicated, maybe you have more than a few languages. Or if you have e-commerce, for example, you'll want to look at plugins, which is why we're all kind of here, aren't we? So at a glance, all the plugins, there's a fair size market for multilingual plugins on WordPress. And they can generally do all of these things. They can translate your theme, your plugins, for example, WooCommerce, tags and categories, custom post types, no problem, SEO, and so on. You may need to pay a little more on the subscription to get some of these features. There may be additional setup required. Yeah, some of the setup gets a little more complicated, but they can all generally do all of these things. They support right-to-left translations and some sort of automatic translation as well as manual edits. And as you evaluate the plugins for your own project or your client's projects, things to look out for are, does it work with your theme and all your plugins?  Okay, so at a glance, these are the ones that I've used, I'm going to back up a bit. So these are all the plugins that I've used or extensively researched and compared. This isn't an endorsement of any of these, I'm not affiliated with any of them. And there isn't necessarily like a breakout star of the bunch. They're just going to be what's appropriate for your particular project. And choosing the right one depends, you know, you would still have to do your own research. But here are they at a glance. So the first group, I've grouped them together, Polylang and WPML.  And I find that for clients going into a multilingual site, which can already be very intimidating, this is easy for them to go, okay, I can picture this site, is this piece, that site, is that piece, and I can do the pieces and they can manage it on their own end. Easy to train clients on. Multilingual Press, very similar to Polylang and WPML, except it is compatible with and requires a multisite. All your sub-sites are your different language sites. And this is great if you already have a multisite set up, and then you can just have that on top and then you can link up your different languages, you can sync up the menus. And the challenge with that is it requires a multisite, so if you're not on a multisite, this could complicate your setup or raise your pricing hosting situation. Translate Press is a neat one, it is a front-end interface, and there's another one that's also neat later on. But yeah, you just go into site, you pick out the pieces that you need to translate, and then on the interface you can choose, I'm translating for French, I'm translating for Spanish, I'm translating for Chinese, and you can see at a glance all the different languages on, say, on your heading or on your body content, what that would look like. And that's very nifty. G Translate, translate your site with Google Translate on a fly. It's essentially the Google Translate button, but you can, the advantage to using this is that you can use the editor to edit your translated text if Google Translate kind of mess up or give you something wonky. And lastly we have Weaglot, who is one of the gold sponsors of this event, thank you. It is a translation as a service, you pay by the word count, whereas for the other ones you pay on a monthly or annual subscription, you license your site and then you're good to go.  For example, if you have WordPress, Shopify, NationBuilder, those are all, you can all fit them into your one account. It also has a front-end interface, however it stops working if you stop the subscription and you can download your translated content, but your site will no longer function as a multilingual website. So make a caveat on that one. Yeah, so these are all, these are kind of the major ones. There are some more free ones that you can poke into, but these are generally kind of what I would recommend to the client to compare for features and pricing and so on. I think these all, with the exception of WPML, have a free pricing tier, so you can go and try them all out. And then number three, I'm looking at the time. Number three thing that I want to get into today just briefly are the best practices of doing multilingual sites. I was talking with a group of people last evening about kind of the state of multilingual sites in general and how challenging it is to manage multilingual sites in this, which is surprising given how many of us are multilingual and yet on the internet websites are still a challenge. So the first thing that you will need to think about or even need to get your client to think about is how much you want to translate. And here is where you will need to think like your customers, where are the key pieces that you want to see, where they will want to see information in their own language, navigation of course, product info, reviews and testimonials, how to contact you, and check through the places where people will have heightened emotional responses. So just before hitting purchase, for example, or if they run into a problem on your forms, the error messages, it's very off-putting when someone sees an error message that they don't understand and they're like something has gone wrong and I don't understand what's gone wrong. Very, very upsetting. So check through those things. Don't forget about information tool tips, important little tips that are like when someone sees, oh yeah, there's a hint for someone that does not speak my language. There's a hint for someone who, again, I don't understand what this is, someone else is getting more information than me. That's very off-putting. So check through those little things. Next one, how do you know which languages you want to develop into? Three things here. First thing is ask your customers. You can do surveys, whether they're on-site