Welcome back to another video, Jordan Modenday Muscle. We are at Will's house right here. As you guys can see, there's Will and there's his charger right there.  But also too, we're here to look at this slingshot. It looks pretty dope. What's up guys? I was just having a conversation with Will about the steering wheel. As you can see, he took it off and I was wondering if that's something you gotta do. And he was saying that's something that you just prefer to do because of umprability and stuff like that. Getting out from the big one. I cannot sympathize with that. Yeah man, so it's a one wheel in the back and then two up front. How much horsepower is this thing? It's the same. It's 170. You see the 170 for the 170. Yeah, it's pretty light. The engine is actually a coper. Okay. So this is the 2018. Oh, it flips open like that, okay. That's pretty cool. Yeah, so it's a GM over. I think it's, is he the 173 or 176? Wow. It gets up. Yeah, I would assume so because it's pretty light. So 170 horsepower may not sound like a lot but in a light frame, that's a lot of power. Yeah, it's got 18s in the front and 20 inch in the back. Is that the PCM right there? Yeah. That's cool. This is cool man. And you put tire stickers on it. No. Oh, it came like that? No, okay. Paint markers, okay. It's kind of dirty. That's pretty cool man. Got the Joker on there. So this is more of like a, I mean, I know the charge is a baby but this is more of like a fun toy as well too. Yeah. Yeah. It's more of a weekend, you know, getting out and just relaxing. Yeah, I can see a lot of people taking these things to the beach. Yeah. Yeah. And normally when I ride, it's about, like I say it's about 20. Okay. All right, well. Everything's optional. Everything's optional? Yeah, everything's optional. The hood, the frame, I put everything on myself. Okay. I mean, this comes like chrome but I redid it. Redid it. Yeah, I like the color choices you made. Yeah, I like the color choices you made. The inside here is like it's black but I changed it out from green and then my stereo system, this is my plan. So you have the option to have an actual stereo system in there but I didn't want to take the risk of, you know, somebody stealing it but like when I go to the store, so I use my iPad and Bluetooth system. So I got the speakers there and I just put these in there. Okay. These guys right here. Yeah. These speakers. So do these things come with doors or it's kind of just open concept like this? No, they're not open. Okay. Like you'll see some. That has like a mini door? Yeah, those are mine. Okay. You can't find actual kits. There's like somebody actually made those. I see. But it's supposed to be an open view but you know, this is Florida and that's something to get you. So I got to have the sunshade. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And you know, if I have an option I can take, I can actually take this off or take the centerpiece off. So it'll just be like a T-bar, remember. Okay. It's actually not the problem. I kind of like it like this. It kind of looks dope like that. So real quick for people that may not know how hard is the SunShot to drive? Not at all. I mean if you know how to drive a stick shift. Oh, okay. And then on top of that, like the shift's real light. You'll see once you drive. And you said shifting. I just noticed your shift knob here. Oh yeah, I changed that out. That's pretty cool. I like that. All right guys, we're about to take a ride in the Slingshot, man.  No, I didn't. It's a backup camera but I haven't run it all the time because when I try to switch lanes it's kind of hard to see that way. So I use the switch lanes. Oh, that's smart. You see that guys?  I like that, that's cool. So real quick guys, I'm gonna test out the Slingshot. I'm gonna let you guys know how I feel. It was going on guys. You guys see me take a ride in the Slingshot and then also I got to drive it in the parking lot. I know I was probably looking real horrible but it's all right. Because I was still able to shift a little bit. But I told them like if I go to an empty parking lot and just practice for a little bit I'll be back looking the game after a day. But yeah man, I'm gonna go ahead and close out this video. Make sure you follow my guy Will on Instagram. His Instagram will hit the screen right now. My name is Jordan. This is modern day muscle. I'll catch you back in the next video.


Good morning everybody, this is all you get to Alberta. I got my first drop in Lethbridge tomorrow. I've got my second drop in Killham, Alberta.  I just threw everything in here and we're gonna head down the road because that's life with a newborn. It's hard to get out the door first thing in the morning. Everything takes longer, but that's a good thing. It's okay, never complaining. Having a newborn is definitely one of the bigger challenges we've ever had in our lives, but it's one we wouldn't change for anything else, right? It's the best, biggest challenge ever. But it does take up a lot of my time so I didn't have time to set everything up in here right now so I threw everything in the back, I'm gonna get moving down the road and as we move towards Lethbridge, I'm gonna stop and slowly start organizing everything and putting it where it belongs because this is gonna drive me nuts. But that is what it is, let's get moving. Of course it's another windy day. I've been fighting the wind for over a week now. Last week I was fighting the wind because it was coming from the south and as we went south, we were going directly into it. So I was like, all right, well on the way home, I'll be able to put out the sails and just fly home, right?  Now it was coming from the north, okay. I parked the truck in the shop, I'm like, well, next week is a new week, you know? Next week the winds will have changed, winds are stronger, they're still coming out of the north past Medicine Hat or to Medicine Hat Alberta tonight. That's the goal. If we get past Medicine Hat, hey, we're overachievers. It's at least a 10 hour drive to get there to the southwest coming from the northeast now. So we might have a little bit of a tail wind and maybe I'm complaining as quickly as possible. So if that means fighting the wind, hey, that's part of the job, that's what I gotta do. Or shift in our favor. Right now we might actually have a tail south. Very rarely do they come from the east. More cold weather is coming in the next few days. Farmer weather is coming in the next few days. It was coming from the west. I think we've gotten lucky, the wind has died down. Or maybe it's at my back. It's hard, I gotta sort of look at the grass and the ditches to see which way the wind's blowing. But I'm definitely not fighting it. So that's good. At Manitoba, obviously we're headed westbound. So we're gonna make it to Medicine Hat, at least. Provided everything goes well. I have 13 hours I can drive today and that's a 10 hour drive. Been Balgoni, been Balgoni, Baloni. Almost forgot I used to call it that all the time. Catch you on, just east of Regina. Grab some fuel and maybe organize this truck a little bit here. All my stuff is still all over the place. I need to stop and put everything in its place because it stresses me out. Sess me out and everything's a mess. I'm actually anywhere near OCD. Sometimes I joke about it. Oh yeah, I'm so OCD. I like everything straight and plain. I like them to be clean. I like them to be straight. But if they're not, I can live with it. My truck's straight. I think I'm gonna go into a mental breakdown. That's what I'm trying to say. I do what I can. Moosamen, Moosamen, Moosamen, hot holes, hot holes. Careful, no swallow you whole. This is the co-op truck stop in Moosamen. If you haven't gathered, there's the Timmy's. I gotta get a coffee. Organize my truck a little bit. Take a little bit of a breather, a little bit of a break. Load myself up on some caffeine and keep on going. Oh, they put up a fence here now so that people stop backing up into that person's yard. I see. I see. Good fences make good neighbors. I don't wanna say that. Parkway up here beside Mr. Ponder. You'll see him in a sec. Uh-huh, front row. Look at this. I never get to park here. Nice. Now we can be lazy. Not have to walk so far. This is a nice place to stop. Stretch it out. Oh, gotta do up my belt. One second here, pardon me. When I'm driving, I undo my belt and my button. What? You do it too. Don't look at me like that. Don't lie to me. All you gotta do is remember to do it up before you jump out of your truck because most times I forget and I start walking in. I look down. So you can see in the back. I'm not sure if you can actually. Yeah, you can. Everything's all over the place. My sheet's not even on the bed. It's terrible. It's driving me crazy. So we're gonna get everything cleaned up, organized a little bit here. Take a little bit of a break. I am off duty right now. And then once I feel a little comfortable, we won't do it all now. We'll just get to start. This whole trip and especially today, my whole goal is to, every time I stop, make things a little bit better. So we're gonna get the bed set up now and then we're gonna go grab Tim's.  Gonna grab fuel there and then I'll, you know, maybe organize my food shelves up there a little bit. Just a little bit. Spend like 10, 15 minutes just organizing a little bit and then continue on down the road. Then by the time I get to Lethbridge, I should have everything in its place where it's supposed to be. And then after that, I need to get into the habit of every time I stop, I clean one thing. So I stop, okay, I clean the dashboard. Once the dashboard's clean, okay, go down the road. Okay, the next time I stop, okay, I'm gonna clean the doors, right? Just something small. So every time you stop, you clean something. So everything needs to rotate through everything so that everything sort of gets cleaned.  Maybe quickly vacuum the front and then the next time you stop vacuum the sleeper. All right, make sense? Try to keep things clean because I know I'm happier when things are clean and organized. It doesn't have to be clean and organized. I'll manage, I'll cope, but I'm just happier. I've noticed that. It's something I can't control. So if I just wanna have a better day, I have to do these. And even though I don't feel like cleaning, I don't feel like cleaning much.  I hate taking time when I could be working to clean things, but it just makes me feel so much better when I do actually take the time, which sort of makes me like it because the end result is what I'm going for. All right, so believe it or not, that is more organized than there was. All right, got my cooler off there, got the bedding on. There's just nowhere to put my bags. There's very little storage in this truck. There is some, but I need to reorganize that and that's for another stop. Now we need to hit the road again. Go juice. It's go go juice time. I need some diesel, Hill. I'm at an eighth of a tank. It's a fuel price here. $1.63 nine, nope, $1.62 nine. Dollar, so don't try to fool me like that.  There is no such thing as .9 of a cent. Oh, I guess I should turn off all my cameras here. They're all still running. I'll just leave this one on because I'm talking to this one. I'm not talking to that one. This battery needs to be replaced too before I forget. Okay, okay, what's going on here? It's constantly, constantly changing batteries doing that, doing that, setting this up, setting that up. I like to have everything rolling before I roll, you know? Then I don't have to mess around with it. There we go. Fresh batteries, how do you feel about that, GoPro? Good for you. I don't need these. I don't need these. What's going on here? Where's my case? Oh, yes, I put the case down here. It's right where I left it. It's right where I left it. Put my regular lookers on so I can see the world. Oh, they're dirty. Always dirty. Why are the glasses always dirty? That is like a real struggle. Forever and ever for the rest of my life. Unless I get that crazy laser eye surgery.  