OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. So we made it to the final day here of the NAO. I hope all of you have found these sessions useful to give you a foundation of what is involved with administering the WIOA grants, and I want to just take a minute to thank all of the presenters from the AEO, Rhonda and her support staff, the other consultants who helped out. I know Diane and Neil were real quick to post links for additional information in the chat, so I know people found that helpful and useful. And I also want to thank our OTAN partners. They do just as much work as we do to get this up and running each year, all the technical aspects and things that come up, they really have to be quick on their feet to deal with things. And I want to thank my Melinda, Neda, Anthony, Renee, Marjorie, Angela, I hope I got everybody. And without any other delay here, I want to introduce OTAN, and they have a team presentation this morning, so I will turn things back over to them. Good morning, everybody. It's nice to have everyone here and to see so many joining our WIOA family. My name is Renee Collins, and I'm the director for OTAN. And I'm here this morning representing OTAN with Angela Steele, our lead application developer, Neda Anasari, our coordinator of technology projects, and Anthony Burek, coordinator of distance learning projects. So, together, we'll share all about what OTAN does this morning. I wanted to point out in this picture, this slide, first of all, 34 years, that's pretty, you know, we're very proud of being a state leadership project for the last 34 years.  So we have 15 full-time staff that work with OTAN out of the Sacramento County Office of Education. And then we also have many essential subject matter experts who are living throughout the state, providing professional development in your communities around the state. So this is us. Let's go ahead to the next slide, please. So what is OTAN? OTAN is one of the three state adult leadership projects you have already met. I know CalPro and CASIS, so you're being introduced to us at this point. We really differ from the other state leadership projects in that we are supporting educators, administrators, and staff, support staff statewide in the application of technology in their classrooms and across their adult education programs. So we're hoping that what you learn today about OTAN, you'll take back to your agencies and staff and really share what it is that we have to offer because there are many high quality, no-cost resources and professional development available to you. And we'll get much more into that. Go ahead, please. All right, here's our agenda for today. So we'll talk a little bit more about who we are and how you can become a member of OTAN. Becoming a member allows you to have some direct mailings, direct connections with us. We do a monthly newsletter out to the state as well as a quarterly newsletter. We also do, you know, we might do some direct mailings about professional development coming up or adult-ed news items that are kind of hot off the press. And these could be, you could choose, you could elect to get direct emails about that with your membership. Today, you'll also be introduced to, we essentially have two teams that we work with. We have our development team and we have our staff who do a lot of our training. So we call them our training team. And today you'll hear more from them. We'll also be exploring some of the teaching tools and the resources that you can see on the OTAN website and talk more about the training opportunities that are available to you and your staff, both face-to-face and online trainings, as well as the Digital Leadership Academy and our OTAN tech talks. So so much more to come. And then hopefully by the time that you leave, you'll really have a clear understanding of how to stay connected with OTAN past the point of this presentation because we really do want to have you part of our OTAN family as well. So with that, I'm going to pass it off to Angela Steele. Hi, my name is Angela Steele and I'm the lead application developer for OTAN. And on this side, we'll talk about OTAN membership. Renee mentioned that's a way that you can be connected and stay in contact with OTAN and connect with us. You can become an OTAN member from our website, OTAN.US. It's very short and simple to remember. There is a link in text in the upper left corner of our web page that says join OTAN slash membership. And if you select that link, you'll be able to fill out a form, choose which mailings you want to receive from us, enter your information and submit it. And that's all it takes to become a member. And from that point, you'll be able to receive regular communications from us about professional development and other activities and programs that are of interest to adult education agencies. Next slide. This is a screenshot of our OTAN homepage. The OTAN homepage is really the hub for all of information about all of the resources that we'll be sharing with you today. So I know we'll be going through a lot of things, but if you have additional questions, please come back to our website and visit it. It's pretty simple. Our website has our mission statement right across the top, leading adult education through support for and the effective application of technology. So on our website, you can access information about all of the professional development resources that we offer. You can access our resources, which are teaching and learning resources and websites and tools about accessibility, creating lesson plans, and a lot more. The Stay Connected tab on our website is how you access more information about our news articles that we post. That's where you can access our digests and our newsletters with information. And then the last tab on our website, video presentations, allows you to access all of our remediated videos. And one thing to note here is that all of the videos and content that we post on our website are fully accessible. They include transcripts that can be downloaded. And all the documents are also accessible.  One other note from the front page of our OTN website, on the right-hand side, there are buttons to access a lot of our most popular or most popular resources, our important resources, or things that we're promoting. For example, there's a button for the digital learning guidance at the top. That button will allow you to download the PDF of the guidance as well as access videos and additional other training materials. You can learn more about OTN.  So not only is all of our own content accessible, we provide information to help guide you and your staff to create accessible resources on your own. I won't go through all of these, but one other big one is the green button, California Adult Education Online Application and Reporting. That's a way to get to the OAR online reporting site where adult education staff can submit information about deliverables, grant award notifications, expenditure claim reports, and so now we'll talk a little bit more about that online application and reporting website. So this is where your agency staff will go to submit information about your WIOA yearly activities. This is where applications will be filled out, grant award notifications will be submitted, budget information will be entered, expenditure claim reports will be submitted, information is available there all the time about which WIO deliverables are due and which ones have been submitted. There's information on the OAR site about course approvals, which is required for K-12 districts and COEs and information and communication about the WIOA grant for agencies is available there in an archive of information. So we periodically send out information from CDE related to WIOA deliverables and other information and that archive is available on the website at all times and there's a link to that right now in the chat here. And now we'll switch back a little bit to an overview of the OTAN development team. So we are responsible for managing many resources. So the top one, the OTAN website that we've been talking about. Another piece of the OTAN website is the Adult Education Provider Directory. This allows people to find an adult school near them. You can search by zip code, city name or school name and it allows people to find resources near them. And this is one of the biggest tools on our website. There is the Yale Civics Exchange, which allows educators to share resources. And then there's the California Adult Education Professional Development Calendar. This training calendar allows users to access information about trainings from not only OTAN, but the other state leadership projects. So CalPro, CASAS and Cape Tap Professional Development Events are available on this calendar as well.  And we also have the Adult Ed Student Succeed website, which provides annual recognition of students who are, have excelled, have overcome a lot of challenges and really taking advantage of all of the resources that their agencies have to offer. And again, we offer so many tools on the OTAN website and I encourage everyone to just explore and access everything that we have. And if you have any questions also on all of our websites, there are links to contact us at our support box and forms that you can fill out to request more information from us at any time. So information for the resources tab, I'll just go through a few of these, the digital learning guidance, which I mentioned briefly before, the California Distance Learning Cooperative Canvas. OTAN facilitates a lot of Canvas instances being set up for agencies. You can contact us for more information about that. We provide accessibility resources to help staff and users create accessible documents and web content. We have the Teaching with Technology resource, which provides lesson plans and information that can be easily accessed and downloaded and shared with other users. Our web-based class activities provide in-depth information about tools that are relevant to instructors and adult education agencies, curriculum offers, students succeed again, the online application and reporting site. We have links to all of those from the resources tab of the OTAN website. And now I will pass it off to Neda Anna Sari. So, Angela, thanks so much. Actually, I'm going to jump in here before Neda. But Neda, would you mind just actually going back to the previous slide just for one second? So, hi everyone, Anthony Burick. I'm the coordinator for Distance Learning Projects with OTAN. Angela has already given us a lot of information about the OTAN website. We're going to dig into the content here a little bit more. If you do have questions as we're going along, please feel free to put those in the Q&A and we'll take those as we proceed through the presentation here. I just wanted to make a little mention of the Digital Learning Guidance resource. That's the first resource that's listed at the top there. So, hopefully many of you have had a chance to take a look at that Digital Learning Guidance document. We published it on the OTAN website about a year ago or so. And it's really meant to be a broad overview of digital learning across the education field in California. It covers many, many different topics starting with equity and access in adult education programs. We also talk about how you design flexible learning experiences at your agency. So, this includes not only the distance learning that we've been up against the last couple of years, but really thinking about how to transition from distance to blended learning, hybrid learning, high flex learning. So talking about those models that we encourage folks across the field to take a look at and think about starting to implement across their programs. We also talk about data-driven instruction, digital assessments. We also talk about how we foster digital communities online. So really, this is a great opportunity and a great resource for you to dig into. And along those lines over the past year, we've been working with one of our partners, Isti, to develop some supplemental resources that go along with the guidance. So these include Reader's Guides, Facilitator Guides. We also are developing a Canvas course. And I think maybe we'll talk about that a little bit later as a training opportunity. But really, we really want educators across the state to take a look at this guidance document and please reach out to us. If you have