1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:01,259 Welcome back. 2 00:00:01,259 --> 00:00:05,093 In the last video, step three of the plan was: build a map. 3 00:00:05,093 --> 00:00:10,081 And a lot of people hear 'make a mind map', draw something pretty, and then never use it again. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,857 So in this video, we're going to build the map together, one decision at a time. 5 00:00:15,857 --> 00:00:18,212 Then we'll add the order you need for reciting. 6 00:00:18,212 --> 00:00:21,374 And then I'll show you how to actually use the map to remember. 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,132 First, the mindset. 8 00:00:24,132 --> 00:00:26,560 The map itself is not the goal. 9 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,019 If you copy a list, you read, you write, you read, you write. 10 00:00:31,019 --> 00:00:32,786 You never have to decide anything. 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:37,503 But when you make a map, every item forces a question. 12 00:00:37,503 --> 00:00:38,537 Where does this go? 13 00:00:38,537 --> 00:00:39,883 What is it connected to? 14 00:00:39,883 --> 00:00:41,361 Why there, and not over here? 15 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,709 That deciding is the thinking. 16 00:00:44,709 --> 00:00:46,800 And the thinking is what makes it stick. 17 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:50,093 So the question to keep asking isn't 'how do I remember this?' 18 00:00:50,093 --> 00:00:53,327 It's 'how does this connect to what I already know?' 19 00:00:53,327 --> 00:00:55,947 The paper is just the evidence that you asked it. 20 00:00:57,248 --> 00:00:58,351 Four rules. 21 00:00:58,351 --> 00:01:00,130 One: few words. 22 00:01:00,130 --> 00:01:02,185 Labels, not sentences. 23 00:01:02,185 --> 00:01:07,089 If you can't say it in two or three words, that's a sign you don't understand it yet. 24 00:01:08,384 --> 00:01:10,557 Two: position means something. 25 00:01:10,557 --> 00:01:13,009 Things that are related sit close together. 26 00:01:14,318 --> 00:01:16,419 Three: every line has a reason. 27 00:01:16,419 --> 00:01:19,472 If you draw a line, you should be able to say why it's there. 28 00:01:20,785 --> 00:01:23,090 And four: build from the center out. 29 00:01:23,090 --> 00:01:25,999 The most important idea goes in the middle. 30 00:01:25,999 --> 00:01:27,622 Details go on the edges. 31 00:01:28,921 --> 00:01:30,084 Okay, let's build it. 32 00:01:30,084 --> 00:01:32,909 Start in the middle, with the most important idea. 33 00:01:32,909 --> 00:01:35,169 For this du'a, that's the ask. 34 00:01:35,169 --> 00:01:36,250 Rescue us. 35 00:01:36,250 --> 00:01:40,721 Everything else on this page has to connect back to it, so it goes in the center. 36 00:01:42,025 --> 00:01:45,520 Next, the big branches: our three lenses. 37 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,794 Beyond everything. 38 00:01:46,794 --> 00:01:47,888 Over everything. 39 00:01:47,888 --> 00:01:48,789 Close to me. 40 00:01:48,789 --> 00:01:51,494 Notice, two or three words each. 41 00:01:51,494 --> 00:01:52,744 No sentences. 42 00:01:54,059 --> 00:01:56,088 Now we hang sections on the lenses. 43 00:01:56,088 --> 00:01:58,155 Start with the ones that stand out to you. 44 00:01:58,155 --> 00:02:00,054 Don't try to place all one hundred. 45 00:02:00,054 --> 00:02:02,326 Light, section forty-seven. 46 00:02:02,326 --> 00:02:04,189 Life, section seventy. 47 00:02:04,189 --> 00:02:07,350 'Greater than every great one', thirty-three. 