She used to have glasses most of her life. She got that Lasik surgery or the eye surgery. Now she doesn't need glasses. It's amazing. Amazing what they can do, right? And fix your eyeballs. I just, I don't like the idea of them messing around with my eyeballs. I only got two of them. And I want to keep them both. Makes me nervous. But she did it and she was fine and she turned out better. Her eyesight turned out better. And she turned out better. Everything came, everything was better. I don't know. I don't know. Have any of you had that eye surgery so that you don't need glasses anymore? Cause you know, the great thing about these lenses is that you never have to clean them. They clean themselves. Wouldn't that be awesome if we could get like eyeglasses that would clean themselves? Like, you know, with little like automatic wipers or something. Wouldn't that be cool? Wouldn't that be ridiculous? So you're walking along the wipers on your glasses. Oh yeah. You get a lot of attention. That's for sure. I don't know if it's the right attention but you'd have attention. All right, let's get out there. Let's get out there. Not supposed to park there, Panner. Panner, Panner. Panner, Panner. Not supposed to park there. You are not supposed to park there. There's a whole parking lot of empty parking spots, my friend. A whole parking lot. Probably about 50 empty parking spots. That's not a parking spot. Oh well. Not my problem. Let's get back out there. We filled up with 674 liters. 178 US gallons. Costs me about $1,047 conduct money. Probably about $800 or $700 US money. That got me here from, where did I fill up? I filled up at the Lovs in Valley, Nebraska. So we went all the way to Davenport, picked up this load and came all the way up through Winnipeg or past Winnipeg. It's about going on highway 46 and then at the roundabout take the first exit. Karen, you have to stop talking over me.  I don't care what HR says.  Okay, so it got us all the way here at 1,544 kilometers, about 1,000 miles. At 100 meters, turn right on highway 46 and then at the roundabout take the first exit. You see, that was progress, Karen. Wait your turn to talk. Thank you. We're making progress. I like that. Getting better. For some reason, this traffic light is a four-way stop now, which confuses me. At the roundabout take the first exit in 300 meters. It looks like somebody dragged their trailer right over that, here's our two lanes here. I don't know. Someone dragged their trailer over the light pole there and knocked it over. They haven't fixed it yet. Wonder who did that? Anybody know what happened there? At the roundabout take the first exit. That was close, Karen. That was close. I'll forgive that one. Don't swear at me. This is a family channel, just per 100 kilometers approximately. So we didn't do too good, and I was also in a hurry to get back last week. Living are pretty hard and that always hits the pocketbook when you get to the pumps next. But it was worth it because I got to get home and hold my baby boy. Every extra minute counts, right? See how far we get. We're getting up, Mike. Like I said before, we're at least gonna get to Medicine Hat, Alberta. We'll see how I feel. Maybe we'll go further. Gotta be in Lethbridge tomorrow, as early as possible. Before we hit Alberta. Alberta is about another hour or two down the road. Medicine Hat is maybe another hour. I don't think it's three hours from here, is it? I totally forget. I'm gonna have to check the map. Well, it's a couple of hours from here yet. So I've got a couple more hours to go. I'm just stopping here to stretch my legs a little bit. Let old blue rest, let myself rest. Just doing some organizing. Just listening to the hum of the tires of all the trucks fly by here. I'm at the ESSO truck stop on the west side of town. And of course I'll walk out to stand closer to the highway to listen to the trucks go by. And of course now there's no trucks, no one on the highway. There's someone coming there, but that's not a big truck. That's how it is, right? Here we go.  There we go. Let's listen. Beautiful sounds of the night. Okay, now we need to get going. Now I'm happy. Got my fix. Just a short little ways to go yet. So let's keep going. I'm pretty sure we can easily make it to Medicine Hat. Oh, we made it. Medicine Hat, Alberta. Line J. I saw some parking spots available on the drive past here on my way up here to the driveway. Even though all of these guys are parked all along here making it seem like the parking lot must be completely packed, right? Now these guys are just the guys that didn't want to back into a parking spot. Or they couldn't because they got pikes at these double trailers. They can't exactly back into a normal parking spot. There should be special truck stops for them. But that I guess that would be a huge expense, you know. All those nice spots along the side are taken up. So we're gonna have to actually back ourselves into one of these back here. I don't need fuel right now. So I'll just thread the needle here nice and slow through the pumps of these spots back here. I'm straight. I had to readjust myself. My first attempt, I got in to this parking spot. I had to back into this parking spot between these two trailers. First attempt slipped it right in there. That wasn't the problem. The problem was after I was in here I came and looked at my parking though and I was crooked. I still look a little bit crooked. I thought I fixed it. What is going on here? Does that look straight to you? I mean, I'm just gonna go ahead and say it's straight enough. I mean it may not be straight as an arrow, but it's like 12 or one in the morning. Maybe it's two. I don't really know what time it is. It's late. I don't really know what's going on. I know I'm in medicine hat and that I'm tired in that diesel fuel is $1.41 a sign. Alberta always has the cheapest fuel because Alberta knows how to do it right. If we all just copied Alberta, things would be a lot better. But hey, you wouldn't know what's better if you didn't have something that was better, right? If it was all the same, well, that's all the same. That doesn't make any sense. I'm tired. Come a little closer here. End of the day. So thanks for hanging out with me today, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. You know the drill. Hit that like button if you do like my videos. I appreciate it. It helps me with the algorithm. Leave me a comment down below. Whatever's on your mind helps me again with the algorithm. And if the algorithm thinks that a lot of people or sees that a lot of people are engaging with my content, it automatically shares it with more new people. So that's one easy and free way to help me out if you do like my videos. I do appreciate that very much. I'm tired. I'm gonna hop back there into the bed and I'm gonna get under the covers and I'm gonna be sleeping before my head hits the pillow. I promise. But don't worry. I stayed awake until I was parked safely and straight. I'm pretty sure I'm straight. Unless my eyes are crooked, I'm straight. I'll talk to you guys tomorrow.


تشرف بل اشتغالي بالعلم ولا تبغي به ما عشت يا دا دا دا لا وياله من شراف عظيمي اسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والعاقبة للمتقين ولا عدوان إلا على الظالمين وأسلموا على المبعوث رحمة للعالمين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبيعهم بيحسان الى يوم الدين أما بعد أسلمني لأصدقائي أنا فقط أصدقائي من مانشيستا أصدقائي من مانشيستا وقلت لأصدقائي هنا لذا أسلمت إن شاء الله سوف أصدقائي إن شاء الله أصدقائي والأصدقائي إن شاء الله today we're going to speak we'll have an introduction before the start of the Kitab of Sahih Muslim Kitab al-Fitan this is the plan insha'Allah to study from Sahih Muslim that chapter but insha'Allah today we have an introduction and everybody insha'Allah if you can bring with you a book of Sahih Muslim that chapter when we read it you can look into it it's very important insha'Allah brothers this topic that we're going to speak about today is the Fitan the trials and tribulations it's very important that we study it and we go over it نحتاج إلى مذاكرته والوقوف على طرف من جوانبي it is important that we study it we stand over some of its topics وذلك من باب الحيضة and the reason is because we want to abstain from it and not fall into it لأن معرفة الشيء وعواقبه والبراري يُعطِل عبد الشيء من الحصانة when a person learns a matter has an understanding of the consequences that will come from it the harms that may they might encounter it gives him the ability to abstain from it وَلَحَضَرِ مِنَ الْوَقُوْ عِفِي to stay away in falling into it وَقَدْقِيلَ قَدِيمَلْ it was said before كَيفَ يَتَّقِي مَلَّا يَدْرِي مَيَتَّقِي how can one fear and abstain from something in which he has no knowledge of what he can abstain from اللذي لا يعرف الفتن the person who doesn't know the trials and tribulations ولا يعرفوا آثارها and does not know the effects and the consequences it has with it وعاقبها and the final endings that it brings ربما دخل في شيء منها he might enter into it but having any knowledge of it but having any understanding of it I might fall into it ثم بعد ذلك and after that what happens is يَلْحَقُّهُ مِنَ الْنَدَمِ بَا يَلْحَقُّهُ he will start to regret and be concerned and worried إمام أحمد بن حمبل رحمه الله to show you how it's important to look at the fitna study it and to know it and to know what will come out of it إمام أحمد بن حمبل نفر من العلماء بغداد a group of the scholars of Baghdad came to Imam Ahmed بن حمبل in his house فقالوا يا أبا عبد الله they said the father of Abdullah that was his kunya هذا الأمر قد تفاقا وفشا this matter has now spread out in the open it's going out and they are referring to the matter regarding that the Quran is created this issue has now spread everyone is hearing about it it has reached everyone in their houses فقالوا يا أبا عبد الله إمام أحمد بن حمبل said to them فما تريدون what do you guys want قالوا أنوا شاويرك our intent is to consult you we want to speak to you to Imam أحمد بن حمبل our goal is to speak to you why? because they said we are not pleased with this man who is in charge of us we are not happy with this man in charge of us his leadership and what he calls to Imam أحمد started to debate with them for an hour فنعضنه أبا عبد الله ساعة a very long time he was debating with them what was he saying to them he was saying to them hate it بقلوبكم in your hearts ولا تخلعوا يدع do not pull back your hands من طاعة of obedience ولا تشوقوا عصا المسلمين do not break the unity of the Muslims ولا تسفقوا دماءكم and do not spill your own blood on his hands ودماء المسلمين and the blood of the Muslims انظرو في عقبة أمريكم look at the ending of this matter study it وصبرو and be patient حتى يستريح بر حتى يستريح بر until a million one finds ease and joy all of you are criminal the people are finding safety from him هذا الكلام فهذه دعوة المباركة it's a good calling why لنظري في آثار الفتن وعواقبها it's that Imam Muhammad Ibn Hanbal wants them to look at the ending I want you brothers to all ponder do not just look at the story and it shouldn't just amaze you Imam Muhammad Ibn Hanbal these people this man he is talking about that he is saying don't go against him whipped Imam Muhammad imprisoned imprisoned Imam Muhammad the speech he spoke was كفر Imam Muhammad Ibn Ghadri الكفر أن Imam Ibn Al-Qaym رحمه الله إنه كافية الشافية الإنتصار لفرقة الناجية الأبقاصن هيمة الله إلى لكائن صور العتقادي they put a consensus regarding the matter that the person who says that the Quran is created is a kafir after that Imam Muhammad did not see a conflict in uprising against him this is how the scholars do they look at the matter not at its point now they look at what will come out of it and they warn the people from it what happened to those people who were running to the matter they didn't listen to Imam Muhammad Ibn Hanbal and so what happened to them is they became a group that was killed another group of them that ran away some that were imprisoned and the ruler still remained in his position for Shahid or the brothers the intent from this story is look at the ending of matters وأم أعالات الأشياء don't just look at what you are in currently at the moment الفتنة أول ما تكونوا فتيتا تسعى بزينة هالي كل جهول الفتنة the first time it appears to the people brothers and sisters it's a beautiful woman people are all amazed but when the people start indulging to the fitna she turns out to be different to