surveys or on your newsletters if you have a mailing list. You can check through your analytics for when people don't do what they say. You can check for the system language of the devices that they're using, as well as you can check if someone's using the Google Translate button on your website because the Google Translate changes your HTML and it changes through some cool JavaScript stuff and you can use analytics to track when someone does that on your websites. And for the last one, if you're required to do it, then you're going to have to do it. If you're part of a national organization or a government agency, if you serve folks in Quebec, if you're serving people across the country, you're going to have to have English and French bilingual websites. The next thing is a bit about the design of multilingual sites. So this is a quote from Giuseppe Haydn-Chemfosi. I don't know if I got her name right. She's the ED of WordPress and this is from her work camp keynote. She says, what is the story you want to be able to tell about yourself?  Which is a great sentiment. Good questions to ask yourselves at this event today and to fit that onto a website in French, it is about, I think the average is about 33% longer in French compared to in English. And then here it is in Chinese. It's about half that size. So when you're designing for a multilingual site from the UX point of view, I'm not a UX designer, but you're going to want to work with your designer on how are you going to fit, for example, all the menu items in the top nav. I have worked on many projects where the French menu is getting squashed in because we didn't think about the French menu, how they're going to look at the top. Maybe you need alternate translations. Maybe you need some special abbreviations and that's something that you're going to have to work with your translators to get. And maybe you just need an alternate header design or an alternate call to action design. Another thing that happens a lot is in buttons. The text don't all fit on one line in a button. What do we do? And so some of those things you're going to have to want to think about right off the bat. Okay, so a few more things that we want to think about and remember, you need a plan for all your translations. You want to tie it to your calendars to routinely update your content. How many of you have gone to a multilingual site and you flip between the languages and you're like, oh, this one is definitely more up to date and this one doesn't have the updated content? That happens a lot. If you don't have a plan, your content will drift apart. And then interesting thing about this, if you go back to the, if you go dig into the observatory data on web usage and consumer habits, people, sorry, it was actually from the Can't Read Won't Buy. My apologies. From the Can't Read Won't Buy report, people from certain areas of the world will prefer content in certain languages but also if they perceive the site to be more up to date in that language. So for example, French nationals actively avoid anglo-centric websites and they are much less likely to make a purchase or engage on a website where they think the website is much more up to date in English compared to in French. So that's something that you want to think about. You want to keep your content up to date for general reasons but also for a lot of psychological reasons of your consumers, of your customers. Second one is flags versus languages. I still see this a lot. Languages in countries are different things. So use language names or language codes. If I see a Kenyanian flag, does that mean English or French? It can be either one. I don't like seeing the American flag to represent English because I don't like it. I mean that's on me but I don't like that. So the best practice here is to use the language name or the code. I know flags are catchy, they're colorful but try to avoid that. Avoid text and images. If you have some text in an image, make sure you're also localizing it or best just to avoid using them. Icon meanings, double check. They mean what you think they mean in target audience. Another story from Japan. Thumbs up means good here. Thumbs up means good in Japan. Thumbs down means bad or don't like here. This means flipping off someone in Japan so don't do it. This is how you say no in Japan. You cross your fingers like this. This is no. So when you're doing, if you're relying on iconography to convey meaning, double check before you actually use it. SEO, it seems obvious but folks forget especially if you're using a front-end editor. Double check that your Facebook share, your cards and so on. All your meta tags are up to date. Lastly, you want to update your analytics setup because now you have double the content or triple the content if you're more going multilingual. So that's it. I'm at 29 minutes. I've shown you the why and the how as well as some tips to how to do a good multilingual site. Hopefully these will help your next multilingual project open more smoothly. If you remember none of those things, that's fine. You're still going to be doing a really good site connecting with people in their native language. It's a beautiful thing and we should all do it a little more. If you have any questions, now is the time to ask. Just a reminder that this will be posted online. So don't worry about the slides. We have a question over there. The question is about updating analytics and say more about how we would actually implement those changes. So analytics would be a bigger project. I could probably spend another full talk discussing the changes that would go into there. The main thing is to keep in mind GDPR compliance. You should make sure your main site now is GDPR compliant for sure but if you're