I'm Kristin Whitney from the University of Maryland Medical Center. Joining me today is Dr. Silke Niederhaus, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Niederhaus specializes in kidney transplantation, pancreas transplantation, and laparoscopic single port donor nephrectomy at the University of Maryland Medical Center. She's also received a kidney transplant herself, bringing a unique perspective to the field of transplantation and indosuppressant management. Thanks for joining me today, Dr. Niederhaus. Thanks for having me, Kristin. Absolutely. And that kidney transplant that you received was from the University of Maryland Medical Center, the most recent one. The most recent one. Yeah, number two in 2019. So I'm hanging in there so far. Alright, that's wonderful. Well, thank you again for joining me. And thanks for all of you watching at home. Please let us know that you're watching by giving this video a like or liking our Facebook page so you can catch all of our future videos. So Dr. Niederhaus COVID-19 has changed our world in so many ways. How has the virus affected organ transplantation? Well, I think in the beginning, all of the transplant centers were very concerned and very cautious about, you know, is it okay to put people on immunosuppression to admit them to the hospital? How likely will everything spread? And so I think a lot of centers in the beginning said, let's take it slow. Let's take it easy. Let's cut back on transplanting our highest risk patients, pick the safer recipients that are healthier, that more likely are able to recover from a severe infection. But in the meantime, since about August, you know, data shows that transplantation is actually on par with last year. So overall, while there have been significant changes made in how we do things, we're not doing too badly. Great. And are transplant recipients at a greater risk for contract, contracting COVID-19? Well, I think it's a twofold question that you're really asking there. I think the chance of catching the virus goes up and down depending on what you do in life and where you go. I think if you pretty much stay at home and you're as safe as you can be, then your chance is really no higher of catching it than other people. However, the chance of getting significantly more sick from the virus, if you get it, definitely is a concern for transplant patients. And are living donors at a greater risk for contracting COVID-19? No, not at all. They don't have any risk factors at all. They're probably among the healthiest people in the country. So I'm not too worried about that patient group. That's wonderful. In our introduction, I mentioned the Singapore donor nephrectomy. Can you give us an explanation of what that is? Sure. A lot of people these days are familiar with laparoscopic surgery, which some people refer to as chopstick surgery, where we use really long, thin instruments through tiny little holes that are a half inch or less size in the abdomen that heal up really nicely. They cause less pain and allow people to recover from surgery better. And then also the incisions look nicer. Single port donor nephrectomy, you have to remember that the kidney is a rather decent sized organ, right? It's bigger than my fist is for my kidney. And so to extract it, we cannot pull it out through an incision of a quarter inch. However, if we use the umbilicus or the belly button as our incision, because the umbilicus is an indented area, we can use the part going down across and up as our incision and maybe extending it up and down just a little bit. And but however, when it heals, it looks like the incision is completely hidden inside the umbilicus or inside the belly button. So some people refer to it as incision less surgery, which is somewhat of a lie. However, people really like it because the result cosmetically is very appealing and the recovery from surgery is quite nice when your incision is you know, the size of a Band-Aid. Absolutely. I understand that UMMC transplant is taking extra precautions to ensure patient safety during the pandemic. Can you share with me some of those extra steps that UMMC transplant has been taking? Sure. In the beginning, we changed around what we do for immunosuppression for some time, but now we figured out that actually, it's quite okay to give people normal immunosuppression code calls. All of our transplant recipients before they undergo transplantation are tested for COVID-19 to minimize the chance that they have an infection going into the operation. And then our transplant floor where our in patient transplant recipient stay is a COVID free floor. So if any transplant patient contracts COVID either outpatient or you know, inpatient, which I don't know that that's really happened that much. Those patients then are roomed in a different location so that you know, there's no transmission from patient to patient for COVID-19. The other thing that we've done a lot more of is telemedicine, both for our transplant evaluations and for our follow up visits after kidney transplantation to keep people home as much as possible. So that's a great lead into my next question. I was going to say that the transplant center at UMMC has been offering telehealth medicine appointments for some years now, but I was hoping you could provide a little insight into how and why those appointments came came about and why they're now more important than ever. Yeah, I think transplantation is a highly specialized field of medicine and surgery. And so we have many, you know, people in need of transplantation who don't live close to Baltimore City, right? The people come from all over the state of Maryland and even from out of state. And in some cases, that's quite a long distance to drive. And while we can't do surgery on you at home, you know, if you're in Western Maryland, for example, we can make your life much easier by visiting with you online, meeting you and discussing whether transplantation is a surgical option at all without having to make a trip to Baltimore. And so for many years, we've seen patients for evaluation via telemedicine. But now that we really want to minimize, you know, one on one interactions in small exam rooms as much as possible and minimize travel, it makes really good sense for us to even after transplant visit with our healthy transplant population, face to face, as you will, over, you know, a platform like Zoom or another one. And that works quite well because people can voice their concerns to their physicians, physicians can electronically prescribe medications that then get, you know, either sent to your home or that you can pick up at your local pharmacy. So it's quite easy to do. It avoids a lot of travel. And honestly, I hope that, you know, it'll stay here for the future. Great. And are there some transplant patients that are better suited for telemedicine visits than others? Is it for new patients or just existing patients? Yeah, at the moment, we do a little bit of both. I think we try to offer telemedicine whenever we're able to. Obviously, in order to do telemedicine, you have to know a little bit about computers and you have to have a computer and internet access. If you, you know, are against those things, then it'll be difficult to do telemedicine. The other patients that are telemedicine is difficult to do with our patients that either speak foreign languages only and need an interpreter. And then the other group of patients that we still like to see in person are patients with really more complicated issues where an in person physical exam is really invaluable and necessary. So what does the what does a telemedicine appointment look like when it's happening? Well, it looks a little bit like this. Right here, right? You get a doctor on the camera or the phone. The beauty that as a physician I found for telemedicine appointments is there are just about no interruptions.  And that's something that, you know, in medicine has been a very rare event in recent years for a physician to spend a significant amount of time in the room talking to a patient or a patient and their family if you wish to have your family with you. And so that's been really quite a rewarding thing to see. And on the physician side, we usually have two screens open, we put your, you know, picture and on one side, and then we have our record our medical record documentation on the other side and we type as we go. So, wonderful. And you mentioned previously, you know, having a computer or a smartphone, is the technology needed for telemedicine challenging to use? Well, I think it depends on who you ask, Kristen. I think if you ask my seven year old, he'd be like, well, this is easy, no big deal, right? I think if you ask people that are more my parents generation that are not as tech savvy that, you know, are not used to using computers for many things. It's a little more difficult. But in principle, you get an email and in that email, there's a link. And if you click the link and follow those instructions, then, you know, on you go. And it's not rocket science, but it can be unfamiliar to some people. Wonderful. And I'm sure one of our nurse navigators would be more than happy to assist any patients with challenges that they're having in that area. Oh, absolutely. And this is something that actually happens a good bit where, you know, it takes a minute or two for people to log on. And if there are difficulties, you usually can expect a phone call from either one of our nurses or from one of our assistants to talk you through the steps and get you where you need to go. Dr. Neeterhouse, are telemedicine visits covered by insurance and Medicare and Medicaid? Absolutely, they are. So that is not something you'd have to worry about at all. And if someone has a telemedicine appointment scheduled, but they're unfamiliar with the process, are they able to have some assistance? Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. We have, you know, nurse coordinators that work with us and you can contact them for any questions that you have. And then generally whoever scheduled the appointment usually that would have been sent to you by email. You feel free to just email them back and say, Hey, I have a question. And there's usually a phone number there too. So you have multiple different ways to get a hold of people. Wonderful. Well, thank you again, Dr. Neeterhouse. And we did receive some questions from the audience on Facebook. Matilda from S6 asks, I'm awaiting a transplant. Could I get COVID-19 for my donor? That's pretty unlikely, Matilda, for two reasons. One, resurgence are used to dealing with other infectious diseases that occur in the donor population. And so we're very suspicious of, you know, donors who present with COVID symptoms and donation doesn't occur instantly as soon as the patient dies, but usually we have the chance to test them or they would have been tested on hospital admission. And even if that test is negative and we have some increased suspicion, we can do further testing before we recover the organs or as we recover the organs. And then while they're being transported, we can run those tests. And before we do them transplant, we definitely have, you know, more than one test result on our hands to reassure us that indeed, yes, this is not COVID or we have another explanation for the fever. And if we're worried about it, you know, we're going to either tell you and say, hey, there's this risk or we're going to say, we're not going to do this transplant and we might send you home, which is very disappointing. But trust me, if your team sends you home after you've been called in, it's not a transplant you would want. Yeah. Rodney from Baltimore asks, I'm on the transplant wait list. Will the coronavirus make my wait longer? Well, Rodney, I don't think so at the moment. I think it really depends on how healthy you are otherwise and how well you keep up to date with all your testing. I think if you get all your testing up to date, then your weight will be what your weight will be. But the best thing you can do to cut your waiting time short is to go around and start a living donor campaign for yourself, because waiting times are increasing every year anyway, because as more people develop kidney disease and are listed for kidney transplant, those times are always going up. So finding a living donor will be the best thing you can do. And we are doing living donor transplants even during COVID-19. Wonderful. And our last question that we received from the Facebook audience was Leonore from Prince George says, I have a sister who lives out of state and needs a kidney transplant. I want to be her donor, but I'm not even sure where to start with the process since COVID-19 has shut down so much. Sure. The beginning of becoming a living donor usually starts with filling out a survey or a questionnaire or just letting your sister know that you're interested in being her donor. And then generally, once you fill out the survey or questionnaire and send it in to the living donor coordinator team, they will guide you through the process step by step. And you can find those surveys or questionnaires on our website and University of Maryland. Yes, I think that's umm.edu slash transplant. You can find that. And also, you're able to find additional information about transplant services at that website. Again, it's umm.edu slash transplant. Dr. Neeterhouse, thank you again so much for your time today. I really appreciate you joining me again to our audience at home. We've been speaking with Dr. Silky Neeterhouse on transplant in the age of COVID-19 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Thank you for all of you watching. And if you have any additional questions about transplant, please leave them in the comments below for Dr. Neeterhouse.


Salamu alaikum everybody. I'm so happy to be here with you again. This is week three already, huh? We're coming towards the end, but we still have a couple sessions left. So we've covered a lot, masha'Allah, and let me actually pull up, sorry one second, go through the presentations so that we can get to some of the questions, which you guys know, right? You know all of this. I've quizzed you a lot about the author of the text, which is Imam al-Malud and the translator of the text, which is Shehamza Yusuf, right? You know all of this, masha'Allah, but we've covered all the eight hearts, right? So here we're just going to quickly go through them. We've covered all the stuff. Last week, we talked about three different diseases, and I wanted to actually quiz you on them real quickly. So let's just see here. I want to make sure I'm in the right one, right list. So we have 13, 14, 15. Okay, so we covered last week a disease of the heart that talked about when you do something, but your intention isn't for Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala to see you, but rather for someone else to see you. What is that disease of the heart called? And how did I, excuse me, allergies? We have the windows open today, so my allergies have been up. So anybody want to tell me what's the disease of, oh wait, let me check the chat box, sorry, it was kind of behind there. So the question is when you, good Mashallah, yes, me and you got it. Awesome. Ostentation is the disease of the heart where you are trying to get attention with your good deeds from other people, right? You're doing it for that neom.  Let's see who knows that. Very good, Raheel. Awesome. So smile, you got it confused. Riyah is, wait, hold on, did I read it wrong? No. Okay, I'm sorry, you got it right. So Raheel and a smile, you both got it right. I read it wrong. So Riyah is yes, ostentation, excellent. And we got Lala Haidara. Very good. So three of you came in with the answer. Awesome. Mashallah. And then Raheel is coming in with the next disease of the heart, which I was about to ask. You already jumped the gun and gave the answer. That's awesome. And you gave me the Arabic. Very happy. But let's see if others can remember as well. This next disease of the heart is when you put your trust in people, right? You're not, you're, you're looking too much at the people in your life and asking their help for everything. And you forget that all help or all assistance really comes from one source, which is of course Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So what is that? Very good Zoya. Excellent. Relying on other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So when you put your trust or you rely on other than God, that is a disease of the heart. And Mashallah, like I said, Raheel gave us the Arabic because anybody else give the Arabic. I want to see if anybody else can come up with it. Anybody else? The Arabic. Excellent. Raheel of course came in first with that answer and then Allah, excuse me, not Laila. And then Ismail, you said Allah gave something. You know, you'll get some points for that. So excellent. Mashallah. And then the last one, I saw some people also giving the answer for it, but those of you who don't know, because I'm the only one who can see the answer. Well, myself and sister Hamera. So those of you who don't know yet, what is the disease of the heart when you are not happy about something and you're kind of like, why me? Why did this have to happen to me? Right? What is that called? Okay, awesome. So again, Mashallah, Raheel came with both the English and the Arabic excellent job, displeasure with the divine decree. This is a disease of the heart. And it's very good. Zoya and Dania as well. You guys are coming through. That's fantastic. Mashallah. You guys are paying attention. I love it. So great job. We have so much to cover you guys because there's quite a few diseases of the heart left. So inshallah. Oh, and then yeah, we did another one. Oh, Raheel, you reminded me. I forgot. Whenever you're trying to, so there's ostentation is showing off. But when you want people to hear about your good deeds and you want to be popular and famous, that's also a disease of the heart which we covered, right? And that is sumat or seeking reputation. Very good, you guys. So I forgot that we did four last time. Great job. But we do have quite a lot of content to go through today. So let's go ahead and get into the presentation. I'm going to quickly go through the presentation for last week because we've covered all of this. We did, I mean, Tuesday. So Thursday is where we did these four, ostentation or lying on other than God, displeasure with divine decree and seeking reputation. So now we're going to go to week three. Okay, and I have a slide. Where is it? It's coming. Here we go. So week three. So Alhamdulillah. A lot of content left. So for today, we're going to cover these three diseases of the heart, false hope, negative thoughts and vanity. Okay. And the definitions are right here and we'll go over each one separately. Okay. So let's go ahead and jump into it. Insha Allah. False hopes, the first one. So false hopes is the belief that you will live forever. Okay. And that belief that, oh, I have all this time makes you heedless, which is careless, like you're just not really caring about your responsibilities as first and foremost as we talked about. The most important responsibility we have is to worship Allah.   