بیلویت، براتھر اور بارتا، اسلام کیا؟ ان Kollegin ڈاکالی تکاریت کے بات کرتی ہے۔ ان ڈاکالی تہیر متہماری ا wegenیت کے بات کرتے ہیں جو ا localized ایک درسی ہونکے گا اوئے ہے۔ ڈاکالی تحني�� کے ساتھو، خداپے آرہ میں آپ کو سکسیس ہونا ہے۔ ڈاکالی تحنيات کے ساتھو سکسیس چھوڑتی ہے۔ کلانزیوں کو ا چھوڑتی ہے۔ لہذا قرآن میں وہ کہتا ہے ، وَذَا رُغاہِ رَلْ اِثْمِ وَبَاطِينَ لِیفِ وَاَبَانْدِنَ اُوَا سِنْزِ whether they are outward or hidden inward inside and I'm sure we all know that the outward sins are quite clear for everyone to see those which are inside are sometimes completely invisible to the rest. It is only through interaction that some of them can be picked up and sometimes even with interaction some of these sins cannot be picked up. So it is up to us to purify not only the soul but the heart knowing that some of the scholars refer to the heart and the soul using the same term and some have separated the two. What we do need to understand is that the heart is described in the hadith of Halal and Haram which appears in Sahih Muslim narrated by An-Nu'man ibn Bashir رضی الله عنہ انہل حلالہ بیئن و انہل حرام بیئن و بينہوما امور مجتبیہات اللہ علمہونہ کثیر من الناس حلال is quite clear and Haram is also quite clear and between the two there may be a gray area where people may not know is this حلال or is this Haram So the hadith continues to say Whoever stays away from that which is doubtful has protected himself and his religion and whoever falls into that which is doubtful has fallen into Haram If I can stop there for a moment and quickly explain If a person were to be told that this particular piece of food that you're about to eat is poisonous and as soon as you put it in your mouth you will die and 20 people are saying that to him and another 20 say no don't worry it's fine it's okay we've checked it out and so on and you can eat it That is a very clear example of what we are saying today meaning in this hadith If you were to put it in your mouth it's as though you've committed suicide you've gone you've killed yourself because 20 are saying this and 20 are saying that and if you were to leave it you would save yourself completely so there is no risk involved by leaving it and yet by taking it you are definitely risking your life This is as far as the food stuff goes which may be poisonous but when it comes to the deen and what Allah has revealed and sent down there are things that are clear things that are not clear for some and the clarity is either this way or that way you know this is permissible and this is not permissible that is clear but sometimes there is a debated issue in the center if you are to protect yourself from it perhaps you will be able to safeguard your deen and in this particular narration some may say that this is speaking more about food stuffs and so on but the wording of Rasoolullahﷺ goes far beyond anything that can be termed حلال or حرام is included in this particular narration then the hadith continues to say similar to a shepherd who has allowed his flock to graze upon the border of his land not knowing whether it has gone onto the land of the neighbor because the demarcation is not so clear so there is a point up to which he knows this is my land beyond that he is not so clear is this my land or is it not my land so when he goes to that grey area he doesn't know whether it's his or not what a big risk he is now grazing his shepherd or his sheep as a shepherd on land that may not be his and this is why the narration continues to say every king has limits every king has a border limits beyond which you are not allowed or you will not be allowed to cross every king has rules regulations and indeed the limits of Allah are those things he has made prohibitive don't go there then it continues making mention of the heart and this is what we are trying to get to behold in the body there is a piece of flesh if it is pure and clean and good then the entire body will be pure and clean and good and if it is dirty impure and not good then the whole body will be dirty impure and not good behold that organ or that piece of flesh is the heart سبحان اللہ so if your heart is clean everything else will be okay if your heart is dirty everything else will be dirty and when we say clean heart it doesn't necessarily mean that you are just a person who is non-judgmental you see sometimes they say don't judge me when you're giving them advice you say brother you're not supposed to go to the nightclub hey stop judging me what are you talking about we're just advising you so don't use the term do not judge me in order to run away from advice sometimes it becomes difficult for the scholars or for those who want to advise others سستہ your hair is supposed to be covered سستہ you're supposed to be dressing in a proper way my brother you're not supposed to be bouncing around on the street with your backside half showing stop judging me but your backside is judging you and this happens and we get these answers on a daily basis well to be honest nobody is judging but it does not mean that if a person has uttered these type of words that their heart is dirty سستہ they are advising you for your better اللہ ہی moments ago I was listening to a clip in the Urdu language of one of the cricketers in Pakistan I don't even know exactly who he is but I believe he is one of the top cricketers of the globe and he was making mention of who his real friends are do you know what he said he's a cricketer he says the real friends are the علماء my real friends are those scholars who keep reminding me what is my duty to Allah what is حلال and حرام and the fact that I'm going to go into my grave with nobody no cricket bat and no ball and no score and nothing from the Guinness Book of Records but just me and my own records the deeds I've done imagine a cricketer a man who's one of the top on the globe confirming that those scholars who continue reminding me telling me that I am a person who's going to go into my grave all alone those are my true friends سبحان اللہ what about us what do we have next to our names do we hate the people who remind us if that's the case purification of the heart and soul is required we ask Allah to help us purify it is a difficult age that we are moving in because people do not realize that when others are reminding you to purify your soul your heart they are not judging you they are helping you they are giving you a word of encouragement don't just give that answer that is an answer that sometimes the globe gives in order to get away with murder to keep on committing sin we will not judge you we love you my sister but we don't love your bad habit we love you my brother we don't love your bad habit I was about to say we don't love your backside اللہو اکبر it's true thinking of people my brother we love you we really want you that's why we're telling you don't do that we had an image doing its rounds on the internet with some of the scholars had to say please don't send this around because they were showing جمعہ I think it was 2 weeks ago in a masjid okay let's not say where it was in case you might recognize the brother but they were showing him making his sunnah as the khutbah is going on and the people behind him were so harmed they had to get up and some of them you know sharp enough to pick up their phones and say let's you know tell the people what's happening around here may Allah save God us we should not be exposing people but the people should not be exposing themselves اللہو اکبر so my brothers and sisters let's purify our souls for the pleasure of Allah سبحانہ واتحالہ how does this happen we need to do something about it don't think that I just make a dua ya Allah clean me purify my soul and it will دعا is a part of it definitely Allahumma یا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلوبنا علا دینک the prophet صل اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say Oh Allah in whose hands Oh Allah who is the owner of the movement of the hearts move my heart towards the deen on the deen keep it steadfast but that statement will be of no use if you do not have an intention to purify yourself work hard on matters like hatred remove that hatred for your fellow brothers in the deen and have hatred for sin rather than the individual whom you are supposed to be looking at and saying this is my brother in Islam if you are supposed to be hating people because of a sin they may be committing remember everybody will hate everybody because none of us can put up our hands and say we are sinless can anyone now here put up their hands and say I am spotless, sinless I have not sin not one Subhan Allah not one not even myself because we are human beings so the reality we will hate the sin we will hate the shirk we will hate the bid'a but we will work on the brother or the sister in a way that we will try to help them come out of that shirk come out of that bid'a come out of that sin for example but at the same time remembering that this is a person who has declared the Shahada and I have as well they may have sinned differently to me but in the same way I want to be helped I need them to be helped and I will try my best to do that or at least make dua for them this is why we say you see a brother with a bottle in his hand a bad Muslim would go around tweeting that and go around facebooking it and whatsapping it and so owning it Subhan Allah why because they want the world to know I saw that man with a bottle but a good Muslim will do one of two things or both they will either go to the brother say brother you know what this is something bad and you know you are a Muslim come on you know Insha Allah there is much goodness expected from you by the will of Allah you are such a great person you have so much potential this thing is not going to do you any good engage them not swearing engage them properly to say look this is something that is unacceptable in the deen you know it will cause a lot of damage a lot of harm if you quit this there are a lot of good habits that you have just quit this and so on and Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala may open the brother's doors through your effort and you will be granted goodness لأن ياہدی اللہ بکا رجلن واحدا خیر اللکہ من حمر نعم for Allah to use you to guide a single person is better for you than anything of the highest material value in this world may Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala bless us all that is point number one you either go to him or someone who has an effect or impact on him and perhaps tell them to talk to him if you cannot talk to him and secondly make dua for that brother ya Allah today I witnessed someone with a bottle it hurt me ya Allah ya Allah guide them help them to remove the bottle help them to give up that bad habit and help me to give up whatever bad habits I have اللہ اکبر this is purity of the heart now with that dua and that nasiha if Allah wills that person's heart will come on to the right path within a matter of time we know so many people who had very bad paths but now when they've come up straight Subhan Allah they've gone very far in life in terms of the deen and become closer to Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala so many of us perhaps we are much better today than we were yesterday may Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala grant us goodness this is why we say brother when you have become religious remember when you are inviting others towards religion you also came about slowly so give them a little bit of time the problem with us we come on the deen after 50 years and everyone else we give them 5 minutes اللہ it's a problem in the ummah we are facing it we are not patient we are supposed to be patient as Muslimin it took you 40 years to recognize your maker why do you want to in 4 minutes create such a situation that remove a man from the whole fold of the deen kick him out curse him to the degree that you've buried him alive and you haven't given him more than 4 minutes to repent you took 40 years my brother thank Allah he showed you the light اللہ who Akbar work on them continue working on them the Prophet ﷺ's nubua was not 23 minutes nor was it 23 days nor was it 23 months it was 23 solid years اللہ who Akbar so purify your heart when it comes to your relation with others because there is something known as حقوق العباد through which a lot of what your heart conceals becomes manifest we hate for the sake of Allah the deeds that are done in the displeasure of Allah we may hate for the sake of Allah those who have absolutely no goodness in them and they have damaged the deen or they have caused lots of damage to those who follow the deen but remember even the non Muslims every single non Muslim is a potential Muslim if you lose focus on that you have lost the path every single non Muslim is a potential Muslim by the will of Allah for as long as they are breathing there is hope who is ready to invite them in the proper way اللہ who Akbar a very big statement that brings tears to the eyes every non Muslim اللہ علیہ وسلم نے دعا for the enemies of Islam one of the prayers were اللہ اما اعز الإسلام بئحد العمرین اللہ grants strength to this deen through the acceptance of Islam of one of the two عمرs one was known as عمر ابن الخطاب رضی اللہ عنہو لیٹر to be known as and the other one عمر ابن حیشام who was known as ابو جہل no sooner was the دعا response came from Allah سبحانہ و تعالى this man came marching into this house of الارقم ابن عب الارقم رضی اللہ عنہو as the books of history have made mention رسول اللہ علیہ وسلم علیہ وسلم knew that Allah is the one who guides just like he guided me he may guide you or anyone on the street so remember when we say cleanse your heart and do not be judgmental we need to understand what the statement means may Allah سبحانہ و تعالى make us people who realize that we would like to help one another to become steadfast on the deen and that help can happen in so many different ways depending on the authority that Allah سبحانہ و تعالى has given you as well if we have hatred in our hearts now let's talk of general hatred not necessarily whilst giving دعوہ but at the same time hatred in our hearts for someone for some reason normally it stems from jealousy not every time but a lot of the times because Allah has blessed someone with more wealth with more knowledge with more acceptance perhaps with greater looks you know you have a woman who is extremely beautiful and sometimes or a girl who is extremely good looking and sometimes you have other girls who make her life so difficult and her crime is just that she is gorgeous I would have told you to say Mashallah but it's abstract there's no one in particular we're talking about اللہ و عقبط حمد اللہ or you can say إنشاء اللہ اللہ و عقبط my brothers and sisters والہی do not become jealous of the favors that Allah has bestowed others just because you don't have it don't it will result in the dirty heart the heart will become unclean filthy and it will require cleansing cleansing of the heart is also done through what is known as ذکر اللہ because everything has a detergent and the detergent of the heart is the remembrance of Allah but I'd like to interpret the term ذکر اللہ in its broader context ذکر اللہ starts with understanding the meaning of the Qur'an that's where it starts that's the beginning of it because the ذکر that is mentioned in the Qur'an so many times it directly refers to the Qur'an and at times it refers to the sunnah of Muhammadﷺ so remember you need to know the message of Allah in order to have your heart purified what did Allah say to me I always always say it is a big insult some of us how old we are how regular we are with our salah yet we have not made an effort to understand the meanings of what we utter in salah wallahi it is an insult we don't even know what is meant by الحمدلله رب العالمین الرحمن الرحیم مالک يوم الدین some people do not know the meaning and some people do not think of the meaning when they uttering these words so what value do you have how is your heart going to be impacted look at the hearts of those who were the صحابة رضی اللہ عنهم when they heard a single verse their lives changed when they heard one verse their hearts were purified عوما رب الخطاب himself who was an enemy of Islam the opening verses of Surah Taha were read to him not more than a few lines were read to him he began to tremble immediately his heart was cleansed because he had that sincerity in his heart for a moment it was struck with sincerity and he said take me to Muhammad صل اللہ علیہ وسلم guided from kufr to iman in a split moment because of the Quran and this has happened to so many people it has happened to people around us in our midst perhaps some who might be seated here reverted immediately why they read the Quran and they realized this is the word of Allah I always tell people you know I have a disc an mp3 disc in my vehicle given to me by someone in Malaysia a brother اللہ قرانت him goodness and in it or on it there is the entire Quran just in the English language so the Arabic has been separated now we know the importance of the Arabic and the English and he says this is extremely beneficial to those who speak the language and I thought to myself look to me the Arabic is powerful the English is fair enough trying to explain what the Arabic is but the word of Allah is that particular Arabic you cannot compromise it so I thought to myself let me put it in and try and listen to what is being said and I had a non-Muslim sitting in my car once one who had come to do some work and I was taking him back to his place I saw tears in his eyes 4 or 5 suras were read within a short space of time in the English language alone and he told me what is this I said what do you think it is he said it is something powerful he said it has to be the book you guys follow I said it is can I come to your place of worship by all means brother subhan Allah I think within a short space of time may Allah grant him guidance to the deen I mean that's when I realized I said you know what sometimes when people are just going through even the meaning of it because they understand it it impacts differently without reducing the importance of the Tilawa in the Arabic language because indeed that is on a level of its own but at the same time remember the impact of that if you understand what you are reading is totally different you need that as well so your purification will start when you have made an intention to understand the word of Allah I said moments ago they heard 4 verses of the Quran they embraced Islam they read 4 verses of the Quran they embraced the deen of Islam we have read what we know ختمہ ختمہ ختمہ ختمہ once a month sometimes once a week sometimes once every 2 months we've completed the entire Mus'haf but brother you cannot give up your pornography اعوذ بالله it did not move you pornography is the problem of the age والله it's a difficulty it affects your eyes your brain your mind your organs your reproductive system the way you look at the opposite sex ماریج اپسلوٹلی everything is made rotten through a cancer because of your eyes perceiving some dirty sexual movements of the opposite sex totally haram completely unacceptable but available on your phone today I was speaking to some brothers on our journey back from Birmingham and I made mention of a very interesting point your mobile phone that you have my brothers my sisters can take you to Jannah or Jahannam بہتا ہے بہتا ہے you use it you have any scholar on the globe that has Allah has used to affect you and impact on you at your fingertips at the time of your convenience in your bedroom سبحان اللہ Perhaps whilst you're lying down you can click every night either on a scholar where you can listen to something regarding your Dean اور اپنے برحل ساکتے ہیں اپنے توریاں مکسٹوگ میں بڑا کیا گا ہے یا آپ یہ مبات کر دیکھیں گا اور شکر سید میں مطالعی بڑا ہوں کہ آپ جو آپ مرتورت میں دشانتا ہے ، یہ آپ کا س Quickly بھی کبار ہے جتا ہے اگر آپچی معاقیل或 امرین کیا ہے جو 재밌ی ہے اگر آپ آنے کیا لیکن آپ کیا آپ کو بے کے سامنے پورا ہوں۔ کلک تیارہ ، ملکا ، لیساہی اس کی 10 اند کلپ ، اپنے حیرت کو ایساہی سُبھان اللہ ، اور پھر اپنے حیرت کیا جانتے ہیں. جب اپنے حیرت کو 10 اند کلپہ سنڈیوں گا۔ لیکن اپنے حیرت کو 1 اند کلپ پر کرتے ہیں ، اس کے اپنے حیرت جانی بہتر ہے ، ایک نیزان ہے ، اپنے بہتر ہے ، اللہ ہے ، یہ کیا کہ جانتے ہیں جیسا ، جب جانتے ہیں ، اس کے حالیت سے بڑی ہی جاتا ہے ، سب کے دوروں میں جانتا ہے۔  کیا اپنی legislation پیدا ہے؟ کیا اپنی وی coup تعلیم کیا ہے؟ کیا آپ جب اس مجھے اپنے بیٹنی پیدا ہے؟  آپکی اپنے اپنے سیاری سکتے ہیں کہ آپ اپنے سیاری مجھے سکتے ہے یہ کیونکہ اسی لے کی ہے؟ لمانکا ہے کیا، ح rather life کیا ہے؟ کیا بھی۔ یہ ہے کہ یہ بہت سیکنوں کا بھی تھا، میں اس کے بہت نیج گا جاتا ہے۔ یہ اپنے سیکنے کا بہت guitar سٹی میں نہیں ہے ، اپنے سیکن کو بہت سیکنہ کا بہت سکتی ہے۔ ان کے لعب بہت سیکنے کا بہت سیکن کےی ضرب جاتا ہے۔ آپ کو وصف کی بہت مرتبی ہے ، یہ جب آپ حش is کے لئے آپ مرتبی ہے۔ مرتبی پر آپ politics بھی position اور آپ مرتبی ہے ، آپ مرتبی حلالی بھی پھر مرتبی ہے ، آپ مرتبی م Biden صاب اللہ کیا ، our father was looking like such a religious man and he died in the midst of two prostitutes with beer bottles do you want that to be the end of your life may Allah protect us all نعود بالله ملہ سیف كانتا well if that's the case do not let that be a probability rather let salah be a probability possibility if you engage in five salah the chances of you dying in salah are very great کیوں کہتے ہیں؟ دیکھرے ہیں جو آپ ااء پہرین جو مہاروں سے سجود اور عنکور پر کون جو آپ پر صالح کرنے کی نہیں رہا۔ نہیں law جانتا ہے ۔ مالہ سبحانہ اللہ تعالیٰ اس کے دخالہ ۔ مجھے سبué ایک ہم بھاتا ہوں whether ہم دوات پھر اس نے لسے ہم دیتے ہیں اور جس میں بھی ایک آپ کو لسے تھوہا بہت لیڑے کہ ہمیں اس دس اصف حقیقت ان کی نہیں س�데 ہم ایسا اصف حقیقت ان کی نمی اور بھشنہ سنت میں اوی بیران کتا ہے۔ اوپر بھی ٹھا تر ہے۔ نمیہ ہمیں پر قلب کیا جالسی ہے۔ تو جالسی لیے دیتے ہیں۔ سبحان اللہ عمیلہ روگ ملیت تینام کتا ہے۔ انہوں کو اس اومان کو ایک کسی بھی راکھتے ہیں۔ And what happens when you plan someone's downfall؟  Because now everything I do it's to do him down.  انہوں میں بیائے بڑھتے ہیں کہ میں فاریحا جائے. اللہ علمیٰ اکبر. بھی ہے کہ آپ بھی بھی بھی لیگلہ کرو۔ تو لاکھ کس طرح آنے کا بہنہ کو بھی بھی دلنے کی کوئی ہمارے میں آپ پیناکنے کی ممادہ ملہ کے لئے آپ کو آپ نہیں کیا ہے۔ ہمارے دوسری کم ہے جو آپ کے own کس کے کس خارجوں میں جو کمیں گو۔ آپ جانتے ہیں گے، ہمیں جانتے ہیں کہ بھرٹن میں جانتا ہے۔ طرح بھرٹن میں جو کم نقص سکتا ہوں گے۔ سبیہ ہمارا کہ بہت بہت بڑی جو جو بہت و اپنی سید آ سکتا ہے کہتا ہے کہ ہمارا ہمارا اپنا سید خیلی چاروہ ہوں پہلے جو بہت بہت ہی گ pag ہمارا بہت سب سے بیٹھوں اور بہت سب سے ہمارا اپنی دیکھنا چاہتا ہے کہ ہموں آپ اپنی میں ایک یہ بہت بہت اکلے ہمازurt ہے کیوں کہ یہ سب پر یہ کی طرح ہے کہ میں جس پہلے بھی ایک اس تحول ہیں جس آپ یہاں علاوہ ہیں۔ آپ بھی سلس پرسان کو لنیک ہے ، اللہ اور دین کو خوبط اور ان کی لوگوں کو سبحان اللہ کے حیات ہوگا ہوسکتے ہیں ، اور کم ایک مدیم جا گیا Services۔ بھی حقیقت ہے ، جو نہیں ہے۔ آپ معلومت سے مجھے معاہلیوں کو سبحان اللہ ہے۔ کا حقیقت آپ کو حکم بندیا ہے ، لیکن میں اس آجی پیدا ہوں ، کیا شاملے ہم کیا جب ایشہ اللہ میں مدنی ہم مہنق کرتے ہیں۔  جب مالے کام اور مائیزلی میں لگتے ہیں تو ہماری شخصیں پر مرامان Generous You جھو جانتا ہے آپ کا اپنے حام میں میں جا جانتا ہے میں مخاوجیں کازی۔ آپ کا اپنے خاتر مرامان جا جو کونکہ شخص ہیں جو آپ کو آپ کو اللہ کو اکبر کہا کہا دیکھا سکتا ہے تو ہماری چھو جانتا ہے کہ آپ کو قارون دیکھا ہے کہ یہ آپ کو ایکس آجتے ہیں یہاں ہے کہ یہاں ہی ہی نےیی ہے کہ آپ انہوں میںختریش کسی بہت ہی کیا لی ہے اور آپ کو ساوی کی ہے کہ اس دور ہے وہ انہیں ایسا بہت ہی لیکہ حرار کیا جانتے ہیں انہوں نے انگی کیا ہی لیکن گایا تک اُسی ہی نہیں بہت ہے اور انہوں کی افقی رہے ہیں وہ اللہ کی ایسا تک ملہ جانتے ہیں اللہ کو اکبر، انہوں کو کہا جاتا ہے لہذا آپ کو آپ own نفس کی ہے اور آپ کو شیطان کو شیطان رکھنے کی ہے اللہ کے پرانی پرانی ممتازات اور بھتے ہیں۔ آپ کو اللہ کے بچوں کو خریق کر رہے ہیں۔ یہ بچوں کے مثلی پرانی اپنی۔ آپ کی جندگوں within it میں ہے. میںییییییییی یہ ایک夠رہ تب ای طرف ، ایک ب نےبắt رہا ہے کہ آپ اپنی مصالح بنائیں اور اللہ اپنی پرانی مصالح بھی ہے جو آپ کے لئے اللہ کے مصالح میرے اللہ اور اللہ کے مصالح سے بہن سے بہن ہے، صمبلہ! مے اللہ سبحانہ و boats ڈارال پرانی دیگی کرتا ہے۔ my brothers and sisters. another bad habit is when we are selfish we want everything for ourselves rather develop our hearts and souls to be selfless to the degree that we can share something known as ڈیدار look at allah سبحانہ هو تعالی praising the answer what did they do they welcomed strangers who brothers in deal اس کے لئے ہی جو لئے ہیں کسی مجھے اور ارواح سے ہوتے مجھے لئے شي۔ جب بہتران لہن raises مجھے ارواح پر بھی کرنے کے لئے مجھے لئے اس کا ایمان کا جانتا ہوسکتا تھا۔  بہت بہت ایک کیا ملے دورت ہے۔ ملے سے بہت بہت بہت رہے ہم میں آپ کو کیا ملے ساتھ ہم ہے او آپ اپنے بھر کا مصیح بڑھائے گا تک بالکہ مصیح جو لیتا ہے۔ ہمیں آپ دیگا لئے مجھے بھی تک بار ہے، آپ کے دورتے ہیں جو آپ کو کیا ملے ساتھ ہمیں آپ دورتا ہے ۔ ، لیکن آپ کو ن demands ان کیا ہے کبھی جسا اور بہت بیاری ہوں جانا ہے تحقیق لیکم کھائی رام سے دن آنے سامنے پر سامنے کے عام لگتے ہیں ۔ ۔ لیکن آپ کو کھانک میں یہ ساتھ میں بردوں کے لئے اپنے لرام ا کے ہی جاتے ہیں ، اللہ اکبر انہیں بھی بھی بھی جاتی ہے ، ہمیں اللہ کے بموارے کھونے کے لائے اللہ کا مدھنے کے دورت ، کا کوئی کا بڑھے کیا نہیں ہے ان کیا کہتے ہیں ان کا遊 ہے گے بہت بھی ارواحہ کریںPU یہ بڑھنے کے لئے ہمارے ہی بنا بھی تب Lor پکھالا نہیں ہے ہے ایک سیدہ درس کی گہا ہے اور سیدہ سے گوہا رہے ہیں اللہ کہاں بھئے القرآن ایریییی کے لوگوں کو ایک سیدہ انہوں کی اپنے بھی ہے اسے دول ترزید انہوں کے باریں اِنہل مبذیرین کانو اخوانا الشیاطین و کانا الشیطان لی ربی کفورا اللہ اکبر those who are wasteful extravaganted so on they are the brethren of Shaytan and Shaytan is ungrateful which means wastefulness is a sign of ingratitude you have so many pairs of shoes 45 pairs of shoes one for every occasion the wedding coming up next week you've already sewn a brand new pair of clothing and you've got 60 pairs in your closet don't worry my sister they are not going to know that you wore this for the wedding that was 10 weddings back that's how we've got to speak and if you want to sew and you have the ability to sew something new for every function make a promise to Allah for every one I get I'm going to give one away make sure it is a cut within the pleasure of Allah because if you give away a skirt with a slit that is going to expose a female whom you have given it to you may be amassing a sin rather than getting something in terms of reward you think you are giving a charity one day we were given a donations from somewhere in Zimbabwe and they told us please give this to the poor when we took some of it out not all of it some of it out we were so embarrassed as to what it was and we decided this we cannot give it to anyone no one because we cannot allow the people to wear it they are going to think wow this guy must be a real real romantic dude giving it to me it's not from me my sister what an embarrassment we are giving it to someone and they might take it home give it to their sister and they know where it came from and they have such a bad feeling in their heart about you that this guy is actually someone besides what he is purporting to be yet it's not from me it's from a donor and when they donated they are asking Allah تقبل منا او اللہ except from us او صدقہ what's صدقہ what's صدقہ are you giving it's like giving a bottle of alcohol and saying Allah accept it from me as a صدقہ not at all it is haram why did you have that in the first place you should be embarrassed of it and this is why we say my sisters buy clothes or sew clothes that insha Allah one day you can give out as a صدقہ by the will of Allah just the mere giving it out later on even if you've used it and it's in good condition there are people across the globe who might not even have that much but if you've given that it may be a means of your entry into paradise so just sew it properly insha Allah make sure it is within the obedience of Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ I know what the sisters are thinking but I use it at home in my bedroom شاب they say very very quick thinkers today اللہیٰ my sister what you do in your bedroom is none of our business it's between you and your husband insha Allah the difficulty is we're talking of people who are not yet married sometimes اللہ اکبر may Allah save God us and may Allah open our doors and even if we are married we need to understand and realize when you're giving someone something you need to know what you are giving them especially as a مؤمنہ we are supposed to be tahrats may Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ open our doors I think this mic is cutting every little while to remind us that it's not only about the sisters it's about the brothers sitting in front of us as well my beloved brothers we are so grateful to Allah how do we show this gratitude that we are part of the ummah we love each other for the pleasure of Allah we see beautiful faces masha Allah we see people whom we love solely for the pleasure of Allah you are trying to earn Jannah and so am I and I ask Allah in this blessed gathering in one of his houses unite us in Jannah the same way you brought us together here today so my brothers and sisters we need to become generous we need to know that there are people across the globe suffering sometimes we throw away our food not realizing there are others you actually do not have that food purify your soul and you'll realize the value of even the nima of Allah upon you we were speaking of Qaroon do you know what he said he said whatever I got is from my own intellect Allah says he doesn't even realize our hand there he doesn't realize where it came from Allah says we destroyed him and everything he had and we let the earth swallow it up and there was nothing left the following day and there were people who used to wish they had like him oh they were reminded by the scholars you cannot wish for something of this nature which came by wrongdoing and at the same time with arrogance and when they saw what happened they said just as well we did not get what he has or what he had because if we had got that we would have perhaps been swallowed by the earth just like he was this is why you want to ask Allah ask him for Jannah to start with ask him for Thabat ask him for purification ask him for the ability to remain steadfast ask him to let the heart be inclined towards him rather than to let it drown in the illicit love of this world sometimes when I say illicit I mean you get married you protect your heart from depression and stress by the will of Allah so long as you married the right brother or the right sister but if you want to develop that love without having been married to someone you will not result in anything but the dirtiness of your own heart مامن مولودن إلا ویولد وعال الفترہ every single child is born upon nature the nature of the belief in Allah alone they will understand it and realize it that heart which is pure completely pure but what happens over time the heart becomes impure because of the environment the parents sometimes divert people this way that way also make your heart dirty to Subhan Allah and when we speak of that type of purification Allah Subhanahu و تعالی speaks of the heart that is on the highest level when he describes the day of judgment he says the day of judgment on that day your wealth and your children will not help you the only thing that will help you is the pure heart the accepted correct heart that heart which stood firm on the oneness of Allah Subhanahu و تعالی on the obedience of Allah Subhanahu و تعالی the heart that struggled to keep Shaytan at bay and the heart that engaged in constant repentance if you repent correctly on its own it will help you abstain from sin how does that happen because if you say oh Allah forgive me in the morning for example the Prophetﷺ through the day said it up to a hundred times and if we are to do that say for example wise time walking I've said it five six times as I'm entering for example a store I say it another five six times bearing in mind what I'm saying and then for example wise time coming out I've said it a few times bearing in mind what I'm saying and throughout the day I'm saying it you know scattered through the day here and there a few times here and there what will happen the minute there is a sin to be committed I will feel immediately it doesn't go together with this tober that I've been engaging in through the day the two don't come together I'm on one hand saying oh Allah forgive me and on the other hand I'm busy gazing the wrong gaze it won't come together it won't so this is why they say engage in istighfar that will protect you what else will protect you your salah will protect you salah when it is read correctly on time when you are worried about the next one that is when you are reading salah correctly that's the same that your salah is valid and correct this is why the hadith describes رجلون قلبو معلقم بالمساجد a man whose heart is connected to the masjid meaning connected to salah connected to the house of Allah in the case of the sisters connected to your salah when you read one you're worried about the next one this is a gift of Allah how many of us we fulfill salah and already we worried about the next one try and achieve that you find your heart will be cleansed wallahi the sins will eradicate themselves because إنہ صلاتہ تنہا عن الفحشاء وال موکر صلا اتسالف پرحبت اور ایمارالتی اور ایبل میں پروحبت اور ایمارالتی اللہ أکبر اللہ سبحانہ و تعالی پیوریفائی اس مہی گرانت