Okay. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Let's begin insha'Allah. Inna Alhamdulillah wa-s-salatu wa-s-salam ala Rasulillah wa-b-i-shahli s-sabri. Wa-i-s-s-al-yamli wa-hlu-lokta tam ilisani fahu qawli. See the projectors way over there. So you gotta pay attention to that one. All right. So let's begin. One of the things I wanted to talk to talk to you all about whoever I can attend is this this topic. The Iblis. There was a conversation between Iblis and Allah. That took place and we will go through some of those. I'm going to show you some Ayat of Quran and this is how I teach in Sunday school. Some of you are from previous life in Sunday school. Some of the current students here and this is this is what we discussed. So just pay attention to that one. A question for you. Tell me what do you know about Iblis? This is not a khutbah. You gotta talk. This is not a khutbah. So you gotta talk. What do you know about Iblis? Does it mean Allah? What else do you know? The ones who guide us. Anyone can talk. What else? Very good. Those are awesome. Assalamu alaikum. You can go sit over there and play. Right there. Yeah. Right there. Okay. Yes. Those are awesome. What else? Arrogance. Very nice. What else? What else do you know about Iblis? Challenge the law. Yes. These are all the things that we're gonna talk about. You're gonna see the evidence in the Quran. From the Quranic verses. Okay. Let's see. Those are all good things. So here's how it starts. I'm gonna talk about some parts of Surat al-Arraf but this is not Surat al-Arraf. This is another place in the Quran. Allah unveiled His plan. Okay. Unveiled the plan. He called a meeting. He asked all the angels to attend. So let me back up a little bit. There are angels among the creation. There was one creation, wasn't an angel. One person. He does that Iblis. Iblis is not an angel but he did so good in obeying Allah. In listening to Allah. In anything Allah said he did so well. He kept on getting promoted to the next level. To the next level. To the next level. He kept on getting promoted. And the promotion got to the point that he actually was among the angels. He was just mingling with the angels when Allah called this meeting. Maybe he should bring the projector on this side. And Allah said the following. Said. This is really important. Allah's unveiling His plan. He's saying I am going to create a Bashar. Bashar means skin. And human being, his skin will be exposed.  A human being from what? From clean. So this one, let me see if my handy-dandy thingy works. This is really important. Those of you understand Arabic. Haalakum Basharan means I'm going to. It's not there yet. I'm going to create this. This is a plan. Okay. That's what Allah says. And what else? I'm going to put some numbers. I want you to remember these things. This is one number. Step number one. Okay. Then Allah says Faizas. Faizas, why to who? This is two. Number two. I'm going to make him balance. What does that mean? Balance. Tell me something about balance. What does that mean? This translation is real, right? Come on, help me out. It's not khubba. Allah says the first thing is He's going to create someone from the mud. A Bashar, human being. See this? It's a way to who? This word? It's a way to who? I'm going to... I put number two there underneath. It's a way to who? He's going to be balanced. Allah says human being, I'm going to create it in a manner it would balance. Balance in what? Balance in your thoughts. Balance in your actions. Balance not just physically, balance on two feet. Balance on your emotions. Balance on every conduct that you're going to create, that you're going to carry your life. You're going to know how to balance yourself, how to do things properly, how to do things right. Emotional balance, mental balance, all of that. Allah saying that's what's going to happen to you. I'm going to give you that. And then Allah says I'm going to give you one more ingredient. See it again? Yeah, yeah, fashion Him is that's... Yeah, so that's what it is. It's a way to means balance. So this is what the transition says. I'm going to fashion Him. I'm going to create Him. I'm going to... And there's one more word I'm going to show you that in a minute. And then there's a special ingredient right here. This is third. Three process step. So remember this. I want you to remember this. There's three process steps here. Three process steps. Okay, the first one is I'm going to create. You need to remember this because it's a quiz at the end. The second one is I'm going to fashion Him. I'm going to balance Him. I'm going to beautify Him. I'm going to make Him awesome looking. Awesome looking guy, our gals. And then what makes you special that Allah's give you this Ruh, which is usually translated as a spirit. Allah gives you this special ingredient, Ruh. Ruh is the one that makes you connect to Allah. Ruh is light. Allah is light. There's a connection. This is what makes you a difference. This is the difference between you and cockroach. This is the difference between you and rat. This is the difference between you and a cow. Cow is made out of a plane also out of clay. But the cow doesn't have the Ruh you have. Very, very, very important for you to remember this. What makes us different? Spirit. It doesn't have the Allah's spirit in it. It has breath in and out.  What makes us different that we can think that we have a choice that we can do, make a decision is this. Ruh. That's what Allah is giving a special thing. Make sense? Keep that in mind. So this is important. This is, we have to have all, we have these all this balance amongst us. All right. Now, there's one other word. So with an arrow off, Allah says the same in the previous one said, I want to balance you. I want to fashion you here. Allah says, I want to beautify you. So guess what? Every single human being Allah says beautiful. All of you. Regardless of how you look like, regardless of what you do and all that, that's Allah's promise. He has been beautified. Okay, so imagine this. Picture this with me. I did something here. Hopefully it's going to be okay with all of you. Allah says, I'm going to create this human being and ask Allah, ask all the angels to do one thing, to do one thing. After you see this incredible creation, do asajdah, right? Do a prostration. Okay? Do a prostration. That's what Allah says. Imagine this picture. Imagine that there is like during Hajj, right? You see suddenly when everyone goes to asajdah, the whole thing, like two million people goes asajdah. Imagine that except one guy standing up. Everyone is asajdah. It's one guy. Let me show you. I asked the general of AI to create this for me. So here it is. That's what the guy did. General of AI. Imagine this.  What are you guys? What is this? What is this asajdah thing that you guys are talking about? That's what Allah says here. Allah says, I made all of you. I beautified you and I give you those three processes. Remember those three things. Okay? Three things except this guy. He's just standing and he's like, he's made out of clay, out of dirt. What's the big deal? What's the big deal? He didn't do asajdah. He just stood up. What are the three processes I said? Three things? Shout it out. You were made out of clay. You're balanced in fashion. You made beautiful. What makes you special is the wuh. Here's your first lesson. We can tell, I can't tell the story, but what can we extract out of this? Here's the first thing. Shaytan knew Iblis, knew really well. He knew really well those three things. He saw those three things because he heard Allah, those three things. He just looked at the first one and said, side of clay, what's the big deal about clay? Why should we do this? He hit the other facts. He made his own facts. He made his own feelings. Here's, oh, by the way, disclaimer. Disclaimer is this. That's happened to me before. I'm going to mention this now. I'm going to give you examples, practical examples that's going to take place in our life, okay? Between families and societies and centers and all that. Don't tell me at the end of the days that come to me and say, why did you talk to me about this? Why did you embarrass me in the front of everybody who said this about me in this meeting? I don't know any one of you. I don't know any one of your stories, any one of your struggles or challenges or anything like that. I'm going to give you an example. It might strike a nerve. It might, it may not. That's what it is. Because someone came to me at the end of the day and was like, why did you say this about me in the meeting? I'm like, brother, I don't know who you are. I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm just giving you practical examples. That's what the whole point is, get practical examples. Second thing, second disclaimer, think about this about yourself.  He just said this problem. I bet you my cousin, my brother, my husband, my wife has this issue. I got to tell that that's not what it is. You look internally. I'm looking internally myself like, okay, here's a challenge. I'm going to look at myself. How do I make sure that I take this as a lesson for me, not point to someone else? Make sense? So the two disclaimers. Okay. The first thing, so I said, as you remember, this guy got promoted, got promoted and got promoted. He's among the angels now. Pay attention to this story. He has expectation. He wants to be the next one. The next promotion wants to be him, but Allah has other plans. Imagine in a workplace or in a family place, at workplaces makes sense. Someone gets, you know, someone starts as janitor and just goes the supervisor and becomes manager and senior manager, director of VP, kept on promoting. I know a guy on those lists. Last place I was working, the CEO was just doing a supply chain management and became so good, became a CEO at the end of the day after many, many, many years. Right? So it happened. So imagine this guy got promoted, kept on promoting to the ranks and he's a VP and the CEO and he wants to become the senior vice president. He wants to become the CEO, but the CEO finds a new grad student, comes to the company and says, guess what? He's going to be your boss. You're going to report to him. What's going to happen to that guy? Who's like, wait a second, what just happened? Are you supposed to be the next one? I should have been promoted. What happened? He got his feelings. He had, here's another lesson for you. We have our own feelings. When we think about our feelings and we kept on pondering upon what we are thinking over and over again, that feeling turns into facts. That feeling turns into facts, but that facts is not grounded based on evidence, based on common sense, based on nothing. It's just our own feeling. We're like, this has to be true. It has to be true because we kept on thinking about it. This is exactly what he did. This is what exactly he did. That's a devilish thing to do. He is like, nobody asked me, I supposed to be that next guy. Because what Allah said, the part of the story that's part two, one of