And then you keep thinking, it's okay, I'm young or I'm this, I'm that later on in life, I will, you know, do more good work. So why do I have to do it now? Right?  So that is actually a disease of the heart because nobody knows how much time we have. And whatever time we have, we should use it in good deeds, right? We should use it first and foremost, again, to worship Allah, and then to be good to His creation. So a person, again, like this, they just, they waste their time a lot. They who have this disease, they waste their time because they think they have this false idea that they have a long time to live. And so Alas Prada says about such a person that when death comes, they're going to suddenly wake up and they'll say, man, I wish I had sent ahead some good for my life. Like I wish I did more good deeds because now it's too late once we die, right? It's too late.  So what does that mean? Right?  Well, the idea that people are asleep is something we should kind of better understand, that there's a lot of people who are walking around us in a sleep-like state, right? Because when you're asleep, what are you doing? You're dreaming, right? So there's people, again, who are in a dream-like state. They're walking around, they're talking to people, they're going to work, they're eating, they're just doing a lot.   And that also death is imminent, which means it's always around, right? Death is around us and people are dying every day, every minute of every day. Even within seconds, I don't know the exact statistic, but every, we could probably say maybe every few seconds someone is dying, right? So we have to be realistic. And then also that the day of judgment is real. So when someone, when we say someone is asleep and then they wake up when they die, that means that all of a sudden the dream of the world is over. And they realize like, oh, now I wish I had more, done more good deeds. So it's a very dangerous state to be in, okay? Having false hopes. So how do we treat it? Well, you have to, as we said, remember that death is real and inevitable and that no one and nothing escapes it. And then understand that life has phases. So a lot of you who are youth, right? You're in a phase of learning, of having fun. It's a very exciting time to be a child. But once you get older, as you get older, you're going to get more and more responsibilities. And those responsibilities are important.  All you care about is fun, fun, fun and entertainment. That is not right. And that's not to say you can't have fun. Of course, we should have fun. Allah made the dunya enjoyable for us. But we should not live to have fun. And that's the difference.  But if that's the only reason that you like to wake up in the morning or all your day is just that thing, then you're going to forget Allah. And a lot of people, that's what happens to them, they'll get so caught up in a movie or a video game that they completely forget to worship Allah. And I'm going to tell you like how these things can be so addictive. I watched a documentary, which is like a movie last week about the dangers of certain things about the internet and video games. And part of that documentary said that there was a group of people, I won't mention the country, but there's a country where the people are so addicted to video games. And I want you to think about this because it's real.  But they said that it's very common in that country that the people are so addicted to their video games, they actually wear diapers. Aouda Billah. These are adults, they're not children, they're adults who Aouda Billah, because they don't want to break from the game.  Aouda Billah, I mean that's a level of extreme that we should all say Astaghfirullah, we should never want that, but this is the danger of thinking, getting careless with your time and thinking oh it's no big deal, you know, I'm just gonna, I have plenty of time when I'm older and then I'll do things, so let me just keep having fun, fun, fun. No, when you reach the age of adolescence, which your parents will talk to you about hopefully if you don't know about it yet, but it's the age where a child starts to become more like an adult. Well in Islam, when that happens, then you are considered what, which means that you are now accountable. So you have to start doing all of the same things, you have to start fasting and praying.  No, we have responsibilities to Allah and we should fulfill those responsibilities and then we also know that we worship Allah and the real fun is in the next life. Jannah is where we're gonna have a lot of fun and we don't have to worry about going to the bathroom in Jannah, so there's no need for diapers, we can eat and we can enjoy life and everything is great inshallah, okay. So that's what the treatment is to keep your mind focused. Death is always near, I shouldn't think I have that much time and I should remember to prioritize and worship Allah as he deserves, inshallah. So this is the treatment for the disease of the heart. So let's go ahead and go to the next disease. So negative thoughts, this is su'adhan, okay. So su'adhan is a very serious disease of the heart because it's just having suspicion or bad thoughts about someone without really any evidence, right. There's nothing at all that you would that would tell you that someone is a bad person or that you shouldn't like them except for your own thoughts. So it's not like you saw them do something bad or you believe that they were guilty of something bad because there was evidence, you just have a suspicious mind or heart and then you start to think really bad things about them. Well, this is not permissible. Allah is the one that tells us in the Quran, oh you who believe avoid suspicion for some suspicion is sinful. So when you have, you let your heart become suspicious of people, it's not good to do that unless that person, like if someone comes and they have, you know, they have let's say their hands in their pocket and one and their finger looks like, you know, or something looks like maybe it's a gun or a weapon. That's not being suspicious without evidence. You could look at them and go, that person looks really suspicious.  Is that a gun in their pocket?  But that's, so that's not what we're talking about. This is just having a bad thought about someone for really no reason at all. And that's why it's not permissible. And then the other thing is that we have to remember, when you have negative thoughts about someone for really no reason, the danger is that it's usually going to not stay inside of you. Those thoughts want to come out. So you want to wait till your friend comes or your sister or your brother. And then you want to say, Oh, look at that person. They look so weird. And then you start both of you mocking them and making fun of them.  They've done nothing. So this is the danger is that you start to what lead to bad words. And then you got another person involved too. And now whatever they do is also on you, right? So negative thoughts are problematic in so many ways. They're just showing that you have a suspicious heart, but then also leading you to gossip and to bring someone else into sinful behavior with you. Because when you gossip, you need someone else there with you, right? You're doing it together. So this is why the Prophet said and warned us that he who believes in Allah and the last day must either speak good or remain silent. So this is a warning about speaking good. But of course, like we said, negative thoughts, if you don't stop them, they'll lead you to not speaking very good. And so it's a disease of the heart that can cause so many problems. And so this is also another really important hadith to remember. Every day when we wake up in the morning, our limbs, right, which are different parts of our body, as is in this picture here, they actually all go to the tongue and they say, oh tongue, fear Allah, like fear Allah tongue, because the tongue gets us in trouble and it's connected to negative thoughts. Like I said, if you have a bad thought about someone, it's not going to stay inside you. Eventually, it's going to want to come out.  