Tom here from Lawrence Systems and Western Digital and Seagate have both responded to the SMR controversy. So we're going to talk about that. If you want to learn more about me or my company, head over to LawrenceSystems.com. If you like to hire short project, there's a hires button up at the top. If you want to support this channel in other ways, some affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel and the controversy over SMR Part 2. So this was interesting when people started discovering it. It was kind of a reverse engineering of drives and of course once they're discovered, the companies are kind of put in a position of they have to respond because it creates a lot of rage in the market, of course. In the shirt of it, if you didn't watch the other video, it's really simple. If you have a drive that has the SMR feature and you are using it in a RAID array and you go to rebuild that RAID array or something happens and you have to replace a drive, the SMR may cause so much pausing due to the way the writing goes and the slow read and write speeds of an SMR drive, specifically slow write speeds, that system may fail to rebuild the drive. I've seen someone comment, well, more than one person comment, reach out to me and ask, well, shouldn't you redo whatever insert name of your favorite RAID system you have these in? Shouldn't that be a firmware update to the RAID system or a design update to them in order to do it? I'm like, no, no, no, RAIDs are not designed to have long pauses that would just not be good. So it is proper that the RAID systems fail these drives out if there's a rebuild problem. The problem really lies in the fact that you shouldn't use these in a RAID. So let's go ahead and look at Western Digital's sad response here, which basically says, buy our more expensive stuff. Even though we put NAS on these drives and SMR is tested and proven technology enables us to keep up with the growing volume of data of a personal business we use. And there's plenty of marketing speak in here. I'll let you read through it. We'll bore you with it. In short, though, what they're saying is buy our more expensive stuff, like the WD Red Pro or WD Gold Drives. So it sounds like this only affects the ones that are labeled WD NAS. And despite their label of NAS, they stand by that these drives are OK to use. But, well, the angry people and all the people have testing problems and have watched these drives rain and we fail out and cause hours of troubleshooting. They have something different to say about that. But this is Western Digital's response like it or not. I personally don't care for it. That is what they're doing. I think these drives should have been clearly labeled from the beginning. Seagate, they have a little bit different response. Seagate says network attached storage and SMR don't mix. Good. Seagate made a stance on this, except Seagate's answer is if you're using some of these drives, they may or may not be labeled as SMR unless you get R. And I have one right here, you know, for example, their actual iron wolf drives. So their iron wolf drives, which are truly their, you know, better, higher quality NAS drives are the ones that do not have this in there. So that's great. I just wish these companies were extremely clear. Like just put a sticker on it, guys. It's not hard that way we know. And obviously the reason they don't is because if us as the consumer of these products knew this piece of information, we would avoid that particular product. But that means, well, they would lose sales, so they're not ready for that. But it's not like we wouldn't have ever figured out.  Well, anyways, back to CK's response. This is what I like over here in this particular article of our segment. There's a lot of wiggle room in here, and this is referring to their statements. We published when we pushed on the issue of the SMR drives and CK's desktop channel, he told us CK didn't feel the need to break it out in that channel. And this is the part that is obviously really annoying in terms of that. So, you know, they're saying that, yes, their iron wolves and specifically those drives are not SMR. So that hopefully will, you know, if you have a Seagate, if you already went with the iron wolf good, if you didn't, well, the controversy is going to continue while we try to figure out exactly which models are and are not, because it's not being clearly labeled. But what hard drives do you buy? And that's why I like to reference this. So this is a blog post by Backplace. I've covered these before. Backplace hard drive stats for 2019. This one in particular was published on February 11th, 2020. And Backplace just hands down has the best drive reporting I've ever seen. And let me explain why. So one, they may not have the drive you want. And they have an entire explainer for how they buy hard drives and why they may not have the drives you were particularly looking for that you were hoping they reviewed because of the bulk purchases they make. When they talk about drive counts, they have 12,000 drives here, 1,000, 1,000, 14,000 broke out by model number. Now, this is where people often skew statistics. And we'll come back to this in a second. And I see people complaining, I had a lot of failures with these drives, or especially technicians and even my own technicians have certainly fallen into this. It's a misunderstanding of how people handle statistics. Let's say we fix, and we do, we fix a lot of computers and we see a lot of failures with a particular drive. The only way you can really say that that drive fails a lot is if you have the whole market statistic for it. So if there were an equal number of two different brand drives, let's say we 10,000 Western Digitals and 10,000 Seagates, equally distributed amongst systems, and now we have a failure rate that we can track. That would be great, but we don't. Usually what happens is a drive has a really good price and price performance, so a quantity of them are brought out to the market and sold. And they end up making up the majority of a certain year, perhaps, of that channel where they're like, wow, there's this many drives installed, so they're very frequently the ones you find in either desktop computers or in, you know, commercial equipment. Whatever that product line was, it was the great price performance that they bought it. Therefore, the most likely ones to fail are the ones that have the majority of the market. You don't have the other side of statistics. And this is something I really have people look at, because also people only call you with the failures if you're dealing with that, versus the people who didn't bring it in and didn't fail, so now you don't have that other side of statistic as well. You can see how this can get a little bit complicated really quick, but