these nights we're going to do inshaAllah that I didn't tell you is, Allah said, I'm going to create this human being in Surat Al-Baqarah, the second chapter, and he said, this human being is made for earth. He's going to go to earth and he's going to be a Khalifa on earth, which means someone who has a choice, someone who's going to make decisions. Khalifa means someone is going to go somewhere, make a decision, make a choice, and know what is right, what is wrong. That's the person who's going to do this and he's going to rule on earth. He wanted to be, Iblis wanted to be that person, and he's like, how come I wasn't chosen for this? How come he out of clay is being chosen for this? So he got all the feedings internally. He didn't ask anything. He didn't ask any questions. He just thought there was like, why should I make a Sajdah? The Sajdah is not, so here's another thing scholars say, there's a bunch of discussions in the tafsid books you're going to hear the scholars say, oh, the Sajdah is for Adam. They are coming up with all the cute things. The Sajdah is Lee Adam. I mean, there's a dramatic thing here. See this lamb here? Lee Adam. For Adam, Allah says because he created this incredible human being, balanced human being, beautiful human being, and what made this human being so awesome is because of the Ruh, Allah gave him, right? Allah says this creation is so incredible, you should be at all as a result of that. All of you make such that to Allah, not to Adam, make such that because of the Adam to Allah. That's what the Sajdah is about. And at least didn't see that part. He just saw what he saw, but he didn't want to see what is beyond that, which is the second, the second of the fifth lesson for you in life. When we discuss something, when we see something, we have to ponder, think and contemplate and see what is the meaning behind this. What is it that I do not understand that you need to understand that? So he missed that part and he just stood there and he hid the truth and he didn't see the spirit, he didn't see the incredible thing. Got all of this? Okay. Now here's the next chapter. So that's what the translations are.  The reality, the kind of research that I have done and the one I'm coming this about is not, it's because of this incredible creation. There's some scholars say that they did because of this creation, they did Sajdah to Allah, not to Adam, because of the creation of the Adam. That's what it is. But the translation says, prostrate before Adam. Yeah. Yeah, to Adam, two ways to look at the lamb. Islam and Ta'alil, which means because of this creation, that's what the grammatarians say that. There's no no grammatics. This lamb is Lam and Ta'alil, not lamb because of, before. There's two ways to translate this, for or because of. Advanced Arabic. So here's the thing, this is for you, the next lesson for you, which means what? What is your self-worth? You undoubtedly will come into contact with people. It's going to be at your own home, unfortunately. I'm going to be, I'm going to be straight up with you. It's going to be at work, it's going to be at the places that you're going to go, it's going to be at a mall, it's going to be anywhere. You're going to see people going to be really put you down, make you feel like you're worthless. But Allah says, no, that's not what it is. What is your worth? What is your worth? Because of your creation, which means your father, Adam, which means exactly what you have, what Adam had, because of that Allah asked the entire angelic form, which they don't do anything except to obey what Allah says to do, right? You know that. The angels don't do anything except what Allah tells them to do. Because of you, they all fell into such that that means you are worth something. You need to understand that, you need to be proud of that. This is a huge lesson for you and I. Huge lesson, especially in this day and age. What is my self worth? Allah created me. Allah beautified me. Allah fashioned me. Allah balanced me. And one of the most incredible gift Allah gave me is what? The Ruh, His Spirit. He gave it to me. I'm worth. I'm worth every single penny. That's what this is.  Because of you, all the angels do the prostration. Make sense? Okay, so here it goes. Now Allah talks to talk to Iblis. I don't want to translate Iblis. Iblis is a proper noun. Iblis is Iblis. Devil. Shaitan, right? Those are the names.  It's amartuk. I give you a direct order Allah says. What stopped you? What prevented you? What prevented you? What were you thinking? Why didn't you do what I told you to do?  I showed you the picture. Just standing up. What's up with that? And that's the famous word that you already know. One of the famous words that you have heard multiple times. I am, he's like, I am better. Me.  And he's admitting that Allah created him. He is admitting, you created me from the fire. He did create this thing from dirt, from clay. That's what it is, from clay. So what lessons can you take out of this? Tell me what lessons you can see here. There's a ton of lessons here for us. A ton. Allah's direct order disobedience. Huge. Arrogance, which is right there. It's within. I'm better than you. Yeah. Arrogance. What else? What other practical things that you can see that we do in our daily life? Say that again, please. Yes. That not listen. Yeah. What practical things you see? Part of his origin. Yes. Yes. That. Yeah. He makes excuses. Yes. Exactly. There's a whole lot.  What does that mean? Tell me about life of comparison. Yeah, killer of joy. Okay. What do we do as a, when it comes to life of comparison here in life? Better than ours. Here's what we do. Hey, Basel, you are going to junior college? I went to the UC system. You're going just junior college. Okay. I guess it's okay for you. Alhamdulillah for you.   Very good. Looking over the golf course. Yeah. Dr. Abdullah, you, your daughter got married in a park. I went to the Halton. We had our wedding in the Halton. And you, Alhamdulillah for you. I guess it's, you know, yeah, it's fine. Okay. You driving a Model 3 Tesla minus Model X is powerful. It's pretty darn good. It's very, very young. Wants to live a life of comparison over and over again. You're just a manager, right? That's what I became senior manager. I'm dealing with all the projects, all the big projects.  I'm doing the enterprise level projects. You know, that's like, that's like amazingness. That's what you want to do all the time.  He said, he's made out of fire, made out of fire, right? So, but this is what he wants to do. He wants you to become argumentative.   What happens when you became mad? When you're mad, you want to give it to Basel White.  I'm going to, you want to give it to him at that moment. Why? Because you want to really burn him. This is exactly what he wants to do. He's made out of fire. He wants to burn you. He wants to burn your opponent, whoever that is. That is his motivation. And that's what he wants to do to you. I must pause here and tell you a story. One of the other stories. I guess when this, I have one of the other eyes were being read. There was a guy, there was a scholar, not me. There was a scholar giving a Imam Abu Hanifa. Who is Imam Abu Hanifa? Some of you know Imam Abu Hanifa. Okay. He was an incredible guy. He is the one who codified the religion for us about a thousand, three hundred years ago or something like that. He was giving a lecture about this. One of the students sitting there was kind of obnoxious. He was like, Shaiq, I got a question for you. He's like, yeah, sure, what's your question? He's like, you said Iblis is made out of fire. Yes. That's what Quran says. Made out of fire. Okay. And also you said people are going to get punished in fire. That's what Quran says. Yeah, people want to get punished in fire. Well, if he is from fire, how are you going to punish fire with fire? So he explained, but the student was so obnoxious. He didn't get it. He kept on arguing, kept on debating, kept on arguing. It makes no sense. How do you punish fire with fire? It doesn't make sense. So while sitting there and he was just rolling up a little bit of dirt in there and made a little puddle, when the student was so obnoxious, he just flicked the puddle and hit him right in the head. Put a little mark on his head. The student is like, why did you do that? Why did you hit me? Like, what do you mean? And I hit you. I explained, I gave you the answer. He's like, no, what can answer is this? So he sued in the court, sued the Imam. And that was, you know, imagined about openness of the society. So the judge summoned the Imam, said, he's saying that you abuse them, that you hit them, that you violated his rights. Imam was like, no, I answered this question. Like, what do you mean you answered this question? He claims that you hit him with that rock. So like, first of all, it wasn't a rock. It was a double clay answer this question. He's like, what is that? He's like, well, Allah says you are made out of clay. He's made out of clay. So he wanted to know how fire could punish fire. And I explained all with all the different ways he didn't understand. So I made a little clay hit him. Clay hurt, didn't it? Did it hurt you? He's like, it hurt me. Look at the board. He's like, that's exactly right. Clay hurts clay. So somehow fire does the fire. Allah knows how it is. How it's done. I don't know. Are you just explaining to him the answer to this question? The understanding? There's a comic, right? It was good. That's what it is. So all the lessons. Here's what it comes at a paraphrasing from the Quran, the bottom here. He wants you to be arrogant, right? He wants you to have anger problems. He wants you to debate at everyone. Hear this. The one who has an anger problem has an arrogance problem. Paraphrasing from the Quran. That's your next lesson. Really important to pay attention to this one. By the way, this is like I said, this is not a khutbah. Questions, comments. Ask. Ask away. Alhamdulillah, I like it. It's clear as a mud. This is good. All right. So that's what they were. They were in a Jannah or a vicinity of a Jannah, right? That's what all the things happened. So part two of this program, if we do this, I'm going to go through, walk you through the creation. Creation of Adam and the more conversation which is related to this. But that's at PG-13. If you're not 13 years old, please, you're not allowed to be here. So that's a completely different conversation. It's something with all seriousness. I have not seen anyone talk about it. Anyone talk about it in a setting like this. So many awesome lessons, but it is a PG-13. So we should do that at some point, InshaAllah. So there are an vicinity of a Jannah or in Jannah. What does that mean? When Allah made the proclamation, he said, I'm going to create Adam. I'm going to go through three different steps. All the angels were there and this Iblis was there and he showed his arrogance, all that. Then Allah says, So several things here. Get out of here. Allah says, get out of here. Go this end. Get out. You don't belong in this, in this place anymore. Okay. That's one thing. Why? Because you showed what? Tataqabbar. What is this Tataqabbar? Yes. Extreme arrogance. And what was the arrogance from a previous slide? What was the arrogance? Anyone? Yeah. Feature student, man. You're going to pass this class. Not prostrating at Adam. Why? He's made out of fire. He's better. He's purer. These things. Yeah. Thank you. Right. He showed all levels of arrogance that we discussed. That's what he did. Like, okay. That's right. He wanted the promotion. Think about it this way. He wanted the recognition. He wanted the promotion. This is a rampant in our, in our life. In household and community and all that, that everyone wants recognition. Everyone wants status. That's what he wanted. He wanted the status. That's what it is.  