going working in a global market you're going to need to make sure your privacy policy is up to snuff. Fun site note, Google analytics is not GDPR compliant in and of itself. Something to think about and I don't know if legally anyone is going to go after them at this point or go after you if you used Google analytics. But that's something to think about and to make a judgment call about. Another thing is you will want to think about off the back what your preferred setup will be. There's some... You want to keep it as simple as you can because all of a sudden you have a whole fleet of websites to look after rather than just the one. Whether you want to have one property with multiple streams or set up individual properties for the individual sites or do a hybrid setup of having both of those setups so that you could have an at a glance, a big picture with your one multi-site property and then be able to drill down into individual sites that's probably a really good setup. What you want to keep in mind is that if you have multiple sites multiple streams feeding into one property there is a cap on how much... What it's called is... I don't know what it's called off the top of my head but there's a cap to how much traffic it will look at before it starts sampling. So rather than capturing all the traffic data it starts just taking a portion of that. So having separated them out into separate properties you can get around that and be able to drill down into your individual sites but you'll still want something to take a big picture look at all your websites. Hi, thanks for the talk. It was very good. One of our pain points on a multi-site... French and English sites is synchronization. So somebody hits, they're on an article, they hit the French button and they go to the homepage instead of to the French version of that article. And of course we have stakeholders internally who use that toggle button all the time and then they're emailing me, where can I find this article in French? So I wonder if you can speak to that. I believe all the plugins that I've mentioned can support synchronization. Actually I don't know about GTranslate because it actually just translates stuff on the fly. So I'm not sure how the synchronization works there. I use WPML a lot and that is... basically you link the pages together on the back end and you can see on the English article for example you can see it's linked to this French version of the article. It's linked to the Spanish and the German and the Chinese version of the same article. And the language switcher widget, the French button, that will go straight to the same article in those different languages. So it's a manual process that you have to put the links for? It can be if you want to change it up but by default it is linked if the setup is correct. Yeah, and maybe something we can connect on later on if you want to. What about slugs? Does slugs matter? Slugs do matter. Good question. Slugs matter a lot for SEO. And again, all the plugins that I mention they do let you translate slugs. Some of them you have to pay for a subscription tier for the free version doesn't do it but then you can pay for a higher level one that does it. But yes, slugs are important. Check your slugs guys if you're translating your content you don't want to see about dash two for your apropos page for example. It could be a small question but what would you recommend if you are translating a web page would you want to open it on a separate window or would you want to see it on the same window? Like same tab or you want to open it on a different tab? If you click on translation? Yeah. Do you mean translating on the back end if I were the translator? So for an end customer, if my customer is visiting a website and the person wants it to be converted to let's say French and if I click on French would you recommend opening on a different tab or probably the same tab? That is a super good question. Yeah, my gut feel says same tab. Yeah. But I don't know if there's data that supports that gut feel. So I don't know the answer to that. I love it. There's like really good questions as well as good tips and tricks from the audience and I think this is like the great thing because this area is such a pain point for a lot of developers. I would love to be able to talk to you all about tips and tricks where you're struggling, where you have had successes and that would be great. So yeah, to have this time is for you guys. I have two questions. One about the websites and another one about YouTube. So the websites is do you necessarily change if you want to translate, you use another page or is there any advantage to use another subdomain or domain for the English version? That's the first question. And the other one is if you have a YouTube channel and you have lots of followers but you know another language it's better to create a new channel or combining in the one that you have more followers. Oh, for you. Okay, so I'm going to go with a YouTube one first. That is a hard one to know. I think the best practice for YouTube is you stick with your... you keep your languages separate and you start... because that's your question, right? If you start developing content in different languages do you create a new channel for all of those? Yes. I think that's the best practice. I'm not a YouTube expert and the YouTube algorithm shifts all the time but from what I've seen as a YouTube consumer that's what people tend to do. Your first question is about subdomains or whether you want to keep it on the same domain and subdirectories. Both are good and these days they both contribute to SEO rankings and so on. There's some debate about subdomains and whether they contribute to domain level authority. I think for