understanding stats is really important, and just because there's a lot of them in the market or a lot of people posting in a form, oh, I had this one fail, but you look at just how many of them were were in the market of that particular model, and unless you know how many of the opposing ones didn't fail and were the equal number installed, it's hard to get a statistic, unless you're back plays. Then they have some really good information here, a couple of things of note. Drive count, how many drives are out there? Drive days. They have a whole breakdown of how they calculate that, but these are, you know, a cumulative time the drive is running, because obviously saying I have 12,000 particular drives, but they haven't been running for very long and they didn't fail, doesn't give you the failure rate. And even then, it's hard to really, you know, get a good average until you've seen something along the lines of the 12 million hours of running on this particular Seagate. And yeah, we do see a higher failure rate. And obviously just the number of days running means you're going to get a higher failure rate, because as drives age out, they fail more, so it's not like you instantly can look at the Seagate model going that one. That's the one that must be a terrible product to buy. You have to look at one that has a combination of high hours with a low failure rate and kind of do the calculations here and think about it. But I like this, and I'll reference this as a good way to help determine which drives have, you know, high failure rates, low failure rates. And over the time, and you can go back, they have a long history of posting these statistics annualized and broke down quarterly. The Toshiba drives, which I have used in the past, do have, I mean, pretty good luck with that. Actually, I still have some Toshiba ones that are running. HGSTs are some of the ones that we're still using in our office that we've had for a really long time. And when you look at, you know, the million hours or four million hours here of runtime with these four TB ones, and I believe this, one of these two models I don't remember, but one of these, and I'll give you the exact model number, is the ones we still have running in our RAID array that are probably so old they should be replaced, but they just hold backups of a few things now. But that array is still working. Like I can't remember how many years ago we installed it, but we've never had a drive fail in it. And these are one of the ways we used to choose those drives. Now, of course, the other options are going on, you know, looking around for older enterprise drives and things like that, you can find deals on, if you're trying to build your RAID array, those can generally be pretty, pretty good and not likely at all to have SMR if you're looking about like, you know, pulled enterprise drives. And finally, the last thing I'll talk about is hard drive shucking. I actually think this SMR technology, because the hard drives that you can get super good deals on because they're encased in USBs, that is probably gonna end this. As I have a feeling that the majority of those drives, if they're gonna stick something in the channel that they said it's not designed for RAID, it's probably gonna be the ones that are single drives in USB enclosures that you can find great deals on. And there's a lot of other YouTube channels that have covered this and just people in general, like, hey, look, I found a deal on all these USB drives, let's chuck them out and build my RAID array with them. And I've seen everything because I think they've even tried to disable it. And if I'm not mistaken, there's a couple pins that you have to, to get them to work in a desktop. I was watching some videos on this a while ago. It's not something I actually have done, but people have asked me about it and I'm completely aware of it, but I have a feeling this will end it because those drives are most likely now to be the SMR drives and very unfriendly, as we know, to RAID arrays. So they may not be the best places to store all of your data despite their very, very tempting prices of doing that. So this is to follow up on that. So I think this is interesting. I'll leave links to all this so you can do further reading and figure out where to get some drives. I still like the Backblaze reports. I think it's probably the best way to get a good statistical analysis of drives and their overall failure rate and Backblaze has got a lot of interesting articles on this topic and not just the drive reports, but how they build them, you can really dive into all the numbers, but good luck finding hard drives and I, yeah, sad answers on Western Digital and Seagate. Sounds like SMR is not going away and for those of us that are looking for reasonably inexpensive storage for our data hoarding needs, it's gonna get a little bit tricky out there. Thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of the video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from the channel, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you'd like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out. 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in multiplication of this right, say significant digits or numbers, figures, as in the original number having least number of significant figures, does it make sense for significant figures? Significant figures, okay, so let's take those masses, don't use the calculator though, centimeter in the density gram per centimeter cube, please find out the answer. Let me keep on adding them, okay, so what is the answer? 1.68. 1.68, somebody said 1.68. 8. 6. 8. 8. So what you have done is you have just, so actually when you have done 688 like that, okay, now you have to write 9, it is closer to 69 than 68. Please stop it. Stop talking. Mass is 6 kg and acceleration of an object is 3 meter per second square. You need to find total force acting on it, how much? Uncertain about the last digit. Something else, okay, so your significant is a sum of certain digit and uncertain one. Final result should retain as many decimal places in the number with the least decimal place. It should retain how much? So let's take 1.32 gram, these three masses scale. So how much should be the reading? 7.08. 7.08. 7.08. 7.08. 7.08. You should discard the second going forward. So we did like 2, 1.688, okay. So there are physical rules out there, nothing, let's say. But let's study those as well systematically. Write down just one decimal place, what should it be? 2.8. So this will be 2.8. What if it is 2.775? 2.8. 2.865. So number preceding to 5 is an odd number. Then you make it 3 right off. 5 is? 5 is odd in the big law. It's not logical or like, it's not, it has some of this chapter. It is never ending, okay, but this chapter.