These are the steps of arrogance that I put there. The summary. Summary of arrogance. Bezal, read this out loud. This is what he wants us to do all the time. These are the things. Sager is what? What is Sager? Anybody know the meaning? It says this phrase, but Sager means small. Sager means insignificant. Sager means that just meaningless. You have no, no status. That's what Allah tells him. And guess what? He takes that and he wants you to feel that way all the time. As much as he can. So, which means what?  We just went through it. You're worth a whole lot because Allah told you what you're worth. This is shaitan. Say, I was able to say shaitan immediately. He wants to make you feel insignificant because that's what Allah says that you're insignificant. That's one of his tools in there. Make sense? Another place in the Qur'an. This is what Allah says. A lot of us want to compare ourselves. A lot of us want someone has something else. Sorry, Bezal. Bezal. Love you too.  Wait a second. My hair is receding, man. What's up with this? I want the kind of beautiful curly hair he has. What? Allah says, stop wishing that you had what others have. That's directly from the Qur'an. Constantly thinking of material stuff. This is nothing to do with religious stuff. This brother, masha'Allah, he's amazing. He's amazing in understanding the Qur'an and Arabic and all that stuff. I could be jealous of him saying, I wish I would have known as much as he does. That's fine. But when he says, you know what, he's driving M4. I want his M4. Then we are crossing this. Then we're crossing this Qur'anic line. Okay. Here comes the juicy part. So let me ask you this. It comes in in IA number 1718. The answer comes in IA number 1718. We are on IA number 14 right now. Hey, Bezal's brother, you understand this? What number is this? Can you read that? Hey, you got it. Arbi. One of my favorite words is Arbi. I love it. So 14. When I've had 1718, somewhere the answer is going to come. What comes in mind? Let me raise a question. Hold on. When someone, when someone does something so horrific, something so wrong, what do you think the person is supposed to do? Awesome. Awesome. Beautiful. Yes. You would think he would ask for forgiveness. I'm going to show you the evidence from the Qur'an, why he couldn't, why he didn't. Instead, he says this. That's what he says. I think I have a laser here. Laser works. Yeah. That's what he's asking. What does that mean? The translation is there. Read it out loud. Yeah. Okay. That's good. Thank you. What is, there's something really, really important that is missing from the translation. When we do the translation, it may not be obvious. Read the translation again. All of you. Read it again. See if you can pick something. I'm looking for something particular in there. Delay my end until the day of their resurrection. What does that mean? What can you see there that doesn't jump out of you? Obvious. Asking for time. I'm looking for something else. Yeah, he's asking for time. What else? Yeah, but there's something else. Yes, that's true. All of them are true. There's something else in here. That's also, there's something else here. I'm going to give you the Arabic. I'm not going to give you the English. I'm going to give you the Arabic. You extracted. You Ba'athun. This word. This is the key that I'm looking for. You Ba'athun. You're on it. So here's what happened. This Adam, this Adam and I just got created and all the angels did prostrations. And on the other side is all of you, every single one of you from the very first day until the last day human being is going to be on earth. All of us are there. All of us from the Quranic ayat. All of us. And every single one of us talk to Allah. Every single one of us talk to Allah because he asked this question and we answered all of us. So you spoke to Allah. You were at the presence of God. No doubt about it. Adam is laying down here or standing. Guess what he says? He says, give me a time until all of these guys are going to be living on earth.  Give me time until the day of their resurrection. Doesn't say until the day of Adam's resurrection because Adam is the one who caused the problem for him. That's not the problem. He is looking at every single one of you and me included and pointing fingers like, I'm going to get you guys. I'm going to get you guys good. He shows his animosity to you from the get go. Guess what Allah says? He's challenging Allah, right? Here's a simple answer. Allah says, you want it? You got it. Go ahead. You got it. You'll be given time. All right. So here's the other juicy part. Okay. Why is it so juicy? This is incredibly juicy. Where have you seen this conversion of this? Where have you seen? Here's the only one answering this. This is not fair. I'm going to pick on somebody. I'm going to pick on my smiley brother. Where have you seen that? Read it. Yes. Yes. Where have you heard that before? In the Fatihah, exactly right. In Fatihah, read it for me. Which part of the hat? Fatihah. Fatihah. And what does it mean? That's even more important question. Straight path. In Fatihah, we say. We ask Allah, which means what? Minimum, how many times a day? Seventeen times a day. Minimum, if you do the only Salat al-Fatihah, only the first part, 17. If you do the Sunnahs, which you're supposed to do is 32 times.  Guide me. It's actually a transition. It's a lot more. When we do the Sunnah, you'll understand. On the straight path and along the straight path. That would be like, show me what I need to do properly. I want to be a good human being. That's what you're asking. That's what he says. Allah, then shaitan speaks. And here's what he says, which is like, amazing. You know what this means? Sorry. I tried to get a projector because they give me a tiny TV. You can't have seen any of these things. Even a projector is small. I should push it all the way back.  He's looking at Allah and he's pointing finger at Allah and says, because of you did arwaitani. Because you deceived me. You tricked me. You are the one who didn't give me the promotion that they needed. That I wanted. That I needed. That I deserve the promotion. You didn't give it to me. Remember the promotion? He got the rank of angels and he wanted the next one. He has the guts. If this wasn't in the Quran, there would have no way out. I would have said this to you.   You're the one who tricked me. It's not me. This is the other thing that we do. Devilish thing that we do in our life. How many times you find yourself saying, it's not me. It's you. How often do we do this, especially when it comes to argument? How many of us actually are man enough, human enough to say, hey, I want to take accountability. I think I must stop. I want to make sure I can fix things. No, immediately he's like, it's not me. It's you. That's what exactly he says. It's not me. It's you. Oh God, you are the one who did this to me. And then he says these words. Those of you understand Arabic, those of you understand Arabic, let me put some things for you. Okay. One, two, three, four. What am I writing? What does that mean? I got to write it down here, man. This is one. This is two. This is newness three and four. What is that? What am I writing? Sorry? Emphasis. As if I'm holding basil and like, you listen to me. Here's what I'm going to do to you. This is what he's saying. He's saying four minimum, four different ways.  I'm going to foreshadow without a doubt.  When they're asking 32 times a day that Allah guide me, I'm going to show them a different path. I'm going to stand on front of it. I will never ever allow them. He's challenging God. He's saying, this is what I'm going to do. Anytime that you want to do something right, he's going to be right in there. Right there. Try to show you a little different path. He's taking a oath for different ways. That doesn't show up on any translation. You have to like, Allah akhu. He's like, I guarantee this is what I'm going to do. How are you going to do that? He's going to detail over the next ayah. Right at the bottom. He says, I'm going to come to him from all directions you can imagine. All directions. So pay attention to this. I'm going to read the directions for you. Pay attention. See, which one is there? Which one is not there?  I'm going to come from his back. I'm going to come from his right. I'm going to come from his left. That's what he's taking an oath. Which direction is not mentioned? Up is not mentioned because the revelation comes from the top. So he doesn't have any authority over there. He doesn't mention. What does this mean? Front, back, left, right, center, bottom, what does that mean? Give me examples. This is incredibly impactful for the video on a daily basis. Let's say from the front. What does that mean? Give me specific examples. Something that is applicable that we do and we can't do because the shaitan is on an hour pass and preventing us. All the centers are looking for funds for Palestine. That's something you're supposed to do.   I don't really have a good job. Maybe I can pass this time. Any time something good comes, immediately the wasp of shaitan at least is there to prevent you because he made a promise on whatever you want to do.   Think twice about it. Think really twice.  One of you go to Zaituna College and it happened. Zaituna College attending that as a student. Someone from your family is going to come and say, what are you doing with your life?  You're going to get a bachelor's of art or something? What are you going to do with that degree? You're studying religious stuff. What is that going to do in this society in America? How are you going to live a life? Haven't you seen a smallest house is a million and a half? What are you going to do? I know students like that. They were passionate about it and they heard this from their loving family members, whether it were uncle or aunts or whoever it was, they dropped out of college. Out of Zaituna College because hey, you know, they're right. What am I going to do with this? I don't want to be a mulana and look at all the graduates. I don't really see anyone doing anything stellar, which is so wrong. Those who graduated, they're doing phenomenal. Everyone that I know graduated whether they took the religious path or they took some other path. They are doing phenomenal. Comes right in front of you and say, what are you doing? What are you wasting your time? What does this mean from the back? Anything, something happened horrible on the back.  