questions, if you'd like training back at your agency, if you need help getting oriented to the new resources that we're pushing out on the guidance website. So, yeah, we again, we all of us at OTAN hope you'll take take some time to take a look at that guidance document and really think about how to share that with folks back at your agency and in your community. So next slide, please. So we'll go through some of the resources that you can find on the OTAN website, and these are really instructional resources. So first, we have this Teaching with Technology resource. It's really a big database of lesson plans and lesson ideas that teachers can easily access and download and customize for their classrooms. So our focus has been on the WIO or program areas, but we're also taking a look at CTE and adults with disabilities as well. So the way, again, many, many resources that you can take a look at, you can access them by program, depending on the levels of your program, levels of your classrooms. You might be able to also access resources in that way, the different subject areas. Also, we take a look at standards as well. So again, for example, like the CCNRs. So again, it's sort of a big repository of resources that teachers can take advantage of in terms of introducing technology into their classroom, into their lessons. All right, next slide now. Web-based class activities. So on a monthly basis, we ask folks from the field to write a long-ish article on a technology topic or tool to really kind of dive into that. So it's really meant to be kind of a practical guide to implementing a tool or technology topic in the classroom. We're trying to keep up with the times. You'll note here in the screenshot here, we have a recent article about chat GPT, but we also cover a wide variety of topics throughout the year. So web-based class activities. Next slide. Curriculum offers. So one of the things that we organize for the adult education field are what we call curriculum offers. Sometimes these are pilot programs that we invite adult education agencies to be a part of. So, for example, we have a couple of pilot programs going on right now. One is with North Star Digital Literacy Assessment, which you may be familiar with. The other is with a vendor called Learning Upgrade, which has a mobile learning app that covers a wide variety of program areas. So again, these would be opportunities for adult educators to sign up to be a part of a pilot program. But we also have other curriculum resources on our website that we like to make available to the field. So, for example, in partnership with Essential Education, we have a self-paced blended learning course. So for teachers who are wanting to get started with blended learning, this is a great resource that they can take advantage of. It's free to... All the curriculum offers are free to the field. So you can go to our curriculum offers page and learn more and see what we have available for the field. Next slide, now. As we mentioned previously, we've talked about the California Distance Learning Cooperative. So this is really an initiative organized by OTAN to bring Canvas to the field, to adult education agencies across the field. As you can see here in the bullet, so there's a no-cost instance that we can help you get set up. We also offer the first 50 Canvas licenses for free. And then if you're interested in having more licenses at your agency, we have negotiated a rate with Instructure to be able to provide more licenses at a low cost to the agency. And we also have a lot of training opportunities that come up. We also provide some services if you need help with getting your instance set up or getting teachers with into training opportunities. That's one of the things that we help manage through the CDLC. So we encourage you and your agency to consider becoming a part of the CDLC. And we have some information on our website about that. Next slide, now. We've talked about the Student Succeed Program. So this is really a great way for your agency to honor an outstanding... Of course, all of our adult students are outstanding, but really maybe one or two students who stand out at your agency on an annual basis. This is really a way to bring recognition to them and your agency for the great work that you're doing back at your agency. Our Student Succeed Program, the application for that opens on January 1st, and we will... If you become a member on the OTAN website, you will receive communication about that. That application process is open for, I think, three months. We do a review process, and then we go ahead and notify agencies in May, hopefully in time for your graduation and end of year ceremonies to be able to honor those students. So again, adult education students succeed, a great way to bring recognition to your students and your program. Next slide, Neda.  Yeah, you are. Okay, perfect. Good morning, everybody. Neda Anasari, I'm the Technology Projects Coordinator. I'm happy to be here with you. I'm going to do a quick, you know, blink a couple of times.  So we are going through all of our resources and what's available to you. And so, you know, Renee and Angela and Anthony have been kind of sharing what resources are available to you. I'm going to transition over to training. And so some of the training opportunities that you have at your agency that you can bring us in, we can arrange an online workshop. We can arrange a face-to-face workshop. One of your favorite people that's on the line that's been hosting us at the NAO Ms. Melinda Halt arranges all of your training and is also one of your great trainers as well. And so I'm actually going to ask a question and I'm going to ask you to answer it in the chat, please. How long have you been in adult education? Tell me, five years, 10 years, five months, one month. Tell me a little bit more of how long you've been in adult education. Six years, eight months, three months, 14 months, 40 years. Wow, we have some long timers here. Hey, those short termers, the ones that just joined us, you may want to make a friend today. You may want to make a couple of friends today. So for those of you that have been with us a long time know that there is no cost to the training. For those of you that are new, yeah, you heard it. We will come to you for free. So guess what? Today you want a free workshop. So if you would like to arrange a free workshop at your agency or want to learn what that means, go ahead and put... I'm going to ask Melinda, Melinda, can you do me a favor? Yes, free, free, free, free. Support at otn.us is who you're going to write. Absolutely, yay, a free workshop. Everybody's a winner today. I'm just like imagining Oprah's gift, you know, where she's just putting her hands up, giving everybody a free car. But unfortunately, I mean, fortunately, it's a workshop. So we will come to you. A workshop could be three to four hours, depending on the topic and what you would like us to present on. And there's no limit. We give you a couple of ideas as far as like Google productivity tools, Microsoft tools, anything like that. We will arrange for you. But sometimes you just want to kind of talk to us and say, hey, you know what? I've been doing a lot of different things on online learning, but I don't have quite the greatest grasp on some technology tools. And so I want to introduce three new tools from our teachers. Can you come and deliver that training for us? We absolutely can. We can also design long-term professional development opportunities. So let's say you want to introduce those three tools, but within a certain amount of time. So let's say for the fall semester, we can arrange that as well. And so not only will our staff, our very own staff, be able to come out and deliver those trainings, but Renee also introduced you to many of our subject matter experts that are located throughout the state of California and will come to you and deliver those. They're actually experts in some of those tools as well. So we will come to you if we can't come to you and you just need an hour of our time or maybe we need to set up a special kind of arrangement. We have so many other options. We have a technical coaching opportunity and it's kind of like an office hours, but you're there with an expert talking about a topic that you want to implement. You can ask for an online workshop. Maybe you're doing more hybrid things. Maybe you want to bring us in online because some of your teachers are going to be online and some are going to be in person. Anything you need, we can arrange it. No problem at all.  One of them are OTN Tech Talks. So we offer you a Tech Talk once a month. It's the second Friday of every month where we introduce you to a tool, a resource that you can implement in your classrooms with your teachers. So I will show you where that calendar is so that you have a better idea of where to find that information. You'll find us at your favorite conferences will be there. Not only will we sometimes have a table or a booth. So come check us out, get the best kind of swag. Wait, did I say that?  And then attend our sessions. You'll come learn those same workshops and webinars that we're going to do for you. We might do a version of those at the conferences. So be sure to look for your favorite folks at OTN at their booth and in their sessions as well. Not only that, we're at your favorite conferences, but we are the host of your favorite conference. And that's Technology and Distance Learning Symposium. We offer that once a year. We try to accommodate the state where we offer it in the north once in the north one year and the next year we offer it in the south because we want to make sure that we're getting everybody in the state. One day we'll get to Central, but some of our central folks end up joining us in the south. And then some of the ones that are closer to the north join us in the north. This year, or I should say 2024, March 1st and 2nd, we'll be at Fremont Adult School. And so we'll be in the north at Fremont Adult Ed. And we're looking forward to hosting you. We will be offering it hybrid again. So if you haven't already learned about the teaching, the Technology and Distance Learning Symposium, it's teachers teaching teachers. You have teachers that are using the tech tools, the online. They're offering online alternatives for their students like high flex education and so on. And so we want to highlight those teachers. So they're going to come and train you at this conference. So I love this conference even before I was an OTN person because this is where I was able to get together with my geeky ed tech friends and learn from them. And it's specific to adult education. So if you are interested in attending and we make it super affordable and we offer it on a Friday, Saturday because we know you're super busy during the week. So hopefully you will join us. We'll get to see you in Northern California. Send your teachers super, super affordable. Send them, send them. All right, need more information? Support at otn.us. We'll be happy to answer your questions. In addition to that, we offer a digital leadership academy. This is a two year academy. We used to have a technology mentoring academy. We used to have an online teaching academy. They got married, they had a baby. And now it's a digital leadership academy and emphasis on the digital, emphasis on the leadership. So you're with us for two years. We provide you training on leadership. We provide you training on digital pieces that you can implement at your agency. So hopefully you're looking at your teacher survey results. Hopefully you're looking at your student survey results and you're understanding kind of the gap and the need for your region, for your consortia, for your agency. And then you're joining this academy to be able to address some of those gaps and those needs. So I hope that you are going to be looking for that application, which always opens in April. So lucky for you, April, 2024, we're gonna have a new application for the digital leadership academy. We announce who was accepted in the summer and then you'll be joining us for two years so that we can not only enjoy the courses and the training from the academy but also implement a site plan so that you can address those gaps and those needs. We want you to stay connected to us. So please become those members. The membership is absolutely free.  