So this is why your body aware of the danger of the tongue asks the tongue like fear Allah. And then it says, why? Because we're going to be punished or rewarded based on what you do. So if you're straight, which means you speak the truth and you fear Allah, then all of us will be good. But if you're not, then you get all of us in trouble, right? So your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears, all of it is like basically telling the tongue, stop getting all of us in trouble because you can't control yourself, right? And but again, the tongue, it doesn't act on its own. It acts on what's going on in the heart and in the mind. So this is why you have to be careful of those negative thoughts, because it will eventually lead to negative actions for the whole body, right? So very important disease of the heart for us to know. So the treatment, this is the process I'm telling us very clearly what not to do. First, you stop being suspicious of people, okay? Then you don't look for faults in other people and you don't spy. Stop trying to find someone's problems. You know, some people, that's all they do. They just watch people all day long and look for things that are, that flaws in them or faults in them. Or they, you know, like you'll be in a classroom setting or in a meeting or at the masjid. And there's people who just like to watch other people do something that's going to embarrass them, that they can laugh at, that they can mock. And then they go and tell their friends or whoever, oh yeah, this guy in the masjid, you did this and then guess what happened? Then you did this. And then you're just looking for, you know, it's not a good thing to do because all you're doing is spending time wasting your time actually, and speaking ill about another person who's totally innocent. They came to worship Allah or do something, you know, whether you're at the masjid or somewhere like the library or a restaurant or anything. People are there to do something and now you're just making fun of them. You know, it's really wrong. So you don't look for faults, you don't spy, you don't watch people, right? And he also says, do not be jealous of one another because sometimes negative thoughts come from jealousy and hasad, right, which we talked about before. Do not desert, which is like to cut your relation with one another.  Oh, and oh Allah's worshipers be brothers, which Allah has ordered you to be, right? So all of these are ways that we can protect ourselves from having negative thoughts. They start with those suspicions, right? Don't have suspicions in the first place and don't actively try to find things that you can talk about someone else about. Don't get yourself involved in that type of deed because it's a bad deed and it's haram. And it's usually, like I said, that kind of stuff suggests that you're likely jealous or you have envy of the person or you're just someone who likes to waste your time doing things that are wrong. So in every case, it's not acceptable and that's why the Prophet is warning us not to do these things. So this is how we, inshallah, stop those thoughts and to remember that the angels are recording everything, right? All of our good deeds are being recorded so nothing will be forgotten. You want to be very careful that if your negative thoughts turn into negative actions that Allah is counting all of that and that's what you're going to be held accountable for on the day of judgment. So don't think it's just going to, you know, nothing's going to happen, right? Be very careful. So that's the disease of negative thoughts. Now the next one is, let's read this one here. Did you know that there are some people afflicted with this next disease and they can't help but see themselves as very, very special? They actually walk around very proud of themselves and often looking down on other people. They completely reject the fact that every good that they have is from Allah SWT. So in this picture you see, I'm sure you can see what they are. They're just a bunch of eggs, right? But if you look at this egg on top, it's got some special things, right? It's got a shiny color and it's wearing a crown and it looks at itself as better and that's why it's walking actually on top of these other eggs and they're definitely not happy about it, right? But there are some people that walk around this way because maybe Allah gave them wealth or He gave them beauty or He gave them privilege and power. Maybe they come from a family that has a lot of power and whatever it is that they have, they become very what arrogant and vain about it. And we're going to talk about this word, okay? Vain. What does that mean? So vain or vanity or jub is a disease of the heart where someone is so full of pride for their for their blessings. They could be about their appearance, which is the way they look or achievements. So you could be vain about your schoolwork.  That can make you vain where you start to think that you're really good and you're better than other people, right? And when you get stuck on thinking that it's coming from you, this is the disease because to say that, Alhamdulillah, Allah gave me a blessing. Alhamdulillah, I'm so grateful for that blessing. There's nothing wrong with recognizing the gifts that Allah has given you but when you think that you are the reason for those gifts, like you're giving credit only to yourself and then you treat other people a certain way, this is clearly a disease of the heart because Allah is the source of all of our good and we're going to talk about that in a second. So the Prophesies 7 here tells us eat and drink, give charity and wear clothes as long as that does not involve any extravagance or vanity. So what he's telling us here is enjoy the blessings of your life, right? Eat and drink. Allah's given you a life where you can enjoy good food and good drink. Alhamdulillah, that's great. And give charity wear clothes so you can actually wear nice clothing and be a charitable person, right? Be a generous person but don't do it in a way that makes you feel like you're better than other people or with extravagance which is you're going over the top, right? If you eat and drink and let's say you only eat at the best restaurants, okay? I can't ever eat at this restaurant because it's not, you know, it's not clean enough for me or it's not this enough for me and you just kind of are very boastful about the fact that you want to eat a special kind of food and it's, you know, very decadent which is like rich and maybe it's a very expensive meal but that you walk around and you just carry yourself like look at me, I'm so better. I only eat at the best restaurants, right? And that's all I put in my body or when you wear clothing, you also do the same thing. You only wear brand name clothing and oh, I would never shop there, right? I would never go to that store because I don't, their clothing just is so below my style. I need the best of the best and so this kind of attitude that you are better than other people and even that can happen when you're being charitable.  So here this is a clear warning like do things because we're human and we live in this world, we can do certain things and enjoy those things but make sure you do not do them in excess which is what extravagance is where you're going over the top and you're just being really a little bit too much, too extra as they say or you're doing it with vanity where you think that you are so special that you're better than other people and you know we're going to explain a little bit more about this. So now arrogance is very closely related to Egypt, okay? The difference is that arrogance requires two people.  Like so you walk around again treating people like they're less than you and not good, right? Good enough. Vanity doesn't need another person. Ojib is really just about a person being so full of themselves thinking that all of their good is from them that there's no mention of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that you know they're not really thinking about all of the great gifts that Allah's given them and they don't make gratitude to Allah but rather they attribute all their good deeds to themselves. So what Ojib and how they're different is the attribution, right? They're both attributed wrongly but it's also the audience. For Ojib, you don't need an audience. You're the only audience. It's you. It's you thinking that you are good looking because you have great genes or your skin is you take care of your skin and you have a great sort of makeup routine if you wear makeup or your hair is so nice because you take care of it but you constantly keep again putting the focus on yourself, right?  