48 00:02:07,350 --> 00:02:10,295 'Living, who never dies', thirty-one. 49 00:02:10,295 --> 00:02:13,972 Each leaf is a tiny label, plus the section number. 50 00:02:13,972 --> 00:02:15,427 That number matters. 51 00:02:15,427 --> 00:02:16,533 We'll use it later. 52 00:02:17,826 --> 00:02:21,273 Over everything: night and day, sixty-two. 53 00:02:21,273 --> 00:02:24,350 The earth, the mountains, the sun, sixty-eight. 54 00:02:24,350 --> 00:02:26,838 'Maker of everything made', ten. 55 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,847 Close to me: 'my provision in hard times', eleven. 56 00:02:31,847 --> 00:02:35,213 'He created me and fed me', sixty-six. 57 00:02:35,213 --> 00:02:38,146 'Support of the one with no support', twenty-eight. 58 00:02:38,146 --> 00:02:41,595 'Protector of whoever seeks protection', thirty. 59 00:02:42,896 --> 00:02:43,927 Now, your turn. 60 00:02:43,927 --> 00:02:45,081 Pause the video. 61 00:02:45,081 --> 00:02:47,196 Section forty-five says: 62 00:02:47,712 --> 00:02:52,770 يا أقرَبَ مِن كُلِّ قَريبٍ، يا أحَبَّ مِن كُلِّ حَبيبٍ 63 00:02:53,172 --> 00:02:54,804 'Nearer than every near one. 64 00:02:54,804 --> 00:02:56,847 More loved than every loved one.' 65 00:02:56,847 --> 00:02:57,821 Where does it go? 66 00:02:57,821 --> 00:02:59,239 Beyond everything? 67 00:02:59,239 --> 00:03:00,261 Over everything? 68 00:03:00,261 --> 00:03:01,210 Close to me? 69 00:03:01,210 --> 00:03:05,153 Actually make a decision, and have a reason, before you keep watching. 70 00:03:06,444 --> 00:03:07,139 Okay. 71 00:03:07,139 --> 00:03:09,146 Here's the part most people get wrong. 72 00:03:09,146 --> 00:03:14,615 If you said 'beyond', you're right: it's a comparison, nearer than every near one. 73 00:03:14,615 --> 00:03:19,062 If you said 'close', you're also right: it's about nearness and love. 74 00:03:19,062 --> 00:03:19,987 It's both. 75 00:03:19,987 --> 00:03:21,826 Don't force it into one box. 76 00:03:21,826 --> 00:03:24,266 Put it between them, and link it to both. 77 00:03:24,266 --> 00:03:29,206 Same with eighty-two: 'Near in His highness, high in His nearness.' 78 00:03:29,206 --> 00:03:32,475 When something doesn't fit, that's not a problem with your map. 79 00:03:32,475 --> 00:03:33,545 That's an insight. 80 00:03:33,545 --> 00:03:36,081 You've found the place where two ideas meet. 81 00:03:37,380 --> 00:03:39,012 Last, draw the echoes. 82 00:03:39,012 --> 00:03:44,385 Thirty-three and forty-five: 'greater than every', and 'nearer than every'. 83 00:03:44,385 --> 00:03:50,455 Twenty-eight and fifty-nine: 'support of the one with no support', and 'friend of the one with no friend'. 84 00:03:50,455 --> 00:03:54,517 Use a different kind of line, so echoes look different from your main branches. 85 00:03:55,814 --> 00:03:57,050 And that's version one. 86 00:03:57,050 --> 00:03:59,465 It's not complete, and it shouldn't be. 87 00:03:59,465 --> 00:04:01,376 You add sections as you meet them. 88 00:04:01,376 --> 00:04:04,393 The map grows as your understanding grows. 89 00:04:05,714 --> 00:04:07,106 One more placing tip. 90 00:04:07,106 --> 00:04:10,447 In the last video, we sorted sections by how they open. 91 00:04:10,447 --> 00:04:15,375 Here are three sections that all open the same way: 'Ya man', 'O He who'. 92 00:04:15,375 --> 00:04:17,286 He sees, and is not seen. 93 00:04:17,286 --> 00:04:19,041 He turns night and day. 94 00:04:19,041 --> 00:04:21,156 He created me and shaped me. 95 00:04:21,156 --> 00:04:23,813 Pause, and place each one on a lens. 96 00:04:23,813 --> 00:04:26,637 Same family, so same lens, right? 97 00:04:27,948 --> 00:04:28,847 Not quite. 