So be sure to become a member. Angela kind of showed you how to do that today. Join us on Twitter if you're on social media. We're active on, oh wait, that's not Twitter anymore. It's X, sorry. On Facebook, on LinkedIn, on YouTube, we are happy to help you. So I know that we said that we're the ed tech people and we can't be the ed tech people if we don't show you a brand new tool. Before I go do that, Anthony, I want to just go and show everybody the website live and then I promise I'm gonna hand it to you. This is what it looks so pretty. I love it. Thank you, Angela and team. We talked about accessibility. Look at that great, that little tool right there on the corner, the left-hand corner. This can kind of help you address your needs as far as what your comfort level is when it comes to contrast is. And then what I want to show you, I'll go ahead and close that is the, all the information that I told you about today and Anthony told you about Renee and Angela, but this California professional development calendar, everything from CASAS, everything from CalPro, everything from anyone is going to be on this calendar. Now I'm gonna change it over to my favorite state leadership project, OTAN, I wonder why. So here is all the things that we're gonna be offering. And I wanna bring your attention to this one. We are addressing the need when it comes to AI. We have the AI prompt mastery session that's coming up on the 10th. Be sure to send your teachers, be sure to also submit your registration for it. Where we're joined by professionals from Q, the organization Q computers and educators, they're gonna teach us how to become prompt genius as using AI tools. There's so much other things that OTAN provides as far as courses, we have a building a tech strategy toolkit course, we have a triple E course where it teaches your teachers how to engage, enhance and extend learning in the classroom. Again, all the information we shared with you today is just not explaining all the things that we offer here at OTAN. But again, I promised you where we're gonna play with a tech tool and Anthony is going to teach us how, Anthony. Okay, thanks Neda. So if you can grab your phones, we're gonna give you sort of a little taste of an OTAN training here. So one of the tools, if you go ahead and grab your phone or your favorite digital device and you have a couple of different ways to connect to the Slido activity. So you can use the QR code that you see on the screen here to connect to the activity. You can also go to slido.com and then you'll go ahead and type in that code number to 815-923. I'll give you a second to do that. But one of the things that we do is we try to help folks bring technology to their agencies. And of course, we always emphasize good teaching first and technology second, right? Technology is meant to be a support but really the focus is on good teaching, good instruction, things like that. So folks are joining, that's great. So hopefully, actually the way to connect will always be on the left-hand side with Slido. So I'm gonna go ahead and get started with the activities. So on your device or on your screen, you should be able to go ahead and submit your answer to this question. The first word that comes to mind when you hear the term educational technology. Okay, very good. So things are happening here. What we're doing here is we're building a word cloud. So if you're familiar with the word cloud, the words that are repeated become more prominent and end up in the center of the cloud. But the other answers are included in the word cloud as well. So again, when we do these kinds of activities in our training, we always ask teachers to think about, okay, so when you do this activity in your class with your students, what do you do in terms of teaching? Like what is the instruction that comes from this technology activity, this use of a technology tool? Okay, so I know that we're short on time. We're gonna move on to the next question here. Next question is, what are the three state leadership projects? What are the three state leadership projects? Not sure why innovation is showing up there, but basically we're building sort of like an open, sort of like a waterfall type of activity here. Well, that's the way it should work. We'll see it. Ah, okay, very good. All right, so again, I'm thinking about the right answers, the correct answers that are coming in, but sometimes with the incorrect answers, what do you do about that as the teacher? Oh, awesome, OTAN is the number one correct answer. So thank you for whoever submitted that. Okay, we're gonna move on to the next question here. Fast and furious here because we need to get you to your regional consultants. So we're gonna go to the next question. Okay, next question is, which is not true about OTAN training? Which is not true about OTAN training? I'll give you a second to respond to that. Which one is not true about OTAN training? Again, thinking about this from the instructor's point of view, you're getting these results if you're doing this kind of a formative assessment or kind of a quick check here, comprehension check, you're getting these answers in as a teacher in real time. So again, how do you think about as a teacher, how do you, what do you do with this information as a teacher, depending on what you're trying to teach in your classrooms? What do you do with the correct answers? What do you do with the incorrect answers? So let me show you the correct answer. The correct answer is, oh, you're all very smart. Anyone at the agency can request an OTAN training. So while we know that our folks, our teachers are very excited to get OTAN training, probably the request should not come from them first. Make sure to check back at your agency with your principal, your director, your program coordinators, and have that request for training come from that level and then we'll start from there. All right, we're gonna move on to the next question here. How many free licenses does an agency receive as a CDLC participant? Give you a second to check those answers. You may notice just one thing about Slido. So at OTAN, we like to be tool agnostic. That's what I say anyway. However, with Slido, you may notice up here at the top, you can see that 43 of you are participating in this particular poll question. So again, this is a nice way to check what's going on in your classroom, depending on the number of students you have versus the number of folks participating in the poll. So I think we're a little, we're about a third participation, but no matter. Okay, correct answer, 50 free licenses. All right, next question. When does the period begin to nominate a deserving adult education student for student succeed program? Give you a second to check in with that. Again, answers coming in a real time. Think about yourself in the teacher role. What do you do with this information? We also encourage administrators out there to think about maybe using technology tools and their trainings with their staff. So just a thought. And again, OTAN can help you if you need some ideas about how to organize those trainings. We are more than happy to work with you on that. Okay, when does it begin? January 1st. So January 1st is the beginning. April 1st is the deadline. Unfortunately, it's not ongoing. We do have a very distinct period of time to do that. So again, if you're an OTAN member, you'll get those communications when adult ed students succeed and opens up at the beginning of the year. All right, last question. I'm gonna interrupt real quick. Everyone, if you have your video open, if you have your video on, we see you. Go ahead, Anthony. Okay, all right, last question. Which of these is an OTAN project? Which of these is an OTAN project? Which of these is an OTAN project? You've actually heard about all of these things over the last three days, but which one of these is the OTAN project? All right, I'm gonna reveal the answer. It is the Digital Leadership Academy, yes. We heard about the EL Civics Network meetings from our friends at CASAS yesterday, and then the virtual workrooms and the IET implementation clinic are projects organized by our other leadership project, CalPro. So we heard about those on Tuesday. All right, with that, I'm going to stop sharing. And again, if you have questions about OTAN resources, OTAN activities, OTAN training, please reach out to us. We really want to support you and the use of technology back at your agencies in all different kinds of ways. And we're happy to also hear about projects that you're involved with, your goals, technology goals at your agencies and how we can support those. So with that, I'm gonna turn it back over to Jim and to get us going on the next activity. Thanks, everyone. All right, well, great. Thank you, Anthony and team OTAN. That was a great presentation and I would just encourage all of you to take advantage of all the great services our state leadership partners, CalPro, CASAS and OTAN offer. There's a lot of great things out there, so please work with them in the future if you're not already.


There was a man who came to Imam al-Ridha and he says to the Imam Yabna Rasulillah, I've committed a lot of sins You know when I read a hadith like this, I think to myself subhanallah Can you imagine? How approachable Imam al-Ridha is that someone comes to me says Yabna Rasulillah. I'm in trouble. I committed a lot of sins and Look what else he says And I just don't have the energy to do major good deeds So he's asking the Imam that I've messed up. I've committed every sin in the book Just give me a shortcut, right? Give me a quick you turn back to Allah. You know, I don't have the energy. I'm an old man. Just give me give me the passcode Do you know what the Imam says to him? Man lam yaqdir Ala ma yukaffir bihi Dhunubah. If you're not able to do good deeds That will serve as a kafara for your sins Fali yukther min as-salati ala Muhammadin wa aali Muhammad If you if if you can't do anything, you don't have the energy then at the very least Send salutations upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad Now you may ask me You know brothers and sisters for a long time. I Often wondered Why is salawat so powerful? You know, we have many ahadith Let's say if you mean Allah on the day of judgment and Your good deeds are about the same as your evil deeds What will tip the scales for many Mu'mineen is the reward and the weight of the salawat upon Muhammad wa aali Muhammad But the question is why Why is salawat So powerful Why does it have the ability because the Imam says if you do that fa inna ha tahideemu dhunoo because salawat demolishes sins The Imam uses a very powerful word demolishes sins The answer to this question is actually in the Quran Some of us we've been reciting salawat all of our lives, but we don't know why This is such a powerful action The answer to the question It's found in two verses. I need two verses to explain to you why salawat is so powerful number one Surah al-Ahzab surah 33 Verse 56 I usually hate when people take out their phones But if you want to follow along you have my permission to take out your phone and look at the eye Otherwise, I'll call you out and make it the most embarrassing moment of your life The ayah from surah al-Ahzab ayah 56 you're all familiar with it The first part of the ayah is a declarative statement without a doubt. Allah sends salutations All of the angels send salutations upon the prophet You saloon it's constantly happening And then there's a command at the end of the verse There's a command for us to send salawat upon the prophet Now If you go To ayah number 43 From surah al-Ahzab the same surah Allah speaks about what happens. What is the function of salawat? What does it do? How does it play In our spirituality what happens Allah says And then Allah mentions the benefit the spiritual benefit of salawat Salawat removes darkness from the heart and puts noor in the heart Because the Qur'an says When the prophet is receiving salawat from Allah and from the melaika at every moment it means that at every moment The noor in the heart of rasulullah is increasing So how do we come into play? The ayah is essentially saying that the noor the light in the heart of the prophet is perpetually growing Rasulullah at every moment he's going higher And higher because the distance between insan And Allah is infinite And therefore the journey is infinite towards Allah now When I tell you Do you realize what you just did? You made a dua For who?