the most part Google does a pretty good job to balance... if you have translated content their arguments against domain level authority is that, for example, YouTube has a wide variety of content a lot of sites with the same domain have a wide variety of content they don't want to have to assign domain level authority to the domain just because it's so big but for regular people's websites I think it does play into how much authority, how much your site gets ranked on the search engine even if you use a subdomain to publish your content. These days it's a bit of a cosmetic slash do you want to have a good branding in your different languages besides having subdomains the other thing is having completely different domains because maybe your English name doesn't make sense in French or in Spanish you want to have a French name and a Spanish name for your domain and those are all pretty much just the same as if you use a subdomain on your main English website domain or French website domain not with the plug-ins so if you set up the plug-ins correctly with subdomains the question is about can you still synchronize say your articles in English, French, Spanish and so on if you use a different subdomain or if you use different domains for all your different language sites and my understanding is that if your if your subdomains are and your different domains are set up correctly the synchronization will still work right yes if they're completely different sites the synchronization will not work but if you set up it's the same site but translated so that's the that's where the plug-ins really have that benefit of maybe we need to have a deeper conversation about this if it's one site that is translated into multiple languages but still within the same site then the synchronization will work yes we have yes that's right but that's where the multilingual press will be a good fit for if you migrate them all into a multi-site setup and then you can use multi-site to sync that up thank you Lois we have one more question I think and for anybody else don't forget we have social media where you can post your questions like wordcamp.ybr thank you hi when I came into the presentation I was thinking mostly in terms of the logistics of changing text but you brought up a couple of things the button sizes click a you see that must piss off Frankelpiles menu design and you also mentioned iconography what about color North America we think of white color as purity in Asia we think of it as death red is considered auspicious in or prosperity in China it's a caution color here what about those that what about the UX aspects of cringy that is a big question what a good question that's where you hire a cultural consultant hahahaha that's such a tricky thing because even designing for within our western dominant culture that the cultural significance of things plays such a big role in how people emotionally respond to your website your piece of media that is a really good piece to keep in mind I don't have an answer for how exactly you would do that except for just make sure you factor in the time because I think time the schedule thing on the last slide is a big piece a big piece of learning for myself when I was doing a lot of multi-lingual sites like have built in that extra time where you can to get those translations right get those cultural pieces right and rush yourself into making little seemingly little mistakes that are that could be tough to fix later on alright thank you so much everyone you've been a great great audience and I'd love to catch up with you about your adventures with multi-lingual sites let's give Lois another round of applause


As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Bismillahir rahmanir raheem Wa as-salatu wa as-salamu ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa salim Ya Rabbana lakal hamdu kama yam bagheeli jalali wajhika wa adheemi sultanik Allah may Allah make the hearts and the eyes of the most beautiful hearts on your religion As-salamu alaykum everyone InshaAllah today we will be finishing the last part of Surat al-Waq'a Last time we stopped at Fala Wa Qusimu Bima Waq'i Ain Nujum Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying in this ayah that I swear by the setting of the stars If we look at the word la, la means no, I don't So what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying here in this ayah La hajatali an uqsim Wa lakin in aratu al-uqsim fa uqsimu bima Waq'i Ain Nujum There is no need for me to swear to anything But if I am to swear, I will swear by the setting of the stars And normally during all the explanations of the swearing that we pass through in Juz-30 and later on We know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala when he wants to swear he swears with something great And he swears to something great also So both sides are great the things that he is swearing to and the things that he is talking about So what is Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talking about here? Allah is saying And indeed it is an oath If you could know most great So it's a great oath Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is swearing with the stars with the positions of the stars And in Surat An-Nahl, he says Wa ala matim wa bin najmihum yahdadun And landmarks and by the stars they are guided You know, earlier they didn't have the technology we have here They would look at the stars at night and they would know where east, west, north, south They would look at the sky, they would have a lot of information just from looking at the stars and what they mean, where they are located and so on So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is swearing and he is giving a great oath about what Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena It is indeed a noble quran So quran is the word of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that was revealed by Allah to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam through Angel Jibril alaihi salam And the way it was revealed There is an expression in Arabic, it says nazal al quranu nujuman or munajjaman Which means the quran was revealed to Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam Five ayas, five ayas And these five ayas are called njim So njim means a star So we have a quranic star and we have a star that's in the heaven Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena And this is the link between the quran and the previous ayah the qasam, the oath, where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is giving, is swearing Inna hula qur'ana wa kareena What is kareem? Kareem is generous And the generous one is the one who gives whatever he has without being stingy and without keeping anything to himself Because he knows that when he gives Allah will reward him back Now the quran is described by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as being kareem as being generous, how and why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying the more you read the quran the more you will explore in the quran If you have any book that you read once, you can read it twice If you are in love with the book you would read it three times But then you would get bored if you read it more and more But the quran is not like that The quran is so generous When you read it, the more you read it, the more you will find that you are in love with this book You will never ever get bored of reading the quran You will never ever get bored of repeating, reading, khatim after khatim after khatim Because the light you would give from the quran The blessings that you would get from the quran The understanding that you would get from the quran is way so vast And when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us the ability to understand something A special meaning in the ayah, a special secret in the quran That this is a blessing from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Imagine the opening that he has assigned to you in particular To be able to understand something special in the quran So the quran is so generous with all it gives, with all it has in itself So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying إنه لقرآن كريم It's a noble quran, it's a generous quran في كتاب المكنون In a register well protected It was all in the لوح المحفوظ in the preserved tablet لا يمسهو إلا المطهرون None touches the quran except the purified This is one meaning This is the general meaning But the inner meaning of this ayah is لا يمسهو إلا المطهرون We said that the quran is in the preserved tablet So the only creatures that would touch the quran in the preserved tablet Are the angels And they are purified from any wrongdoing They are purified of doing anything that would not satisfy Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala They are purified from everything So the quran is well preserved It is preserved from any additions Any amendments, any crossing, anything It is preserved And do you know how the quran is preserved? It's not through the writing of the quran No, so many books are written But none of them are preserved as the quran Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made people memorize the quran Since the time of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam Until this day, until the day after So having the quran in the heart And transmitting it to generations after generations after generations Is the way of protecting the quran And preserving the quran So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the about the quran When we say We explained that this word, al-Mutaharon, are the angels And the reason, we have another reason for that When Allah wants to talk about man That man is purified And he will say Man, he will say Mutaharon And he mentioned in Surah Al-Baqarah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says Allah loves those who are purified And loves those who are purified The purified He didn't say The purified The purified The purified You love those who are purified And you love those who are purified So al-Mutaharon is a reference to Malaika And al-Mutaharon is a reference to humans It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds As we mentioned now that the quran is preserved in the tablet And it was revealed in one shot from the tablet to the lower sky On Laylatul Qadr And then it came five ayes to Sayyidina Muhammad So Allah created man And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed the quran So in the quran There is a complete program A complete catalogue for the man Who was created by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala And Allah explains this in Surah Taha In ayah 123 He said There should come to you guidance from me And this guidance is quran Then whoever follows my guidance Will neither go astray in the world Nor suffer in the hereafter So there is a program There are steps for man to follow If he follows these steps Then he will be highly rewarded in the day after He will not go astray in this dunya So then is it to this statement To this quran That you are indifferent? What does this mean? The word muddhirun is plural The singular form of this word is al-muddhim And al-muddhim is the one who says nice words But deep inside his heart He would have something completely different So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says In Surah Al-Baqarah And when they meet those who believe They say we believe But when they are alone with their evil ones They would say indeed we are with you