از گدنس اسی why we say سبحان اللہ this قلب سلیم this pure heart should be the dream of every one of us save yourselves remember Allah a lot protect yourselves from jealousy from envy protect yourselves from that which is bad the love of sin that which you commit in private that is what destroys your heart one sin in private is more dangerous one sin in private is more dangerous than what you think the reason is when a person commits a sin on his own between him and Allah although it may not be as bad as committing it openly with arrogance but there is a difference when you get used to doing something on your own that is bad perhaps sometimes people might not correct you when you commit it openly sometimes a person might correct you and this is why the hadith speaks of it from another angle where the Prophetﷺ says there is hope for people for as long as they are not proud of their sin and they don't openly commit it so that angle yes it's in the hadith of Rasool Allahﷺ but that which you do in private it does not mean it's belittled it is very dangerous it is venomous it is poisonous it is something that may grow into that are like the arteries around your heart they've blocked it, sealed it if you've ever seen the diagram of a heart and you see all the veins and capillaries and arteries and various other blood vessels around the heart they come so well around the heart that they form like a cage around it imagine if that was full of evil what would happen to us this is why develop your link with Allah silently one of the means of purifying your heartﷺ engage in acts of worship when people are fast asleep read your salah at night when nobody is watching besides Allah why is this going to purify your heart because you are doing it for the sake of Allah if committing a sin when you think nobody is watching is very very bad and evil and dirt is your heart then engaging in a good deed when nobody is watching will have the opposite effect it will purify your heart and cleanse it so this is why there are so many evidences to prove that a good deed that is done in private is far more beneficial than the same good deed which may be done sometimes openly beneficial from a certain angle that is purification of the heart your link with Allah is a secret between you and Allah mostly who knows my connection with Allah only I know it I know what water I am swimming in I know what hot soup I might be in and so do you Subhan Allah it's only Allah who knows this so you need to know between you and Allah what's your link develop it make Allah your best friend give that love to Allah and the love of Allah is known by your obedience it is not known by mere statements of the tongue statements of the tongue are important but they need to be substantiated by action moments ago we promised ten pounds each and now you upgrade the sound system here it's easy to put up your hand whether or not you're going to take it out of your pocket and put it in the box that's between you and Allah Subhan Allah this was just a statement to make sure it comes I'm thinking moments ago as soon as I'm gone I'm sure everybody would just say Assalamu alaikum out don't forget may Allah make us honest people it's easy to say something it's difficult to put your money where your mouth is may Allah give us mouths that will not embarrass us we say oh Allah we love you oh messenger we love you it's just like what we are getting in return my sisters I said a few days ago and I'm saying it again when he says I love you it's just like how he says I love the messenger why do we say that because when he says he loves the messenger if he really did he would not be saying that to you illicitly Allahu Akbar did you hear what I just said if he's married to you it's fine yes we're not talking about that we're talking of illicitly you want to say I love you sister in Islam I love you and at the bottom we add F-T-O-P you know what that means for the pleasure of Allah F-T-P-A I've seen it happening I love you and they've got a big sign with a smooch you know it's this little snog it's just a sign they've got it going and this little emoticon that comes up I love you with the emoticon and at the bottom they say F-T-P-A for the pleasure of Allah what's that is that like a password to commit sin Wallahi it's not be careful it's a password to dirty your heart and my sister if you fall prey to that you're equally guilty Allahu Akbar don't fall prey to it when you love Allah and his messenger you wouldn't be saying that to someone illicitly it's a sign this is why I say they love the messenger it's the same thing because they love the messenger they're not following him so they love you and you're probably not the only one that they say I love you too and at the same time they're probably using that statement just to get something out of you may Allah Subhanahu Wa'Ta'Ala purify us do not abuse one another never abuse the opposite sex never ever respect the opposite sex and remember if you are used as a means it is better for you than anything of material value in this world if that is correct and it is correct because it's the hadith then you need to remember the opposite is also true if you are used to misguide someone it is worse for you than anything in this world than the loss of the biggest materialistic items of this world worse than that imagine if you are used to misguide someone you encourage someone to commit a sin and they committed it it's so bad and it's such a dirty spot on the heart that what will happen is it would be equivalent or even worse than if you had to lose your house and your car and your job and your clothing and everything and driven out of completely everything and your bank account gone everything done and you're sitting there bare why? because you did something that is unacceptable my brothers and sisters it's about time we cleansed ourselves for the sake of Allah اللہ سبحانہ واتعالہ grant us goodness اللہ open our doors we need to be worried for ourselves when we die and we go into our graves we will be on our own it is the warm tears that will come to our assistance when we've cried for the sake of Allah رجل ذکر اللہ خالیا ففادة عینا someone who remembers Allah on their own they remember Allah in the darkness of the night or at any time of the day and suddenly a warm tear rolls down their cheeks that warm tear will bear witness for you my brothers and sisters may Allah grant it to us some of us we've never cried except for that which was illicit girlfriend breaks up with you and you cry two buckets full اللہ عقبہ and when you break up your link with Allah and develop a link with the devil there is no tears coming up when people remind you of your link with Allah and how he is the owner of everything he is the owner of your heart he is the owner of your eyes your nose your existence your breathing your life your sustenance your happiness then nobody cries or should I say some don't cry this is why the Prophet used to say این عین این لا تدمہ او اللہ I seek your protection from an eye that doesn't cry for your sake may Allah open our doors we cry over our sins he says you need to cry over the sins you've committed it's a sign of acceptance it's a sign that you have turned it's a purification of the heart the tears are used to purify the heart for as long as they have been released for the right reasons wanna know may Allah give us purity and goodness brothers and sisters I have only tapped on very few angles of purification of the heart and purification of the soul there is much to be said but as you know sessions of this nature will keep repeating themselves it is your business you need to make it your business to hunt for them to make an effort to attend them and inshaAllah to be a part of them اور ا سے بھی خود ہم دیکھتے ہیں۔ ہمیں اکن ہمارے سر چاہتے ہیں۔ ایک نقری تجر پر مجھے ورشب ہماری اوانا ہے اور اہم ایک بارے کے محاہت پر مجھے آئی۔ ب ہے ان کے بارے میں پر حقیصہ کچھ سکھائی ہے۔ اور اہم ان پارے میں سوچ ہماری کے محاہات پر نهایا ہے. اوانا ہے کہ ہم سوچ ہماری نمہ بھائی مرنے کے صلیاتелей سنت کے بارے میں کے بارے میں سلات профессionست اگر بخاتی ہے ، ہمارے بخاتی ہمارے بھائی مخاکہordیت سرکتے ہوں۔ can we do that؟ باید Kang Price ہمارے بخاتی ہے کہ اس خلال ہے۔ ہمارے بخاتی ہستے بہت کرنا جا ۔ اللہ ہمیں میرے نصورت کیا گا۔ ہم هذه بخات کیجا رہا ہے تو مجھے دلی کم اجتے ہیں گا۔ مجھے دلی کم اجتے ہیں گا۔ سلی سے مجھے ہوںoser ہوں۔ سقلی سے مجھے بخاتی ہوں ، because a person who thinks he's holy really has a few holes you need to know that you need to be worried about your piety piety is a level that really even the pious are worried look at umar ابن خطاب رضی اللہ و عنو going to حدیفہ ابن الیمان رضی اللہ و عنو what a stalwart of the dean what a man what a great man and he goes and he says yeah حدیفہ i just want to know something the list of hypocrites that you have is umar on that list اللہ و اکبر اللہ و اکبر one of the highest of the صحابا رضی اللہ و عنو two in the order number two in the ranking and what happens اللہ و اکبر he is saying genuinely and seriously asking a question worried and trembling is my name on that list just let me know that did he ever think i'm a pious man i'm a sahabi and i was happy to be the companion of محمد صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم i was given glad tidings of paradise so i am pious they were given glad tidings of جنہ and they were still worried about that issue are we hypocrites the quran says and تحبط اعمال اکم و انتو ملا تشعرون addressing the صحابا رضی اللہ و عنو the addresses even more for us that your deeds might be wasted without you knowing because of certain bad conduct and behavior so what about us we ask اللہ never ever to waste our deeds without us knowing may Allah سبحانہ و تعالیٰ protect us all inshallah we meet again for another dose inshallah at some stage whether here or elsewhere we ask اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ to bless us and grant us all paradise help us purify our hearts love one another for the sake of اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ and remove the clinginess that is in our hearts of the material world that is around us when it goes beyond a certain limit remember it becomes detrimental till we meet again we say وصل اللہ وسلم و بارکہ علاہ نبین محمد سبحان اللہ و بحمده سبحانك اللہ و بحمدک نشہد اللہ علاہ إلا انتا نستغفرو کا و نتوبو اینے


China in 2015 was the first country to receive more than a million patent applications. China's total of about 1.1 million patent applications is similar to the combined number of the Japan Patent Office, the Korea Intellectual Property Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Growth in China in 2015 was 18.7% on 2014. So we are seeing continued rapid growth of patent filings in China. We see the fruits of continued investments in technology reflected in these patent filing numbers. I think it's a continued movement from made in China towards innovated in China. And I think that sort of marks the continued transition of the Chinese economy, of an economy that is sort of based on labour intensive manufacturing, to one that competes on the basis of technology and on the basis of new products.