All right, ladies and gentlemen, we are here, MIC members, non-members, anybody who watches this video, we are doing another ESPN highlight reel MIC style. This is all the place for the week, guys, the things I wanna just give a quick, you know, couple lessons and then the things that the members are doing great in the process, what Alex is doing, how to teach you guys and really quick guys, if at any point during this video you really like what you see or maybe you think MIC is for you or any questions at all, all I want you to do is go to mindvestonclub.com, book a call with yours truly, Tosh Bradley, one of the creators of MIC or text this number,<PHONE_NUMBER> and I will hook you up with information and we can go further and see if MIC is for you. But guys, let's dive in, I'm excited about this week.  So Alex was out today, but he was here most of the week. We threw a live trading event on Tuesday, I'll talk about it. But all right, so going back to Monday, December 5th, which we are right here, this is December 5th, so day one and day two, technically speaking, coming back from Friday, when SHPH ran, we're going in at day two. Alex said, all right, I'm looking for 3,310-320 with 335 stop, so if I just draw the quick lines, obviously we're going a whole and a half dollar, that's the number one way, up to 320 because any of those bag holders from pre-market and or at any point on day two, we're pretty much underwater that wanted to get out. So, obviously guys, these are shells of companies, this is not the next Amazon. The chances are like .0000001 because it ended, it's probably even less odds than that. But because of this, we trade the lines because that's where our edge is, this is where Alex hit. So if we look at the chart right here, Alex waited for the exact push he wanted into the three line, it didn't go high enough, but he still got a lot of size right here, covered up under view up. And guys, again, process, first hour of your money's made, just nail and bail and that is the best example. Let's see what the members are doing. I don't have P&L's for most days, as Alex was so busy with the live trading series and a lot of back end stuff. I think he forgot to post a couple, but I do have one 5100 on Tuesday, which we'll just say that's what he made for the week. But let's go through this. So SHPH, just because Alex shorted it does not mean there's still not money to be made and this is exactly what Travers does on the dips. He's just so good at capturing those dips and selling those rips. So great job, Travers. Another one I actually wanted to showcase on this is not every trade on the dip is gonna work. And this is a really, really good example of a cut. I know he was using the niche and the notch combined with VWAP right here on a strong stock, K-I-R-K Kirk, but he cut it as soon as it didn't work out for them. And again, guys, we are not just celebrating wins, we are celebrating process. Within that process, every now and then a trade is not gonna go your way.  Maybe five years from now, maybe a hundred, you know. Everybody's different. But Danny, really good job following the absolute linear process that is the watch list, SHPH, wonderful job there as well. And then Danny again on DBGI, waiting for it to top out, hitting those pops, getting a little before the top, but once it tops out, hitting the pops and covering the washes and simple, simple, simple process. And the reason why I showcase to begin is he came back later during the day, during a reversal hour and caught the end of the day. I love it. That is what is called time-based trading, knowing when you have an edge based on the time of the day that the particular stock in question is actually trading at. So let's go to DBGI. We are December 6th now. It should be, I think I gave a webinar on this. So that's why we have the days up. So let's see, okay. December 6th is gonna be right here for day two. Alex was saying, I guess it, yeah, right here. Looking for a morning pop to five to 5.30, guys. Let's just draw those lines to kind of showcase. Five to 5.30, obviously. This is where, yep, I did give a webinar on this. So most of the volume was stuck up here, obviously. Whole and a half dollar, like we always put. That's how you make your watch list. Alex made 5,100. This was the live trading session, guys. So let me just actually post about that. And then I'll show you the chart. But let me show you what we were doing on Tuesday. So we specifically for lifetime members through a live trading event, screen shared, audio commentary, bow and Alex, most of the mods.  If you have any reason to upgrade right now for lifetime, we're gonna be doing many more of these in the future, guys. We have a live trading series. I am telling you right now to be a lifetime member at MIC is the best educational content on the frickin' internet.  And if you have any interest, just reach out to me for pricing and or, you know, I'm not here to like plug anything. Just pricing if you're in questions that you have about it. But guys, it's exactly what Alex wanted. Right into the five line, he scaled up a bit. I know he was willing to scale before. Just because Alex says, guys, that it's necessarily 5 to 5.30 does not mean that you sometimes don't get in a little bit previous because you can feel out the sentiment live. So he was on the audio commentary explaining that and a lot of members took advantage of that. Just what a perfect pop. This was into the overhead and or, you know, longs that were stuck, especially because on day two, DBGI, is opening pretty damn weak. I mean, think about it, guys. It's opening near here. Tongue twister. I'm getting over myself.  So, you know, this opens anywhere around here and this is basically a huge percentage of stuck longs that are wanting to get out break even and or for any kind of profit as soon as this pops. So they're like, all right, again, you know, it's one of those things where it's, it's not Amazon again. You know, this is not the next Berkshire Hathaway.  So for day twos, that's what we talk about with continuation play and that's exactly what Alex was doing on Tuesday. Let's see what the members did. Couple of examples here. Let me expand upon. Yep, David, who's one of our long traders actually, DBGI, short little scalp will add to the bounce. Wonderful job. Make your money in the first half hour and then you're gone. XPEV, E did a wonderful job on that. Thanks, Alex and the mods. That's what live commentary, mentorship and the watch list provides. If we come into December 6th as well, check this out, guys. Just because we have a lot of short sellers does not mean that we don't teach longs in how to catch those support lines, which obviously that Ryan Conley was drawing on Armed. Wonderful job. Sell into another line and that is the most classic example, guys, of what line-to-line trading is. So just absolutely fantastic. I'm telling you guys, 90% of the battle is just knowing where the support lines are and knowing where the resistance lines are and then waiting for them. Literally waiting for a good entry at your lines. It's all lines, man. It's all lines. So here's a really, really good example of David actually doing a stop on a stock that didn't work. So he wasn't feeling it. Armed kept going further than he liked. Here's the best part, guys. When the trade doesn't go your way, you cut it immediately and this is why we teach risk management so, with so much precision and so much clarity of why we do it, you know, hard stops, market hard stops, max loss on the day, these are the things that have kept us in the game for nearly a decade and bow two decades. So it's gonna keep you in the game for many decades to come. I love what Bryant did here, waited for this massive top on XPEV, hit exactly where it failed previous or at least the upper echelon where you should scale and paid himself on the drop. I mean, it's just absolutely beautiful. Let's see, DBGI, Hooper X, exactly per watch list. I'm telling you guys, it doesn't get better than that. The watch list is literally designed to make you a ton of money like soy sauce here. So what can I say? Awesome, awesome, awesome job that the members are doing. We're cruising into Wednesday, December 7th. I was given a webinar on this day and we have DBGI, the second post from Alex and I think this was day three of the move, yeah. So if I scale out of this a little bit, one sec. So we'll show right here, day one, day two, day three of the move. This is what I talked about during the webinar, guys. Massive dead cap bounce into our lines again. Again, really these lines that we're interested in. I know Alex had five the day before. Guys, you can see it's almost making these exact levels. Alex was saying, what was he saying? Let's take a look. DBGI, it's a runner on a PR today. That's why we got that dead cap bounce pushed and rejected five so far, pretty much pre-market, waiting to see what it does at the open. If it pops and fails, I will look to join pops too short. So that was the plan. Oh, here we go. If we pull up the chart, what you're gonna see guys or at least I don't know if Alex actually caught the trade but he drew the lines of what he wanted. You know, I mean guys, this is absolute process, right? Back in the outer lines of stock that's again obliterated the day before or if it's not obliterated the day before, obliterated in pre-market to then hit those upper echelon levels where you can scale into. So just super key, again, bag holders want out. Anybody that was buying here, here, here and here, once you get this, they want out guys. That's what creates that supply over demand is the majority of people here are not buyers.  That's what they're saying. So this is why we get this, every single pop is just met with a massive drop. That's what it looks like when more sellers are in the market than buyers. When you have more supply than there is demand, all of this is a physical representation of the bid and ask which is literally just the Picasso or the Mona Lisa of price action. That's all it is guys. This is a physical representation digitally obviously in the form of the bid and ask. You can see the sentiment change. So this is exactly what is happening. If we go into Wednesday, let's see what some of the members we're talking about are doing. DBGI short, watch list, Banger, Rockmon, awesome. Just follow in the watch list. Follow in Alex's plans, BL668 on MMAT, wonderful job. Let a stock top, that is where you wanna hit it previous. Pay yourself on the wash, absolutely scale in and out and that's what Travers did. So Travers is coming in and SMMT, like I'm gonna catch these drops cause this stock is still not breaking down. SMMT was kind of like trailing upwards in a trend for like three or four days including today. So just a wonderful job on catching this. As you can see, he was very patient for every major kind of support or drop and selling into these pumps and or jumps and or breakouts or whatever you wanna call it but the price action going up, he was selling right into these rips and just a wonderful job. I know everybody has different lingo for stuff. Rockmon coming in a reversal hour on a stock that is finally starting to fail, hit this channel, paid himself on the drop, doesn't get any sexier than that. Alex smoking the Sheeshah, I don't know where this was but this brought back memories guys, just a plug about myself. In high school, I was the Sheeshah master.  