We were only mockers So they show something But they had completely different things And the word al-hadith As I mentioned is the quran And Allah mentions this word In reference to the quran That it means the quran In another Surah when he says Allah has sent down the best statement Al-hadith The same word, statement in our case A consistent book Kitaban The quran So the quran is always new In what it has In a way that whenever you read it You understand something in you So what is the meaning here? What do you do? Al-hadith and al-muddhim Are you indifferent to this quran? But in Surah Al-Qalam, Allah says What do you do? The same word They wish that you would soften in your position So they would soften towards you They wished that Sayyidina Muhammad Would accept to worship their idols one year And they will worship his lord one year They would accept anything that he would do Just to be away from this new religion That he has come with But of course This is Sayyidina Muhammad The most trustful The most caring about the words Of Allah has given him And make the thanks of your provision That you deny the provider Is this how you thank the provider? So let's go a little bit deeper into this ayah And make the thanks of your provision It means anything you would have That would benefit you So it's sustenance But what type of sustenance? It might be money It might be health It might be wisdom It might be muscles It might be power It might be anything that benefits you It's called rizq So when you have any benefit Then you should thank the one who gave you this benefit You should thank the provider of this benefit So Allah SWT created everybody from nothing And he provided for them But what is the reward? Did they thank Allah SWT? No, they denied They belied Instead of thanking They did the opposite Now if we link this ayah to the previous ayah About the Qur'an We find that the Qur'an is a complete provision for us Complete and continuous We will always get benefit from the Qur'an The blessings are continuous However, they will never decrease Or they will never stop So how should we thank Allah SWT For the blessings of having the Qur'an We should learn how to read it We should understand it We should try to find the secrets in it We should keep reading it Over and over and over Until the light of the Qur'an is deep inside our heart And we should always say Alhamdulillah We should always thank Allah SWT That we are able to read the Qur'an So if someone can read one page a day Try to make it two pages If you can read ten pages Try to make it fifteen If you can read one jiz Make it two jiz Thank Allah SWT For this blessing There are so many people So many Muslims who don't know how to read the Qur'an And I don't mean non-Arab speakers I mean even Arab speakers This is a blessing Allah will not give it to anyone Allah will not give it to those who don't deserve it If you know how to read it Thank Allah SWT Thank Allah SWT Allah has chosen you out of millions and billions and billions of people To be able to read His words To be able to read His book And make your risk of lying Do not deny the Qur'an Do not deny the ayahs of the Qur'an When you read it Sayyidina Umar when he used to read the Qur'an Whenever he would pass on ayah That has a request for forgiveness He would say Allah forgive me Whenever there is an ayah that would ask for any dua He would say that dua Do not just read just words Without understanding what you are reading Try to understand And when you have the intention Of trying to understand Allah will facilitate you Will facilitate the way for you to understand it Allah will help Allah has promised If you want something I will give it to you Make dua and I will make that happen And the closest we are to Allah SWT Is before Fajr prayer When Allah descends down to the lower sky And he would say Is there anyone who is asking for forgiveness Is there someone who is asking for any dua I will answer his dua And also So this is the first position Before the Fajr prayer And while we are making sujood The closest from a servant to Allah SWT Is when he is making sujood So be generous to yourself Be generous and ask Allah SWT For the highest that you can ask for Don't ask for Jannah Ask for Al-Firdaus Al-A'la Ask for the He is the most generous You are asking from the most generous So you have to know what to ask And keep asking Allah SWT Loves to hear the voice Of his obedient servant Of his loved servant Now the ayahs shift a little bit And this shift is amazing Allah is challenging those who deny And those who belie Then why when the soul at death Reaches the throat And you are at that time Looking on And our angels are nearer to him To the one who is dying than you are But you do not see Now the picture is that We have people who deny And blight all their life Allah is challenging them now Death is there They are dying And people around are looking At that person who is dying No one can save him from death And no one can even save himself From death Allah says So when their time When the time of death has come That will not remain Behind an hour Nor they will precede it So what's the picture here As I said Allah is challenging Those who denied at their deathbed So a man can either Fulfill the orders of Allah Or he can deny them He can do bad things But everyone is In the control of Allah No one can push death away Even those who Even those who Promised Even those who opposed earlier They cannot push death When it comes As I said this is a challenge From Allah To those who are dying You blight all your life You did not believe in death So try to delay it Nobody can do that Even the people around The one who is dying They are looking at him And they are watching the agonies of death And They are