the appearance that she had in the beginning the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam taught this to his companions brothers he taught them please listen to this do you all believe there is anyone who is going to advise us better than the companions عبد الله يبني مسعود صحابيه الجليل the great honorable companion he said إنها ستكون أمور there are going to be matters مشتبهات that are obscure that are ambiguous vague unclued to the people فعليكم بالتؤدد upon you is تؤدد which means إن شاء الله الأنات وعدم التعجل be tranquil diligent calm collective at times of fitna فإنك أن تقون for you to be a follower تابعا في الخير for you to be a follower in good خير من أن تقون رأسا في شر it's better for you to be a leader in evil تؤد الأنات to be very calm diligent collective إمام البخاري رحمه الله إنه كتاب أدب المفرد he also brought a companion another companion عريبنا بطالب الأدوائس he said لا تكونوا عجالة do not be rush people مدايع بودرا do not be tell bearers بودرا do not be those who propagate the fitna فإن اللي ورائكم بلا مبرحا مكلحا وأمور متماحلة ردوحا so before you are going to be or in front of you are days to come they are gloomy afflictions prolonged days pain and agony awaits you so let's stand over three advices that عريبنا بطالب game us here he said لا تكونوا عضلة do not be a people who are hasten فناء عن العجالة he prohibited us from hastens وهي تصر is to be fast quick the person should have ويتأنا ويتروا قام collective وينظروا في العوائل والآثار and he looks at the ending what was going to come from this this matter who is controlling it where is it started from and where is it heading he sits and looks at the matter he studies the matter ثم بعد ذالك after many years many months of observation and looking what does he do يقدم عا بعد راوية وانات then he puts himself forward for it if he sees the muscle in it the second is do not be a medea and this is a matter that a person is prohibited from which is what ساعين فشت دا the person runs فشت دا لها igniting the matter spreading the news of it and becoming a person who is the cause of it to spread it the second advice that عليم العبيعطاريب gave do not be this and the third he said بذورا بذور is a person who is planted on him and he is the cause of it to spread it and all these three advices the Prophet ﷺ summed it up in his حديث أبو غريبا narrating حديث is بخاري المسلم the Prophet ﷺ said ستاكون وفتنين then will be trials and tribulations ألقائدوا فيها خيروا من الماشي the one that is standing is better than the one that is walking to the fitna when matching the one that is walking to the fitna is better than the one that is running to it what does it mean أين المرأة كلما كان بعيدا عن التحريك الفتنة every time that the person is far from moving towards the fitna وإشعالها and igniting it and being the cause of it كان خير الله أصلح it is better for him that he doesn't he doesn't move towards the fitna he watches the matches very carefully he knows his religion is connected to this matter it is not easy for him إما المسلم في الصحيح من حديث زيدي بثابت عن نبي ينا عليه الصلاة والسلام that the Prophet ﷺ told his companions that they should seek refuge from Allah about fitna he said تعوذوا بالله من الفتن seek refuge in Allah from the fitna ما ظهر منها وما بطن that which is apparent and the people can see and that which is hidden we meaning the fitna that is clear to the scholars not to the Ahmadunas the general folks what did the Sahabas do after that they said نعوذ بالله من الفتن ما ظهر منها وما بطن they took this advice from the Prophet and every chance they got they would say we seek refuge in Allah from the fitna the trials and the tribulations that which is apparent and everyone can see and that which is hidden that is not seen so brothers the matter is that we seek refuge in Allah from the fitna not that we run to it and that we put our efforts and our money and our wealth and not even our souls and our lives to do something that is clear cut fitna the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us in a hadith إمام ابنوما generated in his sunan ابن أبي عاصم in his Kitab as sunnah that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said on the authority of Anas ibn Malik إِنَّ مِنَ الْنَاسِ لَاسَى from the people are those people مَفَاتِحَ الْحَيْرِ they are the keys to good مَغَالِقَ الْشَرِّ and they are the locks to evil from the people those are there are those people when you see them Allah opens with their mouths and their actions so much good and Allah closes them whenever they come and they present all the doors of evil tends to close down there are people Allah has blessed them like this and gifted them like this they are the keys to good and they are the locks to evil and from the people are those who are the keys to evil they are the keys to evil and they are the locks to good the Prophet then said فَطُوبَا greatness is for the person لمن جعل الله مفتاح الخير على يدي the person who Allah makes his hands a key to good وَوَيلٌ and the valley of hellfire be for the individual جعل الله مفتاح الشرِّ على يدي that Allah makes him the key to evil destruction and made the valley of hellfire be for him so what do we need to be we need to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to seek we need to seek refuge from Allah في كل أن in وحين every minute and every time that we get that Allah protects us سبحانه وتعالى from the fitan that which is apparent and that which is hidden وَالفتان وعالان وعان and the fitan is two types brothers فتن الشهوات the fitan of desires and the second one which is فتن الشهوات the fitan of doubts a person has in حرافات diversion and corruption in his methodology الشهوات and the other one is the shahawat وَاللَّهِ the shahawat the desires is better than the shubu hat because the person who falls into the shubu hat the shahawat the desires knows in his right mind that what he is doing is something that goes against the legislation of the religion and it's easy for him to come back but the one who is falling into it is falling into it because of believing this is the religion of Allah ويعتقد أنه يتقرب إلى الله and he believes he's getting closer to Allah with his action he comes under the ayah اف من زيين له سوع عملي فراءه حسنا قل هل نبقكم بالأخسارين عمالة الذين ظلس عيون في الحياة وهم يحسابون أنهم يحسنون سرعا الله جميل في هذا المناسب ووجده اقصاءه هو جيد في هذا المناسب هو يعتقد أنه يحسنerin في مناسب عاللا وطعالا سبحانه وتعالى رشد المنزل أو بضع يفعله في mega رئيس من الأشخاص سوف أتخيل أشخاص إذا كنت أتشع someone سوف يتشعنا آخر و�ومي في اللاي وكري اولا و Unbelievable when The Fitna occurs brothers it does to the people and the effects that it has on the people is ان سراف المناسب عن العبادة It diverts the people from the worship of Allah, the عبادة It diverts the people from the عبادة That which Allah has created them for the sake in which Allah created them from And for the sake they were brought to existence كما الله قولت في القرآن و ما أمروا they were not ordered nothing except إلا يعبوض الله إلا واشيب الله alone. هذا ما كانوا يقومون. في أخر أية أية الله سبحانه وتعالى يقول وما خلقت الجنة والإنسة إلا يعبوضون. لم أقوم بقوم بقوم بقوم بإنسة واشيب الله alone. وهذا هو محاولة التي تقوم بها. عندما يحدث الفتر يدفع من محاولةك. أخينا أخينا بأخي. الآن أن يحدث الفتر في العالم. كثيراً نحن نتعلم كثيراً. نحن نتعلم كثيراً. نتعلم كثيراً كثيراً في المحاولة. نتعلم كثيراً كثيراً في المغسل عنها. أن نتبقى بأن نحن في مجهود رمضان. وأن نحن يحتاج إلى تفتحه من كل منطقة التي يأتي. وأن نجد أن نفعل المحاولة في ذلك التي كانت محاولة مننا. كثيراً. ننسى ذلك. خلال الله عليه وسلم أنك هذا هو فتر that occurs that the people will divert from the Ibadah. لذا يجبه أكثر من المميز.Staff عبادة عبادة that is done in the times of tribulations that times of blood spills is a person who is migrated to me. is equal to a person who is migrated to me. also the messenger رضي الله تعالى عنه she said and she was the wife of the messenger and she was the wife of the messenger. شه ستقل رسول الله ولينا فزعار one day the prophet رضي الله تعالى out of the cup يجب أن يتوقعهم لكي يمكنهم أن يتوقعون ويقرأون. إنه موقع الذي قال الله فتن. فالمسلم يجب أن يتوقع فتن. يجب أن يتوقع عبادات. ويذكروا صباح الله. ويجب أن يتوقع أكثر إلى رقم الله. فالفرافي صلى الله عليه وسلم أخبرنا. في حبيث آخر يقول باديرو بلعمال إفتنن. تاكتع الليل المظلم. يجب أن يتوقع ويقرأون إلى أحيات الأخبار. فتن يبدو like a portion of the darkness at night. يتوقعوا للمسلم الله. يتوقعوا لعبادات ويبينس الله. هذا لا يعني أن لا يكون مؤكد about the affairs that is happening around the world. ولكن لا تستطيع أن تستطيع أكثر ويقرأوا كل حالك that you get كل حالك that you talk about it. عندما يحدث فتن، يجب أن يتوقع من العبادة الله. ويجب أن يتوقع. حسن البصر رحمه الله. عندما يتوقع فتن حجاجي بميوسف. رضي الله وتعال عنه. لا أعلم لماذا. لقد أخبرت. لا، لم أخبرت. حسن البصر رحمه الله. وكان هو أحد الناس who freed himself from the fitna that occurred. فتن هو حجاجي بميوسف. لم يتوقع فتن. بعض الناس فتن. حسن البصر فتن لم يتوقع فتن. يجب أن يتوقع بميوسف. حجاجي بميوسف يتوقع 120.000 الناس. حجاجي بميوسف يتوقع بميوسف. واحد ميوسف يتوقع بميوسف. حسن البصر. حجاجي بميوسف يتوقع فتن. صعيد ابن جبيل. رضي الله وتعال عنه. أمان who reached that level of tughian. That's some of the set of belief he was a kafir. When I've looked at the bio group, when I read the book سير العالمي نوبة لبايمان وذهبي I have never ever come across two men the way he destroyed their reputation and he spoke against them. The first one was when he spoke about حجاج. And the other one was إيمان وذهبي had no mercy for him. And you find that sometimes even people would deviate ذهبي رحم الله will speak good about them sometimes. They mention their good and they mention their mistakes. But حجاج he mentioned his mistakes. Even then. إيمان وحسن البصر ونافتن أكرد. He said, يا أيها الناس. Oh people. إنه هو الله. I swear by Allah. ما صلط الله الحجاج. Allah has not placed a hajaj over you. إلا عغوبا. It's a punishment from Allah. فلا تعارفوا. Do not try to oppose and go against that punishment of Allah. Be safe with your swords. You won't be able to. ولكن عليكم بالسكينة. But the way to deal with it is tranquility. واتضرع. And humble yourself with Allah. As Allah said in the Quran. ولقد أخذناهم بالعذابي. فما استكانوا لربهم وما يتضرعون. Allah has tested them, afflicted them with harms and pain. But when that happened instead of humbling themselves for Allah and coming back to him as servants. They chose not to. They didn't humble themselves. So use hajaj. Is nothing except a punishment from Allah.   