Both of these qualities are interrelated, inshallah, okay? So and inshallah, I'm sorry, we'll talk about it more when we get to boastfulness and arrogance but it's important to understand that they're very, very closely tied. And then, you know, the danger again of vanity and arrogance is that it allows this pride and arrogance into the heart, right? And the Prophet ﷺ told us that no one who has the weight of a seed, of a single seed of arrogance in his heart or her heart will enter paradise. This should make all of us never want to ever have a job or be boastful, show off, right? We talked about ostentation, riyadh, we talked about summa, we talked about all these diseases of the heart which really is about showing off and, you know, being and allowing these things because they kind of all work together eventually, right? You start to develop all of these diseases of the heart but at the root of it is that you deny that the good that you have is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and all that matters is that he is pleased with you. And instead, you start focusing on other people and trying to show off to them and then you start thinking you're better than them. So this is how it all works, right? So it's a trap of shaytan. And so, you know, in this hadith, when the Prophet ﷺ said that about the weight of a seed of arrogance in his heart, someone was like, but what if like a man loves to have beautiful clothes and shoes, right? So he's worried because he's like, uh-oh, I don't want to have arrogance but at the same time I like to have nice stuff. What about that? Is there anything wrong with that, right? And then the Prophet ﷺ replied, he said what? Verily, Allah is beautiful and he loves beauty. Arrogance means rejecting the truth and looking down on people. So this is not about not having nice things, okay? You can definitely like nice things and have nice things. It's about your attitude when you walk around in those nice things or when you're, you know, again, getting certain attention for things. How do you see yourself with regards to other people? That's what this disease of the heart is talking about. So let's again, explore this just a little further. So here's this hadith again, the same exact hadith, right? So I want to make it clear. The seed that we're talking about, look at these are seeds. These are multiple seeds, okay, in someone's hand. Now, when he tells us that the weight of a seed, he didn't say a lot of seeds. He said a seed, right? One seed of arrogance. So you can see how tiny a seed of arrogance is. And he's telling us if you have that much arrogance in your heart, you will not enter paradise. We have to make a lot of toba from this disease of the heart if we have it and ask Allah to remove it from our hearts and to ask him to protect our hearts from it because we don't want to ever think of ourselves in a way that is arrogant.  It's all from Allah and he can take it away any minute. There are so many people that had, you know, a lot of good and khayr in their life and everything was going well and it was taken away. A lot of stories. Like, if you ask your parents to tell you the story of Prophet Ayyub, and see how he was tested, he had everything. He had a great life and then Allah tested him and took everything away and see how he responded. But that can happen to someone at any time in their life. So if you start to think these things, that's the danger, is that you can have them taken away from you. Instead, always say, Alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for all of the blessings you've given me, for my health, for my wealth, for the parents I have, just constantly remembering it was all from Allah. It's not from you. And even if you go further, like in school and you get into a good college and you get a great job, eventually inshallah that'll happen for all of you where you will succeed, you want to always remember that every part of that success is from Allah, all of it. Even if you did the hard work, excuse me, even if you stayed up late and you worked on a bunch of projects and researched papers and did a lot of work on tests and exams and you did all the work yourself, you can't say that it's your work that led you to that success. All of it is from Allah because Allah is the one who gave you the means to do it. He gave you the brain, the capacity, the time, all of that comes from Him. And if He didn't give you those things, you wouldn't have been able to achieve any good in your life. So this is how we push back against those thoughts, is no, it's all from Allah and I'm just going to always say thank you to Him instead of letting my heart get puffed up and thinking of myself as something special because a lot of them, you'll find that adults and other people in your life, they'll start to compliment you more on certain things and this is how some of these diseases can take root because those compliments feel good.  It's very natural for the human being to like those things, but you have to remember if you start to believe that those things are from you and then you let that to make you feel special like that egg in the beginning, there's definitely a problem there. Okay, so back to the hadith and you see the different pictures here, right? The man was worried about all the, he loves to have beautiful clothes and shoes, nothing wrong with that, right? Allah loves when we take care of things and we beautify things and we have beautiful possessions because he himself is beautiful. So to love beautiful things is not the problem. It's when you let those beautiful things make you feel that you are what better and you look down on people. So if you look at this picture, this is kind of how you want to imagine someone who is full of arrogance, whether they are arrogant, have arrogance or vanity because they both can have the same attitude of feeling superior to other people.  This is stuff for a big problem, big disease of the heart we should all ask Allah for protection from. Okay, and so how do you treat vanity? Well first, as we've been saying, you have to realize that Allah is the source of all good and you have to be grateful to him always. Never stop in your gratitude to Allah and you have to remember that he's aware of everything we do. So those thoughts that you're having and don't think that you can hide those thoughts. If they're there, he knows they're there. He knows everything. And so remember to check your heart, to go inward, like when you're having a thought about yourself, let's say like I said, you're in a competition at the Masjid or maybe you're in the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts or maybe you're in something else that's happening at school. If there's some type of a competition going on and you start thinking of yourself as like, you know what, I'm going to win. I'm really good at this.  I've got this. Even if it's a thought in your own mind, you have to stop and go, stop the law. Why am I thinking that? All good is from Allah. I shouldn't ever think that about myself. And just ask Allah if you want to win, you can certainly compete, but don't do it with those thoughts. You want to check yourself. And then to remember, Allah tells us here, above all those who have knowledge is the All-Knowing, that is God. Allah knows everything. And what comes to you of good is from Allah. So every good thing that you have is from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. And every bad thing that happens to you is from your own self. That's the rest of the Aya. But anyway, so the other thing is also you never walk around with arrogance in your heart because of the way you're dressed, your accomplishments, education, work, wealth, your lineage, if you're cultural, you know, some people are very culturally proud. You know, they like to say, well, I'm from this country and I'm this and where I come from this family, none of that matters to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. What matters is what we talked about in the first session, kalbun salim, that beautiful heart that you take to Allah. That's what matters more than anything. Not all of these other things.  So here is another hadith that's an important one. Because it clarifies something here. So when the prophet said him was teaching people, right, he said, whoever drags his garment out of pride will not be looked upon by Allah on the day of resurrection. So what that means are there's some people in this world, especially in that time, and even there are places where they still do this, like royalty or people who are who see themselves as very high bread, which means like they are, you know, come from a very high family.  They will sometimes wear clothing that drags on the floor. And a lot of celebrities actually do this too. If you look at some of the big awards that celebrities get for movies or music, you know, or even just other big events that celebrities go to a lot of times. Most of the stories about the event are with the clothing that they're wearing, and they'll go on the runway or the red carpet, sorry, not the runway, the red carpet, which is where everybody comes before they go into the event. There's like hundreds of cameras taking pictures of these people, and they are coming out of their cars. Sometimes some of these people, because their outfits are so like this, they're very long, they have assistants like people who are helpers carrying their dresses, like women and sometimes men too, if they're wearing like a long coat or something, but they'll have like people that work for them behind them carrying this long train. And it's just dragging on the ground, but they do it to say, I'm so wealthy, I have so much money that I can wear a dress or a suit or a coat or whatever. And it can just drag all over the floor behind me. And everybody will know that I have come into this room because I'm so important. This is the attitude that a lot of people have when they dress this way.  