I didn't see that's what I was just talking about. I watched it. I watched my man Maze's video Tanner the good thing about Barnett is he not gonna be a full-time player He gonna be rotational which he's I always said about Barnett like he's not good, but bro.  I don't know what happened with my man Maze dude May seem like he was a good guy, but that one dude gaming remember I played that dude gaming Meeks Oh, he came in here don't know $50 after he beat me. I sent him a message. I couldn't find them on YouTube though Oh, there I go gaming with Meeks Yeah, there it is right there. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. I gotta check it out. Let's do right here Like that a bro. He get to me 50 like y'all. I'm a fan. I appreciate you I mean, I I'm sorry. I had to glitch but you every play that dude was cool. I was like This is a whole different vibe.  That's that's like yeah I didn't really like I ain't really like how they did my man Maze bro.  Oh, let's go Medcalf. Go crazy, man People said you were washed after yesterday. I would love to find I would love to get into Facebook more bro for real. I Have a Facebook page Need a gaming has a Facebook page and what yard line does that post start flipping dude? I Need to learn that apparently hit a blunt afterwards. Oh My god, I'm gonna get around it. I don't know who's gonna be open here. We'll see Not that guy. God Cooper cup.  Oh, man. Yeah one.  I've always been good at run commit inside the five.  I feel like you got a user like this side against I feel like you do. Oh Yeah, that's that's that's cool. I know. I honestly like no bulls. I think I'm better at mad now than I was when I when I was Running running tournament. I really do. I think the comp is better now.  Click on click off. That's not getting more Up as time to run now. That's what happens when they're scared. Yo, that's what you do You're on cover for bro. I like I like when I tell y'all He can go that over medca if he can oh, okay, let's go get him.   It never does not bust it. Honestly Bust tight end is that I don't want to say it's ass, but like Most people that run bunch tight end are so like makes it easier Now you play like civil that's going around wide open. Hey take it.  Nobody but when I tell you Dwight freany is good and still good He's tough. Let me just gotta go 30 yard zones here, right boys. You just gotta do it Just to have like another so you don't get caught. No, I can't let him do this Click on click off That's how you do it boys. No bunch tight end is easy, bro.  Yeah, you got this year. I feel like you just I'm not good enough to go for picks I'm really not good enough. It's like it sounds body, but I feel like I just get teabagged every time I try to get a pick bad this year bro tragic Pits is just Ain't pits a rock, but I honestly I believe that I believe that early in the game. You can't go for picks I really did believe in it Okay, okay. Nope Okay, okay Okay, gotta go for it safety Did lend Barney just pick was that lend Barney? Oh my god Sedge goal line normal. Nice. Now. This is second level. You'll never come out and goal line against goal line unless you're on the goal line All right boys No troll never come out and goal line against goal line unless you're literally on the goal line Just I mean who is this guy Holy no for real because some people like honestly some people say oh it's goal line I gotta match it with goal line. Don't do that. You'll give up the easiest touchdown in the world I swear. I clefted that in some tournament. I was I was rooting for him to play like he did that in some tournament I was pissed. I was like you buy that. It was like a running That's a good route combo good That was his first good play of the game. Why oh my god, he snapped the ball fast For that play Oh, he went up the field. Yo, he snapped the ball so god Look who's blinking. Oh my god, bro.   I really do and it's gonna be a touchdown Yo, it's ungodly how you snapped the ball inside inside a two-minute warning. It is ungodly I'm this escape artist, bro. You could just double team and roll out with ease here Matchy poo, you're not gonna match Randy malls Yep. No, that's couple three. Oh, maybe it's not. I mean rb is just wide open. I gotta try. Oh great bounce. Oh my gosh If I was playing anybody good, he would have ran right into an interception The game is more fun without escape and are you kidding me?  I'm gonna be honest. It's broken.    You just get him. He's cracked now because of escape artist. I swear to god It's the number one reason why It's chicoby So you just can't your post up is just it's just hard to rush. Oh, he's out of bed. He's not out of mouse Are you gonna kick a three right here blr? Oh, it's like I think contain it's crazy says I think contains work They're just so easy to manipulate. You know people just know how to like I think they work. I really think they work But one they're too easy to double team or too easy to like not even cut block like you can run around them, bro You can run around the uh Like the fact you can run around a contain is one of the nastiest things, bro They what's crazy about contains is they work better when they actually are blocked when they're unblocked. They have no shot, bro They have no shot But when they actually get blocked, they're they're