Uplift this matter from you guys. أبو غير ربي الله تعالى And he said a matter like this. He said تقولوا فتنةهم. There is a fitna. لا يوجي منها. No one is going to be safe from it. إلا دعاء للغريب. There is going to come a fitna. No one is going to be safe from this fitna except a person who calls on to Allah. And that type of calling has to be a calling of a person who is drowning. The way he calls on to some help. He calls on to help. There is going to come a time when there won't be no way safe from the people. Except when the people wail to Allah and they cry to Allah the way a person who is drowned into the sea the way he cries back to Allah and he calls on to him. سبحانه وتعالى. عبادة. The second point is and it's one of the biggest things is the fitna when it occurs and it happens and it takes place. What does it do? صرف الناس يعني العلم والعلمة it takes the people away from knowledge and it takes away the people from the scholars the people of Allah سبحانه وتعالى has given them ديراء الرواية who will gain knowledge. This is what it does. It diverts the people from knowledge. It diverts them from the scholars and the people of knowledge and تعلموا الأحكام learning the rulings of the religions ومعرفة الدين and knowing what the religion wants from you what is requiring from you واتقولوا القروب المشغنة مشغولة. The people's minds and hearts become very busy with not coming to the circles of knowledge. The person doesn't want to learn. Rather when these fitna comes brothers and it occurs we see something even worse بل أزياد مدارك something even more than that which I mentioned which is what أنها تفضيل أي الفتنة The fitna will lead the people to what الانتقاص العلمة that the people start criticizing the scholars وحتقارهم and belittling the scholars وعدم المعرفة أقدارهم and starting to know the status of the scholars and their position والوقعة فيهم and starting to criticize them وخذبهم وخذتهم في بطاقة شخصية that is not good هذا ما يفتنة للشخصية عندما يحدث المعرفة لا تبدو أن الإسلام لا يستعرف مرور لا يستعرف مرور وعلى اللعنة أحمد بل أحمد رحمه الله وقائل في مسلم وقائل في مستدرك وقائل في عبادة وعلى اللعنة وعلى اللعنة الشخصية وقائل من أمتي ليس من أمي بل أم يرحم صغيرانا the person who has no mercy towards this young one وَيُوكِرُ كَبِيرانا and the one that does not respect the elderly person وَيَا عَلِمِنَا حَقَّةَ and there is no recognize the rights of the scholars over us he is not from me to know the people of knowledge they are at that and their position the status that Allah SWT gave them is this matter something new that the scholars are criticized and they are called names ويسميهم يساعدون. هل يبدأ شيء that is new, it's just started recently? لا. والله يزالت. إذا كنت تذهب إلى بكتب تراجم، بايوغرفيز of the scholars، وكتب التاريخ، سيرعلا منه بلا مثلا. طبقات الحنابي لباقي على الموصلي، ذيلة ومن رجب الحمبلي on it. تاريخ باي إمام الوقالي، وتاريخ إمامه الذهبي إمساو، طبقات الشافعية باي سوكي. أي بكتب التراجم، أو تاريخ أو الملوك، تراجمه. تراجم هذه المتحدة بايوغرفة قبل. سوف أتكلم. عندما تفتح عبد الرحمالي من الأشعر، في وقت التاريعين، الكثير من الناس، من المساعدين، من الكثير من الناس، من الكثير من الناس، كثير من الناس، من المساعدين، ومن المساعدين، من الكثير من them. إمامه أحسن البصر، رحمه الله. أو إمامه من أجلك أهل العلم. إنه من أهم أجل والأرقام متى رميات هو غير مخباره من قهاء الإسلام. كما تقولوا في هذه التاجية انه يخطي أخطيه وخذ المال الحرام في هناك عدد صلاة وفيه حسناً وعندما فلللت حسن البصري قال ارا ايسي الا تقاتلو اذا يشن not fight him كان حسن البصري love of حجاج did he like him was there a relation between them too was حجاج given him money نصح he is advising them he sees the problem that is occurring to them he said ارا الا تقاتلو ايسي اذا يشن not fight him فهينا ان تكون عقوبة من الله والله if this is an عقوبة from Allah that has occurred from you فما انتم برادع عقوبة الله بأسيافكم you will not be able to push back the punishment of Allah with your suits فصبروا be patient حتى يحكم الله until Allah judges between you وخير الحاكمين and Allah is the best of judges what did they do did they listen to his advice فقرجوا من عنده they left him and they said do he listen to this individual who has been through slavery جاهل so foreigner we listen to him who is he you see so this criticizing this calling names of the Mashaikh if you go to the innovators of the time the khawadid of the time of Imam Shafi'a رحمه الله شافعي ربيعة الرأي ماليك يبنو أنس محمد يبنو سيرين وكيبنو جراح يزائمة at that time they khawadid that opposed the Muslims what did they do what did they do they said to themselves والله the thick the thick of Malik and Malik شافعي and محمد يبنو سيرين and all of them does not pass the waste of the women when all they know is health menstrual period and the fast these rulings all they know what else do they know this is their knowledge they don't know the waqa that we're living in so this matter of criticizing the scholars the Qasmin putting the scholars down is not a matter that is new third one is when the scholars are put down and the people have turned away from the Ibadah of Allah what happens تصدروا السفهة the dimwitted ones the ignorant ones start to come out start to come out and speak and they give rulings و لا علم لهم and they have no knowledge of the religion of Allah لا فق لهم and they have no thick of the religion يتصدروا they start coming out with what بالحماسة they don't come out with knowledge they come out with emotions they touch the people from the side the angle of emotion they scream loud on the microphone they show the people a lot of pictures and the hamas of the people goes out the people start forgetting to look at the Nusus of the Kitab and the Sunnah the people start to forget to calm down and what is the ruling in the religion in this matter all the starts to take them and their mind becomes tainted و لذلك أبنوتيمي رحمه الله he said و الفتنة الى وقعات when the fitna occurs and it happens عجز العقلاء the wise people the intellectual people are unable they lose ability to stop the people from it فيها عدف الشوفها they are unable to say to the demoted ones stop put your hands down once the fitna occurs and this is what الله سبحانه وتعالى said و تقو فتنة الى تصيبن الذين ظلموا منكم خاصة إمام البخاري كتاب الفتن this is the first ayah that he chapted باب قوله وتعالى and he said و تقو فتنة الى تصيبن الذين ظلموا منكم خاصة فير the fitna that will not only occur to the wrongdoers only it will not specifically be to them rather when it occurs every single person will face the consequences with it و إذا وقعات الفتنة brothers when the fitna occurs لم يسلم من التلوث بها for it to taint and mix the people not many people are going to be saved from it the fourth that occurs when the fitna happens is انتهاء الى العراق and the matter will finally end to what المردية والمقالات و سيئة the matter starts to become a very bad result the final ending when the fitna occurs at the end of the fitna the ending is not good it amazes the people it shocks the people شيخو الاسلامي بل تايم يا رحمه الله he said after he mentioned all the fitna that existed that had happened and he speaks about them ايبلو تايم يا رحمه الله said in his كتب من هاجر سونة النبيه he said قلق لطل من خرج على إمامه anyone who opposed a ruler went against him إلا كان ما تولد على فعلي except that which was inherited from his action or that which came out of his action there is no individual who went against a ruler except that which came out of his actions من الشر ري the evil أعظم was greater من ما تولد من الخير that came out of it it never happened this is an عالم a scholar who looked at the fitness that have ever occurred and always what had happened was when a ruler was opposed and the Muslims went against him all the time what had happened through history is that the matter became عاقبة was that the Muslims the people that opposed did it finally get a good ending when he then said in his كتب من هاجر سونة النبيه as well they did not establish a religion many of them who wanted to bring خلافة they did not establish this وَلَا أَبْقَوْ جُنْ يَنْ and at least their world did not remain for them and even their world did not remain for them so when the fitness happens and it occurs and it hits the people brothers no doubt it will give consequences that is very serious والله العظيم be a person who saves himself from all these matters and the way you could be brothers is to be behind the stories and the people who know it is amazing today والله it is amazing والله it is amazing that if a doctor today was told to you that he is specialized in this part of the field of medicine you would take it from him and you would not question him and you would have take it from him without an exception and this is just a world you die brother you are not the first to ever die this is your worldly existence but when it comes to the religion those specialists we suspect them we don't believe them we doubt them we have bad thoughts of them I am going to mention one point in regards to this matter there was a great man who went by the name زوبيد بن الحارة اليامي who was from the رجال كتو السيطة بغاري مسلم what is the kutu السيطة who knows what the kutu السيطة is not you too who knows what the kutu السيطة is the six books the six mothers not you there are six neighbors on your right and six neighbors on your left six فضل two بغاري مسلم tell me this the blue major the awood so you have two صحيحي and the sunan those six scholars all of them their sheikh his name was زوبيد بن الحارة اليامي they had most teachers but he was one of their teachers he was one of the people who indulged into the fitna عبد الله عبد الرحمن العشع he entered he went into it he indulged into it ولكن سلمة منها but Allah saved him from it وسلمة منها القتل didn't kill anyone قار محمد ابن طلحة محمد ابن طلحة رأي زوبيد مع العلائي بن عبد الكريم ونحن نضحك زوبيد صور علائي بن عبد الكريم محمد ابن طلحة بوت ستن دان الله فيه he danced to them لو شاهدت الجماجم ما ضهت if you were to participate in the jamaajm you both would not have laughed the jamaajm he is talking about is the blood that spilt in the fight of عبد الرحمن العشع and the limbs and the body parts that were flying around if you were to see it والله he would not be laughing and then زوبيد زوبيد said لو وديت too I wish أن يدي that both my hands all your meaning on my right hand because that's the one you use when you fight قوط عت that it was cut من العبد from its here that my hand was cut off ولد أكن شاهدتوا ذلك and that I did not participate in that battle I wish and to show you the knowledge he took from it and the experience that he took from it when the fitna again was presented to another fitna again this was a fitna that was presented to him that day who was from the early they said he needs support and he needs help they said to him come and participate he's got the experience he's got the knowledge now he knows so what did he say to them he said ما أنا بخارج إلا مع النبي I am not going to go except for the prophet وما أنا بيوه جيلي and I do not see that prophet around where's that prophet I'm not going anyone except a prophet and I don't see a prophet amongst you I'm leaving you guys the fifth is anyone who's ever participated in a fitna a war of fitna his position in his rank always drops in the eyes of the people when they laid to find out that this issue was a fitna the people when their fitna finishes it goes down the people come up to the person and say the first line of fitna the status of the person goes and I'm going to show you عبد الرحمن عبد الله ابن عون said مسلم ابن يصار عند الناس in the eyes of the people he was better than Hassan Al-Basri مسلم ابن يصار had the highest status in the eyes of the people then Hassan Al-Basri فلما وقعت الفتنة when the fitna occurred and muslim had participated in the fitna and Hassan with help what happened what happened was فإنه تضع مسلم يصار status went down فلتفع قدر حسن حسن Al-Basri status went up the people saw his abqaria his vision and the way he looked at matters so this is a matter that the person she knows what did مسلم ابن يصار do he participated in the battle and he dropped in the eyes of the people but what is the fitna what did he do he said عبد الله ابن عون said I'm talking about مسلم يصار that مسلم يصار that مسلم يصار said يا أبا قلابة قلابة يا أبا قلابة قلابة إني أحمد الله I praise Allah سبحانه وتعالى إليك أني لم قر عني لم أرم فيها بسهمن ولم أطعن فيها برمحن ولم أضرب فيها بسيفن he said I praise Allah that I did not take an arrow and put it towards the direction of any muslim I didn't do that and I did not put my spare into a chest or body of a muslim I didn't do that no did I use my sword I didn't even do anything I was just in the light this is what مسلم يصار said the man that we said his status went down he said I was only in the light when he had said that I was walking with them just in the sifof أبي قلابة لكتة I said يا أبا عبد الله أبا عبد الله فكيف بمرعك what about the people to see you وقفن في الصف you standing in the lines of these people who are going towards the fitna and they say to themselves أنت عالب معروف من بين الناس وما كانتك معروف you are a scholar you are known amongst the people you have a status if مسلم يصار is in the battle it's a jihad في سبيل الله والله it's Haq this is what the people say to themselves مسلم يصار was trying to find ease from not killing anyone but when أبي قلابة said this to him he stopped and he looked at him and then he said to him ألا وهو الحق والله that is the truth and then he started to cry until أبي قلابة said فبكة وبكة حتى تمنيت أني لم أقلت له شيئا until I wished I didn't say anything to him he cried so much that I wished I didn't even bring it up to him سقول he did his time in the line and his status went down and he cries and he regrets it this is the reality of when the fitna occurs brothers the sixth one is إن شاء الله is اشتباه الأمور when the fitna occurs matters become mixed up it's unclear who is the lawful person who is right and the one who is being taken giving this right with ظلم it's unclear ولي ذلك أبو موسى الأشعار رضي الله تعالى عنه إن الفتنة إذا أقبل it when the fitna