So when Allah says whoever drags his garment out of pride, there won't be looked upon on the day of judgment. Abu Bakr, who was his best friend, he got worried because he's like, what? Like dragging the garment, like my sometimes my robe, you know, they used to wear certain clothes that were sometimes it would fall to the ground or slide down. So he was like, oh my gosh, I don't want to have be part of this group of people. So he panicked and he said, one of my robes slides down, if I'm not cautious, like if I'm not paying attention, what do I do? And then the provost I sent him, what? He calmed him down and he said, very clearly, verily, you are not doing it out of pride. So this Hadith tells us first what we shouldn't do, but also to remember it's the attitude that we're talking about. It's not just the action because Allah, the provost has taught us, right, إِنَّمَ الْعَمَالُ بِنْيَاتُ which is every action that we do in this world is judged by our intentions. So Allah is looking at the heart of the person who does this because some people, maybe it's their culture. Like for example, someone's actually asking about wedding dresses in the comments. That's a good point because in many cultures, the wedding dress should have a train. It's kind of like part of, you know, being the bride. So is the intention of that bride to walk around saying I'm better than everybody? No, most brides don't think that. You know, most people are good people. They don't have that arrogance or a lot of people. But when you, so that's like a cultural thing. But if it's done with the intention of pride, this is where it's really wrong, right? And this is what we're talking about. Vanity, where you walk around and even though this Hadith is talking about dragging the garment, you also want to look at wearing certain clothes but still feeling prideful because as you get older and then you guys start working and getting your own jobs and money, you might want to buy some really nice clothing and you might want to start getting some things that you could, you know, couldn't afford when you were a kid. But now that you're making your own money, you want to buy maybe a purse or a wallet or a car or anything where there's something that makes you feel really good being wearing that thing. But check your heart and check your intentions because if in your heart you start to think like, look at me, I'm so cool. I have this, you know, brand name purse or look at my watch or my glasses or my hat or my car or whatever. I'm so much better than everybody else. This is what we're talking about. It's a, it's a disease of the heart of being overly vain and thinking that you, you know, did it that it's all because of you that you have those things and you forget that Allah is the one who gave it to you and then it leads to arrogance, which is you start to think about other people that they're less than you. And all of this is completely wrong in our faith. We do not engage in that type of behavior. So we stop it at the root, which is Alhamdulillah wa shukrullah. Thank you, Ya Allah, for everything you've given me. And I recognize that just as you gave it to me, you can always take it away from me and I'm just grateful to have it. And that's it. You don't, you know, go beyond that. Okay. So that is the last disease of the heart that we're going to talk about today. And then we will have our next session on Thursday. So let's go ahead and go to questions, inshallah. I want to hear from you guys. Who has some questions, some comments? Who wants to know more about these diseases of the heart as we've been talking about? Let me look up here. Someone said, okay, there was a celebrity at the Grammys who dressed that way. Yeah, they had a long dress. Oh, I see it all the time with celebrities. A lot of them will have their dresses just trailing behind. What if you're holding the trail?  You're getting paid. Some people need work. You know, you don't want to tell that person that they're a bad person. A lot of these people, like I said, it's just their job. They have no choice. They have to do it. But so Lala is asking, is a wedding dress with train okay, as long as you're not doing it in vain? Well, I think, again, because it's a culturally accepted tradition, I don't have a clear like fatwa or anything that says yes, wedding dresses are okay. But we can take the meaning from this hadith that says it's really about the intention because sometimes you might have a garment that just is made a little longer than maybe you would have liked, but you needed to wear it at a wedding or some event. Can we say right away that that person is arrogant and or prideful No, it's about the intention. But it's preferred to try to avoid any type of display that could maybe make people think that about you, you know, that you are that way. So if it's avoidable, you can avoid it. But I can't, you know, I don't have a clear answer as far as our certain dresses okay, because they're culturally accepted. It's more just to say that the intention is what we're looking at, inshallah. Okay, someone is asking you only talked about hating on people. So are you allowed to still hate on things? So I think this is referring to the su'adhan. So it's a good question. I mean, I think it really depends on the situation to have negative thoughts in general to be a negative person is really not a good quality. You're likely not going to have a lot of friends if you're always they call them the Debbie Downer, for example, which is like a term that's referred to someone who's always down, who's always like, just negative energy, right? Negative Nancy, I don't know why there are always women names, we need to come up with negative Ned, there is actually negative Ned, so it's not always women. But the names are just like, like, they're just names that describe people that sometimes have way too much negative energy.  No, try to have a positive view of things, right? Try to be balanced. And if something is, you know, bad, sure, you can think badly of it because it is bad, right?  So you can be like, to something like that. But, you know, when it's just things in creation or objects, you don't need to walk around with a negative attitude. Okay. Let's see, we have a lot of other questions here. Can you wear expensive clothes? We did talk about this in previous sessions. There's nothing wrong with wearing nice clothing, but it's really a matter of how much, right? Like, if you are insisting on only wearing a certain brand or a certain type of clothing and you refuse to wear like normal clothing that other everybody else wears, then there might be, you know, something you want to look at there. But if you like to have some nice things and you're looking at quality because sometimes more expensive things are made really well, they're tailored and they're made like with better stitching and, you know, better fabric.  As long as again, you recognize that these are gifts from a lot and you're not extravagant. Extravagance is like where you're doing it too much. It's not balanced. It's, and it's likely again, because you think of yourself maybe as better. And so there's other problems there that you want to look at. If that, if it leads to behavior where, you know, you just want to go and like I said, you are exclusively only wanting to wear a certain type of clothing. And there are people like that that are very kind of snobby when it comes to these things. So that we want to avoid that, right? So, oh, good question. Can you compare, for example, with your friend that you have a better voice in Qur'an? Would that be a good competition or bad? That's a good question. You know, if you're both like studying to be reciters or you're both in a Qur'an class and the teacher is helping you both on your skills to become better reciters and no more Qur'an, there's nothing wrong as long as it's a healthy competition. But you shouldn't, you should want your friend to also succeed, right? So this is where want for your brother, what you want for yourself really matters. Because just, you know, being in a competition with someone that you, that your friends with is, is fine as long as the spirit of the competition is full of love. And it's not, you know, something where it's like, I don't want you to succeed because I want to win. That's, you know, not good, like they call it sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is to say, may the best person win and really, truly mean it. So if you're in a competition with your friend and you're both working really hard, you succeed, he succeeds, you should want him to succeed or her, if it's a girl, and you should keep going until the judge or whoever it is, your teacher decides who the winner is and be happy for them. But if it's like you're competing to the point where you really don't want them to win because you have to be on top of it and that makes you feel better, that's definitely a problem, you know? So that's not a form of healthy competition. Healthy competition is wanting good for everybody and celebrating like just the excitement of the competition, you know, like, oh, we just, we got to compete with each other. It was fun.   So just don't make it a big deal like, ooh, I have to win this title or this award or this thing. No.  