solid like right now like I couldn't roll out on this dude I mean, what did I just throw? How do you not click on that in these dudes? And I I don't I don't want to say I like this man, but I like this man And I've played this out of this game, dude. I have grinded this out of this video game I thought quarterbacks were fast before escape artists low key I thought quarterbacks were like I couldn't stop quarterbacks before escape artists Like for real. No, yeah Daniel Jones was fast. Come on, dude They were fast before that the game didn't need escape artists at all like it didn't It just made it so you literally couldn't contain like you could contain those guys If you put if you put your effort to it you could ah, this is man You could contain those guys if you put your effort to it, but He got so bad low key on there. That's josh never mind Is that now you can't stop them if that makes sense You understand dudes How do you run man coverage again Like look, I ain't running from this dude. Maybe I am see like I scored a touchdown with escape right there. Yeah escape escape definitely curd the game Like it just it just made it so frustrating Oh, you ain't you ain't see that coming. Did you are you about to give this up for you for your life right here? Are you about to get us up from the 23 yard line? I'm going for it Honestly, I'm gonna throw it no matter what some moss.  Actually, we got to put it on the other side though This is a lot of reps against match. We get a regular streak. Thank you I don't know what the f**k is happening there, dude. Well boys, we got one person to throw it to right here Still got it, but I need to get rid of runoff And uh, what should I call it? Who else freany That s**t wasn't open. I I was aware that it wasn't open But it was fourth and goal from the 20 yard line. So, you know for the circumstance I want to say that it was open Like when they had post ups I swear to God, you got to run another blitzer just so to get like someone on ones here The Phillies, how can the how could the Phillies ever run or ever? There's just no way like that There's just no way you let that That's just only Let's go night train. Oh fourth and inches you think he runs here. Let's go I'm gonna be honest.  You know how far back are you on a five or did I There you go mosque at that pick right?  I'm gonna be honest with you Abilities actually flooded regs like that should as a now Abilities just killed that whole mode to be honest with y'all I if it didn't have abilities think about it like I feel like you could play with a lot of teams People would be hyped the dolphins the dolphins are going to be terrible on regs They're gonna they're gonna have 200 speed receivers and be terrible on regs Come on clown you alert alert. Oh, you got nobody. You got nobody. Go get them, please Mid-zone. I need a play right there. I need a play He always goes up.  If I don't went for a pick there. I wanted to knock that pass away Oh, Sean Taylor Mid-zone knockout. I can't lie. That was the best I ever saw I'm a believer off that one play. Oh my god Night train. I need a big play Night train like where did you go? Like Dude running back wheel post rush was unstoppable, bro. It really is just unstoppable It's unstoppable Aaron, I'm telling you Aaron Donald is low-key trash, bro. I'm over him. I'm really over Aaron Donald Can I take six seconds off the clock here? Can I do it? Am I the greatest all the time? My boys are bagged it's kind of how I'm feeling right now. Oh edgerin.  They're going nuts, bro. What he got defensive route Oh, he got what I got he watched he watched the stream edge threat double or nothing unpredictable. Um, okay He got the rally Was this fourth down? Well, I made that I made a tragic mistake right there. Oh my gosh What you gotta bring matty ice? I mean you gotta just throw the running bag at that one on one smart Oh a spin move might have did it After your finals like end of may like it's gonna be late in may not early in may. We're looking at like may 20 May 20 that weekend of may 22nd or something


So today, we're out here with the Marines of 1st Battalion and 2nd Marines. We're integrating into the line companies to provide electronic warfare support down to the platoon level. Electronic warfare increases the lethality of the Marine Corps because we can identify enemy locations. We know what they're looking for because we're looking for it as well and we're an asset down to the platoon level because we can locate the enemy and know when we are being located as well. So electronic warfare is important to the Marine Corps because in accordance with force design 2030, to operate in a more dispersed, desegregated manner, we're going to be relying a lot more heavily on communication structures and unmanned aerial assets. The threat is evolving that the Marine Corps will be facing the next few years, the next couple generations and the threats we face are able to thrive in their heavily reliant on the electromagnetic spectrum which is the place we operate. So these services allow small unit leaders to utilize more tools within a toolkit to find the enemy and to feed either the greater situational awareness of that commander, the joint intelligence picture as well as prosecute any targets on the ground per the commander's guidance.