Hi there, my name is Jared Oates. I'm the director of the comedy department here at Cal TV. A couple weeks ago, we started doing a satirical news show called The Update as a co-production with the news department here. Well, in response to the first episode, and this is true, a student group on campus actually complained that we were being too hard on President Donald Trump. Now, I won't say which group, journalistic integrity, but they do have a point. I mean, the news department does have to remain unbiased. That's fair. Fortunately, the comedy department does not. In his speech announcing his candidacy for president, Trump said that he wants to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. because they're sending rapists. Well, by that logic, we'd have to build a wall between Trump Tower and the White House because they're sending rapists too. A lot of people claim that Trump's chief advisor, Steve Bannon, is a white supremacist, although I don't know about that. I mean, look at that face.  During the campaign, at a rally, Trump said, there's my African American over there to a black supporter. But the real interesting thing about that story? Wait, Trump has black supporters? Wait, no, what am I doing here?  I mean, he's our president. You shouldn't be able to make jokes about the president. That's just wrong. You know what, guys, hey, Jeremy, sorry, no, stop, cut it, cut it, okay?   I mean, how is that fair to the people who got their feelings hurt? I mean, political groups should be able to say what kind of content I can and can't make. I mean, everyone knows that. It's like the Third Amendment or something. Why am I on this earth, you know? God, you messed up on this one, okay? Give me another shot. I'll do it right this time. My dad said I'd never amount to anything, you know? And he was right.  How embarrassing. Oh, you're filming? Trump is our president. That's like horrifying and scary for a lot of people. And what am I doing, you know? Just making a smarmy political commentary video that's a complete rip-off of Weekend Update, by the way. I knew it. I knew my dad always wanted a daughter. Okay, that's all for this week, guys. I've got a lot to think about, actually. But, oh, a message for this video. Yay, free speech. But is free speech always free? That's something to think about. Okay, talk to you later. Follow me on Twitter. Bye!


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okay three two one come on come on let's try and make it tell yourself this time for sure but I would rather sit and crave it or not want it anymore pleasant of the frosted windows high envy of a soft contented size but I don't get people I don't get the things they think are reasonable so you'll find me here right beneath the underdog when life's impossible hold tight to beneath the underdog that's where I'm comfortable and rationalize what I can't have but here I hope that's where I'd rather be and maybe someday I will see a kind of personality and when that happens I may find I miss the nervous daily grind it's hard to stand this peace of mind it's truly finer on the outside conquered mountains so to speak and looked down from a higher peak but it seems so creepy when it can leave you feeling sleazy so set enough from the sick I'd rather be the little trap my own companion or maybe with one who's tails wagging so you'll find us comfortable and rationalize well we got through it it's been a while on you


I am loving this What's up money geeks? Mr. V here. Welcome to another video guys. So into this video we are going to talk about ticket symbol INAQ So this is a company. This is a blank check company that it's in the process of taking Metro mal public so through a reverse merger again guys. This is the year of the spark So if you don't know Metro mal it's a company that insurance company or other insurance company that Is designed for you to pay your insurance as you go. So pay per mile insurance company, which I really really love So I want to take a look at this company and I'll tell you guys why I think this is the future of the way insurance is supposed to be But before we get started guys via new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button any notification bell So you don't miss out on new content So metro mal again, this is a startup company that's actually backed by billionaire investor mac cuban So the company is actually set up to allow people to drive To pay their insurance base on their driving. So if you guys are like me I i'm not a big fan of insurance companies, but it's something that you need to have So metro mal has come in and changed the way other insurance is supposed to take place So take for example, if you own a car and you buy insurance and park that car in your garage A dark insurance sits there. You're not driving your car, but yet you're paying for the insurance Same thing with any other thing that you insurer. Let's say A van or whatever If you're not using it or both if you're not using it It's sitting there, but you yet you're paying for insurance So these guys have come in and changed the way that's going to work So right now when you buy insurance, you can only pay when you drive Which to me is excellent. That's the way insurance is supposed to work So that's one of the key reasons why I'm super interested in these guys And I'm looking forward to seeing where they go in terms of changing the way insurance companies work And I strongly believe that the many these guys start to go all over the country Major insurance companies are going to start switching and following suit You can take examples like robin hood when they first came out and said all commission-free trading platform Everybody's like wait a minute. That's not going to work. And today all other brokers are trading commission-free. They follow it So these guys are also leading the way as far as a paper mile insurance Auto insurance. So I think this is a huge opportunity The one thing I want you guys to know here that right now The service is not currently available in in all states So if you put in your zip your zip code here and then get get code It will tell you if you are If your state is currently available for metro miles So that's something you want to double check and then so basically you can double check your rate and he tells you how You how's everything works? So your monthly rate They give you a plus the number of miles that you you drove Times six cents in this case. So just give you here's an example. So monthly rate is 29 dollars. You drove 450 miles Six cents per mile. So that's going to cost you 56 dollars a month So this is just again, this is just an example So you can see how much you drive a month this number is going to go down So if you only put let's say a 50 miles or 60 miles a month This is how that's how much you're going to pay that month for insurance, which I think is brilliant So the fact that some of the investor like my Cuban is behind it I I think it has, you know another opportunity to really make a big name for itself So as when we were doing this video, uh, Inaq was currently trading at About 12 dollars and 94 cents. Again, this merger is really anticipated to be Close by first quarter of 2021. So it's not any time soon But first quarter of 2021 and once that happens the ticket symbol is going to change from Inaq to Mle, so that would be the new ticket symbol for this stock. So I see some big things happening here So let's take a quick look here. So again metro mile poised for substantial scale So this is how they are anticipating to increase their revenue or scale So right now they want to accelerate their footprint in the entire us Like I said, they are not everywhere selected cities or selected states Right now. So once they can get to all 50 states, that would be excellent and even go to the territories Let's say Puerto Rico, that would be great for them. And then, um, you know, expand just your market all nationwide scale your partnership, you know So you want to do partnership with with ride alongs and and also with companies like uber and and lifts because they have a ton of drivers That currently put mileage on their cars and they can compare the insurance and see if it's cheaper to do metro mile Or to do a traditional insurance and that would be a good partnership that they can have And then they're also building their enterprise software that can help them generate revenue Which is something that a lot of people are looking at. So it's not just Let's say a paper Mile insurance company is also it's going to be a software as a service company So it's going to be a SaaS company, which I think it's a brilliant idea. And then Last but not the least they are looking at cross selling their insurance. So they start looking. Hey, can we bring home insurance into the picture? Can we sell renter insurance? Can we sell pet insurance and then? Warranties and maintenance.  You can just buy it with also they can cross sell which to me that is a brilliant Idea to try to really generate even more revenue. So right now This is where they are currently located. So already have the green There's eight states that they currently operate in and then 2021 they're adding 21 more states and then 2022 49 states. So that is the plan of their expansion again right now just currently operating in eight states which is Really nothing because the market is just so big and I hope that it can expand as soon as possible. So again Market is just scaling improved looking at Virginia, Illinois, Arizona, New Jersey California, Washington and Oregon. So this is the market share for those different states. So as we look at it right now, I think Washington, Oregon are sitting at about maybe 20.25 percent So all other markets are still out there a state like Texas, which is massive It's not on this list. I don't see Florida on the list. So name it There's a tremendous amount of opportunity for these guys to really go out there and be and be profitable So again, my my personal take here and I'm using myself More so as an example for this company And the reason why I really like this is because I don't think that the traditional way that we pay All the insurance works It's really to the detriment of the you know, the car owner because if you own the car you own multiple cars You pay insurance on all those cars and you drive One of those cars on the daily basis lesser for your commute to work The one that's parked in your garage you see paying the same amount of insurance even though you're not driving it So for this company to come in and take and tell you like hey, you can only pay when you drive your car I think that's brilliant. Maybe some of you guys would probably see different But that's the way I see it. I think this is there is a market for this. So What I'm going to do is I'm going to get in on this pick up a few shares And then just continue to add and see how that goes because I like technology or I like solutions that Changes the way we do things in our currently the traditional way of doing things when somebody comes in and Put a tweak to it and improve it. I love those kinds of technologies So again, you're looking like tesla that started and people was like, oh, that's not gonna work But look at where they are today. So this is going to be the same thing Most industries are going to see this change happening. It's just going to happen.  Some people are not comfortable with Tremendous amount of opportunity for investors to go in and make a lot of money And so if you are just sitting there and thinking you don't like change You're going to be left behind not only get left behind by technology. We're going to be left behind broke So consider looking at some of these Companies that are changing the way we do things the traditional way of doing things and see if there is opportunity They jump right into let me know in the conversation. What do you think about the concept that metro mall users right now Where you only pay Based on how much driving you do you guys think that's a brilliant idea Who's like, oh, I don't think that's going to work again Let me know in the comment section and if you're new to the channel We talk about how to earn money how to save money how to invest and build wealth So if that's something that interests you go ahead and hit that subscribe button and your notification bell So you don't miss out on new content and also if you are looking to start investing guys We will is currently doing a promotion where if you sign up and deposit a hundred dollars You get two free stocks to get you started links in the description below You get the stock I get the stock is what helps me keep the content here on the channel going So in as always guys always do your homework. Don't be greedy savage and stay motivated