So Alhamdulillah. Okay, we have a few more minutes left. I'm scrolling to see these questions, making sure I don't miss because I always hear it, well, at least for my kids. Mommy, you didn't answer my question. Is hating on cigarettes bad? Sure, that's a great question actually because when we hate something, hate is a very strong word first of all, right? But when we hate something, it should always be tied with whatever displeases Allah. So you can hate things that you know Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and the Prophet Muhammad didn't like or they hate it, right? So sure, any type of an intoxicant or drug or, you know, alcohol, things that are harmful, sure, you can hate them because they have no benefit. It brings harm to the world. It brings harm to people, right? So that's perfectly fine. That's a good question. Thank you for asking. Let's see. Thank you, sweetheart, Raheel John. Thank you so much for your very sweet comment. They have to leave. I appreciate your, you're taking the time to thank me and your very kind message. Khuda hafiz, salamu alaikum to you and your brother. Let's see. I have another question. So I have a question that says, what if someone was wearing really nice shoes and then his friend was wearing like ripped shoes, right? So the shoe that his friend is wearing is not in a good condition. And the guy with the nice shoe says mine are newer and better, right? Is this permissible? Well, you guys, I hope you know the answer. If you're going to make someone else feel bad because their clothing or what they have is not as nice as you and you want to show off and say mine are better and nicer, that is not good at all to do because as we just said, Allah swt may have blessed you with nicer shoes, but your character isn't very good, right? If you do something like that, that's not having good character. Good adab is not ever making someone feel bad or looking down on them and mocking their things and making them feel like they are less than you. That's bad adab. So even if your shoes are good, the bigger issue is that you have bad character and that means that you're probably not in good state with Allah. So you should ask Allah to remove that from your heart that I don't want to ever make someone feel bad because of the way they're dressed and then comparing with my stuff because I have nicer things. No, that's not humble. You should have humility and as we've been saying, know that whatever good Allah has given you, he can always take it back. So and the quickest way for that to happen is to show arrogance, right? If you show arrogance, the blessings will be removed from you and the opposite is true.  So it's up to you. What do you want? You want to risk losing all the nice things you have or you want to keep them, right? So inshallah, you shouldn't do that. Oh, thank you so much. Mashallah, sister Shaisa for your very nice comment. Oh, mashallah. Okay, I think so. Trying to jog my memory. I think so. I need to know how old you are because this is a youth class, so I'm not sure if I'm talking to a youth or an adult, but thank you, sister Shaisa, for your lovely comment. I hope to meet you again. Okay, so I have another question. What if you're trying not to make them feel bad or the person says something mean back?  Be above it. Just look at them and say, I'm not going to do that because you're wrong and Allah is not happy with you. If I say the same thing back to you or I give you a comeback, then I'm the same as you because you said something rude and not nice and now if I'm trying to defend myself and do the same thing, how is that any better, right? So when you have people that are mean and rude, it's just better to just let it go and not to give them the importance, right?   So if you're like, I don't, I'm not doing that. I got better things to do than waste my time on that.  So that's actually a more powerful position to just say, nope, not having it, and to walk away instead of giving in, fighting, arguing back and forth. And then everybody's kind of like, okay, this is pointless. And either or that, or it could turn into something heated and you end up causing a bigger problem, right? So why do that? Just walk away. You're in a position of power and control. And the other person's just left there by themselves with nobody to complain to. So you win. Okay. Mashallah. So, so I get another question. This will be the last question. Then we'll end it. If someone has nice shoes and another person has a nice shirt, is it okay to tease each other?  If it's out of love and there's a spirit of, you know, just happiness and teasing in a gentle way, there's nothing wrong with that. But it's when it starts to get really mean and you're looking down on people and you're letting that into your heart. That's when it's a problem. Okay. All right. Alhamdulillah. So thank you, everybody, for being here. Jazakumullah khiran. InshaAllah, we will see you on Thursday. Okay. So come back for our, what is it, fifth class? No, sixth class is on Thursday. All right. InshaAllah, we'll go ahead and then thank you. Jazakullah khiran. Thank you, Aiman. And please say salams to your family as well. All of you. Thank you guys. InshaAllah, we'll see you Thursday. We'll end in dua. Subhana rabbika rabbil izzat. Ya ma yusifoonu. As-salamu ala ala al-mursaleen walhamdulillahi rabbil al-alameen. All right. Jazakullah khiran. As-salamu alaikum, everybody. Take care.


So these five moves I'm going to show you today, I use them all the time when I play. I see professional players use them all the time when they play and it works. So let's get started. First move I want to talk about and I always start with this one because it's the most basic is just the skip, okay? So you're dribbling after the defender and you skip out of the way. It's a touch to the side and skip out of the way, okay? Don't get it confused. I'm not just pushing it with the outside of my foot and dribbling past him. I'm cutting to the side and then moving forward, okay? So it's like messy, cutting the inside, touch with the outside of your foot, dodge the defender and then keep going. Next move is croquette or inside-outside, okay? So I'm coming out of the guy from one foot to the other and this is really good in tight situations. The guy's closing me down. I got nowhere to go. It's just one foot to the other, right foot to left foot or a left foot to right foot, okay? It's that quick touch and it's not again, it's not a touch forward past the defender's foot. It's across your body and forward. Next move is a body faint. So not a step over. We'll do that one after but just a simple body faint. So I'm coming out of the defender. Fake this way, cut that way. Fake this way, cut that way. And you might be stuck on the spot sometimes, one-on-one position, okay? Sell them that way with your body and cut the other way. Good. Next one is a step over. So step over is the same thing as the body faint. You really got to sell these. So I'm not just like this. I'm not just putting my foot around the ball, okay? With my body, with my movement, with my eyes, my head, throw him that way, go the other way. I know I want to come into this space. I'll push him there and come the other way.  So again, just like the skip we started with, you can use just a cut coming out of the guy, cut one way and go. Just use your pace, cut one way and go kind of like a croquette, except a little more direct. That'll work if you do it with speed. But to sell it and make it more realistic, I want to open up my body like I'm passing to a guy or taking a shot and then that cut is coming forward. So let me come again, see from this angle. I'm opening up like I'm going to take a shot. Defender goes to block the shot and you just cut past them, the whole C parts and you just walk right through the middle. Yeah, so here, cut, good. And you'll have to practice these moves. So I just wanted to demonstrate those for you. Now show them with a little more speed and purpose. Leave just a few more bonus tips for you when you're taking on a defender. First thing I want to talk about is timing. So it's actually better for you to do your move. Okay, so if you're worried about your timing, you're not getting your timing right, try it performing your move a little bit earlier, especially when the defender is coming at you. Okay, the other thing that I want to talk about is especially like I just said, if a defender is coming at you, most of us are thinking like, oh, I got to make a move. I have to do a step over a couple of step overs to beat this guy. The truth is, if you can touch the ball into that space and just use your acceleration, you don't even need moves. Okay, so really simplify your dribbling. Think about Messi, Di Maria, think about the best dribblers in the world, Robin, for some reason they're all left-footed. Okay, how do these guys dribble? Where are the moves? There's no moves. They just find the space and dribble there quickly. Okay, so like I said, if a guy's coming to close you down, the best thing to do might just be put it into space and quickly accelerate. Okay, so think about those two things, timing, it's better to do the move early rather than late and sometimes you don't have to complicate it, you don't even have to do a move. Just dribble into that space, make it simple, make it easy for yourself.