comes and faces the people شبهت it becomes obscure unclear وإذا أدبط but when the fitna goes تبيانت it becomes clear نحن نفع who is who and who is with who مطرف يبنو عبد الله يبنو الشيخين إن الفتنة when it comes لاتجي وعينة تجي when it comes it doesn't come لتهدي الناس it doesn't come to guide the people the fitna doesn't come to guide you on the straight path but what does it do لتقارع المؤمن على ديني it comes to harm the people of the religion so the fitna doesn't make the matters clear and the person is unclear of the matter ولذلك the Prophet SAW يسأل من قاتل تحت راية عمية anyone who fights fights under a banner a banner that is عمية that is blind right now if you look at what's happening around the world so many people we don't even know where they came from who are you history we had their name today they went بيع and now they go up banner who are you what is your agenda what are you doing what are you heading it's all إمية we don't know what is happening it's blind you don't know why this person is fighting for what are they fighting for what is the cause the Prophet SAW anyone who does that فاقتلت جاهلية he is death is the death of a pre-islamic era so the person he participates in a matter that it's واضح it's واضح كشمسو في رابعة الهار it's clear of what is happening how is happening who is it happening to when is it happening when is it happening when is it happening when is it happening because of that when they came to the great companion when they came to the great companion and they said participate in the battle that happened amongst the Sahabas and it was a fitna as Ibn Tameer رحمه الله mentions in his Kitab استدلالا and he is trying to use the evidence the Hadith of Surah and when we come to the the shahab of Sahab and the muslim inshallah in depth we will take it what did he say to them they said fight participate you are you are who you are from the the highest ranked Sahabas you are من أهلي شورا وانتحق بهذا الأمر من غيرك you are more entitled to anyone else come fight what did he say لا أقاتل I'm not going to fight حتى تفتوني بيسيفين until you bring me a sword لو عيناري it has two eyes وليسان and it has a tongue وشفتاني it has two lips يعرف المؤمنة من الكافر it knows which one is a muslim and which is a kafir so my suit can tell me any muslim it can't I know which one is which لاكي وان أمي it is mixed up we don't know who is with you who is fighting who is where we don't know anything لزوال الدنيا أحب the whole world to perish is more beloved to Allah من قتل المسلم for our blood of a muslim to be spilled that's how sacred it is to Allah the Ka'bah the prophet said look to the Ka'bah he said Ka'bah who is more honorable than you who is more greater than you but in Allah the blood of the muslim is more sacred than you the Ka'bah والله I swear it is I believe it is the only thing that will unify the Sufis the Salafis the Khawarij this this that if the Ka'bah was somebody went to destroy the Ka'bah will we be unified on that by small or humble knowledge maybe most likely will be unified if the Ka'bah was spilled somebody took over the Ka'bah جميل but the blood of Allah the prophet has told us عليه السلام that the blood of the muslim is more what اخباري has a very high status I ask you the Khalifa of Osama bin Zayn Osama bin Zayn what did he do in the middle of a battle I ask you brother is there a question in the middle of a battle you're fighting with an individual you're fighting he's got a sword you have a sword you're both fighting he drops his sword or you catch him at a point when you want to strike him and he says and we know that the Da'wah of Islam is taken over what clear the time for the history of the time الله go home read it study it learn it catch it he still debates with you know I don't believe this I don't understand this so month month week this man in a battle field he was against you second he just said from the Rahr from the apparent it seems that this person is a disbeliever and he's trying to run away but because there is that small one percentage of it being true and that one percentage could only be known from where that which is in his heart brothers the Prophet said to Osama what are you going to do with that when he comes the day of judgment 99% it's clear that this man is trying to you go home he's trying to run away but even then when it's it's unclear the Muslim doesn't fault with you don't kill Osama said until I hope to Allah I didn't take this religion that day so what does this show brothers that the Muslim is very very what about those people اخواني who bum a whole city a whole land a whole town down الله what are they going to do with that day of judgment what are they going to do with that day of judgment and the blood of those people innocent who didn't do anything who've got nothing to do with all this matter have to face the consequences the other thing that the Fitan does brothers when it occurs is it destroys and it breaks the اخوة ايمانية ورابطة the connections in the unit and this is the last one the blonde the love the respect are all gone people start to suspect themselves the people don't believe in each other the people become disunited and I'm going to mention this great long hadith that we're going to study in detail in depth and I'm only going to go over it quickly حذيفة يمان ربي الله تعالى عنه he said كان اصحاب رسولي لان the companions of the prophet they used to ask the prophet of good يسألونه عن الخير they used to ask him good وكنت أسأله عن الشرد بخافة and I used to ask him the evil fear that it might it might come my way so he wants to know the fitna and حذيفة was one of the biggest scholars in the matters of fitna إن شاء الله انساء الله المسلم we're going to come in the hadith and Omar asked him about the fitna who knows the fitness and حذيفة says I do when everyone else was silent فقلت يا رسول الله or messenger of Allah إن كنا في جاهلية وشرد we were upon pre-islamic era we were upon evil we were non-muslims فجاء أنا الله بهذا الخير الله who is good to us this religion of good فهل بعد هذا الخير بشرد this evil this good that we have and it's clear that we are in is there going to come an evil and it's going to remove it با لنعم the prophet said yes اتا يا رسول الله ومسلمة الله بعد هال الشرد that evil I just mentioned after it will become another good the prophet said yes نعم وفيه دخن and that good that's going to come it's not a clear good that you had before دخن this good is going to be tainted it's unclaimed the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam the companions they are حظيفة said يا رسول الله what do I know if the matter reaches me at that time what do you advise me the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam advised him to what did he say when this fit and happens everyone brings out these شعارات these bales and these wind flags and everyone saying أنا الحق the prophet told us تزيل الفرقة disconnect yourself from all these groups and everything leave them all no I have anything to do with it again hold back from the fitna and inshallah we are going to take the shurrah of that when we come to it in more details the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam كونوا عباد الله and all of you are you're not unaware of it now what was happening in Syria recently the groups that were fighting each group was killing the other group the group was killing the other group spinning the other groups making halal the other ones blood and the other ones making the other ones halal is blood and this is a matter that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam told us he said do not come become after my death and when I go do not come with the actions of the kufar this is not the kufar that takes you out of the religion it's kufar on عملي the actions of kufar meaning imitating the kufar why killing people who shouldn't be killed this action of killing innocent people who lies not from Islam it's an action kufri it's an action of kufar as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said but it's not the kufar that takes you out of the fold of and Islam don't become like that يضربوا بعضكم رقابة بعض some of you killing the others spinning each other's bloods don't become like that and that's exactly what we see has now become a person who looks at a whole city and says there's no person in this whole city that is a Muslim all of their bloods are halal for me nukes destroys the whole city with their children with their women with everything and they say شل الله will resurrect them with their intentions where is all this nusus and as I said before when the fitna occurs what it does is it takes the people's minds brothers the person does not see when he die like in our messenger we love he used to say the prophet of Allah used to say اللهم أرين الحق حقا ورزق للتبع ووالله show us the hack the way it is and then give us the efforts and the power to follow the hack وأرين الباطل الباطل and let us see the batl as a batl and give us the strength and the power to abstain from that batl not every single person is able to understand the hack والله not every person is able to understand the hack and not every person is able to understand the evil they are not able to let alone withhold from the evil and let alone run to the good if you can't even understand it and of course you won't be able to go for the good and you won't be able to go run away from it I conclude there إن شاء الله سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد والله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوبوا إلي anything in which I had said that was wrong that was incorrect it's from me and Shaytan and Allah and his messenger are free from it سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشهد والله إلا الله أستغفرك واتوبوا إلي as I have promised I'm going to ask the points that I mentioned before I leave and إن شاء الله we will conclude there but before I ask the questions إن شاء الله next Friday please bring with you your سحيخ مسلم especially the chapter of كتاب الفتن إن شاء الله what we will study is the two most authentic books in one of it one of the most authentic books ممصر مسلم جميل إن شاء الله the copies will be given to everybody إن شاء الله then we will know by studying these Ahadith and taking the Shurrah the explanations of the Imah of the Shalh of the Ahadith matters will become very clear I don't believe there is anything better at a time like this except to go back to the two important sources الكتاب study all these matters because wallahi our messenger did not leave us on misguidance he left us upon clarity he is the one who said عليه السلام he said I see the fitna dropping under like the rain comes down hits the ground I can see the fitna when he went on the highest building عليه السلام in Medina and he looked at the whole building and he said I can see the fitna dropping everywhere going to each and every one of your houses and the Prophet he mentioned each and every one fitna to the biggest of it the Jal and it's impossible to take it in details Insha'Allah I know that brothers these people and wallahi the Hajj and the reasons that has brought us to actually pinpoint matters I've never ever criticized and I've never ever praised it's not mean I leave it for those who have the knowledge to do so but the truth is brothers the messenger عليه السلام I told us that there is always going to come people who will lift those banners that we see on the television the Prophet عليه السلام he said every time when their horns come out it will be disconnected it will be cut the Prophet said and then again it becomes and it becomes clear they come out again until the Jal comes and they will be the followers of the Jal why because they believe the Jal is coming back there the Sharia to loot them and insha'Allah this all we're going to take from Sairah Muslim and you're not going to find from me anything from my own pocket and that I explained an explanation that I give to anyone in regards to these matters I ask Allah from the bottom of my heart that Allah brings the unity back to the Muslims all over the world wherever they are and that Allah protects our children our brothers our parents and those who love us and we love them from the feet and back which is apparent and that which is clear I'm going to ask the question insha'Allah who remembers the first thing that I mentioned that the fitna causes the effect of the fitness who remembers it it diverts the people from that جميل the second one was it puts the person's status down in the eyes of the people جميل the person starts to run away from the circles of knowledge and the علام then then what happens is the ignorant people start to come out and start to shout and speak نعم هيا anyone else remember the matters the ending of the matters become very serious the consequences that the people have to bear the ending becomes and the علاق becomes very serious هيا I'm running to them إشتباه الأمور the حق and the battle the حق and the battle gets mixed up and the matter doesn't become clear نعم and the brotherhood and the brotherhood and the brotherhood and the brotherhood and the matters regarding it are what they go and they are weakened okay إن شاء الله بإذن الله الكريب next lesson إن شاء الله سبحانك اللهم بحمدك أشدو الله