It wasn't really that bad. Look, the lightning didn't hit you. God is merciful. God is forgiving.  I wasn't a gathering. One of the, you're not going to like this. I'm not going to say who. But I was one of the gatherings. I don't go to non-Muslim gatherings. So that should tell you somebody hand me one of those bottles of exotic things. I'm like, no, thank you. So come on, what are you doing? Live a life, man. This is just chill, relax. You're too rigid. I'm like, no, thank you. I'd rather be rigid. You take that back to whatever you're doing. What is this? The thing I want to see is the other one. And here's what, here's what happens in a religious setting or something good you want to do, which is exactly what shaitan did, right? What did he said? When you do something good, it boosts you. It's like, hey, you did so good. Hey, guess what? You did your Maghrib in Jamal. Hey, man, that gotta be worth something, right? That's gotta be something. You came for a fudger. Once in a blue moon, it's like, you came for fudger. So it's, you know, you did something good. And here's what I've seen. I've heard it seen in my own ears and eyes. Someone who memorized a few ayat of Qur'an or watched a few YouTube videos and learned a few things like, hey, I want to lead the prayer next time. Why shouldn't be the one I would lead the prayer? Why is, what is this guy? This uncle was trying to read the prayer. He can't even pronounce some of the things properly.  I deserve. I did something good. In your thinking, in your thoughts, like, I did something good. I deserve better. It gets you that way.  It gets you in the things that you're doing marginally good. Or things are not even that good. That gives you, it's not that bad. That's what he does from all directions, all the time, nonstop.  There's a bunch of them, countless of them. I think one of the brothers here said, they have a meeting. Did you know that they have a meeting up there in the sky somewhere they meet or out in the ocean somewhere they meet? On a constant basis. The head, at least they're asking questions about all of them. So what did you do today? That's worry. What did you do today? I did this. I did that. I must have the financials. I must have their business. I must have their psyche. I must have their mental health, all of those. Okay, that was good. That was good. And one of the minions is going to say, guess what? Between Ahmed and Zulaika, I made sure that they have an argument. I made sure that the manager is not going to work well. Iblis is going to come here next to me. You did good. You're amazing. Which is all this. Iblis is number one. Mission is to cause friction between husband and wife all the time. The more, the better. Questions. How do you protect yourself against this? How do you protect yourself? Yes. Very good. Yes. Very good. Let me see if I have it here. Here it is. How many of you do this? How many of you have no idea what I'm showing here, what this is? No, be honest. How many of you don't know at all? So there's a daily dua. There's a daily dua is highly, highly recommended by our prophet Al-Islam and all the scholars you can imagine. One of the booklets called Wurad Al-Latif, beautiful supplications. One of the du'as is this. One of the du'as is this. It's exactly to protect you from promises of shaitan. Which is what? Allahumma al-Fazmi, right? covers all the directions. He made a promise that he's gonna come at you from all directions. And you're asking Allah every day in the morning and evening saying, Oh, Allah protect me from this. Why? Because there's no way you can protect yourself except Allah's help. You should know that.  There's no way you can protect yourself except to ask protection from Allah. Makes sense? So do this morning and evening.  Really easy. Take some 10 minutes or less. It will help you out. Okay. Allah says this. When he made a promise to Allah, this is what I'm gonna do. Allah's response is this. Get out of here. Here, let me highlight this madhur for you. So the question becomes this. I'm gonna break the mystery immediately. The question is that I've asked that I've been asked and I pondered upon it myself. Like, wait a second. Shaitan made this thing, this enormous thing. Why didn't he just ask for forgiveness? Why did he just, so the preview, part two of the thing. Shaitan did something and Adam did a mistake. Guess what Adam did? Yes, what did he do? Then what did he do after that? Yes, ask for forgiveness immediately. Very good. Ask for forgiveness immediately, right? He recognized that he did. This idiot, he did this instead of asking for forgiveness, he just went on a rampage and did whatever else he did. He didn't ask for forgiveness. Why? Why couldn't he? The key, the answer is to that word. And I put it here.  That's what it is. It is to the point that it's really truly preventing him from asking for forgiveness. It's just impossible. It's just not gonna happen. He is not going, he's not capable of it. And that comes from this word. Okay? From that word. So Allah says this, remember those four level of emphasis? You saw that? And look at here. Allah says, you made a promise and here's my promise to you. Anyone follows you? Anyone from my slaves follows you? Allah says, the same thing here. I'm gonna put the same thing here. One, two, three and four. The four level of emphasis Allah says, same way. I can guarantee you for show right about anyone from my slaves follow your lead. I'm gonna toss them in Jahannam.  The choice is yours. The onus is on you. What does that mean? It's a really scary eye, man. This is really, really scary eye. Any one of us fall in that trick of whatever direction he comes and we even come, you know, the things that we gave our examples, trying to be argumentative, trying to be like of a comparison, trying to always show both things, all the things that he's trying to do for you and I. If we fall in that trap and we don't turn back and we don't ask for forgiveness, we are part of this. Allah save us from that. It's a really scary eye. Questions? Oh, yeah, I forgot this. I forgot. Thank you for mentioning this. Yeah, excuse me. I forgot. This is the most important part. How do they forget this? I'm gonna attack all of them. Guess what? Here. Thank you for pointing this. He says majority of them, you will not find something shakirin. You would expect to see, I would expect to see that majority of them, you'll find that they are not going to be obedience to obedience to you or make about our worship to you. That's not what he said. He said you find majority of them not going to be shakirin, which means grateful, which means human being will be ungrateful. What does that mean? Where do we show ungratefulness? How do we show ungratefulness? This is very topical right now. Look at what's going on in Gaza. Here's how we show ungratefulness. I've seen it in my household. You walk in, open the fridge, slam it back. There's nothing to eat. In my fridge, there's four to five different types of cheeses. There's juice, there's milk, there's cold water, there's sparkling water, and there's all kinds of cooked meal prepared, awesome meal, whether it's chicken, whether it's goat, whatever that is, and there's at least three different types of bread in there. All the cheeses you can imagine, all the sauces, anything you can imagine. The fridge is filled with stuff. Open it like, God, there's nothing to eat. Ungrateful. Open the closet. Open the closet. Hey, there's a gathering or there's a wedding or something. I have nothing to wear. What's up with this? I have six different suits. The girls at a family, the closet is so packed, you can't put anything there.  Not a closet. They're open. Walk in closet. It's half of a bedroom. There's no, there's no room. There are hundreds of dresses. I got nothing to wear today for tonight's event. There's a lot. Those people in Gaza, this is the fifth day. They haven't eaten anything because there's no food going through. There's no medicine. There's no fuel. There's no electricity. Many, many, many areas we show ungratefulness. Many areas. Why do you think everything we do starts with? Alhamdulillah. Praise and gratitude. Praise and gratitude. Praise and gratitude belongs to Allah, is due to Allah. Gratitude has been mentioned everywhere. What happens to the temperature just raises a little bit. One day is 85 degrees, 86 degrees and we are having your puffing constantly. Seven days it was on the nice 60s. No one even mentioned that. I'm sweating. I'm just showing all sorts of ungratefulness. There's so many different ways. He didn't say that you're not going to wash up. He knows you're going to wash up, but this is incredibly important. That's what he's going to attack you. Yes. Very nice. Thank you. Very nice. Awesome. Is that what you were asking? My brother there, that she said, this ayah? Shocker? Yeah. Okay. And their question, yes. Not from the top. From the front, the back, right and left. Also, he didn't mention the top. What the scholars say is the revelation, the Nur, the rahmah comes from the top from Allah. So he has no access to that one. He has no access to that. So you can't do anything about it. As a matter of fact, in Surat al-Mulk that you read, that you hear about it, anytime they're trying to go up and do something, they're being shot with myroids. Rijumana shayatina. Yeah. Could be. Yeah. So there's a lot of this. Yeah, could be. But what Allah says directly from the Quran saying those stars are being the GC flashes, those of the shaitans are being shot at, pelted constantly. With that, I don't know. That could be. That could be. Yeah, could be. I don't know. So that's what it is. That's what the scholars say. From the up, where the Nur is, where the light is, where the revelation is, they have no access to that one. Okay. I think this might be my last one. Here's what Allah says. Shaitan is your number one enemy. So take him as your, take him as that enemy. Protect yourself. His number one mission and all the mission that all the time that he does, he invites all his followers to do what? To become a sahab, the occupants, the companions of a sa'ir, a blazing fire. And he has a bunch of other missions, which is on part two, if we ever come to that. That's the take home message. Okay. That's it. I think that's my last one. Do I have anything else left? No. Questions, comments. Yes. His end game is right there. Right there. He wants all the followers, everyone to, so here's the thing. That's part number two that I didn't discuss. That's a PG 13. There's a specific goal he has. His goal is not for you to deny God. His goal is to disobey God any which way you can, because he thinks God deceived him. He thinks God owes him and God went against his promise, which God never promised them. His thing is, what is it that he can do to constantly make you do what God says, what God says to do, to go against it? Does that make sense to you? Oh, he does. This is his mission. He's going to be, you know, Qaeda, it's an ambush. Adana means, I'm going to sit on an ambush on this path, whatever that you and I trying to do, do something, right? He's going to be there. He's going to come on an ambush. You know how an ambush works? It's a hidden enemy. It's not exposed.  