Now I finally bit the bullet and started using ZSH, which is probably objectively the best shell I've always sort of known that I just never bothered to work to get a config for it Now of course when I mean shell if you don't know anything, right? It's sort of like bash, but it has more abilities in it. That's basically what ZSH is And I've done a review of fish, which is another one of these improved shells But I actually really don't like that because fish it improves things But it takes a lot of stuff like it doesn't actually have rear real shell syntax It gets rid of some basic things So you can't actually run shell scripts in fish So it's basically just you might as well try and you know use Python as your shell But ZSH is actually good and I want to talk about some of the things you can do with it ZSH unlike fish though you have to set a couple things up like by default actually let me get rid of all my config for a second and By default ZSH just looks really simple. You just have like a prompt. That's not even color You don't have anything fancy. You don't have really even real good tab complete or at least it has the tab complete of basically bash But ZSH is known for having a bunch of cool stuff now first off up here We have Well one thing about ZSH that makes it a little hard for people to use is that by default nothing is active It's not like fish In fact some things aren't even active that are active that are active in bash by default So you have to basically set everything but ever everything's important everything important is in my file here So I'll talk to you about it now by default. I should say Your config is going to be ZSH RC I'm the kind of person. I don't like things in my home directory because it really clutters it up I like to have very few things in there So if you want to move where it is Which I do you can open up Z profile or your profile file and you can just manually say Oh, I want my Z dot dear for my configs to be somewhere else. So that's what I do But anyway, let me let me actually get back to my own config. So first off I enable colors and I set my prompt. That's what this is ZSH does things a little different from bash, but none of it is too bad It's not like terribly incompatible and I don't think history is active either By default. So here I activate history and I set a cache file Which I put my cache directory again some people put in their home directories, but it just gets messy Just put things somewhere else. So the thing there are a couple things ZSH is known for one It has a really great plug-ins the one that I'm using is syntax highlighting So for example, if I you know type stuff in if a command will show up as green You know strings will show up as orange if you have a Command that doesn't exist. It'll show up as you know red. So it'll be like command not found so that you can have you have to install an extra plug-in for that and You have to call it at the bottom of your ZHRC, but that's what I do here I know that one exists either in the AUR in the arch repositories if you're an arch user I'm sure that other distributions have syntax the ZSH syntax highlighting thing as well But you can do that. But another thing that ZSA ZSH has is a really nice tab completion feature That bad that's way better than bashes here. I activate it here Basically how it is so Like in bash you can just type in like a command and then tab and then it'll show you all the things in the Directory you can run this on but if you press tab twice you actually Physically get down into the list and you can select something manually so I can go around here and I can say, you know Give me a list of like these files or something like that But it gets even better because you can actually do that with Options to command so for example, let's say I want to sort Sort files by file type. I forget what that you know that option is I can actually press double tab once I press hyphen And it'll give me a list of all this all the different kind of stuff here So I can you know sort or something like that You know sort by size or something So there's a or sort or at least show them with size So you can do a bunch of things like if you forget the options of command You don't have to run man whatever to look at it all the time if you just you know you use your tab complete So anyway, that's what all these lines do and I also this one last here This one here it enables you to tab complete dot fight like hidden files I don't know why that isn't default. I sort of prefer it that way. But anyway, I just put it in there now like bash You do have an option to have Vvi mode vim mode in Zsa show if you're a vim user, you're really gonna want this of course. So the idea I have mine So if I have just like a you know straight up bar For my my little, uh, I don't know cursor what whatever it will cursor What's the word I'm looking for?  In fact the zsh But vi mode is a little better than the bash mode because you have things like visual selection and stuff like that I don't know. Do they have like deleting things in parentheses and stuff like that. No, they don't have that that would be really cool But the it is better than bash because you do have that ability to you know, use visual mode and I also One thing that the I don't think I don't know if they have it by default in the vi mode But I put it in is if you want to open up a command in If you want to open up your command in vim to like modify it I just threw in these two lines here. So if I press Control E, that's what it does. So let's say I want to like modify this command in vim I just press control E now I'm like an actual vim buffer where I actually can do things like delete inside the parentheses or whatever and Yeah, so and it also doesn't automatically run it when you leave the vim buffer, which it always annoyed me about the bash vi mode But anyway, okay, I don't actually want to run that Okay, so what else do we have so one of the big things so I mentioned in the vi mode I have the bar cursor when I'm just like an Insert mode and then the like big fat cursor the thick cursor when I'm in normal mode That actually takes a little bit of finagling to get so that I think all of this does that and again You can check in the video description. I'll have my whole config file But that's what all this does and basically just checks to see what mode you're in and it uses whichever cursor you want One other little vim flourish that I basically find mandatory Is when I'm going through, you know, let's say, well even let's not even do that When I'm going through the menu like this by default, you're supposed to use the arrow keys I can't stand that I want to use vim keys for that. So that's what I do. So you can remap these All this stuff here. I've remapped them so that I can use vim keys to like move around in this This isn't the fault now, of course, there's a downside to that You can't type with hjk and L while you're doing that But usually once you're if you're moving around selecting something, you're not you're not going to be typing. So So there's that let's see what else. Oh, yeah key timeout That's recommended you set to one if you're using vi mode and one a couple other things. So this is another little nice thing So first off in terms of file managers recently I've been using LF which is like a ranger, but it's you know, not written in Python One nice thing you can do is let's say I want to navigate to a directory So I want to change directory to some place that oh, you know I it'd really be helpful if I had some kind of visual key for that Well, I I've actually made it so I can just press control o at any time now I've actually gone into LF so I can go to whatever folder I want Let's say I want to go to the science folder or something like that and go in here and then You know, if I press q you'll actually see wherever I last was I will have cd to this directory Okay, so I can basically what this does is whenever I press control o I can just navigate wherever I want and that's that Okay, so it automatically changes the directory So that way you don't have to you know change directory manually by typing cd all the time and cd to blah blah You don't have to type it out or something like that And you do this with this little line here. Now, of course, you have to have LF installed I guess you could use ranger or some other directory or excuse me file manager or something like that And basically you just bind I've been I bind control o to run LF or this particular function this wrapper that Uses LF and then it takes your last directory and changes it to it So that's a nice little flourish and of course you can do this kind of stuff in bash too Like you you can look it up if you want But it's just nice to be able to have a couple shortcuts to certain commands or stuff like that and bond you you can You know have bind key commands for other things like, you know Let's say you want to have a key that opens up your music player your terminal music player or something like that You can do that as well with bind key stuff like that Let's see. I also have my aliases and my shortcuts in a different file So I load them here and I think that's about it for ZSH Yeah, so again some pretty cool abilities The tab completion stuff is pretty cool and the syntax highlighting. I mentioned before You have to put you the syntax highlighting. That's like a separate component you download But it's really nice to be able to use it. It's just very pretty I mean, you know, if you're 50 the fish users always talk about how great it is that syntax highlighting But you know, I think it's much better to use have the same kind of thing with ZSH where it's like a real shell or whatever You know that you can actually run POSIX compliant scripts with and you know properly change shell to it and you know Use it to run all your scripts or whatever Anyway, so that's about it. If you have any questions I I'm gonna put my dot files in the video description, but that's about it and I'll see you guys next time