As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh and welcome back to the next segment of this beautiful, beautiful series known as supplications from revelation. Bismillahi walhamdulillah wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulillahi wa ala alihi wa sahabihi ajma'in. We praise Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, we send blessings and salutations upon Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, his companions, his household. May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala bless them and bless every one of us, grant us goodness in this world and the next. My brothers, my sisters, we were taking a look at some of the supplications of the prophet Ibrahim or Abraham may peace be upon him, alayhi salatu wa salam. And I made mention of how broad his supplications were, they were not just for himself, they were not only for his offspring but they included cities, they included the whole globe, they included you and I. They were for produce, they were for guidance and they had so many different angles and aspects. In his own life, he also went through hardship. Allah did not give him offspring for a very, very long time. Many of us, we get married, mashallah, we take it for granted and we expect to have children at a certain time, not realizing that sometimes one of two things happen. Well, initially those who get offspring, I'm not talking about those because that is quite normal. But one of two things happen to the rest. Sometimes Allah delays something. So while you think that you would achieve offspring or you would get children in the next so many years and Allah says, No, I wanted to delay, prolong further 10, 15 years. Then I will give you offspring. Why? It's Allah's plan. He wants you to come, become closer to him. He wants you to expand on anything else. He probably has chosen something else for you. You need to understand it, pick it up and work towards it. And you need to, you need to be a person who's happy with what Allah has chosen for you while trying to achieve what would really make you happy year. You are still happy with the decree of Allah and you know that he's done it for a reason. And some of these reasons we understand, some of them we don't. Secondly, sometimes Allah chooses not to give you at all. That also is the plan of Allah. So here's Ibrahim, he didn't have children years passed by. He still didn't have children and he made a dua to Allah. Subhanahu wa ta'ala. Rabbi habelimina saliheen, Rabbi habelimina saliheen. O Allah, grant me offspring who will be pious, who will be good, who will be acceptable to you. Now when we ask for offspring a lot of the times and I've seen this with people who are asking Allah for children, you know, because Allah makes it, sometimes makes them or gives them a bit of a pause. They say, O Allah, grant me offspring, grant me children, grant me children. Add a clause to it. O Allah, grant me good children, pious children. Give me children who will obey you. Give me children who will please you and so on. Very interesting how to add something gives value to the dua. So don't just say, O Allah, grant me children.  Or when it comes to money, wealth, people ask Allah, O Allah, give me, bless me with money. O Allah, I got to pay my bills. O Allah, I got a debt. O Allah, help me to pay my debt. Wait, add a clause to it. O Allah, grant me wealth that I can use to earn your pleasure. And then when you get it, use it to earn the pleasure of Allah. Because sometimes people say, O Allah, when you give me, I'm going to do this. I will build a Masjid. I will do this for the poor. I'm going to give so much percentage. I'm going, then when Allah gives you, it doesn't come because you say, No, I still need to do this. I need to do that. Don't be hypocritical. Call out to Allah.  And when you do, I would like it to be fulfilled in a way that I'm going to be able to do X, Y and Z for your cause. Now, I quickly want to distinguish between people who connect something that Allah will give them to something they will do if Allah gives them. That's not what we're saying.  O Allah, if you give me this, then I'm going to give you that. That is not the way forward. That is not actually correct. It's not right to say that. But what you say, O Allah, grant me those who are good. Grant me wealth that is blessed.  I've already got a plan. It's all there. I just want that wealth to be able to do this. I want this wealth so that it can be part of what I'm going to do. There's a subtle difference between the two. I'm saying, O Allah, give me pious offspring.   Allah says, I don't need that charity. So maybe you don't need to pass. You see, it's like we are saying to Allah, you need the charity. So if you give me this, I'm going to give you that. So the hadith of Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in Sahih Al-Bukhari says that that nether is actually Makruh. It's not, it's detested. It is extracted from a person who doesn't want to do the deeds. Very interesting. I think some of us might never have heard of what I've just said now where you say, O Allah, if you make me pass my examination, O Allah, if you cure me, then I'm going to read the Quran once. Allah says you, I didn't ask you, meaning I'm not going to benefit from you reading the Quran. But the correct way of doing it is to say, O Allah, I've given the charity. I'd like you to help me to pass. So the charity is not connected to whether or not I'm you going to make me pass, but I'm pleading with you to make me pass because you are the greatest. You have it in you to make me pass. Indeed, I'm going to work as hard as I can.  Because you say, O Allah, I want to pass. O Allah, help me to pass my examination, but you haven't worked, you haven't studied, you haven't tried. Allah says, well, I gave you all the tools of passing. I gave them to you. You didn't use them. So while you're calling out to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to ask him to make you pass, he has now given you the ability, the capacity, you work as hard as you can. And then, and then you will actually achieve that by the help of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. But if you cut it just and you just asked Allah, then Allah will also cut it, may Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grant us guidance.  I diverted a little bit to tell you that when you are calling out to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, you should make sure that you don't connect it to an act of worship you will do as a result of Allah giving you, but rather do that act of worship and call out to Allah. So this nether, it's called a nether, nether meaning a vow where you are vowing.  