Here's an example of a timing diagram for a bus arbiter supporting three different masters, each of which has some priority. So our master one has the highest priority and master three has the lowest priority. As usual, we'll be able to read this diagram from left to right to see what's happening and when. We don't have any preemption in this diagram, however. The first thing that happens is that master three requests the bus. It asserts its bus request signal and it sits there for a bit. It takes a little bit for the arbiter to notice that yes, it's requested the bus. Nobody else has priority to access the bus. So the arbiter goes ahead and grants access to master three. Master three uses the bus for a while and then de-asserts its bus request signal. The bus arbiter then says, okay, you're done using the bus. So I'm going to disable your ability to use the bus. In the meantime though, the other two masters have decided they'd like to use the bus as well. So you can see master two has come in and wants to use the bus. And then master one has also come in and would like to use the bus as well. Since master one has priority to use the bus, the arbiter grants it access first. So it asserts the bus grant one signal. Master one uses the bus. And then when it's done, de-asserts its bus request signal. And the arbiter de-asserts the bus grant signal. Then the arbiter can finally grant access to master two. Master two has been sitting around waiting for the bus for quite a while. But the bus was either in use or somebody else had priority. So the arbiter finally grants access to master two. Master two uses the bus for a while. Once it's done, it de-asserts its bus request signal. And the arbiter again de-asserts the bus grant signal. So a basic arbiter is actually pretty simple. In this case, we do have some priority. We're not just using a round robin scheduling. But the basic concepts of requesting access to the bus and granting access to the bus are actually pretty straightforward.


Live from Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering Oracle's modern marketing experience. Brought to you by Oracle. Now, here's your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas for Oracle Modern Experience. This is theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier with my co-host, Jeff Frick. Our next guest is Catherine Blackmore, GVP of Customer Success at Oracle Marketing Cloud known as OMC. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, great to be here. Well, welcome. Welcome, glad to have you. I know you're super busy. Thanks for spending the time to come on. You're heavily involved in all the customer successes. And Kevin Ackerroy was on earlier and he's like, the theme this year is keeping it real because he was talking about the promises that others make and the hype and the vaporware. And also some critical analysis that Oracle got over the years around being, you know, this acquisition portfolio, different piece parts, but the investment of integrating it all together really has been a great milestone success. So you talk about this in your keynote. Share with us some of the highlights. Did he mention that I'm the chief promise keeper? Oh, there you go. No, I didn't say that, but that's a good, well. Because that is really the focus here. No, it was great. We, to talk about what we shared on stage and what really I've been focused on since I've joined the OMC, it has been around how can we take the brilliance of what Kevin has truly put together for all of us, all of our customers, our partners in terms of this center of gravity from a marketing perspective. And that's amazing. And I know we had incredible product keynotes to really describe where the product is headed around integrating all these amazing companies now coming together to form the OMC. But my work is really around how do we take the team that's enabling the success of our customers to become one. And that truly, you know, is very meta, where we talk about- Team within Oracle, like a different portfolio. Yeah, team within Oracle, that's exactly right.  And cultures. And cultures, and that is huge. And culture is probably the most important piece to be looking at. So knowing that took a lot of time when I first joined to talk to our customers and find out, well, what are you really looking for in an organization to help you be successful? They're saying, you know, it's hard enough, you know, that you guys are this big company, but I don't want to talk to five people in just the OMC, that just, you got to make it simple for me. And at the same time, I want that person who's going to talk to me, really understands my business and understands what I've purchased. And so, you know, the tall task, the tall order, is how do you bring these five companies together, bring it into one success offering, keep it simple for customers, and help them transform from a marketing perspective, really help enable their journey. Because they take us through the progress bar of where you are in that. So, obviously it's a daunting task if you think about it. Because, you know, integration is where M&A succeeds or fails, and Oracle has had a good track record with M&A, so it's not like they don't have that. EMC also has a great track record. We've talked to those guys. And there's a formula to it. You leave them alone for a while, let them keep their groove swing. At some point, they have to get integrated into the operations. That's where things can get dicey. Take us through that. What happened? You have to have a framework. I mean, first and foremost. And I know that this isn't, you know, any consultancy firm would tell you that. And that's something that I've certainly done in my professional past as well. You have to have a framework. And in the arena of customer success, it is truly formed around what this team is really going to do to help the customer. What is your customer promise? What is your customer charter? So, you mentioned culture. To bring these five different companies together became really around what is the purpose of Oracle Marketing Cloud customer success. What do we want to wake up every day to go do? And we got our leaders in the room. And it was an amazing exercise. We really whiteboarded all the things that made us great as separate companies in terms of our customer culture, but brought it into one.  Do you feel that's unified at this point? You know, it's a starting point.  But now it's about making it real. Now it's about aligning the people that are going to support that promise. The operations around it. How we train people. How we talk every day. How we even put it on our business card and show the customer what we're here to do. Well, our last guest, Ron, was a partner with Oracle Marketing Cloud exclusively. He came in from Eloqua relationship. Yes. And grew across the portfolio. That's pretty impressive. So that's obviously working at some level. Where's the hotspots for you guys right now? What's the focus area now in terms of the integration and all the customer success? Because you got to orchestrate the internal, I don't want to say herding cats because that's been overused so many times. But you got to internally organize, but also you got to go to the customer. Yes. And present a unified front to the customer. Let's go to market. You do. You do. So let me describe a couple of hotspots because I think that's, this is where we're really focusing in on helping keep things simple. But then yet still help with the deep product expertise that our customers want.  And there's a lot of different names for it. I mean, certainly centering on one title, customer success manager, what does that mean? Well, you could joke, well, this is really your one throat to choke. It's your one person to go to. That helps keep it simple. But this individual really has to understand what the customer wants to accomplish. What is ultimately their business goals? What are those KPIs that are going to measure our success together? And then what is the understanding of the full stack of Oracle Marketing Cloud that I can then have really important business dialogue around how you're going to help go there? So I have to help you charter your customer success path in terms of your adoption path, but then champion other resources around how you're going to actually help that customer transform. So that's one. But then in addition to that, what I also talked about at the keynote is that we have a team of individuals that are so deep. These are folks that used to be hands-on keyboard marketers, have run marketing organizations, folks that are ad tech specialists. These gurus are the ones that can go very deep into the product and actually consult with customers around how they can identify and recognize new business value. Maybe go to a partner from there and being able to augment what they've already implemented or even turn to our open services team and help them realize even greater value. So it's that transformative journey that our customers are on that's certainly spearheaded by the customer success manager, but our adoption advisors, and we've even addressed this with our transformation advisors. You can't even talk to a customer about, hey, it's you, not us, meaning you've got to retire old business ways. We need to be looking at your structure. That's really getting in the way of you ever being able to be successful with technology. Those are all services that are on now. You're talking about advisory to the customer as well. So it's like you've got the expert gurus to go deep under the hood and then advisory on their workflow or work streams. That's exactly right. And I think the key is though, is that this is an opportunity in a moment for our customers to realize where they are, where they need to go and how they're going to get there. They can see the vision, but we're really helping identify a plan.  How about it? You know, we want to help you actually be incredibly successful because we are establishing, and this is around our customer promise. We are here to build customers for life. You do not build customers for life if you do not participate in the transformation journey. You touch on so many things there. Where do I begin? So first off, when you talk about integrating the teams, I thought you were going to go down the path of really integrating the Oracle team with the customer team. And Eric from Clorox really talked a lot about the facts of how the teams work together. So that's a whole thing. But when I'm curious to know, how do you define success? What were some of the things that came out on that whiteboard session when as we've discovered, you know, there's so many variables as to where customers are on their journey. And another thing I thought that Eric touched on, which was brilliant. Yes, there's a vision, but you know, we need to talk about things we can execute now. And I think Kevin talked a lot about it and that keynote at the beginning of his key new is so exciting because we're not talking about vision like two years ago. Now we're talking about stuff we can implement for today. So what are some of those kind of macro ways that you and your team define success, customer success so you know you're getting there? Even though you know this is a long journey that there's going to have many, many, many steps along the path. Absolutely, and this is a topic that I've talked a lot about even outside of OMC because I think that there's sometimes this false positive that we get with people that are just incredibly enthusiastic about the brand or even about what the solution can do. And that's a starting point. That's a starting point that certainly builds when you first, you know, customer becomes a customer. But to get to true level of business value and advocacy to where you actually will, like Eric, talk about what you're accomplishing as a business partner or you're walking the business into new areas. Gosh, you know, we've been so successful with this one business unit. Now let's expand and go into new areas. Those are all elements of what we would consider to be a very successful customer. And I know there's a lot of debate around, you know, metrics and optics, do customer success teams use to really demonstrate a customer's getting value? You could say, well, you know, are they adopting the product? Are they live? Are they actually using parts of the product?  