In fact, all of the sports teams would come to my garage cause I had what's called like the scorpion and I had like these scorpion hoses. It was just super fun. So, you know, I was the Sheeshah master in high school before I probably destroyed my lungs and that's why I had to take a breath all the time, man. While I talk, I'm like, I still feel like I just have Sheeshah lungs but don't smoke kids, do not. It's not worth it, really quick guys. So all right, I'm gonna pull up a couple of Alex's trades yesterday, Thursday cause obviously I'm recording this day on Friday. Let's go through this. So let me pull up over here, a lot of windows. Let's go to SMMT first and this is going, I gave a webinar on this today actually but we're gonna go to yesterday. So this was yesterday. This thing is holding trend, man. It's a multi-day runner. In fact, if you scroll out what you guys are gonna see, this is gonna be a pretty good first red day soon. As you can see, we're going into day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six. Who knows how long this is gonna go but this is gonna offer some big opportunity here in the coming days next week. SMMT would have loved if this had a major gap up today is day three so I will look for a morning push on red to green rejection and looking short. I will only be interested in shorting if bounces fail on it first. That's what Alex was saying. He did just that guys. He waited for the bounces, caught this first one, caught the second one and then just pretty much wrapped up. So Alex did a really good job on this. You know, I liked it clean and simple. I mean, it doesn't get better than that. EXPR, or EXPR, I'm gonna pull up one second. So this was this day and Alex did a really good job. I love this, you know, he's coming into this. He's hitting where, you know, the lines.  It's all right here, you know, where a stock fails before it fails in the open which is totally sexy. I know Alex chased this a little bit because I can see an area right here. Chased it a little bit, stopped out. I don't know why he was in chase mode. Apparently he just probably felt it was, you know, up too much and he wanted to chase it every now and then we get FOMO but believe it or not where bow or patient shorts are usually filling their orders, Alex was actually chasing and stopping out. So look, dude, just because Alex is your multi seven figure year main trader does not mean that he doesn't mess up every now and then. That's just the way of it. So every now and then that happens guys. You can't clown a multi seven figure year trader on, you know, a mess up every now and then. But again, again, if you think we don't get FOMO and being in the market for 10 years you're out of your mind. We still get FOMO, welcome to the game. You'll always have FOMO. You just have to mitigate it and cut it like Alex did as soon as you can. David on PHVS, probably a little FOMO, little bit of a chase. I wanted to pull up this example as well because again guys, you gotta wait for stocks to pop. So this would have been the area in the morning. That would have been the scale zone. So, you know, just remember not to chase if you're going to short. I know David's mostly a long trader. Probably got a little FOMO, but I love his stopout really good job. But here's the thing, here's the thing. I love a Hooper X did. Hooper X chased a little bit. He probably was thinking what Alex was thinking but he did hit where he should have hit, scaled out, scaled in, scaled out. That's a best case example for scaling in, scaling out, absolutely beautiful. Travers again, catching these drops. This one was SMMT with it. Again, the trend was holding, sold the rips. You know, just absolutely so sexy, man. And how many times have you seen Travers' longness, have a good entry or something like this? And then hold, he makes a lot of money on the way up and then has a little bit, maybe this is 10 or 20% of his position. Maybe it's 30%, but he's holding for a much bigger move at the sake of break even. So obviously his stop would have been here for the remainder, but he got that move that he wanted and that is what, this is like, dude, this is like, I'm telling you, if we go to, this is the grand slam in baseball, man, or football, I mean, this is the fumble and then the fumble, the dude gets it all the way in the end zone. When does that happen? Not all the time, but when it happens, that's why you hold that 10, 20, 30% for an absolute fumble and just reclaim and then end zone it immediately for just a, it's an unexpected win right there. It's an unexpected victory. This was really the move that he's looking for. I know that, but this is just that sexy portion where if it comes, it comes. If it doesn't, break even is the worst case scenario. D-L-I-E-U, fantastic job on PHVS as well. Longing support, selling the rip, holding that little piece, amazing job. I thought this was so funny, guys, because Tom Diesel was totally on, this is the best caption he could have ever made, trading be like, how many times have you been Mario thinking, oh, I got this in the bag. I'm just going where I should be. I'm just doing this trade as I should and then something comes at you, a black swan, and then you gotta stop out and every now and then you get the Ninja Turtles like totally coming out of it. Like that's the point, guys. You have to prepare for any eventuality in trading and that is why even though you may know exactly what to do, this is why we have our stops in place. So, you know, about Alex, we're out today, guys, on Friday. EXPR was a low hanging fruit, RENT was a low hanging fruit, a couple of our members hit those, let's go into that, but not a crazy amount of action today, but it still was a pretty good day and members crushed it. Rockmon, SMMT, I gave a total webinar on this today. Pop, pop, pop, hitting exactly where he should on a low hanging fruit, fantastic.  So, SMMT, I took off all my notes before this, but guys, when you have a stop, okay, check this out. When you have a stop, day one, day two, day three, day four, I'm not super interested in longing this and specifically on something like this. Check this out. So, this thing has been putting one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, like nine or 10 tops. You guys can ballpark it. Right there is going to be a massive resistance level because one, one, two, three, four, but like, guys, how many times does it have to hit and just after hours in pre-market to show you that four is a significant level to like, look at even 390 because the base of the candle's not including the wicks. So, this is what we teach every single day. You guys think trading's hard. Trading can be hard, but it's so freaking simple. It's so simple.  I know I sound like I'm hopped up on Coke, I'm not. I'm just caffeinated up the wazoo, but I'm telling you how simple trading can be. We give webinars on this whole every day during the week, guys. All right, Danny is coming in on SMMT. He didn't hit the outer line, but he was comfortable chasing which did reward him. I don't condone chasing, but again, guys, following the continuation plays does offer dividends, no pun intended. Irreversibly long, one of the ladies at MIC, capturing, I love this trade on CBNA, capturing the sport, selling the rip, just like Traverse does, absolutely phenomenal job. All right, guys, Bryant doing exactly the same thing on SMMT, check that out using the outer lines. The reason why the majority of our members' trades look the same is because process is linear. When you have the process, you know where your edge is. I cannot make that more clear. Guys, I'm moving to Croatia. The team that was playing today, what needs to be said, man? I'm tongue-tied, my God. I mean, I just matched with a girl on HINZ that looks exactly like this in Arizona, but I'm telling you right now I'm going straight to Croatia after seeing that, so. All right, guys, let me show you a couple things. If I open our Slack chat room, so let me show you this. So this is super cool, right? So this is our chat room right here called Slack. And a couple things to note. We have a watch list every single day like I just showed you and take screenshots from.  Tom Diesel's guiding you on the low hanging fruit. You know, day one, day two, day three. Whatever it is, guys, we are going to guide you. Tell you the lines, tell you why you have an edge. Main trading chat, this is where the live commentary happens, this is where the charts, this is where the captions, this is where the warnings. This is all live, this is all how to stay safe. What's Stephen doing? He'll guide you, large cap and options. That's mostly for small caps, but we have a large cap and options room. Then we have a swing trading room actually down here, but also right here we have an after hours room. So this is where like the fun, the jokes, the memes, the gifts, share your food, post your success. Talk about your failures if you have some. Like we are here to be better. We are here to show you guys.  Cause wouldn't you want to be associated with a community of like-minded individuals where everybody wants and thinks the same?  I didn't follow my process and I fomowed into an outer line or I chased.  She's like, just get rich and buy me a rock already. So the whole point guys is these are people that understand you like-minded traders. We're all after the same goal and that's what it's all about. So if I go to the website, let me show you guys this, myinvestingclub.com, couple things I want to note. Number one, number one, number one is we have a free training right here. Definitely, definitely watch this. But check this out. We have a video library of some of the most important content on the internet when it comes to learning day trading. And we have curated this, we have organized it. We have done everything we can possibly do to make sure you have the best content possible. Search feature, but scroll down and you're going to get Alex's live trades. So guys, there's a new series we just put on that's very much like Tuesday. Alex is recording a lot of his live trades and what he's doing with that is then he goes back in after a couple of weeks and what we're doing is we're sending to our editor. So while it's recorded live, lifetime members exclusive get access to this series and we're going to be uploading a lot more is what happens is Alex is basically commentating on the trade, what he learned, what he was doing, size he was using, how he was comfortable, the lessons you can learn and it's just really cool. This is what live mentoring looks like even after the fact. So not only do we give live mentoring, we're going to give you live trade examples that are recorded real time that they're happening. Again, exclusive to lifetime, if you want to upgrade, just let me know, just DM me or text my line. But the last thing I want to show you guys is text. So what you can see is two, one, three, four, five, eight, five, nine and seven, same number I posted right here. Or you can click this link on the site and book a free call. Guys, get on the phone with me. I am one of the creators at MIC. I will answer all of your questions. See if you're confident in MIC, everything about it. And just see what MIC is all about. Well, you know what? I don't have to bring up the calculator because I don't have any other PNLs. So Alex basically, we'll just say you made 5100 this week. It might be a lot more because I know he was banging on Monday, Tuesday. I think his only loss was a small loss on, what was it, EXPR. So I'm telling you right now guys, even if it was just 5100, which I'll bet it's closer to 10 or 15, even if it is just 5100, who wouldn't wanna learn how to make an extra 5100 a week? And I know Alex is a really good case example, so you're not just gonna start making those huge numbers. It might be $200, $300 to supplement daily. But guys, this is what's possible. And Alex makes easily five grand a week. So this is what we teach. This is what we do. We're here to show you. We're here to educate you and make sure that you guys have the best possible resource, content and community when it comes to day trading because we are so passionate. I mean, you can hear it in my voice. I'm practically coped out with this, but I'm just caffeineed out realistically. Dude, I don't even drink alcohol.  But we are so passionate about what we do because we have changed so many lives in the process and thousands of members can attest to that and read our reviews, TrustPilot, read our reviews on other forums, listen to testimonials on the website, like CFMICs for you, book a call. And guys, we will see you next week for another ESPN highlight reel and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.


فشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دادا دادا وياله من شراف عظيمي while there is lack of sincerity in your heart you'll find that you as an individual you're getting blocked from understanding the information then the author mentioned four foundations in which a person should try to attain knowledge for these are the four foundations in which a person should learn knowledge for if somebody asks you why are you seeking knowledge these are the four things that you need to mention the author explains it but there are scholars before him who summarized it in three lines of poetry they said three lines what are they the author mentions them so the person should try to these things sometimes you will lose them if you don't memorize them but he has his own lines of poetry he said things like this you forget them if you don't memorize them in lines of poetry so that's why it's always good to memorize a couple of lines of poetry to summarize the whole point the author here says there are four وإخلاصوا في العلم يقوموا على أربعة أصول four foundations they stand on بها تتحققونية العلم للمتعلم إذا قصدها sincerity will be intact if you come with these four and you make these four your objectives of seeking knowledge and the first one is رفع الجاهل عن نفسه removing and getting rid of ignorance I don't want to be ignorant anymore I'm seeking knowledge because I don't know no longer want to be ignorant person I'm not pleased and I'm not happy with being a person who's content with what ignorance I will see some statements like that anyone who does not endure the pain of knowledge will endure the pain of ignorance so if you don't push yourself to the نعم seeking knowledge of course it has look at you guys coming here in the morning having to leave your houses some of you guys haven't had breakfast نعم it requires energy and hard work you're tired you have so much other fun things you could have done it has hardship but if you didn't come or you didn't seek knowledge then you're going to endure the pain of ignorance so regardless of whatever situation you put yourself in hardship is going to come whether it's the hardship of seeking knowledge and attaining knowledge or it's the hardship and the pain and the suffering of what of being ignorant so the first reason you're seeking knowledge is رفع الجاهل عن نفسه to remove and to get rid of ignorance from yourself how would you do that how can I remove ignorance from myself the author mentions two things he mentions two things he says the first one is بتعريفه با عليه من العبودية is to learn the matters of عبادات عبودية سابت شود that are upon you so you learn what عبادة does Allah have on me are you with me brothers عبادات Allah has he wants and he requires from what are they getting to know them familiarizing yourself to those عبادات and the second one is وإقافها على مقاصر and then learning and standing over the objectives of why Allah is commanding me this and why is he prohibiting me from this المقاصر مقصد why why is this the sharia is he doing it why does he want anybody who learns those two has lifted from himself he's lifted from himself الجاهل ignorance what are the two the first one is بتعريفه با عليه من العبودية what are the عبادات which Allah has upon me أم مقالف خطاب الشرق is coming to me Allah is addressing me what is it that he wants from me okay Allah wants me to pray Allah wants me to fast okay Allah wants this Allah wants that from me why does Allah want me to fast for what's the objective and the ultimate goal of my fasting لعلكم تتقون okay لان المقاصر the objectives behind each and every أمر النهي of the sharia that's the first it's the first reason why you're seeking knowledge the second is رفع الجاهل عن الخلق it is to remove ignorance from the creation I'm learning so I can educate and teach others so I want to remove ignorance from the community I'm from بتعليمهم وإلشاديم لما فيه صلاح الدنياهم وآخرتهم وما وآخرتهم what I want to do is I want to educate them I want to teach them in what لما فيه صلاح الدنياهم the benefits of this world this world for them and also the benefits of their hereafter I'm doing it for that المصالح الدنيوي المصالح أخروي يعافتان نستان للشريعة كيم الشريعة came to do what it came to bring about مصالح it came to bring about benefit and it came to remove and repel evil from the people whether it be in a worldly affairs or they hear after affairs the third the third reason why you're learning knowledge is إحياء والعزم you're giving life to knowledge what does it mean the author explains it more by memorizing it from it becoming lost I'm protecting knowledge in other words and the way I'm protecting it is by memorizing it الله سبحانه وتعالى he told us that he's going to protect the Quran إنه نحن نزل للذكر وإنه وإنه له لحافظون we are the ones who sent down the revelation and we are the ones who are going to protect it how did Allah protect it he told us the way Allah protected is الله protected it by placing it in the hearts of the people by making a people stand up to memorize the Quran وإنه لتنزير رب العالمين وإنه وإن القرآن الضمير is عايد it goes back to the Quran وإنه لتنزير رب العالمين نزل به الروح الأمين على قلبك يوهات so the Quran came down on the prophet's heart الله protected it in the prophet's heart and the prophet passed it on from his heart to the hearts of the companions and the companions passed it over to those who came after and those who came after و this is the way that the Qur'an was protected. The Qur'an was taken on by a Talaqi. One would pass it to the other and pass it to the other and pass it to the other. Later was it written, compiled together. Even then they were still writing at the time of the Prophet. They were still writing it. But the strongest things that the Arabs had was what? الحفظ and memory. And anyone who reads their biography will know that. Look how they memorized the asha'ara and the poetry. Don't go far. If you look at our coach specifically the Somali community, people will tell you events and years that it happened and times that it happened. And you're asking them where did you get this from? Did you read a history book? They didn't read it. It's مباب التلاقي. They'll tell you events, little things that happened. And all of it is Talaqi. They'll say this is when it happened, this is when the Qur'an came in, this is when it left. The woman who sells the milk, the man who they own, they'll tell you events, specifics. They'll tell you lines of poetry they memorized and they never went to school. They can't write their own names in Talaqi. And that's how they used to be. إحياء العلمي. If you want to give life to knowledge, you have إخوة الكرام. It requires memories. Inshallah the author is going to mention that later. Inshallah. Talk about how to memorize and Matt is pertaining to that. الرابع. The fourth objective of seeking knowledge is what? العمل بالعلمي. Implementing the knowledge. You want to implement this knowledge. And everything in which it commands you. فلتقصدوا أربعا قبل ابتداء تعلم لي كي تفوز بالهداء. What does it say? فلتقصدوا. The line of poetry, what does it say? فلتقصدوا أربعا قبل ابتداء. Intend for before you seek knowledge. Have this in your heart. Have this intention before you try to attain knowledge. This is the line of poetry that I was telling you all four are in. تعلم. Study and educate yourself. لكي تفوز بالهداء. So you can gain and attain guidance. So these four things is why you want to attain knowledge. So you can gain success. أولو هل خروجوا من الضلالي. The first one is to leave and get away from ignorance. Sorry, misguidance. You want to take yourself away from ignorance and misguidance. والثاني, the second one is. وَنَفْرُوا خَلْقِدِ الْجَلَالِ. And the second one is, you want to benefit the people of Allah. Those who are created. والثاني تُحيائل العلومي. And the second one is giving life to knowledge. أحياء العلوم. وَالْرَّابِعُلْ عَمَلِ بِالْمَعْلُومِ. And the fourth one is to implement that knowledge. That's what the line of poetry says. And look at the authors, the way he placed it. It was taken from there. Then the author then says فَالْعِلْمُ الشَجَبَةُنْ. Knowledge, the tree. وَالْعَمَلُ ثَمَارَةُنْ. And the actions are the fruits that come from the tree. وإنما يراد العلم للعمل. So the tree is the asset. What comes out of it is the fruits. The tree itself is knowledge. And the fruits that are coming out of it are what? are actions. That's what he says. The author now goes into رحمه الله that the set of صالح, pious predecessors. This is something we should make it from our norms. And nurture ourselves on. And that is connecting ourselves to the self. We will expand on that later, إن شاء الله. And the other معاقيد, إن شاء الله. وَلَغَدْ كَانَ السَّلَفُ with the pious predecessors. رَحِمَهُمُ اللَّهُمَ يَا اللَّهُ بِسْتَولُ He is never ending mercy on them. The word رَحِمَهُمُ اللَّهُ is خَبَرِيَّةٌ لفضاً إن شائية المعنى. Are you with me? This is powerful. When you hear the word صلى الله عليه وسلم when a person sneezes you say رحمه الله. They all say رحمه الله is not a dua. رحمه الله is not a dua, is it? رحمه الله means Allah is having mercy on you. And it's a khabar, you're talking, you're telling that. Allah is having a mercy on you. صلى الله عليه وسلم means what? Allah is sending sanitation on the messenger. But the scholars they say this is called خَبَرِيَّةٌ لفضاً The wording is خَبَرِيَّة in our structure. صح? That the intent behind it and the objective behind it is what? دعا سبريكيشن. As Allah is sending the Qur'an والمطلقات وتربصنا. This is a khabar. The women who are divorced يطلب بصنا. They're going to remain and wait. No, Allah is saying wait. It's not just saying. صح? I mean Allah is not saying the women who are divorced they wait three months. Allah is saying no. The women who are divorced يطلب بصنا. They await تلاكة تقر. Three qur. Whichever qur you take. Are you with me brothers? So this is called and we're going to study that in الورقات. Sometimes it can be a statement but what's intended from it is what? A supplication or a command. إن شاء is مالا يحتمل الكذب وصط قلداته. That's what they say. صح? It's whatever you can't say to a person you're lying.  