98 00:04:28,847 --> 00:04:32,765 Section fifty: 'He sees, and is not seen.' 99 00:04:32,765 --> 00:04:34,460 That's beyond everything. 100 00:04:35,782 --> 00:04:39,301 Section sixty-two: 'He turns night and day.' 101 00:04:39,301 --> 00:04:40,683 That's over everything. 102 00:04:41,998 --> 00:04:46,262 Section sixty-six: 'He created me and shaped me.' 103 00:04:46,262 --> 00:04:47,356 That's close to me. 104 00:04:47,356 --> 00:04:48,738 Same opening words. 105 00:04:48,738 --> 00:04:50,217 Three different lenses. 106 00:04:50,217 --> 00:04:52,260 The opening helps you find a section. 107 00:04:52,260 --> 00:04:54,339 The meaning tells you where it lives. 108 00:04:55,665 --> 00:05:01,408 Now, you might be thinking: this is great for meaning, but when I recite, I need the order. 109 00:05:01,408 --> 00:05:03,090 And the map doesn't show order. 110 00:05:03,090 --> 00:05:03,800 Right. 111 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,360 So we add a second view: the order strip. 112 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:12,790 Across the bottom of your page, draw all one hundred sections as a line, and mark the twenty-five anchors. 113 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:15,891 Each gap between anchors is a block of about four. 114 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:19,540 And here's why the section numbers on your leaves matter. 115 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:21,752 'My hard times' is section eleven. 116 00:05:21,752 --> 00:05:24,925 So you can jump from the map straight to its place on the strip. 117 00:05:26,233 --> 00:05:27,300 Map for meaning. 118 00:05:27,300 --> 00:05:28,466 Strip for order. 119 00:05:28,466 --> 00:05:31,964 Two views of the same du'a, linked by the numbers. 120 00:05:33,267 --> 00:05:35,861 Then turn each block into a tiny story. 121 00:05:35,861 --> 00:05:37,483 Take block nine to twelve. 122 00:05:37,483 --> 00:05:40,512 Nine is the anchor, the rhyming names. 123 00:05:40,512 --> 00:05:42,988 Mani', Dafi', Rafi'. 124 00:05:44,283 --> 00:05:46,468 Ten: 'Maker of everything made. 125 00:05:46,468 --> 00:05:48,932 Creator of everything created.' 126 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:53,156 Eleven: 'My provision in my hard times. 127 00:05:53,156 --> 00:05:54,731 My guide when I'm lost.' 128 00:05:56,050 --> 00:05:56,853 Twelve: 129 00:05:58,322 --> 00:06:04,454 يا مُقَلِّبَ القُلوبِ، يا طَبيبَ القُلوبِ، يا مُنَوِّرَ القُلوبِ 130 00:06:04,862 --> 00:06:06,013 'Turner of hearts. 131 00:06:06,013 --> 00:06:07,287 Healer of hearts. 132 00:06:07,287 --> 00:06:08,285 Light of hearts.' 133 00:06:09,566 --> 00:06:11,054 Now look at the movement. 134 00:06:11,054 --> 00:06:11,955 Everything. 135 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:12,725 Then me. 136 00:06:12,725 --> 00:06:13,746 Then my heart. 137 00:06:13,746 --> 00:06:14,900 It zooms in. 138 00:06:14,900 --> 00:06:17,905 Once you see that, the order isn't random anymore. 139 00:06:17,905 --> 00:06:19,491 It's a story you can follow. 140 00:06:19,491 --> 00:06:25,128 Do this for each block, and write the story in two or three words next to it on the strip. 141 00:06:26,438 --> 00:06:27,229 Your turn. 142 00:06:27,229 --> 00:06:31,628 Pause the video, open the text, and look at block thirteen to sixteen. 143 00:06:31,628 --> 00:06:32,746 What's the movement? 144 00:06:32,746 --> 00:06:33,815 What's the story? 145 00:06:33,815 --> 00:06:35,738 It doesn't have to be the 'right' story. 