They are not able to do anything So Allah is saying We are closer to him than you But you do not see So this is the companionship of Allah Allah is available everywhere Now let's think of something The soul is the one that controls the human Is what controls the movement of man So without it Without the soul The man dies And there will be no movement in man Can you say Where is the soul inside yourself? Where is it? In your head? In your eye? In your nose? In your hand? In your feet? Where is it? You cannot see it And You cannot say that There is a special place for it You don't know where it is Now what about Allah is managing the whole universe You cannot say that he has a place And the soul manages your life And you cannot identify its place How can you say Where is Allah? How can you specify where is Allah? So something that Allah has created Which is the soul Cannot be recognized Cannot be seen Cannot be The place cannot be known where it is So how can we realize Allah SWT We cannot How can we identify the place of Allah SWT Who has no place But when we say When Allah SWT says When we are closer to this dying person Or our angels are closer to him The companionship of Allah SWT Is not by knowing But by his By himself Nothing like him So if you were not a city Then why do not if you are not Be controlled If you know that we cannot We do not control you We do not control your affairs Why you couldn't just Push death away ترجعونها إن كنتم صادقين Bringing the soul back Bringing it back If you should be truthful Can you do that? Since you cannot Bring back the soul Means that you are Under the control of Allah SWT Even if you have that choice In some issues What to do, what not to do But there are other issues That you have no control on And death is one of them Now people died We mentioned at the beginning Of the Surah There will be three groups And this is one of the miracles Of the Quran that it is connected The Surah is connected from beginning to end So Allah talked about these groups And he is going to end with these groups He will talk about the reward Or the punishment of these groups If the deceased person Now is of the foreigners And we described at the beginning Who are the foreigners Since they started the life They were obeying Allah SWT They were worshipping Allah SWT They lived their life obeying Allah SWT They did not disobey Allah SWT And when they died They died on the same thing So those are Those who are close to Allah SWT Then they will go So what is their reward They will go And they will be blessed And for him For this person There will be mercy from Allah SWT And bounties and gardens of pleasure What is Al-Rawah Al-Rawah Is the relief from Allah SWT It's the mercy from Allah SWT Allah SWT says in Surah Yusuf وَلَا تَيْئَسُمِ الرَّوْحِ اللَّهِ Despair not of the relief from Allah Despair not from the mercy of Allah And the mercy of Allah SWT Is vast And it is related To the one who is giving the mercy And the mercy of Allah SWT Has no ending Now what is Al-Rayhan فَرَوْحٌ وَرَيْحَان Al-Rayhan He is all that is good And good Everything that's good Everything that's tasty Everything that has good smell Now what is نعيم Is anything that is good That is beloved That is liked And there will be no harm of it In dunya, in this dunya Someone loves food And that's something good So he will eat whatever he wants But after that There will be some problems in the stomach In the intestines So this blessing This food was a blessing But there is Some sickness out of it But Allah SWT said طعام الجنة The food of the Jannah فَكُلُهُ هَنِيَا مَرِيَا It's in Surah An-Nisa Eat it in satisfaction and ease There is no harm after you eat it No matter as much as you eat You will feel You will feel the blessings So this is the first group Now what's the second group اما إن كان من أصحاب اليمين فَسَلَامٌ لَكَ من أصحاب اليمين And if he was of the companions Of the right Then the angels will say Peace for you You are from the companions Of the right And again the difference Between أصحاب اليمين Are the people who Did some bad things In their lives But they repented And they became So good That their life ended In a good way That Allah SWT Accepted that Allah is pleased with them So this is the difference Between أصحاب اليمين So these people Would be led into Into Jannah In groups Each group Will say Salam to the other Or The word Salam Here means also The angels Will send Salam to them Even it might be What Allah SWT Mentioned in Surah Yaseen سلام القول من رب الرحيم Peace The greeting said to them Directly By Allah SWT So this is the second group Now the third group وَأَمَّا إن كان من المكذبين فَنُزُولٌ مِنْحَلِين So those belayers Those deniers Who went astray There For them Is the accommodation The accommodation of Scalding water So the word نُزُول As we mentioned last time Is If someone is travelling He would Choose a نُزُول A small hotel To be in To rest in And It also means What was prepared Of food and drink For the people Who are visiting So Their Place Their final destination Will be From Of Scalding water So this is the food That was prepared for them This is the drink That was prepared for them And And pain Is What they will get there Because They are burning in Hellfire Allah Says So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So So Try to know Where a person Feels pain ? A person Feeling a little better With spine. And until some German scientists did a lot of experiments, and they discovered that the most or the center of the pain feeling is in the skin. So we say to them, this is what was revealed in the Quran more than 1400 years ago. When Allah said, whenever their skins are roasted through, we will replace them with other skins. He didn't say whenever their heart was burnt, we