Say that no.   خبر is what you can't say to a person you're lying. If I say I drove here you're telling the truth? You did? صح? And also that itself we're going to do تعليق on it إن كتاب الورقات. So the word إن شاء means مالا يحتمل إن شاء is مالا يحتمل الصدقة والكذب لداته. This is this is a general definition when you come to الورقات which will take I think not tomorrow but the day after we'll expand it it comes there for us إن شاء الله إن كتاب and the different types there is و لقد كان السلف رحمه الله يقافون فوات الإخلاص في طالبهم السلف رحمه الله they used to be scared of sincerity leaving them في طالبهم و العلمة they're seeking of knowledge and they're attaining of knowledge so they used to be scared of they were scared of sincerity leaving them in attaining knowledge فا يتورعون على الدعائه so they used to be they used to have ورع ورع is to leave of anything that's doubtful to you originally that's what it means when the prophet said in حديث عمارب المشير he would say والحرام والحرام وبينهما أموره مشتبيع the person has ورع he leaves of what حسن البصي he summarized that definition he said تركوا كثيرا من الحلال المخافة الحرام they left so much things that were حلال because they were scared of it حرام صاحب الورع is a person who leaves of what he leaves of doubtful issues doesn't go without this it's always on the safe side safe side he tries to be on the safe side so the self who had these Ummah they always wanted to be on the safe side when it came to the issue of claiming sincerity even though they had إخلاص and even though they were sincere individuals after that they would never claim sincerity فيتورعون عن دعائه they used to have ورع from claiming sincerity the author says لا أنهم لم يحققوه في قلوبهم now it wasn't because they didn't come with sincerity they did they were sincere and they had sincerity they did not claim it not because they didn't have it but they chose not to say بمباب الورع from the angle of because remember claiming sincerity can go against the sincerity they wanted to be ones who are far from that and they now is going to give you examples now لدي إبízهم المتاكس ومن ضيع الإخلاص فاته علم كثير وخير وفير الأمان ومن ضيع الإخلاص فاته علم كثير وخير وخير وخير المقدمة ستكون أعيات محكمة وفهيشام الدستوائي يوجد بطبط أمامه يمكنك إضافة فتحة أو إضافة بطمه فتحة أمام كتافة يمكنك إضافة دستوائي أمام كتافة يمكنك إضافة دستوائي و يمكنك أن تقول ذلك موائيه يسمى أبو بكر هشام ابن أبي بكر سنبر أدستوائيه أما أدستوائيه الربعيه يوتلت وسهض بالدرية تقم بوارushingه ما أستطيع أنني لا أستطيع و أقول كلا إني و لكن سهلها يومة و يوم أطلب الحديث لا أستطيع أن أقول و الله و أن يسرع بواراني و الله ما أستطيع لا أعانب أبي و أقول كلا لقد قمت بعمل أحد يوم أطرب الحديثة تحاول أن تأتي حديث أريد به وجه الله عز وجل في which I am trying to attain the face of who the face of Allah who سبحانه وتعالى I am not able to say that he is saying now if you look at this he says فهي شاموا فهي شاموا لدستوا إيو اما الدست توا إيو يقولوا صحيح يقولوا right يقولوا shows what يقولوا show the فعل فعل مضارع right it's a present verb هي شام saying this now يؤثر رحمه الله the reason why he brought it is a فعل مضارع when in reality it is a فعل ماضي this in نحو or call it to the نوحات is called حكاية حالي الماضية is called حكاية حالي الماضية is when you are talking about a past tense you can use it as you يقولوا لان يؤثر رحمه الله هي سيز والسؤول الإيمام أحمد الإيمام أحمد was asked هل طلب تنعلم لله سمريك كيف أنت إيمام أحمد and he asked him have you sought knowledge for Allah's sake فقاله he responded لله لله for Allah's sake عزيزون it's rare he didn't deny it no did he affirm it are you with me this is the wara that he is talking about they said have you ever sought knowledge for the sake of Allah and he responded by saying لله for Allah عزيزون this is rare it's hard ولكنه شيء نحبب إليه فطلبته ولكنه هذا ضمير is referring to what العلم knowledge knowledge was something in which I Allah placed in my heart love for it and later we're going to see إن شاء الله in the second chapter sorry the third chapter that Imam Ahmed as you all know his father wasn't the one who pushed him to seeking knowledge no did his mother do his mom helped him she wasn't the one who pushed him to it who pushed it to him who pushed him to seeking knowledge he himself he loved knowledge ولكنه شيء نحبب إليه فطلبته knowledge was something Allah has made me love and I sought it I sought it out of love for it but he didn't deny the fact that he he didn't say anything seeking it with sincerity he did رحمه الله لا شكه he did then the author goes on to saying شخصالح ابن عبد الله ابن ححمد العصيمي ومنضيع الإخلاصة فاتور علمه كثير وخيره وفير anybody who forsakes the sincerity a lot of علم he will lose out from it and a lot of care he's going to lose if you forsake sincerity then you as an individual are going to miss out a lot of knowledge and a lot of care is what you are going to miss out نا نعم قالوا فقه الله جعلا و ينبغي لمقلقاص للسلامة أن يتفقد هذا الأصل و هو الأقلاص في أموره كلها دقيقها و جلينها سرها و على نها و يحمل على هذا التفقد شدت مع شدت معالجة النية قال سفين الدوري معالجت شي أنا شزع علي من نية لأنها تذقلب علي بل قال سفين الهاشم ربما و حديث بحديث واحد و لينية فإذا أتيت على بعضه تغيرت نية فإذا الحديث الواحد احتاجوا الانيات و ينبغي لقاص للسلامة و هو who is intending safety the one who wants to regain safety و يتفقد هذا الأصل that you look for this foundation this issue of sincerity this foundation و هو الإخلاص the author he brings the word which is what which is his sincerity في أموره كلها in all of his affairs again there is a taqib that should be placed on شقصاله بن عبدالله الحمد العصيمي statement here which is in all of his affairs even in sincerity itself do you have to bring sincerity for sincerity دوران it's infinite regress you're always going to go in circles never gonna stop is it gonna stop if every sincerity you have to bring a sincerity for it and it's something that will never speak about it's the only thing you don't have to bring a sincerity for you don't have to be a sincerity for it for your intentions you don't have to so when the author says في أموره كلها is عام المخصص as they say عام عام المخصص it's general except that which is specification like I'll tell you فلما رأوه عريضا مستقبل أودياتهم قالوا هذا عريض ممطرنا بل هو ما استعجلتم به ريح فيها عدابا أليم تدمر كل شيء بأمر ربها فأصبح لا يرى إلا مساكنهم the word كله is being used here but it's not intended by everything الله is thrown doesn't get destroyed the destruction that came to the people of Aad it didn't destroy الله is thrown didn't destroy الله is thrown but Allah يقول كل شيء some say that بأمر ربها is the تخصيص that brought it out and others say that the word even if it's used it can also mean عام المخصص على كل حال the author statement here في أموره كلها is not meant by intention intention doesn't need an intention or else you'll be going in circles you'll never ever finish every intention will need another intention and another intention and another intention and another intention صح and that's what happens it's all day الله أكبر صح the person doesn't cry because he's just doing intention all day دقيقها وجليلها سرها وعالانها in all matters whether that matter is very ديتيتها or whether that matter is very great whether that is a secret or private or sincerity is needed privately sincerity is needed publicly sincerity is needed whether that matters very little something very small sincerity is needed whether it's something big sincerity is needed اي ده زبعتها ويحمل على هذا التفقد شدة معالجة النية ويحمل الكاريز على هذا التفقد in this looking for in this search شدة معالجة النية to severely cure your intentions and then he brought the statement of سفيان ابن سعيد ابن مصروق الثوريو قال سفيان الثوريو سفيان الثوريو's name is سفيان ابن سعيد ابن مصروق الثوريو he died 161 