All right, so when it comes to laptops, it's been a while since we've seen something from Samsung. And this is their brand new Galaxy Book line. They've got a Galaxy Book Pro, which is a 13 and 15 inch, and they've got a Galaxy Book Pro 360, which is the convertible version and also 13 and 15 inches. So very simple, two simple SKUs and that's it. Now, when it comes to specs, they're very similar for both devices. You've got the Intel 11 Gen with XC graphics, which is great to see. So we should expect good battery life and also good performance for both of them. I don't have exact numbers for battery life, but I'll let you know once we get any of these devices in-house to test. Also, both devices come with either 8 gigabits of RAM up to 16. There's also LTE variants as well, as you would expect from devices like this. And of course, storage options go up to one terabyte. So those are the basics you'll find here. Now, with the Galaxy Book Pro 360, the convertible, this device felt really nice and comfortable. It's a 13-inch laptop, nice and compact, very nice when you're putting on your laptop to type or if you're flipping around watching content with either mode you use, it feels really good. Now, of course, that display you're looking at is a Super AMOLED display. So think about the great displays you see on your Galaxy smartphones. You have it right here. It is a 1080P display, by the way, but it still looks really good, which hopefully will save you on battery life, right? By the way. Now, this is also touch display and you can use your S Pen, not the one that comes with your Galaxy number one that is built for this device. S Pen gives you some of those S Pen features that you'd like. None of the Bluetooth features for the S Pen, but you can go ahead and of course take screenshots, take notes down, you know, talk about Kona Sungala, write his name down or Chef Daniel, whatever you want to do, you can definitely do with that S Pen, which is really nice. In terms of ports, on the 13-inch 360, we do have two USB type-C ports. One is a Thunderbolt port. We also do have a headphone jack and an SD card slot for this device. And I have to say, it's a light and comfortable device to use all the way. Now, when we move to the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro, not the 360, just the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro, this device really surprises you when you pick it up. It is super, super light. You can't imagine how I felt just picking it up from the desk and I just wanted to toss it up because it felt like featherweight. Now, this is because both devices are built with Series 6 aluminum or aluminum, whichever way you want to pronounce it, making it military-grade and very light and also something that's quite durable. And I have to see how it tests out, but so far, I like the comfortable fit with it. So when I'm sitting outside, I'm typing, I'm walking around with this device, I feel really comfortable carrying it just the short period of time I had because of the weight. Now, the device comes with an AMOLED display, it doesn't have a touchscreen. Again, it's also 1080p and this device does come with a few more ports. Besides, of course, the USB Type-C, the Thunderbolt port, it also has a full HDMI port as well and you do have a headphone jack. So you've got some connectivity there as well as a micro SD card slot, if you definitely need that. Now, the keyboards for both of them are feel really nice and comfortable, so you get that from typing on either of these devices and in terms of battery life, I don't know what the battery wattage is, but we'll see when that comes to you. Samsung did say it does come with a 65 watt charger for both devices, so expect to have that with your device to give you fast charging. It is, of course, a USB Type-C charger and that is actually pretty nice to see. Now, besides all those features, both of them will also include Samsung software, giving you features like, you know, link to text so you can actually text from your laptop to your smartphone. You can also do things like transfer of files and photos over, so all those features will also be added to this device, which is actually pretty cool. I think overall though, Samsung has something that looks nice and unique. We'll have to see what pricing looks like for both of them and also we'll have to see what it does in terms of performance, but I do like the way, I do like the feel and I think you guys will like it too. So definitely check out more on the Galaxy Book Pro and the Galaxy Book Pro 360. If you wanna check out more laptops on the channel, we do have a few laptop reviews, so go ahead and check them out and I'll catch you in the next video.


Live from San Francisco, California, it's theCUBE at VMworld 2014, brought to you by VMware, Cisco, EMC, HP, and Nutanix. Now here are your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in San Francisco for VMworld 2014. This is theCUBE. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Rod Matthews, GM of Storage at Barracuda Networks. One of the most successful startup stories in Silicon Valley, self-funded by the entrepreneurs, and then obviously follow on finance and then gone public. BJ Jenkins is now the CEO. Welcome to theCUBE. Great. Nice to be here.  Sometimes it blows up, but the founders of Barracuda really built this thing from scratch, self-funded it, built it up to be huge. Back in the firewall days. Yep. And now put posters all over the airports, became a brand name. Now state of the art in the enterprise and just great success story. But now storage is at the end of the equation because infrastructure is not just boxes now, it's the cloud, everything else. What's going on at Barracuda? Tell us what's happening. Yeah, so we're excited, experiencing some really great growth in our storage business. The Barracuda brand, the Barracuda business model, the large Barracuda customer base has all been a great catalyst for that business. We started off about six or seven years doing message archiving, essentially as our first entry into storage. And that really came out of our spam of ours firewall business. It was an adjacent use case that made a lot of sense. We were shortly thereafter, went into backup, moved into that space about five years ago. And then recently we've moved into the e-signing and online file sync and share space. So variety of products. So Barracuda's always had this ethos of making it simple, a lot of open source, making things like an appliance, like a toaster. What is the storage strategy? We heard from Paula, a long entrepreneur, people are doing things a little bit weird and different that are compelling with data. What are you guys doing different? How are you guys innovating? And the thing that makes us really different is the fact that we're a cloud connected company. Everything we do is connected to the cloud. And our storage products were actually built with the cloud in mind. So our backup product, for example, everything is configured from the cloud. Everything is replicated to the cloud. And the cloud storage is simply an extension of the local box. A lot of our competitors are actually trying to figure out how to take traditional local storage devices and get those connected to the cloud. We started with the cloud. So that gives our customers a lot of simplicity and allows us to do some very interesting things. Like, for example, our live boot technology. For example, the earthquake that just happened this last weekend in Napa. For those customers that may have been backing up with Barracuda, if they had a virtualized infrastructure that was backed up into our cloud with live boot, they can actually fire that right out of the cloud and get their business back up and running without any need to restore the data. Can they get the wine bottles back? I mean, that's what everyone wants to know, was the price of wine going to be increased now? That silver oak picture made me cry. I don't know if you saw that one. I did, yeah. I think pile of wine bottles on the ground. Don't you have to shake them every now and then? Yeah. Turn them a little. So Rod, I wonder if you could help me understand. So the markets that you're in are kind of diverse, right? The sort of the email piece, the web piece, the firewall and the storage. Do the pieces fit together or are you guys opportunists that sort of hit new markets as you see them come available? Yeah, the pieces do fit together. And the way we put them together is through this cloud managed model that I described earlier. All of our products run on a common platform. All of our products are managed through a common web interface. And really what we're doing is we're talking to IT constrained resource professionals that are in companies that typically have between 100 and 5,000 employees where they're not security experts. They're not backup experts. They're not storage experts. They're an IT guy who has to get a job done. And he's got the same problem that large companies have, but he doesn't have the budget and the specialized skills that the large organizations have. So you kind of looked at what the sort of mid-market generalist guys were doing and they do a lot of stuff. They're doing security. They're doing web. They're doing email. They're doing storage. And you said, okay, we can provide sets of services for those guys. Okay. And so talk about the storage piece of that. So that makes sense. That's sort of a good business model. But you were in the business of selling to guys who had storage specialists at EMC, at Data Domain. So how do you guys engage differently? Because those guys sell into those mid-market accounts.  Just leave them out of there? Or how does that whole thing work? Well, the main way we engage those customers differently is if you've ever been to an airport, you've seen a Barracuda ad. Sure. If you've ever listened to a radio program, you've probably heard a Barracuda ad. Sporting events. You see our logo a lot. So one of the things we try to do is create a preference for Barracuda as a brand. And then we really focus on how do we go and drive awareness of these various solutions that we offer to these end users. And essentially, if we get into a customer with, let's say, a mail archiving solution, once they're satisfied with that solution, it's very easy to go have a conversation about backup or about a firewall or about an email security system that's a very adjacent use case. Yeah, so it's kind of what else you got to help me kind of think. So you talked about brand. What do you guys want that brand to say? So what we want that brand to say is that people should trust us to help them solve their problems. It's a very trusted company. It's very focused on the mid-market. It's very focused on generalist IT folks who really need to solve those problems and that we will be there for you 24-7. One of the attributes of our business model is our support model, where when you call for support, you get a live person on the phone. We don't have any phone trees. So that problem gets solved immediately. I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about your business unit, sort of how it's made up, what's the team look like, and then I want to talk about how I engage. Yeah, so our team is actually very unique inside Barracuda. It's been formed through organic delivery as well as a couple of acquisitions. The core of our storage team is actually based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, right next to the Michigan campus. So we recruited a lot of people from that big western part, Dean Draco. He's a Michigan alum. Here we go, we'll fix this. Our former CEO was actually a Michigan alum. He actually is on the board of the directors for the engineering school at Michigan. And he has a lab out there, I believe, right? There's a little Barracuda lab out in Michigan. Yeah, so we've got a team of about 260 people in Michigan actually. It's not a shabby computer science program over there, either. It's a great program. Well, it's Michigan. It's also Eastern Michigan. It's Michigan Tech. It's Michigan State. There's a bunch of great schools right around there. But fundamentally, that team is focused on delivering our message archiver and our backup products. We actually just recently on Monday acquired a company called C2C Systems based in the UK to help us augment that archiving team. So I got to ask you. You've been around the block, EMC, data domain. So the data business has changed. New replication, disaster recovery, you mentioned the earthquake. What's changed now? How does cloud make it more compelling or less compelling? What is the drivers right now in the business? Yeah, the main drivers for us in the business is people are looking for ways to protect data and to get that data off-site. It's essentially the same tapes-off truck story that we've always heard in the marketplace. One of the challenges that we've had at companies prior that I've been at was that these smaller companies didn't have a second site. They didn't have an easy way to get that data off-site. And that's where the cloud becomes really important. So it's been a core tenant of our backup product and you're going to see some announcements from us over the next month that talk more about the cloud capabilities in our archiver product. All right, so let's talk about a typical use case. You got a mid-sized company. They may or may not have remote offices. Pick whatever scenario you choose. What do they have? Do they have sort of existing infrastructure, legacy infrastructure, purpose-built backup appliances, nothing? You know, tapes? Talk about that and talk about how you guys sort of bring them on. Yeah, so where that usually goes and I'll use the Round Rock Express as an example. They play on Austin. Texas are a minor league baseball team. Before we came along and they purchased