That's his mission. He said it himself. I don't have to spell it out. Any other comments, questions to get about 20 minutes before Aisha?  You did this to me.  That's exactly what's happening in Gaza, right? That's exactly what's happening. You slapped me once. I'm going to punch you to death. You deceived me. You didn't give me the promotion. Guess what I'm going to do?  I'm going to make sure that they always make the wrong choice just to spite you, just to get back at you. He's challenging God. I'm going to get back at you and you're not going to see these people going to be grateful. He's sitting in a throttle in the team and the second thing is that this one, the one you explained really beautifully, you cannot be grateful. That means nothing is enough. If you have $100,000 in your bank account, you're like, I don't have enough. I want $500. When you get a $500, you're like, a million would be nice. When you get a million, you're like, you know what, that lorry 1.5 billion, that would be nice. The guy who just won the lottery had nothing, had nothing. And suddenly 1.2 billion or something. It's like, the government said, I'm going to give you $700 million. Lomsom, what do you think? It's like, no, that's not enough. 1.3 billion will be nice. $700 million. I'm not advocating go play lottery. That's not what I'm saying.  You're always like, I want more. Yes, it's certainly one of them. Certainly is one and gratefulness. And it plays in our life dramatically.  No, fire. Yeah, that's directly from the Quran. Jinn made out of fire. They don't have Allah's roof. I don't know about the angels. I don't know about the angels. His issue is right there. That's his issue, arrogance. He wanted Adam's position. So he wanted Adam's position. He wanted to be the one with chosen to go to earth, to carry the mission. But Allah all along knew that he has this hidden thing in him. From elsewhere on the Quran, we have learned that he always had this hidden arrogance and, and kibber and arrogance and boasting in him all the time. Because Allah knows that, Allah created him. He just happened to expose himself at this instant.  That's not how it is. Allah always knew about it. Sorry, you said that he has something? Oh, it's certainly shaitan is whispering. Obviously shaitan is whispering, but it's Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ask protection from Allah all the time. Learn. Knowledge will help. Learn. And then ask for protection. Because these tendencies we all have. Just talk about arrogance. Just talk about arguments. Just talk about lashing back. We all have that. Exactly right. Yeah, exactly. The more we, the more we open ourselves to the shaitan, the more we're going to get influenced. It's like this, who gave me an example? One of the one of the guys, one of the scholars gave an example is like, when you enter to a room full of smoke, or those who people smoke, you sit around them for the first time, you're like, Oh man, this is, this is kind of not so good. But sitting with them for 30 minutes, you became used to it.  The next day, same thing. You don't feel it. You don't, you don't get hurt by it that much. The first instance of shaitan doing the wasps or whispering that we might get impacted that we were like, but if we more expose ourselves to it, the more we become kind of sad to scroll. And that's what the scary part is. That's what the power of the law comes in. So you said a keyword. There's a direct IAF from the Quran.  Allah says. So which means so long as you and I are believing and what we're trying to do, he has no power. And also there's another IAF from the Quran that mentioned just to you at the end of the day. Next life, shaitan is going to say, a lot's promise were true. And all I did made some suggestion to you and have absolutely no power over you or to you to make anything to you. You just decided on your own. You chose based on my suggestion. So he is the notion that we think that shaitan is powerful and has Oh, that's not what it is. His whispers are powerful. He has millions of years of his experience. He will be able to deceive you and I very easily if we don't ask for the protection from the one who created him from the one who knows him and knows you. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, what he what he did do is exactly what you said he did. But he saw all three things and he purposefully tried to hide the other two. Remember, there are three things we said process created from the clay, Allah, beautified, balanced human being fashioned them and then gave him his rule. He wanted to ignore the last two. All he wanted to concentrate thinking that he can deceive anyone saying clay clay is not as good as fire. We know that clay is just a clay. Fire is fire. But the other two aspect that makes us far better creature, as opposed to just gin and fire. So he purposely is trying to hide that and see if he can continue his deception and he believes in it. Remember one of the things that we said when we have a feeling ourselves and we keep on repeating the feeling to ourselves at some point we're going to believe in that feeling thing. This is the truth. Even the facts are against it. He's like, no, this has to be true. That's exactly what he did. So I went through what is it? I went there 11 to 18. So I thought 11 to 18. After 18 through 29 is incredible. PG 13 second part about the creation of Adam and all that. You can see what he did to Adam. It is amazing. It's just amazing to listen and hear and read it and all that. So if there's interest, we can do that, inshallah. By the way, next Friday, I'm going to do the same thing with dua of Ibrahim A.S. One passage, one dua and what does that dua mean today for us? So if you're interested, show up and we'll go through that. It's really interesting. To me, it's really interesting. Anything else? Yes. Yeah. That's possible. Among Jins are his minions, his followers, and among Jins are some good ones too, Muslims too. But I'm sure that is. I don't know too much about that. We're good. Alhamdulillah. Thank you all. May Allah give us a lot of for understanding this.


a cabinet to serve as I will until a new leader is in place. So I want to say to the millions of people who voted for us in 2019, many of them voting conservative for the first time. Thank you for that incredible mandate, the biggest conservative majority since 1987, the biggest share of the vote since 1979. And the reason I have fought so hard in the last few days to continue to deliver that mandate in person was not just because I wanted to do so, but because I felt it was my job, my duty, my obligation to you to continue to do what we promised in 2019. And of course, I'm immensely proud of the achievements of this government from getting Brexit done to settling our relations with the continent for over half a century, reclaiming the power for this country to make its own laws in parliament, getting us all through the pandemic, delivering the fastest vaccine rollout in Europe, the fastest exit from lockdown, and in the last few months leading the West in standing up to Putin's aggression in Ukraine. And let me say now to the people of Ukraine that I know that we in the UK will continue to back your fight for freedom for as long as it takes. And at the same time, in this country, we've been pushing forward a vast program of investment in infrastructure and skills and technology, the biggest in a century. Because if I have one insight into human beings, it is the genius and talent and enthusiasm and imagination are evenly distributed throughout the population. But opportunity is not. And that's why we must keep levelling up, keep unleashing the potential of every part of the United Kingdom. And if we can do that in this country, we will be the most prosperous in Europe. And in the last few days, I've tried to persuade my colleagues that it would be eccentric to change governments when we're delivering so much. And when we have such a vast mandate, and when we're actually only a handful of points behind in the polls, even in midterm after quite a few months of pretty relentless sledging, and when the economic scene is so difficult domestically and internationally. And I regret not to have been successful in those arguments. And of course, it's painful and not to be able to see through so many ideas and projects myself. But as we've seen Westminster, the herd instinct is powerful. When the herd moves, it moves. And my friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable. And our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader equally committed to taking this country forward through tough times, not just helping families to get through it, but changing and improving the way we do things, cutting burdens on businesses and families. And yes, cutting taxes, because that is the way to generate the growth and the income we need to pay for great public services. And to that new leader, I say, whoever he or she may be, I say I will give you as much support as I can. And to you, the British public, I know that there will be many people who are relieved. And perhaps quite a few who will also be disappointed. And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them's the brakes. I want to thank Carrie and our children, all members of my family, who have had to put up with so much for so long. I want to thank the peerless British Civil Service for all the help and support that you have given our police our emergency services. And of course, our fantastic NHS, who at critical moment helped to extend my own period in office, as well as our armed services and our agencies that are so admired around the world. And our Interfactual Conservative Party members and supporters, whose selfless campaigning makes our democracy possible. I want to thank the wonderful staff here at Checkers, to here at number 10, and of course at Checkers, and our fantastic prop force detectives, the one group, by the way, who never leaked. Above all, I want to thank you, the British public, for the immense privilege that you have given me. And I want you to know that from now on, until the new Prime Minister is in place, your interests will be served, and the government of the country will be carried on. Being Prime Minister is an education in itself. I've travelled to every part of the United Kingdom, and in addition to the beauty of our natural world, I've found so many people possessed of such boundless British originality, and so willing to tackle old problems in new ways, that I know that even if things can sometimes seem dark now, our future together is golden. Thank you all very much. Thank you.


Hey Virgo, this is Kelly from House of Virgo doing your love reading here. This reading will be for all Virgos, Virgos, Sun, Moon, Rising, Venus, some of the messages may or may not resonate. Take a fifth, leave the rest. If you want to get a personal reading, there's a link in the description box below. Just click that link that will take you to my booking site. You can book a 30 minute or one hour phone call. Reading, okay. If you're new to my channel, welcome. Please do hit like, share, and subscribe. I would greatly appreciate it. All right Virgo, let's take a look at the person you may or may not be connecting with, past, energy, present, and the future. Readings have been pretty interesting lately. I see that Emperor has been fading away. Not really in the readings as much anymore. I'm not sure what's going on there, but once in a while he pops back up. All right, let's take a look. Okay, past energy with your person. Keep an open mind and true love. Wow, that keeps showing up in the past. Romance of a lifetime. Your soulmate may differ from usual type and expectations. So Virgo, I feel like your person felt like you were soulmates, but not like on the same page. Some type of difference, differences between the two of you. Okay, I'm not exactly sure what they could. They could be anything, really. You would know. But I feel like your person was open-minded to the love because they felt true love. They felt that love, a romantic connection with you. I do see them in the past, they were weighing their options or trying to make a decision about some things. Maybe they were trying to balance their quote-unquote checkbook or their finances or their budget. Let's try to see here. Your person might have been trying to... I just heard the word diverse, diversity. Neurodiversity. That just came to mind as well. You might have been involved with someone who was neurodiverse. Let's see. But let's take a look at this two of pentacles. Some decision that needed to be made, balance and balance. Wow, definitely trying to sort things out or be fair, make things right in the past. Okay, the hermit just popped out. And that's the Virgo energy. We do have Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn, Aquarius and Leo. But I feel like that's a lot of... Your person went into withdrawal mode or they were hiding something. There might have been some kind of disorder. There could have been bipolar or I guess maniac stuff going on. Or maybe they were taking medication to balance out their mental state or something. There could have been some, like I said, some neurodiversity things going on. But it feels like it was being hidden as well. Now for others, this person might have been hiding money. Not like laundering or anything. It just feels more like... They had to balance their money because they were legally ordered to pay something to someone they didn't want you to know. I just heard that message. But the hanged man is here so there's some kind of new perspective that happened for that person. Look at that. Ace of Cups. Yeah, this person really wasn't like someone who paid too much attention to love or relationships. Even if they were in them, they may not have... It might have been a real struggle for them. But I feel like somewhere along the line in the past, your connection, the love, they saw love with you. Like a blessing. That's what the Ace of Cups is. They saw like... The Ace of Cups always represents... It can represent grace and healing but it also represents having something that happens that has a deep effect on the emotions.  I just sort of finally recognized for who they were. What does that even mean? They felt important with you. Oh my gosh, the Ace of Cups just flipped out. So the past energy is... They felt, even though there were differences between you, you might have been different than them. Or they were different from you. Or you felt like they were different. Whatever it might be. It's like that's what this says about keeping an open mind. I feel like your person looked at you and this feels very much like a yin yang kind of thing to me. You both brought something to table but you had different perspectives on relationships or life. You spoke differently, even if you spoke the same language but there was some... You balanced each other out in a lot of ways but there was... I mean I don't know if there was difficulty in this relationship but I feel like your person kind of... Either they hid something or they were just trying to... Or they went in within to try to understand and reflect on how to make this relationship work despite the differences. Okay, because there was true love. Definitely true love here. Let's take a look at this present. Children and wedding. Wow. Okay, this person is going to be marrying you, Virgo. Okay, they're going to be marrying you, no doubt. Now either you're going to have children or a child together. The fool can represent the fool like a baby going out into the world for the first time. There's definitely this energy here. Your person I see coming in very stable. Or the children for others is just an element of bringing children together, combining a family. Or having a child like maybe you both are kind of childish with each other almost like in a playful way. Okay, raising a child, raising children, partnering up together. Three of pentacles is marriage. The wedding card, the situation involves marriage. Here's the death card so we have Scorpio energy here. Wow, what else is with that? There's the fool again, Aquarius. Yeah, I'm telling you, a transformation. I don't know if your person was like a commitment fool or never wanted to get married. Maybe they were and it didn't work out in the past or they were in a relationship and it didn't work out in the past or could have been like zero and none of that happened. But whatever the case, big leap of faith here.  You know, this is like all new hope, new paths, a new beginning. This is a new beginning for them. Okay, four of cups and the page of cups. Wow, all right. So the one thing that I feel like you need to know that I'm sitting here with your person is they do struggle with being emotionally available. Okay, you need to know that. It's not personal. It's how they are. They may have like, they may be more practical and logical in their everyday or in relationships. But when it comes to their emotions, they might just kind of be a little indifferent to emotions. It doesn't mean they don't feel them or have them. It just means that they're not a priority for this person. It could just be maybe emotions either overwhelm them and they just try to push them away. Or they just never really did well with emotions and so they just really don't. But look, any kind of emotion that they share with you, it comes in the form of like very childlike. So this is like a Valentine card that one of your friends at school gave you when you were in primary school or something. It was like written with crayon. This person has very maybe a low emotional IQ. But when they communicate with you and I see them here sending you sweet messages or sweet love messages, their intention is good. It's sincere. It's just kind of childlike. There's just like maybe a low emotional IQ with this person. That's really what I feel. It's not a bad thing. It's just perhaps how they are. A new Virgo might be really high on the emotional IQ level. Maybe more mature in that way or it's reversed. This person's high on the emotional level and maybe Virgo, you're uncomfortable with the emotions or more indifferent to it. And you would just rather talk facts and logical things and just practical things that this person could be trying to reach you through sweet ways. But you guys are getting married. They may even be proposing in a very sweet way. So the future energy finances in career L and retreat. You guys are going on some kind of trip as soon as this person is done with their work or whatever they're doing. They have a lot of financial obligations going forward that they'll have to take care of. But four of swords here. This is R&R. Page of wands. This is kind of like communicating or buying tickets or talking about going somewhere exciting, like communicating about these things.  Or maybe Virgo, it could be you who has, you know, trying to balance your emotions. Maybe this person sees that you have, you're trying to stabilize your emotions. Maybe you add the instability and stuff and they want to try to like bring peace to your life. Look, because she's the Leo energy. She's got that infinity symbol over her head. Male or female, whoever you are, it doesn't matter, but it's balanced. It's peaceful. Maybe this person's going to get you a cat. Because this four of cups can be a surprise gift. They could be thinking, maybe they're going to get you a cat. But I see you guys, you and your person, disconnecting from the world during a vacation time. Okay, ace of swords. A lot of fun, sexy times there. Yep, turning point. Big change happening between you. You and your person are very alike. You and this person, yet very different. And not what either one of you would really expect that you would. I'm just hearing that your usual type. Expectations are quite different. They're going to communicate with you going forward in the future as well. Sorry to spoil it, but they want to overcome any problems. And there will be some communication. As soon as I'm done, maybe they're a surgeon. As soon as I'm done surgery or I'm done getting clarity and sorting out some conflicts at work or some things I have to take care of. There's mental clarity here going on a vacation, retreating together. I feel like this energy is coming in for you. This shadow side here, this is the devil energy. This person is like, they don't want to let you go. And they will try to move things forward with you. This can be like very sexual type of time together or just like obsessiveness with each other. This person's very smitten with you Virgo. This is my crush card. They're very smitten and very like crazy attracted to you. And that wheel of fortune, there's big change coming here with this person. And between the two of you, things are going to start moving. This will be in both of your favor.  Maybe go in to look for a cat, I don't know. But you're going to be spending some time together. Maybe somebody lost a cat and they find your cat. I just heard that. Let's get some charms. Okay. Now we got a whole bunch. Okay. So we have a book. So maybe somebody's a writer or an author. This could be a Bible. Or somebody's going to send you like a book or buy you a book. There's going to be a lot of reading. I don't know. You might be going to a restaurant that has like books all over the walls. Or maybe you went there. Also, it's a message here. I don't know. They just said tell them to read the fine print. I don't know what that means. Maybe you're looking over contracts. And then you've got an angel here made for an angel. Somebody's name could be angel or there's a cat. His name is angel. Okay.  There we go. And then we also have a dove with a shamrock. No. I'm sorry. It's not a shamrock. It's a clover. It looks like a clover but it also looks like four hearts. I feel like there's like two adults and two children. Two adults and two children. Maybe a boy and a girl but in these pictures you really can't tell. But whatever it is. Two adults and two children and peace.  Puppies and kittens. Something's going on here. And here's a doggy. Are you going to get a Dalmatian? Or maybe you'll have one. So they might be bringing like getting you a kitty. Maybe a spotted cat or I don't know. I just see spotted cat and I see a spotted dog. Or somebody's child likes Dal, 101 Dalmatians. And then we've got the infinity symbol again you guys. Some of these birthdays on the 8th. But there's like this is the third time with the infinity. This is things coming into balance here. Comes around, goes around. You both, I don't know if it's like separately or together. Maybe in the past there was a lot like the equilibrium. Like you guys just weren't on the same page. You weren't aligned. And it could be because you weren't aligned within yourself and your person wasn't aligned within themselves. You both saw the differences in each other. Yet you were both the same. And I feel like you kind of come into balance here. Things get fixed. Look, here's a wrench. All the tools you guys need. Somebody's acquiring tools or someone works with tools. Acquiring tools to make things better in this connection. Or somebody works with tools or is a mechanic. Fixes things or right now you're looking for a wrench or you're looking at one. Or you're doing something. And then we've got a dolphin. Very playful, playful, protective. Dolphins are angels of the sea. Somebody might live near the sea. But this dolphin energy are going well watching or dolphin watching or you see them in a beach. But there's an energy definitely here of like playfulness. I just feel like, I don't even know what to call this reading. I just feel like so much happiness and joy. I don't have to think about this one really. I mean, I think your reading is, it's beautiful. I'm just going to pull a couple of these love messages here because the charms really spoke. Okay. All right. So you're getting an apology from someone, Virgo, from this person. And then a decision gets made about this relationship. Okay. Things actually begin to move forward. You can be completely open with this person. And the relationship can stand the test of time. So stability. That's what I was talking about with this up and down roller coaster of emotion. Things stabilize. And most of you person, I see your person gets very stable. As well. Look, leap of faith. This person's taking a leap of faith with you. Even though you guys are not typically the typical couple. You know, one of, one of you, it's kind of like, you know, and I just saw pretty woman, maybe somebody called you pretty woman or you called your girl pretty woman or pretty, but the movie pretty woman, you know how different they were, but how they made their lives better because of each other. You know, they brought different things to the table. Yet the one thing is they were both longing for love and they wanted someone. I haven't seen that movie. And when did that movie come out? Early 90s, late 80s. I'm going to have to watch that again. What a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful movie. Okay. That's how I feel like a very, I don't, if you haven't seen it, if you're like younger, that's this reading that, that movie. You guys know, I always like kind of late movies too. I see the images in my mind and then I'm like, oh, that's the movie. All right. I'm going to leave your reading there. I hope that that was enlightening for you. Again, if you want a personal reading, link in the description box below. Please do hit like, share and subscribe, you guys. And thank you. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.