But then I would also argue that you have to really inspect, you know, ultimately, what is the customer's lens?  However, are they getting business value? Are they willing to talk about it? Would they broadcast their success? Those are the conversations we have to have with our customers because it's through that lens that I would truly measure if a customer is successful. Because it's right, it's never the order, it's the reorder, right? I think you really touched on the, you know, the whole lifetime value of the customer. How does your team work with both the Oracle's kind of sales team, the bag carrying guys, and the implementation and delivery teams? Because I'm sure there's a little bit of a healthy conflict there sometimes where your team wants to make sure what they got, they're using, they're getting value. Yes, we want to get into new places. Yes, we want to go to new divisions. Yes, we want to do more, but it's got to make sense. So how does that kind of three-headed thing work? Absolutely, and this is all part of this, our internal transformation journey of how you actually help a customer be successful. This is, you know, beyond the purpose, the battle cry, what we go do, the people, you have to have this operational really layer that programmatically you've got to nail it. You have to know your points of entry. If I'm working with a large customer, when do I get introduced in the sales cycle? Because I know I can really help describe what their journey's going to look like when they become a customer. How do we orchestrate that so that it really makes sense and we understand that rule of engagement that we're talking to each other. And then as we're implementing and going live, I expect that my organization will certainly have a certain expectation with the customer to hold the implementation accountable, know that we're on track, identify any concerns or issues, but it also has to be really well-scripted because there's certainly pieces that our services team have to deliver and they have to own it. They have to be on point to do that work. And then at any other point in time in the journey, there are other actors, there are other roles that have to get integrated, whether it's working with our support organization that's a part of my team, or bringing services back in because we have new areas where the customer wants to develop further. I'm right in your conversation with Mark Herd, when you said, how can you help your customers be transformative if you're not transformative within your own company? And really, you know, you need to basically drink the champagne or- This is the question that we always have and we've been here for two days, we were immersed in, but for the folks that are watching, what is Oracle Marketing Cloud? Because within Oracle, so there's a lot of Oracle customers out there, this is a young organization, kind of Kevin's leadership is pretty clear. You can see where his DNA is impacted. Certainly you've worked them in the past, you've worked with this also Salesforce as well. So this is a growing area. I predicted in my interview with him that this is all going to be massive, but it's the beginning, but it's also within Oracle. So what is the marketing cloud vis-a-vis Oracle? So if I'm a Oracle customer, how do I look at the marketing cloud? Is it a group? Is it all the groups? What's the sales cloud? I heard the CX group, CX thing going on here. What's this? Is it all part of the marketing cloud? Well, that's a very meta conversation because I think if you think about, you know, what does success mean? What does the Oracle Marketing Cloud mean? I think if you're thinking from a customer's lens, they're trying to solve business problems with our solutions. And you can say it extends beyond our internal definition, for sure of how maybe we have our team structured or products aligned. I think from a, if you're really, really taking a customer approach, we have to be thinking from the customer's point of view, selling to a CMO, selling to that CEO, CXO, what are they trying to accomplish from a marketing perspective in terms of driving revenue? Yeah, solutions are outcomes. Exactly, solutions are outcomes. And that certainly can sometimes extend beyond the lines of what we would place into an organizational division, but from a customer promise, what I think about it- It's like big data, what does that mean? Got to go beyond it, yeah. It's like a big data, but I mean in terms of products, marketing cloud has Eloqua, what are some of the brands that are in that? Eloqua, Responses, Compendium, Bluekai, and Maximizer. Okay, all right, good. And then if they want to buy the servers, there's a whole engineered systems group, yes, of which we normally cover at Oracle Open World. Okay, so the marketing cloud, let's just take it forward a little bit. As you guys have been more successful, you're driving a whole new set of experiences for customers, completely different from the old way, the new way. If you were asked, what is the old way and what is the new way of marketing? So old way, email, things like that, and what is modern marketing? If I ask you that definition. It's the modern marketer. The modern marketer. I think that this space is so compelling because modern will be defined differently every year, right? There's new business value, but so inspired, I presented at the Marquis a couple of nights ago, which was an amazing celebration of our customer's success. And the business results that they have achieved with our solutions, with our teams, is truly, truly humbling, if you think about perhaps where they had started and the submissions of what the case studies they've presented and the journeys that they've been on, but I will tell you that that bar is here and it just keeps getting raised because as we continue to grow the stack in terms of what we are building or acquiring, or as our customers are achieving new ways of doing business and business value as our partner ecosystem is growing, I know that you had a conversation earlier today about that. That's going to unlock new capabilities that we aren't even thinking about today. And when I think about a modern marketer, it's a quest to not be status quo. It's a quest to push the envelope. It's a quest to be on the cutting edge. And we would like to think from my customer success organization that we very much want to be on that kind of tip of the spear of really driving our customers to go realize that. Really, it just really supports the other thing that we've heard over and over, which is to have kind of this common data platform layer and think of it as a platform is, as you said, the solutions and the applications and what defines modern marketing tomorrow are going to be different than today. But if you don't at least have that common layer to enable you to continue to add, change, evolve, develop, you won't be able to take advantage or you got to start from scratch, which is never really a thing. That's exactly right. It's really interesting watching Steve Krause really talk about this in the product keynote. And we actually followed up with it. We had a number of our CMOs together and had a great conversation about what Steve called micro moments. And it doesn't sound like, oh gosh, it's just so cutting edge, bleeding edge, but it's really understanding as humans, how do we actually, how do we interact with brands? And it's in these simple, very minor moments where we're just checking our phone or we just had a moment to go do something and the fact that we're catching someone in that moment, I mean, that's an amazing thing to be able to now do and orchestrate and doing it in a very personal way. I think these small things that marketers are starting to put together to take someone that was anonymous. I didn't even know you existed and were even somebody I should talk to with my brand. And now you're part of my advocacy program because in a few of these micro moments, I've been able to move along the journey. They haven't been prepared for that. So you guys are enabling the preparation for them to be in the moment on the spot. I mean, I think the trends that we're seeing, obviously yesterday, Facebook's announcements or earnings were blown away. Amazon just reported today. They blew past their estimates. So you got Amazon web services, standing up stuff easily, Facebook, obviously with the mobile 15 billion in revenue. This is pretty much validation that a sea change of change of modern marketing will happen every day. So more cloud like is the norm. Standing up stuff agile, faster, quicker. Yes. In fact, it was brought up in one of the key notes yesterday that augmented reality is like the next big thing. And what would that mean? I mean, we can probably AI. Pontificate about that for a while. Yeah, we go for a long, long time on that one. All right, final question for me is really around what you see that excites you right now and what's surprised you. So two questions. What's exciting you right now in the customers and the customer successes that you're having and your relationships and what's surprised you? So what are you excited about and the biggest surprise over the past year? So I think what excites me is that we're never done. We're never done innovating. We're never done in terms of really pushing our customers to achieve new business value, new success. We're never done when we think about training our teams to be even better. I think that that quest to just drive and I guess it's that entrepreneurial spirit we have in this space just to continue to push ourselves to achieve new areas of success with our product success with our teams. That's what's really compelling. I think in general the space of helping customers be successful is certainly a huge passion of mine and knowing that we are helping them achieve this and seeing those real business value results is just amazing. It truly is the center of gravity that we've built. And I think in terms of what surprised me I think that when you've certainly talked about culture actually earlier and when you're bringing together these different companies that ultimately that's the proof, right? The proof point, can you do this? I think that the thing that's really humble inspired me is how amazing my organization is, how excited they are about moving forward and being a part of a brand new identity. I just didn't expect that. I think that you expect with change management it's hard but I think that this what we are doing within the Oracle Market Cloud with our customers and with our products is actually this nucleus that is forming this desire as previous companies to change, to transform what we're doing every day. It's a great reflection on the leadership team. I mean that's terrific. Well thanks so much for sharing this awesome insight on theCUBE, thanks so much. This is theCUBE bringing the signal from the noise here live in Las Vegas for Oracle's modern marketing experiences. We'll be right back. You're watching theCUBE.