هجرية he died 161 هجرية he said معالجة شيئن I never cured شيئن علي منيتي لأنها تتقلب علي I have never cured or worked on محادة for me than my intentions لأنها تتقلب علي because it turns on me sometimes your intentions work against you and this is the line of poetry which some of the scholars bring قد سمي القلب من تقلبه فحضر على القلب من قلب و تحويلي that the heart was called heart in Arabic the word قلب the word قلب is the meaning of the word the heart is used as what what do you say the heart what do you call the heart قلب why is it called قلب because the Arabic language قلب means something that turns the reason why they called it is because لكثرة تقلوبه because it turns a lot are you with me if a person keeps tossing and turning in bed what he is doing is what قلب and إن شاء الله تعالى نخفت الفكرة when we look at the narration which is called مقلوب we'll see إن شاء الله تعالى that's why it's called قلب that's why the author سفيا ناثوري said ما علج تشيئن علي أشد علي منيتي there was nothing I had to cure I had to work on it was great to me than my intentions لأنها تتقلب عليها because it turns and tosses on me and then he brought the statement of سليمان الهاشمي who his name is سليمان ابن داود الهاشمي سليمان ابن داود الهاشمي heard from عبد الرحمن ابن عبي زناد عبد الرحمن ابن عبي زناد أن إمام أحمد أن إبراهيم الحربي heard from him he heard from who عبد الرحمن ابن عبي زناد أن إمام أحمد أن إبراهيم الحربي narrated from him from him who from سليمان الهاشمي and هاشمي means that it's from the people of Hashim بنو هاشم so his lineage entice directed for two ابن عبد المطالب his ancestors is who عبد الله ابن عباس he said ربما أحدث بحديث واحد وليانية he said I might tell a narration one narration I have an intention فإذا أتيت على بعض الواس I'm in that same narration when I say part of it تغيرت نياتي my intention changes within the narration فإذا الحديث الواحد so one حديث يحتاج إلى نيات it requires intentions one narration requires intentions you're reading a hadith the first part that you're reading from the hadith there's an intention that's needed you ask it in the middle your intention changes you see something or someone within the statement your intention changes so you need all day you need to fight with your intention in one حديث imagine if it's 45 minutes half an hour you're talking for so the person has to realize يا إخوة the issue of sincerity how important it is what is it that أليمام سليمان الهاشيم is trying to say to us what he's trying to say to us is that رد نياتي إلى المأمور به إذا عرض لها ما يغيرها or you've seen to her this is what he's trying to say to you he's trying to say perfect your intentions I'm going to take your intention to what إلى المأمور به to that which it was commanded so when you feel like this is happening to you what do you do you take your heart to that which it was commanded when two things happen to it when two things happen to it ما يغيرها something that wants to change it this changing here doesn't have to be حرام are you with me it doesn't necessarily have to be حرام for example a person wants to fast today it's Monday and Thursday they just want to fast and while they are fasting they change their intention and say you know I'm just I'm not going to fast but I'm just going to not eat just so I feel so I'm healthy I'm hypothetical this doesn't corrupt and it's not showing off but he's come to a قصد which is permissible an intention that's permissible he just changed it get rid of that because it's going to make you lose of something better او ما يفصدها or something that will corrupt it which is the second one this is where it comes into the issue of showing off doing it for other than الله سبحانه و تعالى so what is it that you have to do three things that you have to do three points the first thing is that bring it back to what it was commanded meaning bring it back to الى وفق الشرع bring it back to the legislation number two when something tries to change it don't allow it and the third point was what in the definition something that wants to corrupt it fully and nullify it from you also make sure that you bring it back to the شريعة نعم وفق الله تعالى المعقد الثالث جمعهمة النفس عليه فإن شعث النفس إذا جمع على العلم التأم وجتمع وإذا شغل به وبغيره زدادة فرقا وشتاتا وإنما تجمع وإنما تجمع الهمة على المطلوب يتفقد ثلاثة أمور أولها الحرص على ما ينفع فماذا وفق العبد إلى ما ينفع وحرص عليه تانيها الاستعانة بالله في تحصيله إذا لم يكن عون من الله للفتا فولما يجني عليه اجتهاده ثالثها عدم العزي عن بلوغ البغية منه وقد جمعت هذه الأمور الثلاثة في الحديث اللي رواه مسلم ابن الحجاج ابن الحجاج قال حدثنا ابو بكربنا بيشيبة وابن نمير قال حدثنا عبد الله ابن إجريس عن ربيعة ابن عثمان عن محمد ابن نيه يا ابن حبان عن بهورية رضي الله عنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال احرص على ما ينفع وستعين بالله ولا تعجز فمن أراد جمع حماته على الإلم فليشعل في نفسه شعلة الحرص عليه لأنه ينفعه بل كل خير إنما هو ثمرت من ثمرات العلم وليستعين بالله عليه ولا يعجز عن شيء منه فإنه إذ يدرك بغيته ويفوز بما أم أم أم له رحم الله إنما معقل الثالث الثالث now يتكس about جمع رحمة نفسي عليه برأت أسبرتك أسبرتك بعض الناس يريدون أن يكونون أسبرتك ويريدون أن يكونون أسبرتك أنه لن يكون أسبرتك ون يكون أسبرتك من who attain his money and income ولكن إفتح إفتح إفتح إفتح إفتح إفتح فهذا جمع رحمة ما يجب هو صدق أنه صدق أنه صدق لا تساعد أيضا شيء مع العلم عندما تفعله تفعله جمعا فقط إذا إذا كنت تتكس إلى تلك الثلاثة ما يحدث ستتكس ستتكس هذا هو المدينة يذهب إلى مدينة وعلم ستتكس مدينة وما يحدث ستكس ماذا شخص who doesn't attain any of the two ولي داريكا is narrated from أبو عبيد قاسم للسلام that he said ما نظرتوا أحدا متفنين I have never debated a person who knows different sciences إلا غلب to accept I overcame him I beat him because he's really got legs in so many different fields I will always beat him وما نظرني and he never debated a person who's متخصص in one particular thing إلا غلب and he overcomes me so when a person puts his mind to one particular thing and he puts his part time and everything is something that then produces what but if you open yourself so many different projects while seeking knowledge you're really not going to attain it as it should be so this is what he's going to speak about here he says so that's why brothers you seek knowledge before you get married you seek knowledge before you get married once you get married it's an issue now the wife wants to say to you okay listen today this is the plan we're going to do okay how did it come into place the student of knowledge hasn't got your vocab that used to be me changes into we not the French we the English we it's about us now so she has skills she wants to take you somewhere she wants to do something not only are there children they also want their part now so you're just split into half between your wife and your children and then seeking knowledge is so many people they have to choose between seeking knowledge and attain knowledge and their family and there's always that struggle and that's why it's important before you get married before you get into it you attain knowledge and I'm not saying that once you do get married you want to seek knowledge you shouldn't seek knowledge that's not what I'm saying to you but I'm saying it's harder now many things are not the same anymore for example you can just have you know a dry bread break it up eat it go to sleep you've got 10 pounds or 5 pounds in your pocket or your account you can go to sleep there's no issue you have nothing to worry about but when you've got kids looking at you and you've got a wife looking at you I've got 5 pounds and we're going to eat this bread is not enough it's not going to be accepted from you it ain't going to be accepted anymore so that's why my man Ahmed married when he was 40 never married before that after he reached 40 he got to what he wanted in knowledge not that I'm saying he reached he finished knowledge he had 40 years of seeking knowledge then he got married even the team said I know you want to get married or no way he said it was as mentioned some scholars mentioned he forgot to get married no way yeah it's shocking right to forget marriage but it was like every time I turned around I'd kick a marriage so the author then says فإن شاعة النفس شاعة means what split if your intention and your drive splits sorry فإن شاعة النفس the splitting of the nefs إذا جميع if it's brought together a person's heart is all over the place he's brought together he brings all of his intentions he brings all of his drive he brings his passion and his everything to one place what happens the word it comes from the word which the arab say when you have a wound on your hand what happens and then it comes together what's it called clots together that's what إلتأمة means your matters all come together now which تمع it combines so the word إلتأمة generally the scholars they use it is to agree something is agree together and also إلتأمة means to combine وإذا شغل به وبيغيره if the person busies himself with knowledge and other than knowledge