our backup solution, they were using a hodgepodge of things. They had some backup software from one company. They had storage from another company. They had management tools from a different company. They were trying to figure out how to get the cloud working and it just wasn't all gelling for them. So when we showed up with a kind of purpose-built solution that really solved that problem, it removed a bunch of headaches from them. It was a single vendor solution. Cloud was integrated, really solved that problem. Okay, so they got a bunch of data. Those guys probably have it mostly in one place, I would imagine, right? And then, so how's it work? You sign up for your service and, well, I swipe a credit card or I sign an ELA or... Yeah, we have a vast majority of our customers do very short transactions. Large percentage of our transactions closed in seven days or less. So these are customers who come to us with a very strong preference for Barracuda. The other thing we can do very quickly is we have a 30-day, no-risk trial of our products. So if you come to us on a Monday and say, I'd like to try your backup product, we can have a box to you on Tuesday. So we get that in very quickly. We get that system configured. We get them up and running. It helps remove the need for a proof of concept and install an appliance, which is essentially my on-ramp to your cloud, right? And it has probably some other local services as well. And then I got to seed the cloud. That's the big knot hole that I have to get through, right? And that's just going to depend on how much data I have and how much activity I have, right? Yeah, and what happens there is you install the system. You activate the system with our cloud. So you tell it, hey, I've got the system. We can then go turn on all the entitlements and do all the things that need to happen. And then through our deduplication technologies that are built into that box, we'll get that data up to the cloud as efficiently as possible. Rod, I got to ask you about the next big wave. Pat Kelsinger was quoted on The Cube years ago saying, if you're not out in front of the next big wave of innovation, you become driftwood. So Barracuda's got an innovative culture. What are you guys doing to get inside of that next wave? What is that next wave? And how are you guys going to be out in front of it so you don't become driftwood? Yeah, well, I think Pat had done it this morning in his keynote where he talked about the tyranny of the end and the power of the oar. Or the tyranny of the oar and the power of the end. Essentially what we're doing is we're giving customers choice and we're saying, hey, if you want to use a local appliance, great, we can do that. If you want to replicate from site to site, great, we can do that. If you want to use the cloud, great, we can do that. And so we're looking at these hybrid solutions that really allow customers to deploy the way they want to deploy. So I think he's right on with that. It's all about end. How do I do this and this? So I think that's the way most IT customers want to do it. So then you got this big whale in the room in Amazon that says, no, no, do it our way. And you listen to Andy Jassy talking, you listen to Pat Gelsinger talking, it's like they live in two different worlds. Are they both right or are they both wrong? Well, I think customers are going to choose different ways to go deploy that technology. Some of them are going to choose the Amazon style way, some of them will choose the VMware style way. There's a whole bunch of different choices for what people will do there. Our approach to that is to give people as many different choices as possible for how to deploy our technology. One of the things that recently happened, for example, at the Microsoft World Web Partner Conference is they were demonstrating the new Azure web application store. And they were showing how to demonstrate or how to deploy a web-enabled virtual machine in an Azure environment. The thing that they used to demonstrate that was a Barracuda web application firewall. And so we were one of the first companies into that space with our security products to help protect that virtual environment. You guys have a security heritage out to the firewall going back to the original product. You mentioned Dean and the co-founders, Zach and those guys. Well, how does that play now into the cloud? Because it's really a tough thing. Pat mentioned security. You know, Steve Herd was saying on Friday, it's not about perimeter-based security. It's a whole new paradigm. Can you share your thoughts there? Yeah, it's really about how do we protect data where customers choose to deploy it. And I think the hybrid environment where some things are local, some things are hybrid, one of the things that I do in a lot of my day-to-day job is talk to early-stage companies that are maybe looking to be acquired or maybe looking for investment. And more and more what I see with those companies is there is no local infrastructure. When we acquired Sign Now about a year ago, part of our standard diligence process is tell me about your local infrastructure. And their answer was we don't have any. They were using all cloud services. And so when you look at that kind of environment, the way you can archive cloud to cloud, the way you need to back up data cloud to cloud, really changes. And that's really where we're focused for the next wave of innovation. So I was getting some text there and some stuff on Twitter. I got to ask you from the crowd on the crowd chat. Go to crowdchat.net slash VMworld. Be part of the conversation on the hashtag VMworld. We've got a whole dedicated crowd chat. It says, ask Rod how they harness the data protection paradigm and other solutions with third-party non-baricuda outside of the storage itself like what data gravity is doing. Do you guys have that kind of solution? So our solution is fundamentally we'll back up whatever infrastructure you have. So we'll use agents to deploy for things like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server. We use operating system level integration to deploy those. Like I mentioned, we'll plug into the cloud environments that people are using. So our approach is to plug into whatever is commonly used in those mid-market environments. But you have no interoperability issues. No. Okay, cool. What's the coolest thing you've seen at VMworld? And we'll get you that and give you a chance to answer that in the last course. What's the coolest thing you've seen so far? And what do you think will be the biggest splash of this show? What's the core theme that's going to come out of this? Yeah, well, I've actually been here for about two hours and actually haven't gotten to go into the show floor yet. So I would have to say that the Baricuda booth, which is slot number 2011, is probably the coolest thing you're going to see. Sorry for the commercial, but I haven't been in there yet. That's a good Baricuda club. But let's ask more of an industry question. What do you think is going to come out of VMworld? If you had to throw the prediction out there, what's the core theme that's going to be the front page of the Wall Street Journal and the front page of the trade magazines? Yeah, I think VMware expanding their footprint to include other types of infrastructure. I was really interested this morning in some of the things like Docker that they're talking about from a containerization perspective where it doesn't have to be a VMware virtual image. It could also be a container using different technologies. So I think that kind of ongoing, you know, more heterogeneous approach that VMware's taking makes a lot of sense. And I wouldn't expect anything less from Pat Gelsinger knowing kind of how he operates from my days at EMC. He's very much about enabling the ecosystem and enabling the platform. Rod, thanks for coming to you, Rod Mathers. GM of Baricuda Storage Group here in VMworld Live. Pat Gelsinger will be on at 4-3 and ask him those questions. Always great to have Pat as well as a lot of other great entrepreneurs, experts and executives. Here live in San Francisco, this is the queue for three days, wall-to-wall coverage. We'll be right back.


Hey everybody, my name is Matt Slipper. I'm the CTO co-founder of a company called Kiyokin. For those of you who don't know who we are or what we do, we're a full-stack crypto-native software development consultancy. We've worked with a lot of notable people in the space, both on Ethereum as well as a variety of other chains. And when I say full-stack, I mean we do everything from protocol design and development to UI implementation. We've also worked with Mollick Dow, building a bunch or writing a bunch of reports that are designed to accelerate the ETH2 roadmap, as well as with Rick Dudley to help accelerate the creation and implementation of it 1559. So as for me, usually there's supposed to be a slide with my face on it and an enumeration of all of my incredible career accomplishments. Rather than do that, because I think everyone in here knows how to use LinkedIn, I'm going to tell you a quick story. And this will set the stage for both my talk and also how I think about building software and why mainstream adoption for ETH matters. So when I was 16, I built this thing. It was called Transmute. And it was a little web app. And what it did was it let you drag a video from your desktop onto your web browser and drop it on top of the device that you wanted the video to be playable on. So you could take a video on your desktop, drop it on the iPod, bam. You can now play it on an iPod. So I begged my mom to pay for a press release and some Google ads. And I managed to get some users. I had a couple hundred people using it for a while. And there was this one guy who went through and he uploaded something like 350 or so videos. And they were of him flying model airplanes in Los Angeles. And that was really, really cool. It was really, really cool because here's this guy. He's in his 60s. He flies model airplanes for fun. So he doesn't, he's clearly retired. He doesn't care about my technology. He doesn't care whether I use FFMPEG or LiveAV or what the container protocol that it is that I'm using. He just cared that I was able to solve his problem. And he's an example of someone that I would call a mainstream user, someone who doesn't care about your protocol, doesn't care about your technology, but wants to solve a problem using it. And that brings us to today's topic. So how do we build DApps that are ready for mainstream users right here, right now, without waiting for additional protocols or new research to be developed? So to get really specific and reiterate what I mean by mainstream user, I'm talking about people who use applications for the benefits they provide, rather than the technology that powers them. This includes things like decentralization. So a performer on SpankChain doesn't use the platform because she thinks crypto's cool. She uses it because she's able to custody her own funds and the financial system can't come in, decide they don't like her job, and all of a sudden delete her access to the financial system. She does it because there's no chargebacks on crypto and it means that rather than charging a 20% fee per transaction, they're able to get five. And that can mean the difference between someone paying rent or someone not being able to pay rent. The point is these are people that are being enabled by the technology. And in the past, historically, crypto has focused on the technology rather than what the people are able to do with it. I think a great example is BitSquare. So does anyone in the audience know what BitSquare is? Okay, absolutely nobody, except Jackie. Awesome, so BitSquare is sort of the granddaddy of decentralized exchanges. It launched in May 2016. The cool thing about BitSquare was that as far as the centralization goes, it was a showcase of all of the things that we consider now to be sort of the forefront of decentralization of thought. It uses a big Java app to talk to a peer-to-peer network. That peer-to-peer network is only available over Tor. So you have to be connected to Tor to get the order book and get the orders and all the other things that make it a centralized exchange and exchange. It uses fiat and crypto, it's a fiat to crypto exchange. So how do you do that, trustlessly? When people have the ability to cheat you in the fiat world, well, it had a doubt. You could stake BSQ tokens in order to become an arbitrator and then arbitrate any failed transactions that occur on BitSquare. So they've been around for a while. They renamed to Bisk, like the soup. But there's only one problem with that and I'm sure you can kind of guess what that is. Nobody uses Bisk.  