as developer experience engineer at Grammarly and teach DevOps to the people with different background and skill sets. Thank you for being here with us and the stage is yours. Hey, thank you for introduction. Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to be here today, actually. I want to share our case study of using Kubernetes, Carpenter, and some other tools to build a scalable and cost-efficient infrastructure for CI runners. It is built around GitLab and AWS. And I believe you'll find some helpful tips or insights for yourself, even if you prefer some other CI or cloud product. Let me introduce myself first. I'm Serhiva Selenko. I've been an IT staff for about 12 years and currently working at Grammarly. And I love it. My focus area is CI CD. And I'm a big fan of AWS and Hashacor product offerings. Here is what I'm going to cover in this talk. For starters, the context. Why we decided to create a new CI CD infra and how the whole backend infra and code management look in general. Then I will explain how the one account contains our CI CD infra and how CI job get access to resources in other AWS accounts. After that, we will need the Carpenter node provisioner. And I will explain how it works and how we use it. Then you will see what challenges we have around Carpenter and how we deal with them using the Keverna project. Finally, I will talk about the way we use the GitOps approaches with our CD to deploy all that stuff and keep it up to date. I will do my best to make that presentation interesting for you, whether you are proficient in the Kubernetes world or just starting your journey. Let's go. Our backend infrastructure is hosted at AWS. We have around 200 accounts governed with AWS organization and the number keeps growing. Why do we need that many accounts, some might ask? Well, a single AWS account represents the environment like QA, pre-prod or prod for some project, some backend service. Each account has its own VPC and transit getaways help us to connect accounts with each other when needed. We use a self-hosted GitLab to arrange development and code management process. Code projects repositories are organized in groups by teams that develop these projects. Around 400 users maintain around 1500 projects by this day. And because we want to maximize collaboration, we need to make sure that everyone can contribute to any project. This actually poses three challenges. Well, maybe more, but like three main challenges, I would say. If everyone can contribute to everything, they need to run CI for feature branches and sometimes run tests in QA of projects they do not own. And sometimes they need to manage or update AWS resources in that accounts. And we need to keep it secure and auditable. The previous version of the CI infra we had could solve this, but in a way that would still have a big room for improvement, so to speak. Well, CI runners were deployed in every AWS account. There was no auto scaling for runner instances. We had a self-service with best guest provisioning when users picked desired instance size and there was no capacity review later. And when several GitLab projects needed access to the same AWS account, we had more and more runners instances created in that AWS account. So let me explain now how we solved all that, what solutions look like and what the cost looks like. And that leads us to the one CI account to rule them all section. We decided to go with Elastic augmented service in a separate account as a platform for CI CD because we wanted a centralized resource management. We needed to keep up with the networking model across the organization. We wanted more and more customization for CI and of course, we needed the horizontal scaling. While network access is fairly simple and based on transit gateway routing with combination of security group rules, the IM access was a challenge we needed to solve. How CI job in CI account would access other AWS accounts. We leveraged service accounts in Kubernetes to solve that. GitLab can specify a custom service account for the pod that contains a running CI job. We also need an open ID connect provider for the cluster to make a cross-account IM role assumption from the pod running inside that cluster. AWS accounts for the projects have a special IM roles. They are used by CI jobs and they trust their assumption only to the defined open ID provider. Let me clarify that using the diagram. So here is a pod with the CI job. That pod has a service account with an annotation that represent an IM role in another AWS account. Through the open ID pod effectively assumes the IM role inside another AWS account. But that role has a special trust policy that not only limits the scope of principles to the open ID provider of our cluster but also allows assumption only to service accounts. But it is way much simpler for users. All they need to do is specify the account name in the CI configuration and their CI job will be able to access AWS resources in that account. You might notice additional CI job variables in that example. This is how users can set the desired amount of resources per CI job or for the whole pipeline and that actually leads us to the next part of my talk. Resource provisioning and scheduling. We started with a well-known Kubernetes cluster auto scaler but soon we switched to Carpenter quite fast once we discovered its features and potential. Carpenter does not require node groups and it's highly customizable in terms of EC2 nodes, types and purchasing options. Carpenter observes the aggregator source request of unscheduled pods and makes decision to launch and terminate nodes to minimize scheduling latencies and infrastructure cost at the same time. But it can also coexist and be aware of nodes provisioning outside of Carpenter. And you can have several Carpenter provisioner configurations in your cluster. Here is an example of Carpenter provisioner configuration. Here we define instance families, node types to allow Carpenter to choose from but we set some limitations, skip only the smallest and the biggest types. We also set both on-demand and spot participation options so Carpenter could run spot when a user needs that. So when GitLab projects spawn hundreds of jobs, therefore pods, it is okay for us. If we have nodes that can accept jobs, they will be used. If we don't, Carpenter will create as many as needed to meet the resource demand and pods will be scheduled there. When that makes Carpenter great for GitLab CI and for us, well, because in that once CI job ends, the pod dies. So it means when a node becomes empty, Carpenter will terminate that node right away. While just-in-time node provisioning is great for costs, it is not so good for user experience because node provisioning takes some time. So we made some calculations and experiments and decided to keep a certain amount of instances always running so the most active projects could have much more chances for the CI job to start and avoid losing time on node provisioning.  But just so you know, Carpenter supports TTL for empty nodes as well. So it can keep nodes alive, even empty for some time. But again, for our use case and conditions, the worm pools tactic works better, at least for now. We keep that in balance with our budget expectations and so far it is okay for us to look at the usage metrics and adjust the size of that so-called worm pool time to time. We believe it is fair price for a better user experience. Okay, so a user can set a AWS account and resource request from GitLab CI config, but how about other stuff? Control of on-demand and spot launch or sometimes GPU for ML related automation or maybe they need a particular instance type and family for whatever reasons? Well, GitLab cannot tell Carpenter how to do that, but there is another thing that can. And here goes Kiverna. Actually, Kiverna or Kiverna, I hope I pronounced this correctly. Kiverna is a policy engine. A policy is just another kind of Kubernetes resource. So it integrates seamlessly. A policy can validate certain conditions and mutate, generate or delete Kubernetes resource on-flight. Kiverna runs as a dynamic admission controller in a Kubernetes cluster. It receives validating and mutating admission callbacks from the QBIP server and applies matching policies to return results that enforce admission policies or reject the requests. Here is a policy example to elaborate on that. We check the annotations of the pods here. GitLab allows setting arbitrary annotation in the CI config. So if we have capacity type spot annotation, we add tolerations and node selector fields to the pod configuration before it's scheduled. And when it gets to scheduling, Carpenter processes this added fields respectively and the pod gets placed onto the spot instance. And again, it is much simpler for users. They only need to add that annotation explicitly in the job config if they want to run CI job on a spot instance. Another example is the even spread of pods across availability zone. This is applied by default to all pods, no user interaction here. We need to make sure that we use all availability zones and the ReForce subnets to avoid IP address shortage in any of them. This example concludes Kiverna topic and lead us to the final part of the talk. Our approach to cluster management and deployments. We choose Argo CD because it aligns with our approach to infrastructure management in a declarative GitOps way and it offers us a template-based approach for the setup with a high degree of flexibility. As you can see, we have a lot of stuff managed by Argo. So let me explain two main approaches we use to make that happen. In Argo, a logical group of Kubernetes resources defined by Manifest is called an application. We have many applications in Argo that support the purpose and work of our EKS cluster. And their set and configuration are static, defined in the code base manually and updated only when we need it. They share some common values, though, for example, environment variables name and environment name, I mean. Argo offers an approach to manage that kind of setup. It is called the app of apps. There is a parent app with specs for its children, a Helm chart. Child apps, also Helm charts, are organized into sub-projects. So we don't add new apps to that frequently, so it's a convenient way for us to manage this. However, things get more interesting if you have a dynamic set of applications. I know it's been a lot, but if you remember from the beginning of the presentation, there are service accounts that we use to provide access for CI job to other AWS accounts, right? So we have a lot of GitLab groups and a lot of AWS accounts. And because we'll follow the principle of least privilege, we do not allow access to anywhere for every GitLab project by default. Instead, we have a self-service portal where users can request the needed access. Effectively, it means creating a service account with a needed annotation for the IAM role and putting it into the namespace of a particular GitLab group. Therefore, we have a dynamic set of resources here because users initiate their creation and the number of GitLab groups and AWS accounts is not static. Argo has another approach to deal with that. It is called the application set. Application set is a custom resource that generates configs from templates. It supports different methods for generating the content. For example, based on files and folders content or a list of values. The application set controller is installed alongside Argo CD within the same namespace and the controller automatically generates Argo CD applications based on the contents of a new application set custom resource. As an example, take a look at this. We have a set of GitLab groups described in JSON that we use for generator. We also have some files that contain values for the supporting resources needed to create the Argo application. So when a new request comes from a user, it contains pre-generated values for service account and information about GitLab group. Combining that with the rest of the configs, Argo creates a new application that makes the CI job to the AWS account access possible. Another cool thing here is that changes map to the application set in template will automatically be applied to every generated application. This kind of helps when you suddenly decide to change your naming convention, for example. Once again, a look from the user's perspective. A user interacts with a simple web form and our automation tool do the rest. A special service called platformer processes the form data and creates a merge request with the needed changes to Argo. Once changes are matched to the main branch, Argo applies them in the cluster. Ultimately, users can access AWS accounts from their CI jobs in the projects. Last but not least, the money. While I may not share the exact numbers, I still want to give you an overview of what we had versus what we have. Long story short, the new infra costs almost five times less compared to the previous one. We have not yet finished with the cleanup of the old infrastructure because some projects have their reasons to migrate slowly, but you can see that even if the sum, the new infra cost with leftovers, it is still drastically lower than it was. That was the final slide. Thank you for your attention. I hope my presentation was helpful to you.