146 00:06:35,738 --> 00:06:40,402 It has to be your story, and you have to be able to say why it fits. 147 00:06:40,402 --> 00:06:41,688 That's what makes it yours. 148 00:06:42,974 --> 00:06:44,402 Now, the most important part. 149 00:06:44,402 --> 00:06:46,890 A map you only look at is just a nice picture. 150 00:06:46,890 --> 00:06:48,777 You have to use it to test yourself. 151 00:06:48,777 --> 00:06:50,424 One: point and say. 152 00:06:50,424 --> 00:06:54,558 Cover the text, point at a leaf, and try to say that section. 153 00:06:55,874 --> 00:06:57,074 Two: walk the strip. 154 00:06:57,074 --> 00:07:01,100 Pick a block, say its story, then recite the block from memory. 155 00:07:02,408 --> 00:07:06,817 Three: when you blank, and you will, don't just reread the text. 156 00:07:06,817 --> 00:07:07,958 Ask why you blanked. 157 00:07:07,958 --> 00:07:09,124 Is the label weak? 158 00:07:09,124 --> 00:07:10,302 Is a link missing? 159 00:07:10,302 --> 00:07:11,829 Is it in the wrong place? 160 00:07:11,829 --> 00:07:13,115 Then fix the map. 161 00:07:14,408 --> 00:07:15,319 That's the loop. 162 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:17,927 Test, find the gap, fix the map. 163 00:07:17,927 --> 00:07:19,983 The gaps are where the learning happens. 164 00:07:21,308 --> 00:07:26,390 And every week or so, take a blank page, and redraw the whole map from memory. 165 00:07:26,390 --> 00:07:27,940 Version one will be messy. 166 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:31,318 Gaps, things crossed out, arrows everywhere. 167 00:07:31,318 --> 00:07:32,267 That's fine. 168 00:07:33,575 --> 00:07:36,842 Version two has fewer gaps and better labels. 169 00:07:38,175 --> 00:07:40,132 By version three, it's clean. 170 00:07:40,132 --> 00:07:44,302 And more importantly, it lives in your head, not on the paper. 171 00:07:44,302 --> 00:07:45,564 That's the real goal. 172 00:07:46,875 --> 00:07:48,423 The key is the order. 173 00:07:48,423 --> 00:07:49,962 Draw from memory first. 174 00:07:49,962 --> 00:07:52,365 Only then look at your old map and compare. 175 00:07:52,365 --> 00:07:54,913 If you look first, you're just copying again. 176 00:07:56,211 --> 00:07:57,699 Quick list of mistakes. 177 00:07:57,699 --> 00:07:59,634 One: too many words. 178 00:07:59,634 --> 00:08:02,819 If your map is full of sentences, it's just a list again. 179 00:08:04,145 --> 00:08:06,342 Two: everything at one level. 180 00:08:06,342 --> 00:08:11,150 If there's no center and no branches, you haven't decided what matters most. 181 00:08:12,449 --> 00:08:14,526 Three: no cross-links. 182 00:08:14,526 --> 00:08:17,699 The bridges and the echoes are honestly the best part. 183 00:08:17,699 --> 00:08:19,634 That's where the deep connections are. 184 00:08:20,949 --> 00:08:24,264 And four: making it pretty instead of thinking. 185 00:08:24,264 --> 00:08:25,382 Colors are fine. 186 00:08:25,382 --> 00:08:27,028 But the decisions are what count. 187 00:08:28,349 --> 00:08:29,368 So, recap. 188 00:08:29,368 --> 00:08:35,907 Build: the ask in the center, three lenses, leaves placed by meaning, then bridges and echoes. 189 00:08:37,216 --> 00:08:44,004 Add order: a strip of all one hundred, with the twenty-five anchors, and a tiny story for each block. 190 00:08:45,316 --> 00:08:49,040 Test: point and say, walk the strip, and fix the gaps. 191 00:08:50,356 --> 00:08:54,416 Rebuild: a blank page, from memory, about once a week. 192 00:08:55,732 --> 00:08:57,665 Go build version one this week. 193 00:08:57,665 --> 00:08:58,794 It will be messy. 194 00:08:58,794 --> 00:09:00,153 That's exactly right. 195 00:09:00,153 --> 00:09:01,703 The mess is you thinking.