They all used centralized exchanges, Coinbase, Kraken, whatever. And if I were to put on a number line here where Bisk and Coinbase fall as far as decentralization and users go, it would look something like this. You've got Bisk, which is decentralized out the Wazoo. In fact, the founders were thinking about going full Satoshi and disappearing at one point. And they've got fewer users. And then you've got Coinbase, which asks for your passport and what you did last night to let you trade, but it has a lot of users. I've deliberately chosen some somewhat polarizing examples here in order to illustrate a wider point, which is that if you pick any individual DAP or thing that we're building on crypto, generally speaking, it's going to occupy one of the poles of this spectrum. So how do we build things that are more in the middle that can be appealing to mainstream users? Well, I think the first step is to actually understand what attributes of decentralization and conveniences afforded by centralized platforms users want and what those things are. So for decentralized platforms, that's usually things like this, self-sovereignty. I'm the only one that can spend my funds, no one can take them away from me. Transparency and auditability. If the operator or a counterparty or me decides to go and do something bad, everybody's going to find out about it and they're going to yell at me. And finally, portability. I can take my funds and leave a platform that's starting to exploit me. Someone in a previous talk talked about, it was a wireline guys, they talked about how once the Gmail platform got big enough, it was time for Google to start exploiting its own users with the portable crypto platform that becomes impossible. And these are things that are only possible using a robust cryptocurrency system. However, and it's a big however, users don't necessarily know about those things. What users see when they interact with DApps on a daily basis is they don't have these things and they really, really like these things. They really like username password authentication, the ability to get all their funds back. I think my Ether wallet has six or seven warnings reminding you that if you lose your seed words, all your funds are gone. That really scares people. People like the ability to go to a website on their phone or on their iPad or whatever else and have all their data right there and the ability to log right in. They also want performance. It has to be fast. It has to feel instant in order for it to be fun. And finally, actions shouldn't have to be paid for. And so these are really ingrained user expectations. If your application doesn't have those things, you're not going to be able to get over the hump and users won't be able to get over that hump to actually start exploring what your application has to offer. And so until user behaviors change significantly, we have to honor these things and figure out where the appropriate trade-offs are in order to get mainstream adoption to happen. And a way I say this happens is we need to support multiple access points from users with varying needs. So to illustrate this a little more, who's seen this screen before? Yeah, pretty much everybody. So I pulled this one from the EF's website for the auction to buy tickets using the on-chain auction contract that they put together for DEFCON. And it's the screen that says you have to install this other thing before you're allowed to use my thing. Users really don't like this. And this isn't a dig at MetaMask. MetaMask is responsible for a lot of the adoption that Ethereum has already had. But MetaMask's risk profile is different from the majority of decentralized applications.  They're not going to be using your platform in arbitrary ways. They're not using your platform for a free infura either. And so as a result, if you have a MetaMask only login, since MetaMask has to be maximally paranoid in order to serve its users, it's a little bit like you wanna play with your crypto kiddie, but you gotta go to some bank vault in the Swiss Alps. Maybe talk to this guy with a gun. And people really find that off-putting.   So I've provided enough atmospherics, I hope, for me to actually start talking about various solutions to these problems. And the first is, well, we can borrow from applications that have already tread this path before. And those are end-to-end encrypted messengers. I've worked at several end-to-end encrypted messenger companies and they generally do something like this. You have a user make up a password, you strengthen that password using a KDF, you encrypt whatever ciphertext it is, shove it on the server, and now as long as the user has that password, they're able to sync that data everywhere they decide to go. But this doesn't solve password recovery. To do that, you need to either have a version of the key yourself that you're able to decrypt. So that does violate the first tenant, which is self-sovereignty, because technically speaking, the operator could go in and steal all your money if it wanted to. But at least the user's going to be able to recover. And to be honest, when you have a non-technical person using crypto, I generally trust the operator more than the user. Or you can use something like a fund custody smart contract. The way these work, it's a little bit like an OSIS safe where user funds are actually stored in a smart contract. That smart contract then has the ability to delegate ownership of those funds to a separate address. And it enables you to call recover with a new owner that initiates a challenge timer one called the user gains the ability to in the event of operator malfeasance, cancel the transfer of ownership and eject all those funds from the contract. So even though the operator does have a window of time in which it can try to steal your funds, if you're watching it, it can't. But we're still not changing user behaviors with these things, we're accepting them. So we're able to get short term user value and user adoption using these solutions. But it's not what we want long term. We want people to be able to change their behaviors to be more congruent with what crypto is going to require in the future. And so for that you can use something like wallet connect. So for those of you who are unfamiliar with wallet connect, Pedro Gomez has done an amazing job of this. It's a standard that allows you to share keys and signature data between various wallets. For users that have an existing wallet, they can import it directly into your DAP. For users that are on your DAP that start storing more value and becoming more accustomed to the crypto space and want to self custody, they can eject. And that's gonna solve the third tenant of why decentralization matters, the portability bit. So you should check out wallet connect if you can because it's going to slowly start changing user behavior. Recapping, what do we fix so far? So we've done onboarding, we've done authentication and sync but we haven't solved performance and we haven't solved gas. So to do that, we need to go off chain. This is the Gartner hype curve. You've all probably seen it before. This is where I think lots of different L2 solutions sit on the Gartner hype curve. This isn't a dig at each one of these solutions, it just means that of the various L2s that are available to the world right now, state channels are the ones that are ready for production and on mainnet. And the reason you're not hearing about them and are instead seeing people on Twitter saying that L2 isn't here yet, what the hell happened is because once things are production ready, they start getting boring. And I think boring is awesome because it means you can use them for real value. So an example of this is a ticketing application. And by the way, if you're using payments, you can just take off the shelf stuff for this, you don't have to build anything special, you can use the die card but I'm talking about an asset transfer system here. So for a ticketing application, you have a general flow that looks something like this. So you've got a user, he goes to your DAP and he wants to buy a ticket for something. Your DAP mints a token and either if there's enough collateral, deposits it directly into a channel and credits the user's balance or makes an on-chain transaction on the user's behalf in order to make sure that that token exists. The user's made no on-chain transactions here, they haven't paid for any gas. If the channel is adequately collateralized, they get that token immediately. And now they can actually start doing things with it, just like they would on something like Ticketmaster. But something that's important to note is after that little dotted line on the user column, the user can close the channel and they can get delivery of that token. So something that's kind of unique to Ethereum. There's been a lot of talk and rumbling about how ETH is money. If ETH is money, then ERC 20s and ERC 721s are its medium of exchange. And receiving delivery of that token means that it sort of doesn't really matter how complicated or even how centralized the system is that creates those tokens. As long as you're able to eventually take sovereign custody of those tokens, you can play with the rest of the Ethereum ecosystem. So to tie it all back together to this ticketing application that I'm talking about, once you receive that NFT or that ERC 20 that represents your ticket, you could stake it on a Uniswap if you want, or sorry, put it in a Uniswap pool if you wanted to. You could perform an atomic swap with it if you wanted to. The sky is limit because you've received delivery. I mentioned centralization earlier. And there are a class of applications for which it probably just makes sense to centralize it at this particular juncture. So if you're the mentor of the token, you're the only place that can use the token, if your company were to go up and smoke, your token becomes meaningless bytes on a blockchain, you should probably centralize and just allow people to settle onto Ethereum using ERC 20 or ERC 721s. And it seems kind of like a sad, like an acceptance of defeat, but it's not. Because at the end of the day, dApps are businesses and they're trying to find product market fit and they're trying to get people to use them. That's the important part, people to use them. And they're more likely to fail as a result of no one using them than they are people finding them to be insufficiently decentralized. And so if eventually your dApp becomes something that could be a public good, go ahead and start teasing it apart and decentralizing it and making it more robust. But until then, you wanna make sure you're building the right thing before you're building the best thing. And I can say from experience, having built several L2 solutions, both generic and specific, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a rigorous, audited, production ready, decentralized L2 that users really want to use. And that's a huge risk, particularly for a tiny company. So, continuing, we've ticked all of our boxes, but there's sort of a big question remaining, which is like, what's next and why does this matter? This is not fun crypto. This is not ZK Snarks. It's just sort of boring solutions to get people to start using Ethereum. Why does getting people to start using Ethereum actually matter? Well, let's tie it all back together. People talk in the abstract about an Ethereum killer app. The reason an Ethereum killer app is interesting and useful is that unlike, say, a Silicon Valley venture backed company where to the victor goes the spoils.  Every startup that launches on Ethereum has a unique opportunity to find fit for itself, but also find fit for the entire chain. We don't talk about Uniswap in the context as if Uniswap is the only DeFi thing. We talk about DeFi as a whole. So, something succeeding on Ethereum grows the pie for everything else. And the best way to do that is to build lots of MVPs that provide user value and talk to those users. And those users have to be mainstream users that are solving a problem because the number of people that are interested in crypto for crypto's sake is extraordinarily small. I really, really like this graphic because it talks about what a successful MVP is. So in this case, the MVP is a transportation device. And so on the bottom, they start with a skateboard and eventually emerges into a car. And on the top, they start with the wheel and then eventually they put together a car. Anyway, the bit's gone on a little bit too long. But the idea is up until relatively recently, and this is a testament to the Ethereum community, we didn't even have the wheels. We didn't have the primitives to actually choose between which model of MVP we wanted to go about building in order to build mainstream decentralized applications. We do now with L2, with all of the open source work that's been done with many of the things that have been described at this very conference, we have the ability to do things at this very moment. So it's a watershed moment in Ethereum. To get to the next 10 million users in Ethereum, we need to find that killer app. Removing barriers and not forcing users to change their behaviors lets us validate more hypotheses about what users want to use Ethereum for more quickly so that over time we can in fact, make people care more about decentralization than just convenience. So that's the end. I hope you found it helpful and interesting. This is usually also the bit where I try and sell you stuff, but I don't actually have anything I want to sell you. Instead, I'm working on a lot of interesting stuff at Kyoken, shoot me a DM on Twitter if you want to hear more about it. Otherwise, yeah, I would love to hear more about what people think of these concepts. And if you're talking about, or you're interested in talking about UX adoption and L2, feel free to reach out. Thank you very much.