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to stage A with Dermot Jones playing the Spanish guitar That was an old country song written by Leon Payne in the 60s, and I'm not like that guy Well, tiny bit. This is one of mine Let's go dancing to the great star. Let's go dancing Scheduled it said that I play Spanish guitar a Spanish guitar But I do know a couple of Spanish sort of tunes. There's no Spanish people in other. I'd work with my hands instead of my head I have to carry me. I'd play for you give up a lot that ladder I used to smile and sing through we've no right to never knew quite what I'd done wrong I laughed it off the board have crushed me People told me it would be old and once or twice I saw glimmers of light But life was carrying out its mission But since you came along, I look up and see the gray skies are gone Unexpected turn. You put the wind back in my side Place me back on. I accept that now it's Unexpected turn and since you came along wake up early every day Unexpected turn. Back in my side Pick me up place me back on. Maybe sad songs to write. I Accept that now Unexpected turn. I used to smile and sing these songs that is a sad She just don't you'd never know Can you hear me Bletchley? No, it's not Bletchley. What's the name of this place? EMF song called Home When Shadows Fall Old Thirty's song. Anyone recognize that? No? David Bowie. You get a prize for a glass of water if I'm As I feel like how we spend such time that starts with trees as the last leaf sparks Crash by trails from my good stuff That was that is my love that's more than clear


Hello there. It's Sandy and I'm asking the lollipop question today. How many layers of color does it take to make realistic leaves? I picked these up when I was on a walk with my dogs recently, and that day I spent the whole day coloring leaves. I traced them onto a piece of drawing paper. I just made a whole sheet of these, which I then used in a tiny tutorial as well that you might have seen and I thought I'd color one of them here for you. I didn't think about filming until I was partway through it, but let's do a leaf and do some color matching. I'm using Luminance pencils here because Luminance has the best color selection for doing natural objects because they don't tend to have a lot of the screamy bright colors that Prismacolor and Polychromos do. You have to do a lot to those colors to make them more neutralized, but here even with a yellow, I'm going to have to do a lot of that because they're bright leaves, they are yellow, but they have a tone of some other colors. I'm going to be mixing it with a lot of other things. I used a little bit of Gamsol to blend the first layers of color together. That's going to just give me a coat of yellow underneath everything made up of several yellows and then start adding layer after layer after layer. No, I didn't count them. I didn't count the number of layers. I didn't count the number of colors, although they're still sitting here on my table, so I will put the swatches for them so that you can know the color numbers that I used. I'll put them over on my blog so you can check that out. But for now, I'm just going to be coloring layer after layer after layer, several layers of Gamsol in between. I wanted to mention a little bit about Gamsol. If you've watched a lot of my videos, you know that I've also used Baby Oil in place of Gamsol. On something like a leaf, you could definitely use Baby Oil because if there's any oily stain left behind, the color pencil will cover it. The Baby Oil becomes a little bit of a problem on some papers and you have to test whatever paper you're using. It comes a little bit of a problem because when you're trying to blend into white, the oiliness of the blending solution can stain the paper. So you want to be careful of that with whatever it is you use. I know there's some other people that have mentioned in comments recently that they used Zestit, which is a third kind of blending solution. And that one is apparently completely odorless. Excuse me, although what I'm finding is the recent bottle that I bought of Gamsol is odorless. I don't have a big smell thing going on, so Zestit is just another option. And I will try to find a link for you and put that in the doobly-do if you're looking for another solution for your color pencil blending. So I am using more and more colors to try to make this richer because the color that I'm seeing on my paper is not the same as the color on the leaf. It's more orangy. It's more dull. And I'm using a purple color. This is a desaturated purple, meaning it's very grayed out. It's not a bright purple. If you've tried using a bright purple with your yellow pencils, you might find that you don't get a lot of nice blending in it. But with something like this, I can add a very light coat of it to make shadows. I can use it very lightly to make those veins. And they come out looking much more natural than they would if I were strictly using a brown pencil, which is what a lot of people will go to when they're trying to do something like this. But when you use complementary colors, which is what purple and yellow would be for each other, you end up with a lot of natural desaturation because that's what complementary colors do when they're opposite on the color wheel. So I'm adding in more color because I want to keep making this deeper so that it matches that leaf and using a more desaturated kind of yellow color. And I'm getting a little closer to the goldenness of it, although I want to make sure that I retain the brightness in certain areas. So I'm going to have to go back in with an orange to brighten some of that up even further. So a lot of back and forth is what I do when I'm creating with my color pencils because I can always see there's just a little bit more. If I push the color a little bit this way or a little bit that way, then I can create something that starts matching the color that I'm seeing on the leaf itself. I started looking even closer and when you really zoom in on a leaf, when you have it right in front of you, I saw green spots. There were little areas that had not changed to yellow yet. And so I started drawing in a few of those and adding in an overall tone of that greenish color very, very lightly to a few areas of the leaf which started to darken it along with that purple and then a little bit of a rusty kind of brownish orange color. All those colors together when you use the blending stump and the solution start to create that really nice neutral shadow area for the yellow. But of course, I had to add more to it because that's just how I roll and back and forth between all the colors. Now while I'm still sitting here chatting, I want to let you know next week is the 24 tags of Christmas, which is one of my most popular series every year. And it's probably going to be my last normal giveaway because I don't tend to have anybody answer my giveaways. They all enter and then nobody responds. I had some envelopes full of stamps and dyes that I gave out recently and I tried three times to post different names and nobody replied. So I sent them to random people who I knew because of other things. I had their addresses because they're students or had addresses because they had sent me things in the mail and whatever. So yeah, I'm going to start doing that more and not doing giveaways. But for the tags, I'm going to try it again. Most years I end up with 16 to 18 of my tags still left in my possession to use on my Christmas gifts because nobody claims them. So if you enter to win, make sure to check back on my blog the week after for a couple of days, a couple of times to make sure that you don't miss the announcement when it comes out. Before I take off here today, I want to let you know if you're interested in coloring leaves, they're a really easy thing to get your brain around. If you're trying to learn how to color match, if you're trying to learn how to do shadows, that sort of thing, I do have two classes that I offer one in color pencil and one in Copic marker and they're both more on the advanced side. And one of them teaches leaves like this, the other teaches a pile of leaves and both of them include the digis, the printables for the other class. So the color pencil one shows you how to do the entire picture all together with all of the shading underneath of the leaves and that sort of thing. The Copic one teaches you just the leaves themselves and both of these are taught on a toned paper. So it's kind of a fun interesting way to approach leaves and have that toned paper to work off of. All right, that's it for me today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I will see you next week for the 24 tags of Christmas. Take care. Bye.


Okay. So I was attempting to open that Citadel lock on camera and just finding that I was mangling it and so I decided to leave it alone and let the next guy have a go at it and show you something else. This is also a mailbox lock that I got off of eBay completely unrelated to the other ones. This one says Eagle. I think some of the other ones say Yale. It has a Yale keyway. It came with keys and I picked it up in last night. I won't bother showing you that. It's a funny little lock. You can see it has this cam.  It has this little cam and that's the travel on it. So if I should have pulled the keys off before I started, but you can see it's picked open. There it is, reset. You can see the key just turns it that far. That's the full extent of the movement. So probably pulls a little latch out of the way on a door or something like that. So I thought I got it. It was giving me a little trouble opening it, but I suspect it was just the keyway.  I'm happy with that. There we go. So the key in. The cam is held in by two flathead screws, which I've already started to loosen. It appears to be the only thing holding this together. This was sort of the nastiest looking of a bunch. It's overexposed a little bit, isn't it? Let's crank that down. The morning sunlight in my white background is conspiring to make this more difficult. Okay. So we take that off. I'm not taking one of these apart yet, so I'm not exactly sure what to expect. So there's that little cam. You can see the bottom of the key. Let me grab my sophisticated Styrofoam organizer here. Plug follower. Looks safe. Okay, that worked well. So here's the plug with the key pins. The key pins look like they might be not brass. Let's pop them out and see what we got. Focus. So I'm starting the first chamber. Where's the tweezers are? Elsewhere. Okay, well, we'll start with two then. Two. That's a big long one. That's probably not helping. So those are all normal. They do look a bit like they are steel. Get my little magnet and see what we got. Nope. So they may be nickel silver or they may be stainless. Who knows? And then let's have a look at the top pins. I have a feeling they're going to be equally unexciting. I've been trying to show off this plug follower that I use. It's a piece of aluminum round bar that I just filed a notch into for handling the backs of some of the plugs. And you can stay there for me. I like a solid follower because the pins have less of a tendency to go shooting out the back. And the little notch actually helps align things when you're reassembling the top pins. So there's there's pin top pin one also normal. I didn't really detect any serrated pins in this or security pins. Just top pin two and it's spring. Again, these appear to be some type of non-brass material but not ferrous steel or not sort of not to see how tiny that top pin is because of the bottom. So they're kind of balanced. That's the last one. The spring came at the bottom. All right. There's spring. There's that. Did I get any of that in frame? Yeah, I did. So funny little mailbox lock. There's the pins. Completely unimpressive. So no steel, no anti-drill, no nothing. Even the screws aren't ferrous. So screws appear to be brass actually. So one other little interesting thing. If you look at the key, there's the plug. It's really dirty. But if you look at the key, here's the first cut. One, two, three, four, five. You can see all this length.  You probably could have put another key pin in there. Not a hundred percent sure why they did that. But anyhow, the back of the plug is stamped with the code and the key. Since there's not much else interesting here, it has a code on it as well. And seven, one, five, nine, three, one, five, nine, three. It doesn't appear to be a direct bidding code. So that's just some other thing. And you can see USPS do not duplicate them above. So it's some type of postal, old postal lock. So on the reasonably shyness is because I haven't seen a lock of this sort of form factor before. Here's the little, the Bible and everything. I thought that was kind of neat and a little camera, just a piece of stamp sheet metal. Anyway, that's that. Got a bunch of these if someone wants to trade for one or just got one. Got probably about eight of them. So anyway, this is Alex. Have fun. Keep it legal. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye.