 والسلام على عباله الذين أصطفى وعما بعض تعود بلادي الشيطان ورجي بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينا من سبولنا سبحانه ربكارا بالعزة يعاننا بسيطون والسلام على المرسلين والحمد الله رب العالمين الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد وضعك وصلي الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد وضعك وصلي الله مصلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد وضعك الله سبحانه و تعالى يفقى أسو� من بكتب فرآن أول أمام فرآن إلى اللراء والسلام وكل who knows where وَوَكِيف غارِهِرَا في جبل النغور وحيث يتركها كتبة لطيفة وحيث يتركها كتبة فقط من المحقق أجل فإذا كنت تذهب إلى السابق إفضل الحكومة للتشتري وإذا يكون هناك أصبحت وإذا كنت أخبار أصبحت هذا هو المضاء هذا هو where he was في الوقت الله سبحانه وتعالى began the revelation to the Prophets of God. This is the first ayat of the Qur'an. يقرأ بسم ربك الذي خلق. خلق الإنسان من علق. يقرأ وربك الأكرم الذي علم بالقلم. علم الإنسان ما لا يعلم. We have a father here. Did I do it right or not? Yes. That's for now. So what does Allah سبحانه وتعالى say in His first revelation? يقرأ بسم ربك الذي خلق. رسيت in the name of your Lord. خلق الإنسان من علق. He created human beings from a clot. يقرأ وربك الأكرم. رسيت in your Lord is the most generous. اللذي علم بالقلم. The one who talked through the pen. علم الإنسان ما لا يعلم. The one who talked human beings what they didn't know. Now obviously these are. This is the beginning of revelation. الله سبحانه وتعالى is talking to the Prophet. About himself. About the origin of human beings. About his relationship. About the Qur'an. All these important things. And one of the things he mentions. In these few ayah. One of the first things he mentions is. خلق. The pen. It blows my mind because the Prophet. اللذي علم بالقلم. Didn't use a pen. Would never use a pen in his life. Why? Because you couldn't read and write. Couldn't read or write. Yet الله سبحانه وتعالى. He felt it was so important to. الله سبحانه وتعالى. That he mentioned it. In spite of the fact that the Prophet. اللذي علم بالقلم. Would not use a pen. Why? Well. This is the tool. That Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Gave human beings to transmit knowledge. And it's something that our Ummah. Should take very seriously. It seems very simple. It's just a tool that allows you to. Make an ink mark. On some surface. But this tool is so important. Allah سبحانه وتعالى. He mentioned it. And I was actually chatting with. He's very active here. I was chatting with him. I think yesterday. About this. I just wanted to. Get his advice. Get his brain a little bit. About this workshop. And he reminded me of something. That there's a surah. Where Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Actually swear by the pen. Well. Well. Well. I swear by the pen. Is that right? I swear by the pen. I swear by the pen. Exactly. That by the pen. Allah سبحانه وتعالى. I swear by the pen. And what it writes. And so he told. He reminded me. I had heard this story before. But I kind of forgot it. That. Sheikh Hamza. He told an interesting story. That one time. He used with. Right. His teacher. And he was with them. When he was studying in مارتانيا. And. Sheikh Hamza was doing something with this. And he was kind of playing with it. Or doing something like that. And whatever it was. رب المحج felt that it was not as. Respectful. As it should be. Towards. The. The. Pen. So you know what he asked him. He said. Do you. Mach the thing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Swore with. Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Took the oath with the pen. Right. And so he's asking. Sheikh Hamza. He said. And he said. And so he's asking. Sheikh Hamza. Use of. Are you mocking this thing. That Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Took the oath with. And then you can get into the detail. About. Is it. You know. The pen. The rope. And look. Or just a regular pen. Or whatever. I'm not a scholar. So that. My point is not to debate. Those things. But the point is simply. How important. This thing is. To Allah سبحانه وتعالى. So now. Fast forward. To our age. Right. Our ancestors. They use the pen. They. They. They. They. They. Record. So many different types of. Sciences. Optics. Medicine. Astronomy. So many things got passed down. By scholars. Who use the pen. And they record it into books. And they taught their students. And I'm not saying. I'm not saying that writing is the only. Means of transmitting knowledge. Of course. You have to have human to human. Contact. You have to have interaction. We have to have people. Demonstrate things. But. The pen is what allows. To. Record. So. On. On some permanent surface. That. They can. Communicate with future generations. Right. That's really amazing. That. You want to talk to somebody. You know. A thousand years from now. Right. Down. Then they'll pick it up. They'll. They'll be able to. Read it in the future. And show up. Now. In our age though. What has happened. We have. We have these types of things. Right. Where's my phone. We have phones. I think that's an iPad there probably. Right. We have laptop computers. I'll put this on. Can you guys see. We have this kind of stuff. So. We have. Kind of forgotten. The art of using a pen. Right. So. What ends up happening is. Go to a lecture. You go to the Masjid. You go to any place. And. It's so easy. Like right here. Mashallah. We're recording it. Which is awesome. Mashallah. But at the same time. When we personally go to a lecture. And we hear all this. Useful information. Especially. You know. The. The mother. Whatever. How often do we go through the trouble of. Actually. Recording what we learned. You know. A mom. A mom. How many people have heard of. They're. He was a scholar in the past. And. He. Used to. Advise to. He was a scholar. But he said. I noticed that. Many students come to mother. I'm an effort to. Going to mother stop. But then they leave. And they don't benefit very much. And so he has a whole book called. تعليم وتعليم which is an excellent book. Everyone should. Get a translation or read it. Whatever you can. And. What are things in there? I think it's a whole chapter he has. Just on the importance of carrying a pen. In England. You everywhere you go. And this is like. I didn't know how this is like. Hundreds of years ago. He was giving this advice. Right. Though people. You couldn't go to Target in those days. And just buy it like a pack. Of 100 big pens. Or something. و كانت يجب أن نتكلم مع ألعاب المناطق و قد يجلس الكثير من المناطق و كانت تصبح أسفعة لكنه يقول أنه لو أنت تجد أن نفعل ذلك لأنك لا تعلم حيث أنك ستتأكد من بعض الأعرفة و لذا فهي أفضل من ذلك و أنظرنا الآن سنعود لدينا الأسفل ولكن في الأسفل المنطقة لدينا الكثير من المنطقة و نحن نحكي من أكثر من عددهم و أفكارهم may go through so much effort to prepare but when that interaction happens and then we leave we typically forget almost everything they say and if a person even goes through the trouble of writing it down what typically .... I don't know, you guys tell me this is what used to happen to me was I would be rushing to write down everywhere because I felt it so important but then at the end, if I look back at my notes it just scribbles because I'm just rushing to write everything down ف of course I cannot capture everything And in real listening, this happened for like 15 years And you know I would go to my teachers I would take classes And I would literally, I would dread looking back At my notes Cause I would be like this is gonna take so much Work from me to decipher what I wrote myself Why ? Cause I was rushing through it So hollow about 4 years ago arrived down that gave me 8 To to stumble upon this book و التي تغييرت بشكل كامل لأسفل هذا المرحب يسمى سكتشنو للمساعدة هل ترى هذا؟ هل ترى هذا المرحب؟ لقد أقوم بعمل هذه المرحب و سأعطيك أن أعطيك أن أفضل ما هو فيه بسيدي ما يقوله من المكرودي هذا المرحب فهي قلت أنه كان لديه نفس الموضوع وقلت أنه سأذهب إلى أسلحة فهي سأحاول أن تقرأ كل شيء وإنه يصبحت ميسي فما يفعله هو أنه قلت أن تقرأ في طريقة مختلفة وانا هذا ما أريد أن أشارك معكم في this evening and that's what we're going to practice doing بس you do this you listen to the speaker you just relax and instead of trying to write down every single word you just focus on listening to the speaker what is the speaker trying to say? what's the main idea? what's the big idea that the speaker is trying to convey to you? you listen to that you write that down slowly in neat letters in a way that you can understand it and anybody else can understand it and then this is an interesting part then he says this is a quick sketch to represent that idea it's not art it's not going to be put up in an art museum it's just for you it's just for you to help you remember and understand what you wrote down so it's this kind of these are some really quick examples here this kind of stuff now I'll tell you something else very interesting about this as well the Prophet ﷺ we know he did not read it right but you know what he did used to do? he would draw in the sand how many people knew that? did you guys know that? I didn't know that for a long time he's trying to explain something to the companions he would literally he would draw make like diagram kind of things in the sand to explain stuff so as an example is that one time the Prophet ﷺ drew a line then he drew a rectangle sort of in the middle of the line then he drew I think like Mark's going through there and he explained that the line represented people's hopes this and that I'm going to accomplish this I'm going to accomplish that that's their hopes it extends far but the box is just your actual life isn't that true? we have hopes and desires and dreams that go way you know 100 200 years our actual life is just limited it's whatever it's going to be so that's captured in that box and then there's other lines there that represent the distractions while we're heading towards those goals in our limited life there's distractions that keep us away from reaching our goals so if we internalize that that's a pretty deep concept what they basically mean take advantage of the life that you have now cut out the distractions focus on your goals hopefully after you're all around الله سبحانه وتعالى and things relate to that and then insha'Allah you'll have a chance to achieve those but the point of the whole story was that the Prophet ﷺ used to use these kind of drawings to explain things so that's again in this author Mike Rodea you know I had the honor of meeting him personally several times and studying with him very very nice guy but he's not Muslim he wasn't doing it because the Prophet ﷺ used to do it but he came to the conclusion that that's effective and you know our saying is that wisdom is the lost property of the believer wisdom is the lost property of the believer so if we learn something good doesn't matter if it's from a Muslim a non-Muslim wherever it is we take it we take it for ourselves and we use it so are there any questions so far about what sketch noting is it's a pretty straightforward idea but you know when you apply it and you use it it can be very powerful so I'll pause a little bit for any questions and while we're waiting for questions I'll pull up some some sample sketch notes so let me show you a few of these this was from a a lecture that do you guys know Jabir Thireen he's from a filial center you guys have heard he's from a filial center right so he had a he had a thing about marriage so I had an opportunity to attend that so these are just some example sketch notes and notice this is very simple these are simple drawings but the benefit is that now later on when I when I want to remember all the stuff that he said I can go back to these notes and I can remember and my handwriting is really really bad it's way worse than this but this is you know it's good enough that I can at least read it right so that's the benefit I'll show you another one and I think actually these are all from relatively recent this was a program in Fremont that they had about solomphobia have you guys heard of Hatem Pazian or the Hatem Pazian he had he ran that program so these are those from that program so anyway that's the idea any questions so far before we start we start actually doing some sketch noting no alright let's get started then just go along so everybody has a notebook I hope does everybody not have a notebook in a pen we have like a lot of notebooks in pens so we'll give it to you do you guys need any right there do you guys have it I don't know you know it okay this one can you take this one so most people in my experience what makes them hesitate with the sketch noting is it did you have one you're just chilling never so you can ask are you sure yes I'm very mature a lot of sketch noting okay no problem so a lot of people are afraid of drawing because they say my drawing is horrible but the truth is it can be horrible it doesn't matter it just has to convey that idea it can be whatever you should see especially in my early sketch shows they're horrible you know they look really bad and like anything because people come to me like oh no you draw so well I don't draw so well but whatever improvement there's been it's just just through practicing so let's let's do a few icons together and then what we'll do is we'll play a video and then I'll do a demo and then I'm going to play an audio clip of an interview I interviewed my son here and I did it on purpose because I wanted it to be slow enough for everybody to follow and then and then you guys are going to sketch note it and then whoever's brave enough you're going to share alright that sound like a plan alright good alright this is a lot so let's do let's just do start off with the easy stuff let's do house everybody sketch a house Mary you don't have to share this with anybody let's do car some people will draw like race cars that are very cool let's do some more abstract stuff let's do strength strength how would you do strength this looks super weird right but who cares because it's just just for me to represent strength let's do surprise yeah so with me I'm like nobody's screaming and running out of the room so that's already success good alright let's do let's do joy do you guys feel comfortable so far alright cool so how did that go everybody feel like nope went thumbs down alright huh you're not good at it were you able to draw anything okay that's good enough so when you drew it okay does it look like a house to you best phone I guess good enough yeah as long as you can guess house correctly you got it alright what about how about the brothers you guys it's alright yeah yeah what happened my drawings are weird your drawings are weird that's fine you know what the good thing about weird drawings is the weird they are the easier they are to remember because they look you know because they're unusual right like if I did if I did a foot that's already actually kind of weird so let's just go with this I mean that's so strange at least it looks like that but then if you did an sketch know it'll help you remember that right alright alright let's just move on so just move on so let's jump into getting home can you pull up the video بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين أما بعد you know we live in an age where everyone is busy and it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to find time to do things but part and parcel of our tradition of the prophetic tradition is to serve humanity and نبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم taught us that we need to be compassionate towards everything إحسان towards everything in life but specifically towards humanity as well and serve and الله سبحانه وتعالى defines that in the Quran as أخرجت للناس right we've been created for mankind so we need to find time in our busy schedules in order to ensure that we're doing things for humanity as far as you know not having time that's the norm but as human beings we need to find time and it comes from making a schedule you know we have a schedule to have passion for it to understand its importance its relevance and as far as serving humanity there's so many different things that one can do you know everything from serving your community to people in other communities and so on and so forth so you know certain things people are passionate about other things you may not be in so you need to find your passions and say this is how I'm going to serve humanity and give back to society I mean it's crucial that we do this otherwise you know otherwise we just will just become lost and we won't have compassion in this we won't care for other individuals and caring is what نبي صالح سلم تاديس so you look at that do you guys see that much like brother kareem did this mountain fire he boxed it people are busy he has a clock symbol and a person find time to make a schedule look at that and then a calendar very nice it's an aqua locker it's great so you guys are professional okay so now it's going to be your turn so can you start the audio clip so we're going to play an audio clip I tried it now let me tell you the backstory I tried it really hard to find a good video like the one that I used in the mountain fire they all move so fast though I couldn't find one that was like just the right length and didn't move fast and all that kind of stuff so in the end I gave up I just said I'm just going to record Muhammad and my son Muhammad and I talking and then we purposely the pace was a little bit slow so we're going to play that in chat and I want you guys to sketch with it okay and then when we're done like I said whoever is comfortable you can share your session this is for the latter so I'll link them can you state your name Muhammad okay Muhammad so you're Hafiz I understand yeah alright cool so I heard that in Mother's you make like really strong friendships that last for a lifetime is that true yeah alright cool so how many friends did you make like 5 or 6 5 or 6 okay cool what led to that was it just the fact that you were in the same mother's or what did you guys do that made you get so close we spent like 8 hours together with like no one else and like just hung out and like the restaurant together yeah so what made it so well just the fact that you did all that stuff kind of got you guys close did you guys feel like you kind of shared a struggle together I assume it was difficult yeah I mean the memorizing the Quran part yeah it was alright what about I mean were there any good times did you guys play together did you guys do like fun stuff together too yeah like sometimes during our break our teacher would like tell us to bring our Nerf guns to school or to a class and we brought them and then we'd have this big old Nerf gun war and that was really fun okay did you wear goggles and helmets and things like that no but we probably should have because the half a sub took all the big guns and left us with like one shot pistols okay kind of murdered us so you were kind of compensating through the Barqa of your smaller like weaker guns but more Barqa and his larger gun and maybe different amount of Barqa or what was the what was the dynamic and the logic we kind of just got flattened every time oh you did so the office had a bigger gun and more Barqa yeah okay interesting so what so you were saying just playing all that stuff together helped you guys yeah it was it was bonding experience bonding awesome all right what else how about just the actual it was like the actual struggle of memorizing Quran and the hubs and downs and all the all the difficulty well was there any difficulty I feel like I remember that there was some difficulty yeah there was a little bit okay so you guys kind of shared that yeah did you guys pat each other on the back and encourage each other stuff like that yeah yes you did of course we did wow what else did you guys do I mean did it help to just have somebody that who could understand what you were going through yeah yes okay nice and so what about after you finished shifts did you guys stay in touch yeah we did uh huh tell me about that so we were just friends after that so after we finished tips we went to public school and all that stuff but we were still like chilling we were still friends so what kind of stuff like like get together remember I used to more cry on review together yeah nah I don't I won't go that far uh huh but um we like just like kind of like sleepovers and stuff like that oh nice okay pain balling and girl card oh oh sorry well I didn't mean to cut you off go ahead go ahead yeah we just do stuff like that together well this is our famous for making kids like super glutinous and in particular pizza maniacs so did you guys ever eat pizza yes and do you like pizza yeah you do okay what else so um we had we like pizza okay so Mr. Broth this is California and no one knows what that is okay anyhow we one of the times one of so what happened was when you'd finished memorizing a juz if the parents of that child wanted they could have a little party so one time one of my friends there were only like six of us we he finished his juz so he wanted to have a little party so his mom was bringing ice cream and he she called the normally give it to my friend so my friend gets the phone and his mom's like oh I'm coming with the ice cream and half his aww breaks ending and then he's like half his sub doesn't want the ice cream and then and then what happened was he hung up and half his the half his sub was like no this is not what I meant no I want the ice cream what do you mean so then he called he made him call his mom back and tell him no the half his sub doesn't want the ice cream but what my friend accidentally said was the half his half his sub wants to eat ice cream and his mom was kind of like dumb founded on the phone and thought that was pretty funny so did you guys get the ice cream or not yeah we got the ice cream some pretty good ice cream so what's interesting to me is that when I think back about like you and all your friends from mother's house really nobody's obese and that's kind of shocking because you guys love to eat okay oh wow so okay so tell us what's going on in your friend okay I'm going to repeat what you're saying because I have the mic here so you said you got the name on here yeah okay I'm like these five to six friends of mine love it and you have the friends here you want to show them and then the next one I think I heard during the break they had a nerf thing yeah so I feel a bunch of people oh yeah there's a big nerf fight going on is that what it is yeah and then there's a a helicopter too that's awesome can I help with it for some reason yeah no that's awesome and then I heard they did a bunch of fun stuff and they drew a bunch of gold cards and I don't know if anybody's going to understand that the pizza that's what I thought it was the pizza that's for school excellent thank you very much I want to show off alright thank you so much to us are you comfortable do you want to do it okay yeah so walk us through this is great so first what I'm going to have is that this is an interview with the dad and the son the son's name is Muhammad he's a hafiz said he has about five or six friends that are in that grown circle and that's that's there you want who has the biggest nerf gun that's awesome that's awesome and I also included that so sometimes the learning involves a lot of hard work but there are fun times too sometimes sometimes include go karting and pizza and sometimes I have a party after finishing the jewels I love it this is awesome Mashal very very nice did you do this before no this is like it was very natural for Mashal alright do you guys want to do it yeah go ahead alright okay what's going on here the first one is being friends and then there's nerf guns nice look at that that's so awesome look at his face yeah then he's reading the Quran Mashal this is so good this is like a comic format almost because you just read it from the top to the bottom and it's like telling a story okay okay yeah go ahead and then pizza and then pizza love it this is so good Mashal thank you okay okay go do yourself emails okay okay no problem you guys ready alright oh just give me a minute let's get her no go to this one okay this one yeah tell us what's going on okay so he liked he did Quran for his friends and it was an 8 hour program and she made a bond with his friends she got closer and they had nerf right I mean they were stuck with the smaller guns but I hope they didn't have the bigger guns so they were kind of what was your name sister no name do you need to read it to read it okay okay I'll go watch it go ahead tell us what's going on so on the top it's like pizza because he likes pizza and then on the second picture it shows him memorizing the Quran you don't I can't hear you too can you speak a little bit so on the second one it shows him memorizing the Quran yes the third one it's nerf guns and the fourth one it's his friend oh it's very beautiful look up it's so simple and elegant right like you got the main points and then for each point you had the image very nice yes please the first one he's talking about how he has friends and the second one is how he does fun stuff so it's like this is kind of like fun and then he says like fun stuff to class that I really like and he stayed and helped and he has a treat in Mania so I put the pizza and the friends had parties after finishing the juice because I heard something like that and his friend has an ice cream problem huh it's awesome it's good very nice he was actually saying جز like a like a like a جز like a Quran but I like your thing see that's one of the things that can help you remember stuff right like you say the word جز it means part of the Quran but then it sounds like the word جز so you can draw a picture of جز like you did and it helps you remember that that's a good demonic to remember stuff and did you have what do you want to choose it's not that great it's okay if you don't want to that's my question okay who else who else is ready ماري مازر are you ready oh are you coming up oh okay mother's experience awesome okay tell us what's going on okay so are you the first one love I know that it was a real and a lot and he didn't have so he was in a lot of time he loved herself so the first thing was really mother's size he made a lot of things because he spent like 8 hours in this camp and then he also played meant for it so he was meant for it and they they kept each other on the path and then they kept in touch and it helped see the words that they get into the Quran and they had a lot of peace that I spent but I thought it was a word that nice you got that little comment again thank you how about the girls you guys ready to do it no okay no problem no well the back row is super quiet I noticed you guys I can I'm just kidding but if you guys if you guys have something ready are you sure okay so you need a lot of strong perspectives because you spend time together and they struggle together and therefore it's their house and they kept in touch that they wanted to do are these like dead bodies it's like are these arrows are good they're like no these are good so this is okay yeah they want food but they're so really skinny somehow love it okay okay back row ready anybody ready yes no you're not okay okay let's move on so how does that feel is that fun good shouldn't be stressful like it should not be like oh my god they do this it should be like enjoyable and then you go back and look at it later on and alright okay cool so we actually have a little more time than I thought should we get into some drawing tricks yeah you guys want to do that yeah alright this is the one so trick number one is drawing people now okay who feels like if they draw a person they're going to go to hell okay so I asked a couple of scholars if you I'm not trying to change your opinion if you believe that no problem but just FYI I asked a couple of scholars 100 fee scholar 100 fee scholar 100 fee scholar said you can draw excuse me as long as whatever you're drawing couldn't actually be a living thing it's fine so for as an example like let's just say I draw a person so notice this guy's head is separated from the rest of his body that's not you can't live right that's not on the a head by itself and a body by itself cannot be alive so that's fine if I connected it for the 100 fee that would be a problem even though this is a totally ridiculous useless drawing but still let's just say you feel like it's too much then that wouldn't be okay so as you can see it's super easy to get around it you just do something to it that would make it not possible to actually be a living thing so that's the 100 fee position that as long as it couldn't be a living thing it's fine I talked to Sheikh Rami who's a Maliki scholar and he said the Maliki mother pretty much everything's fine there's really no problem because and you can talk to him about the details but they have an opinion that the prohibition against drawing and statues and all that has more to do with worshiping those things so anyway if you're Maliki or if you want to be a Maliki physician you're clear so you can just go ahead and make this for the Maliki that works okay alright so but that's usually not how I draw people so here's how I actually usually draw a person circle rectangle I put a note so excuse me here's the interesting thing about the nose wherever whatever direction we put the nose it makes it look like the person's looking that way when I'm here and the guy wants to burn his eyes out by looking at the sun and make his nose quite like that now it looks like he's looking at the sun okay and then the legs circle with a little line the hands come out and these little new things bam that's the person when I draw a woman this is how I almost always do it circle then the hijab then hijab what's it called feet poking out and then same kind of arms alright and I guess she's just kind of looking up here okay other people do other ways other people do people that they draw people like this that's another way yeah you can of course always do a stick figure are you guys comfortable so far okay what else how about 3D stuff huh so how about how about like a 3D Gabba this is one of my favorite things to draw if you saw this what do you think that's Gabba or do you just think that's a random box or something Gabba alright does that look sort of 3D a little bit kind of okay and then what I usually do is I'll do a little bit of shading here very simple of course and then I'll even do a little bit of shadow because a lot of times the sun is shining on one side of it so that creates a shadow I'll be speaking of the sun that's how I draw the sun and then that's why I'm moon star cool you guys alright okay what else what other kind of things you know what's a good trick is to have what I call an icon library so that as you go to lectures a lot of times the same things keep coming up and so you don't have to think of a new icon every single time you just have it ready and then you use it every time so for example in a lecture somebody comes up about almost always I'll draw a little that's just the way I do it or like obvious ones like something you out in motion and are loved and I'll do it I'll do it I'll do it what else what other kind of things you guys draw would you draw what kind of stuff do you want to know what are your seatbelts does that look like a ear a little bit I know it doesn't really that much but to me it does enough that I can use it what about your ear how do you draw it awesome well if you're willing to share that I would love to see it don't do it how do you want to do it okay you're going to show us how to draw it here that's cool that's really that's better than my ear okay I think I'm going to use your ear okay that's another thing I'm not saying go to 7-11 and steal but I am saying steal people's good drawing ideas so like Lena just share her your idea right bam stolen I'm going to do it now another thing I've actually forgot to talk about is handwriting so a lot of times one really nice thing to do is to be maybe something is you want to make things like a little bit more emphasized right so you're writing something so a lot of them say you got A B C that would be the just normal writing but you want to emphasize it here's what you do it's actually a really simple trick you write the letter whatever whatever the letter is then you go over it one more time with a little bit of space like that like that then you just connect the ends of it connect it already like that and then you can just color color it in if you want see that and so that kind of gives it like for example a lot of times if you want to title you might want to do it that way right does that make sense and the trick for good handwriting is like so let me just show you what my handwriting normally looks like I'll just do like sort of be like that that's how I would normally probably write it but the trick to really and the way that you can read it and other people can read it is you break it down into steps the first thing is you do is you just focus on the one letter that you're writing at that moment okay so I want to write a D so I just make sure that D looks good it's good enough if I'm going to write a D make sure that D looks good to me right so just focus on that one letter at a time and the style there's so many different styles of writing letters you know it's a whole art actually they call it lettering in English in Arabic like you know Islamic art traditionally actually it's very focused look right there it's focused on it's the calligraphy that is the art and there's so much to it there's a whole science and the church as an example they really perfected in the autumn time they really perfected this art much off you go ahead if you ever get a chance go for it it's so much beautiful artwork and it all revolves around calligraphy lettering so anyway in English for me I mainly write in English but you can do I mean if you know a lot of people they might know their how to make their names right it'll come out much better okay what else what else do you guys want to draw yes do you have something why that you're looking at yes great um this stuff but mainly that's a little maybe not maybe like improve when drawing a car car the only car I can draw is a band if I try to draw just something else it looks so good that's okay for some reason it always turns out to be a band I don't get it boy let's do a regular car is how I do it at least circle another circle and then I connect the two then come to the front of the car that's it that's my car and sometimes if I want to show that there's moving I'll do these lines so since we're getting we'll wrap up at 9 and Shaw so if you have time to do we'll do and stuff so oh yeah yeah you know nose nose you want it on a face or it goes by itself you don't okay alright you want it on a face or you want it by itself floating on a face okay so it depends on what kind of face you're doing and it depends on the style so let's just start with this typically the eyes are going to be about halfway down right so there's your eyes and then you can do nose a lot of ways you can do just a line and then two dots that's one way to do it you can do you can make it come out like that a little bit if you want sometimes you do like a like a profile you can do like from the sides and say that there's there's light and then the person kind of like that but that's the nose does that help you lack that nose yes alright okay cool so the last five minutes here anything else before I get to my closing oh yes sir like how would you draw the Eiffel Tower oh man so first of all before you put me on the spot do you know how to draw do you already have an idea yeah I tried to draw it let's see it oh my God you should be teaching the Eiffel Tower about it look at it it's awesome it's got it too look at all these high G's like doing go off and stuff that's awesome yeah I know that's great I think you're that's what I would do that's a better Eiffel Tower than I was going to do so let's just stick with your Eiffel Tower okay alright okay because it's that okay alright okay anything else before my closing okay so let's just do a quick review how was this was this useful to you guys at all or you can be honest I will I'll try not to cry you know like I said I had the opportunity to study with with Mike and then there's a lot of other tricks and useful stuff so if this is something enjoyable to you I strongly recommend you get actually this is the first book but this book this is the second book even better I would strongly recommend you read that but the second thing is I'm though you know we're all local I think we're you know community here if there's interest maybe we can convince brother Manir for us to do this once in a while because maybe not a high-frequency time where we're competing with other programs but maybe we can do something like that and I created a Facebook group just for sketch noters in this community so if you want to be in it maybe I can pass around a car or something and you guys can let me know and I can add to it and the benefit of that is then we can have a safe place to share our sketch notes with each other and I found that it's very it's very encouraging when you do that one of the things that Mike Road he says to do is that when you sketch note he says to share on social media so I started doing that I started tweeting it out I started putting on Facebook and Instagram and stuff and it was very encouraging because other people would see it and they would make comments about it and in fact some people like especially when I sketch note Islamic lectures like the one I showed you guys earlier I got a lot of response from that and you know the hope is even one person benefits from that and she'll get a reward you know that's that's something good for us so anyway that's my suggestion to everybody try out this technique carry a pen with you carry a notebook with you and when you next time you go to a lecture just next lecture you go to just you know this simple homework assignment should you choose to accept it is to sketch note the next lecture you can go to and then ideally share it like I said it's just let me just find the name of it if you if you join this group how can I do this brother when you're here can I send out the Facebook group to you or something or should I have the name of it it'll be on the Facebook group we can post to that and then I can put a mention on the newsletter this week everybody's on the newsletter okay you send it to me okay I'll send it to you about it and then whoever is interested can join that so just so you can see it this is this is the group so does that sound interesting to you guys would that be useful okay alright awesome does that go off here may Allah subhanahu و-daa'a accept all our efforts inshallah inshallah and may Allah subhanahu و-daa'a give us all the fair that came out of this protect us from any harm it came out of this and may Allah subhanahu و-daa'a give us the best of you to practice all the ayahs of the Quran and be means of transmitting knowledge and I ask you guys as well to forgive me for my shortcomings