Today I have the pleasure of doing an interview with both Marty Weems and Chris Gibbs. Chris, how are you today? Doing very well. Thanks, Trace. And how things would be? I'm gonna direct this first question to you, question to you because we've had a lot of news in the market this week in the rarest sector and this announcement from my read of it looks substantial. Headline massive US rare earth project is larger than previously expected, and I have to say that's an understated headline. Can you tell us what this means? Trace, we're extremely excited about the Hallock Creek project. As you know, we've just completed our maiden drill campaign and we started out with this project with only a few hundred acres and we've significantly increased the footprint. It's now over 6,000 acres and in completing the maiden drill campaign, we came out with a significant upgrade to the exploration target. So it's 328% more than the previous exploration target and it's a whopping around 1.1 billion, a ton of mineralised rock at this actual deposit. So we're extremely excited to announce this, but what's what's really going to be the truth here is when we get the drills on the ground and do the resource drill campaign and come out with a significant Jork resource and that's that's our primary focus and we're excited to get that happening in the imminent future. All right, so the number I heard you say was 1.1 billion. I've got here the updated exploration targets outlined between 1.01 and 1.27 billion tons of rare earth mineralised rocks. That's correct. Okay, so I think everybody out there may be going American rare who? A billion what? Okay, Chris, I think there's been some confusion because there were two company names associated with American rare earth but you do have this resource is in the United States. Is that correct? That is correct and sitting alongside me is Marty Weems and Marty is the head and the president of our North American business and that business, the subsidiary of it, is Western rare earths and your Western rare earths is part of American rare earths. We're the one company and it's, as I said, it's a subsidiary that we set up here. Marty's the head of this business and the president of the North American region. And now look, again, it's a great business we've got here. We've got this team on the ground with Marty and our exploration team here. Our properties are all US based and we've been transitioning to being a fully fledged American company. Earlier, since I've come on board, we've bought on three US based directors as part of American rare earths and one of those directors has been on your program a few times and Mel Sanderson. And we've also listed on the US OTC QB and our long-term projection here is to be fully listed continue to upgrade our listings here in the US. And so we're in transition as a company and really the Hellick Creek project for me is a company maker. It's a significant project, has huge potential to be a world-class asset. And those numbers, Tracy, in terms of the exploration target, as you said, that's massive. There's not very many rare earth deposits in the world that have this amount of potential resources. And so we're very excited to move this project forward under the leadership of Marty here who heads up our business here in the US.  Let me confirm Marty, of course, the Hallick Creek is in Wyoming, correct? The United States? Yeah, that's correct. So our two flagship projects are Hallick Creek in Wyoming and then also the La Paz project in Arizona. And before I get to your exciting relationship with the DOE, I would like to just back you up, Chris, and say, aren't you Australian or our investor Intel investors are interested? Okay, well, Tracy, I'm actually, I am Australian, was born in Australia, but I'm also a Canadian citizen. I've spent a number of years over here in North America, living both in in Canada, but I've also spent significant time running a titanium dioxide facility in Baltimore, Maryland, also a molybdenum refinery at Pittsburgh, and also part of a corporate leadership team for a metals company based out of Denver. So I've got significant experience here in North America, and I've also been part of building mines in Canada. So sometimes I'm not sure where home is. Okay, and today you're talking to me here alongside Marty in the in the US, and yeah, I spend significant time coming over here. But again, your Marty's the head of our business here, and again, we're just super excited with what Hallick Creek has, or what will potentially deliver for us. Of course, I purposely brought that up because you wouldn't believe the chat boards, you know, the Australians are taking over. And of course, now they're going to be doubly confused. We've got an American here in management, and we have a Canadian Australian, this should definitely give our audience something to consider when they like to file people under a certain geographical territory. Okay, so just backing up here, who would like to give all of those out there going, okay, obviously this management team knows what they're doing, they're American, thus they achieve a lot of the sustainability criteria that we're looking for. But you also have gone places other companies in the sector have not gone. And let's talk about your relationship with the DOE. Yeah, and look, that's probably best handled by Marty, who is taking the lead on that Marty. So I'll let you handle that one. Yeah, thank you, Chris. And Tracy, good to see you again. Yeah, we're very excited by, you know, the kind of what we consider the three pillars of our company, which are these great mineral assets, the team we're building, and then these partnerships, like DOE, as you mentioned. So, you know, DOE, through a couple of departments, be it their critical materials Institute, which is a DOE innovation hub, as well as through EERE, and its Advanced Manufacturing Office, there's so there's been funding mechanisms that have, you know, activated a couple of our R&D partnerships for them to do very specific cutting edge, we think disruptive potential new processing technology, and be and that being focused on our feedstock. You know, they, the research community has a real keen interest in our feedstock because of the low thorium content, and the possibility that we can create a flow sheet and a process that ultimately potentially does not pierce the veil of needing an NRC permit. You know, so if we can keep that thorium content, uranium content combined under 500 parts per million, then handling requirements become much easier. And when you're dealing with, especially now, these bio based approaches, such as a bio leaching type approach, you know, the bugs and such prefer an environment that's not extraordinarily irradiated. So that works out a little better. So we like where these are going, we've got a number of these relationships and are cultivating more, because there's just there's hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into changing the technology of this supply chain, and making it greener, cleaner, more sustainable. That funding is coming from DOE, as well as the Department of Defense programs like the DARPA, EMBER program, which were also part of there. And, you know, so for us to take greatest advantage of as many funding opportunities as possible, these partnerships are critical, and it's primarily going to be through DOE and DOD funded mechanisms. Of course, I'd like to encourage all of you out there who may be new to American Rareers to start by reading this news release. It's actually a very good gentleman. I would like to congratulate you. Identify clearly the target, the industry sector.  Is that correct? Yeah, that is correct, Tracy. And we are continuing to look at expanding that. And so, again, we're super excited with this project. And look, we can't wait to get drills on the ground and really establish a significant dual resource at this deposit and continue to move it forward. And again, what makes this project unique is that it is low in thorium and those uranium, those penalty elements, and it is still open at depth. It's open laterally. And so, we're very excited, get these drills on the ground first-fold and to establish a significant resource in the early part of next year and then continue to move this project forward. And so, and in conjunction whilst doing that, this great work that Marty's doing on that technology front. And again, our strategy here is to be moving forward these respective two projects that we've got. And while at the same time getting involved in this technology and being at the leading edge and then essentially close that gap so that we can then really go from your mind to market. And the intent is to be in the driver's seat for any of this transformational technology that could well come through. But I do wish to point out that we're also conducting metallurgical test work where the conventional technologies is also working. We're not dependent on this new technology. The conventional technologies processing rare earths is still very relevant to this deposit. But we are wanting to be part of the new, what are called green revolution to actually be at that leading edge to process, refine and purify rare earths in a green and sustainable manner. And that's why we're really focused on these major rare earth deposits that are first off low in those penalty elements. Well, you must be doing something correct. And I'll avoid asking the obvious question, which is why have you flown all the way from Australia to Phoenix to have meetings in Phoenix? Chris, but I hope you too will join us more often and more frequently because you are moving incredibly fast. I'd like to thank you both for joining us. That is Chris Gibbs from the Weaves from the American Rare. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you, Tracy.


The UCLA library presents Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, October 21, 2014 at YRL. A perfect combination, Wikipedia, Open Access Sources, and U. Studies have shown students and researchers often consult search engines when initiating their research, and Wikipedia is one of the top resources to appear in a search engine results page for many queries. Currently, there are entries in Wikipedia with subject matter relating to existing UCLA digital collections, but they lack external links to our collections. Providing Wikipedia external links from appropriate entries to the digitized collection increases the visibility of the digital collections and the researchers' information seeking experience. To create Open Access Aware Wikipedia Editors, the UCLA library is holding a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon with a hands-on task of assigning a list of open access digital collections as external links to appropriate entries and creating entries or improving existing entries on topics as the opportunity arises. Activities include an introduction and demonstration on how to edit in Wikipedia, practice in the sandbox, and an overview of the Wikipedia environment and culture, so there is a better chance your edits stay in place. Come join us, register for a Wikipedia account, learn how to edit, and help make the digital library resources available to researchers. Learn how to leave a footprint with Open Access and the best ways to make your footprint last in the culture of Wikipedia. Edit-a-thon, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Young Research Library. We have 24 laptops, or bring your own. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP-S-S-H-A-F-E-R at library.ucla.edu. This event is part of Open Access Week 2014, an annual opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they've learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.