will give them another heart. He didn't say whenever their eyes were burnt, we will give them the other eyes. But this is to emphasize that the skin is the center is the place to feel pain. Indeed, this is the true certainty. This is the true certainty. So the true certainty is that the people, the believers will be in Jannah. The true certainty is that the deniers will be the opposers will be in hellfire. If we will talk a little bit about certainty, there are three stages of certainty. The knowledge of certainty, the reality of certainty, and the true certainty. What does this mean? When Allah told us in the Quran that there will be punishment and there will be reward in the day after, then He gave us the knowledge of certainty. So this is the first stage. When it's the day of judgment, people will see hellfire and they will see paradise. So this is the reality of certainty. But when people would be dropped in hellfire or when people are taken to paradise, then this is the true certainty. So nothing is denied. This is reality. The real reality, the real of reality. So when you see this, when you know this, and when you read this in the Quran, just say, Alhamdulillah, that you know that you understand what Allah SWT is promising. For this, exalt the name of your Lord, the most great. Worshipping Allah SWT will not benefit him and disobeying him will not harm him. Actually, worshipping Allah is nothing but people are benefiting each other and having mercy in between each other. And disobeying Allah SWT is manifested in just people being unjust to each other, harming each other. So the only thing you have to do is to glorify your Lord who doesn't need our worship or who doesn't care about people's disobedience. Glorify your Lord, exalt your Lord. The name of your Lord. The word Allah is said especially for Allah. We never ever heard anyone calling his son or Allah. Never. And Allah said it in the Quran. So worship him and have patience for his worship. Do you know of any similarity to him? Do you know of anyone who is called Allah? No. And we say subhan Rabbiyal-Azim while we are doing the ruku' and we say subhan Rabbiyal-A'la while we are doing our sujud. So we glorify the name of Allah SWT in our prayer as always. So with this we come to the end of Surah Al-Waqaa. And when I started I said we will mention a few things about Surah Al-Waqaa at the end. And insha'Allah we have a few minutes here to say a few words about Surah Al-Waqaa. We mentioned at the beginning that the word Al-Waqaa is one of the names of the day of judgment. And it has many names. Al-Waqaa, Al-Tamma, Al-Haqaa, Al-Qari'a. And we mentioned that each name is looked at from a specific angle. And one of the great scholars who explains and who gives Tafseer of the Qur'an says, whoever wants to learn about the previous and the latest and to know about the reward and the punishment then let him read Surah Al-Waqaa. Some people say we work so hard so we want to guarantee a good future for our children. But one of the righteous people said Allah SWT said in the Qur'an, And let those guardians fear injustice as if they themselves had left week of spring behind and feared for them. So let them fear Allah and speak words of appropriate injustice. Let them say some right, correct words. When this friend of Allah read this Surah, someone asked him, So you are dying and you have seven daughters and he says, I would never fear poverty that will happen to them because I told them Surah Al-Waqaa. If they were righteous, my daughters are righteous, then he is ever, Allah is ever to the after returning people, to the often returning people, he is the forgiving. But if they were not righteous, I would never leave them money, I would never leave them anything that will help them to disobey Allah. Now consider this, reflect on this in our life. We provide our kids with everything. How are they spending it? How are they spending it? Is it in the pleasure of Allah SWT or is it in disobeying Allah SWT? We are responsible as parents. Sayyidina Uthman, once was visiting Sayyidina Abdullah bin Mas'ud who was on his deathbed and earlier he used to give him some money. Sayyidina Uthman used to give Sayyidina Abdullah but he stopped it. So when he visited him, Sayyidina Uthman asked him, What are you complaining with? What's your problem? What are you feeling? What are you complaining of? He said, Zunubi, my sins. I didn't say I am hurt in my stomach or I have a headache, no. He knows what to say. He knows that he's going to meet Allah SWT soon and he is afraid that his sins will not be forgiven. This is what was worrying him. So Sayyidina Uthman asked him, What do you wish? He says, I wish the mercy. I am looking forward to the mercy of Allah SWT, my lord.   I don't want your money. He says it will be for your daughters and for your sons. He says, No, my daughters would not need it because I told them Surah Al-Waqa and I heard from Rasulullah SAW, whoever teaches his children Surah Al-Waqa will never fear poverty. And as I said at the beginning also, remember that risk provision does not only mean money. It means health. It means knowledge. It means everything good that would benefit man, that would benefit the human being. So we ask Allah SWT to provide for us. We ask Allah SWT to make us of the people who thank him for everything he provides for us. We thank Allah SWT for the blessing of the Qur'an. We ask Allah SWT to make us of the people of the Qur'an because he said, Ahlul-Lahi, Sayyidina Muhammad, Ahlul-Qur'anihum Ahlul-Lahi wa khasatuh, the people of the Qur'an are the people of Allah, and they are the special people of Allah. This is our class for today. We will be doing, we will be trying to understand Surah Tabarak, Surah Al-Mulk. Peace be upon you.