But what happens to those who have already made a vow? Well, if you've already made a vow, you need to fulfill it. You need to make sure that you fulfill it. You don't say, O Allah, if I pass, I'm going to go for Umrah and for Hajj and when you pass, you don't go for the Hajj or for the Umrah. Some people say, O Allah, if I pass, I'm going to fast for 60 days. Why did you make it so difficult? Just say, O Allah, I'm going to fast for three days and I'd like you to make me pass. So whether or not I pass, I'm still going to fast for the three days, but I'd like you to make me pass. There is a difference between the two and it's all connected to the greatness of Allah. If you understand that Allah is independent, you would understand He does not need your acts of worship. Rather, you need your acts of worship. May Allah make it easy. So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala heard this dua'a of Ibrahim, alaihi salatu wa salam, at a certain point, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him offspring. Allah granted him Ismail, alaihi salam. He was already old and when he got that child, he actually thanked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so much. He praised Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. He thanked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and he says, O Allah, I thank you for having given me these children or these offspring at old age. And he made a dua'a for those children. This is Ibrahim, alaihi salatu wa salam. And he says, you see the term kibar is used, which means, you know, kibar means pride, but kibar means old age. So we're not talking of kibar, which is the pride, but we're talking of kibar. In old age, he was granted Ismail and Ishaq, alaihi salam. And then he makes a dua'a for these children of his and he keeps on asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, O Allah, I thank you for what you bestowed upon me. Let's listen to these beautiful verses. Verse number 39 onwards of Surah Ibrahim. He says, I thank Allah. I praise Allah. All praise is due to Allah who blessed me. Remember I said in one of the previous episodes that the term Wahab, the name of Allah, is used when asking for offspring for children because it's a gift of Allah. So he says, I all praise is due to Allah who blessed me, who granted me upon old age. My children Ismail and Ishaq. For indeed Allah is the all hearer of the prayers. Allah hears every single dua'a and supplication. Pause for a moment. This man's been asking Allah for so many years. He's now old, but the way he words it, he says, I thank Allah for giving me Ismail and Ishaq and I declare that Allah hears all prayers. Many of us, when we call out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we call out to him once, twice, twice. Then we say Allah's not hearing. So he asked Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us from uttering statements like those because Allah hears. Ibrahim Aleyhi salam is saying, inna rabbil asami'u al dua'a. And you know what? He's so happy. He's got Ismail.  Then he says, after that, what's the next most important thing? Oh Allah, you've blessed me with offspring. I asked you for offspring. I want you to make my offspring from among those who read Salah. Rabbi, maqima al Salah. Oh Allah, make me from those who establish prayer and wa min dhurriyati and from my offspring. Make them from those who establish prayer. Rabbana wa taqbal dua'a. Oh Allah, accept my prayer. Grant me acceptance. Listen to my prayer and accept it exactly as I'm asking for it. Now there are two things we learn. One is he's making a dua'a for his offspring. Two is he's starting with himself. Amazing method of Ibrahim Aleyhi salam. So when you're asking Allah, oh Allah, make my children pious. You need to be making an effort to be pious. Oh Allah, help my daughter to be able to dress appropriately, modestly, filled with values and morals of a very high level that you would be pleased with and you are not worried about it yourself. How is your dress code? How is your connection with Allah? How is your obedience?  Do you want goodness from them? Instill it within yourself. You want them to quitsin, quitsin yourself.  You also need to obey Allah's instruction. Try to be the best possible person even to your parents. So this is something that we need to learn from Ibrahim Aleyhi salatu wa salam's beautiful dua. It's not just about him. It's about his offspring, but he starts off by saying, make me exemplary and my offspring as well. They can follow my example. How many of us we are not role models to our own children? We're not role models. We teach them to look at others to find role models yet Allah made us automatic role models by virtue of us being parents. So surely we need to call out to Allah for ourselves, make an effort and call out for our children. It's like how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala makes mention of a pious person in Surat al-Ahqaf and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, when the one who's conscious of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala reaches the age of 40, which is the peak, why is the age of 40 always known as the peak? Because man's strength continues to climb. He gets to 40. He's at the top of the mount. After that, he starts going down. You have the first aches and swollen this and pain here and your eyesight starts failing you slightly until you get to 60, 70, 80 and then mashallah you return back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. May Allah make it easy for us. So Allah says in the Quran, حتى إذا بلغ أشده وبلغ أربعين سنة speaking about a pious human being when he reaches his peak and he's reached now 40 years old. What should he be saying? He makes a dua he calls out to Allah at the age of 40 saying O Allah grant me the ability to be thankful for the favors you have bestowed upon me and that which you have bestowed upon my parents and O Allah help me grant me the acceptance to be able to do good deeds that would please you and make my offspring also those who are good pious and who will please you. So when a person reaches the age of 40, he now comes down. He's worried more about his own connection with Allah. He starts worrying about his children who are in their teens perhaps in their 20s. He's worried about them and he starts making dua to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saying O Allah help them grant them guide them etc. Because now he knows he's going to be passing the baton on. So we make a dua for our offspring. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to open their doors and remember here Allah says the one who arrives at the age of 40 when he is concerned about his relationship with Allah, he'll start supplicating for his children. Aslihli fi durriyati. That's a powerful dua. It actually means. Aslihli fi durriyati make the goodness within me in my offspring. So by correcting my offspring and making them pious, you've actually made me worthwhile as well. I've left behind progeny who will pray for me, benefit me by virtue of sadaqa jaria, which means it's a continued charity when you do good and you've left behind goodness. Allah will continue rewarding you for those who benefited from that goodness right up to the end of time. You have had to leave that goodness and then Allah will grant it acceptance. So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is speaking about the importance of making dua for offspring and the importance of seeking forgiveness of Allah. Inni tubtu ilayk. I am indeed seeking your forgiveness. I have returned to you. I have repented to you or Allah. Wa inni minal muslimeen. And I am from among those who submits unto you. I submit unto you and I repent to you. Oh Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. This is the dua of Ibrahim aleyhi salatu wa salam that he has made for his offspring and Allah blessed him as a result of this and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala granted him so much and his offspring as well. Now he was so genuine in this calling out to Allah that Allah made it such that all the messengers to follow after Ibrahim aleyhi salam were from his family. Imagine if you look at those who called out to Allah the most they were the prophets of Allah subhanallah. You and I who need to call out to Allah more we've called out less than the Prophet Salam. We've called out less than Ibrahim aleyhi salam. Open the pages of the Quran. Look at the duas of Ibrahim. We will be ashamed of how little we call out to Allah when these people who were so close to Allah. They knew the value of the dua so they kept on calling out to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala day and night. Inna hum kanu yusari'unafil khayrati wa yad'unana raghab'un wa rahaba wa kanu lana khashiiin. Suratul Anbiya Allah is saying those messengers they used to make haste towards our obedience and towards goodness towards doing good. And they would call out to us they would call out to us with hope hoping that we would grant them and fearing the rejection of the prayer or fearing that whatever they wanted may not come. They knew that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would give it but the timeframe the exact way of that dua being answered. I remember mentioning in one of the episodes how Allah always responds but sometimes not exactly with what you want sometimes with what he knows is better for you. It may not be precisely what you want but it's definitely something better for you. Let's look at another beautiful dua of Ibrahim alaihi salam. We can start it off inshallah. It is so beautiful because when he was young very young and he's faced his father. His father was disobeying Allah by worshipping everything besides Allah they threatened him that if you didn't follow by worshipping these idols and by doing what your father is doing we're going to deal with you in a very harsh way. So he spoke to them. He says how can I fear you yet you have not feared the Lord of the worlds and then he makes a beautiful dua. Let's listen to these beautiful statements that are recorded for us in Surat al-Shu'ara. He says All these deities are an enemy to me besides the Lord of the worlds. Everything besides the Lord of the worlds that is being worshiped. I've got nothing to do with those things for me they're enemies. Besides the Lord of the worlds who is the Lord of the worlds because it's easy for someone to look at someone and say that's the Lord of the worlds. That's the Lord of the worlds. So Ibrahim alaihi salam as young as he was he gives a description who is the Lord of the worlds. He says So he is the one who will guide me. The one who feeds me and the one who will quench my thirst and who quenches my thirst.  The one who causes my death and then shall cause my resurrection. The one whom I have full hope that he will forgive my sin on the day of judgment. He is the Lord of the worlds. Then he turns to Allah and he says Oh my Lord grant me authority, grant me goodness, grant me wisdom and join me with the righteous. Join me with the righteous. Subhanallah. Here is a man who Allah has just chosen. In fact, he's a young boy still at the point where he made this dua. Rabbi Habli hukman. Oh Allah grant me that authority, grant me some form of power meaning to be able to convey your message and join me with those who are pious, those who are righteous and he doesn't end there. Allah makes mention of these duas. I want to say something. Imagine you and I made a dua and Allah made mention of it. It means it's a powerful dua. Allah must have loved it to make mention of it. Here are the duas of those whom Allah loved and he loved their duas. He loved their supplications. So use these words to supplicate unto Allah. Rabbi Habli hukman wa al-hikni bil-saliheen. Wa ja'alli lisana sidaqin fil-akhireen. And oh Allah, let me have a truthful tongue. In the others. Now that's a beautiful dua. What it means is oh Allah when others speak about me, let them speak about me with good words. When I'm gone and people will be talking about me, let them say nice things about me. Allahu Akbar. With us in our lives already people say nasty things and I think people cannot wait for us to depart so that they can live in peace sometimes. May Allah not make that happen to us, but it's a reality. We are asking here through the words that were used by Ibrahim alaihi salatu wa salam. Rabbi, we are asking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wa ja'alli lisana sidaqin fil-akhireen. Oh Allah, make for me a beautiful remembrance in those who are to come after me. When we talk about Ibrahim alaihi salatu wa salam, there is something amazing you need to know. Every Salah when we are sitting in the tashahud in the last part of the prayer, we say oh Allah bless Muhammad sallallahu alayhi salam in the same way you have blessed Ibrahim alaihi salatu wa salam. That is a beautiful gift that Allah makes mention of and that's a beautiful supplication that we've just left you with by the will of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We wish to continue in the next episode from where we've left off and inshallah until we meet again. Wassalamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.


Let's argue about bisexual Superman. Let's argue about bisexual Superman, while the world burns, while they prepare us for war with China, while they take away our rights, while they steal more and more of our power and our wealth, while they rape our minds with advanced propaganda systems to shape us into pawns in a global chess game. Let's argue about bisexual Superman, to avoid our fear of an unfathomable future, to compartmentalize away from how nothing makes sense anymore, to sedate the creeping sensation that everything we've been taught is a lie, to squeeze off the strangled cries of that sacred child within us, to hide from the insight that we are one with every part of this mess. Let's argue about bisexual Superman, because it's easier than being real, because it's easier than admitting we're afraid, because it's less challenging than facing ourselves, because us and them culture wars are comfortable while authenticity is terrifying, because the beloved keeps beckoning us back to wholeness, and we are simply not ready to confront our own perfection. Let's argue about bisexual Superman, instead of making art, instead of singing the glory, instead of expressing reverence for the miracle of creation, instead of filming everything we can before it's gone, instead of embracing each other on a dying world, instead of kissing each other on our plunge into the unknown, instead of comforting each other about our own mortality, instead of allowing real intimacy to get a word in edgewise, instead of connecting in that way we've always longed for, but never had the courage to allow. Let's fight over what turns Superman on, to keep ourselves from getting turned on, to keep ourselves from living turned on, to keep ourselves from living tuned in, to keep ourselves from opening our eyes, and beholding life's majesty for the very first time, and never ever closing them, and holding hands, and walking out into a transformed world beneath the yellow sun.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com with 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles basketball fatpack break number 795 with five impeccable Basketball spots being given away. We just have to do one more of these. It's already on the site I think we're already halfway there on the next one and that fills impeccable basketball can get that on the schedule Big thanks to everybody here for getting in to the action. Appreciate it There are all the teams here And let's roll it let's randomize that list four and a three seven times for names and teams one two three four five six and Seventh and final time after seven we got Brian and down to Natalie four and a three seven times for the teams one two three four five six and Seven and final time after seven. We got the Clippers down at the Sun's obviously the giveaways as always gonna be different dice roll At the end of the break. All right, there's the first half of the list right there. All right, Pelican Sean Maddox What about Grizzly's Brian? You never know All right, let's get everyone's teams on one list no trade windows in these little filler breaks Just want to get to the giveaway part. That's what people want to see quickly to this pack break All right, what do we got? We got Luka Donchich second-year Luca For Dallas that'll be for Brian Kevin Porter Jr. Jared Culver RJ Barrett. That's PJ Washington Kendrick Nunn Kevin Durant Like Kendrick Nunn's pretty solid a lot of youngsters on Charlotte that are looking pretty good RJ Barrett and the Knicks looking pretty pretty decent to Eric Pascal, there's a John Moran and a Hotchimura Hotchimura goes to Josh and the Wizards and the John Morant Going to Brian and the Grizzlies in that XR design Which I think is pretty sharp. They should do an XR basketball Panini do an XR basketball Let's do that. Let's get that going. All right. Who's gonna win spots? Brian and the Hawks down to Josh and the Wizards and everybody in between Let's roll it. Let's randomize that list four to one five times top five After five and you're in impeccable basketball one two three Four and fifth and final time after five top five so from six on down. Sorry I Think there is one more pack like I said. I don't think it's full yet If you want to give another go Jasper's case I appreciate you trying to Congrats to the top five.  There you go I thought I thought I thought you might have been just on the outside looking in but no you've got two spots, Brian Dean Sean and Narik in as well. I'm Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm I'll see you for the next pack and then I'll see you for that impeccable basketball Jasper's case breaks


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