I'm going to go ahead and get started. Welcome. This is case study session on the Martin Luther King Junior Center. It's about preserving history for future generations. My name is George Domet. I'm the founder and CEO of Palantir.net, Drupal Design Development and Strategy firm based in Chicago. So let me, before we kind of get into things, let me kind of get a show of hands. How many folks here are American? Two, OK. So the rest of you, right. And I don't actually have a really good sense. I mean, Martin Luther King Junior is a very well known figure in the United States. But I don't have a really good sense of how well known he is outside the United States. So go ahead and raise your hand if you think you have a pretty good knowledge of who Dr. King is and what his accomplishments were, apart from what's on my side. OK, pretty good. Excellent. So yeah, so Dr. Martin Luther King, of course, famous civil rights leader in the United States, helped put an end to segregation in the United States between African-Americans and whites. Nobel Prize winner, advocate for social justice, assassinated in 1968. In America, what most people in America kind of know these sort of very basic facts about him. But what they don't have as much a good a sense of is really what the core ideals and fundamentals of Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence were. In Dr. King's birthday is a national holiday in the United States. And it's also considered a day of service. But in terms of the educational curriculum at schools in the United States, it very often tends to be a very, very brief focus on the civil rights movement. And folks don't really have a chance to get in depth into a very full understanding of who Dr. King was and what he stood for beyond ending segregation and promoting civil rights. So some of the folks who are responsible for helping change that are the King's Center. The King's Center was founded by Coretta Scott King in 1969 after Dr. King was assassinated. It's located actually in Atlanta, in the South, in Dr. King's childhood neighborhood. The entire neighborhood has been sort of preserved as it was during his childhood in the 1930s and 40s as a national park. So when you go to visit the King's Center and Dr. King's neighborhood, which includes the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which was a major center of the civil rights movement in the South at that time, it's all been preserved the way it was when Dr. King was growing up with the kind of classic houses. Dr. King's childhood home is in that neighborhood. You can actually tour it. In addition to the King's Center Memorial, which is where our client in this case was located and where Dr. King's final resting spot is, his tomb in this reflecting pool here, there's also an exhibit, a large visitor center that's run by the park service across the street that goes into additional information detail about the civil rights movement, about Dr. King, with lots of really great exhibits. In the King's Center itself, there's material honoring both Dr. King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Rosa Parks, who is another major figure in the US civil rights movement. And what folks don't know about it is that it's also the largest repository of primary source material on the civil rights movement anywhere in the world. And it's actually located on the top floor of this building. You can barely see over here to the left. And it is literally millions and millions of documents, everything relating to letters that Dr. King received, personal papers, papers relating to the various organizations that he was involved in and that the civil rights movement was involved in. And they were just there, sitting in the top floor of this building in folders. No one was really taking particular care to preserve them. And that's a big part of what this project was about. The other important thing to know about the King's Center, which is run by Dr. King's children, family, and some other folks who are from the civil rights movement, is that they are an organization that's dedicated to spreading knowledge about Dr. King's philosophy around the world. So this project that we were involved in, the Imaging Project and Digital Archive, was coordinated by J.P. Morgan Chase. J.P. Morgan Chase, a large American bank and financial institution, has a division called Technology for Social Good. Technology for Social Good is essentially responsible for they find a deserving nonprofit organization and they kind of bring to bear the full weight of J.P. Morgan Chase's technology consulting expertise. They help fund these projects. This is a lot of really high profile and really well coordinated effort with the full weight and backing of one of the largest financial companies in the United States. So the goal of this project was, as I said before, there were all of these documents located in the top floor of the King's Center building that were just sitting there on shelves and folders. So to really preserve them, preserve them, archive them, and ensure that they would be around for future generations and also to make them available online. Prior to this, the only way you could get access to these documents was if you were an academic researcher who had gotten kind of special permission to go in and see them. And even if you had permission to enter the archive, you're essentially in a very large room with tons and tons of shelves. They're not very well labeled. You really don't know where to even find what it is that you're looking for. So we were actually brought into the project by CNG Partners. CNG Partners was firm responsible for the graphic design on this project. We're, of course, Palantir.net. We were responsible for the website development. CNG Partners was doing the design. As I said before, J.P. Morgan Jays Technology for Social Good was kind of the overall client responsible for coordinating all these folks in collaboration with the King family. So when we started the project, the primary contact was Martin Luther King III, who's Dr. King's oldest son. Other folks who were involved, MicroStrategies was responsible for the Alfresco system that was basically organized, cataloged, all of the information from the digital archive as well as all the metadata. Imaging, et cetera is the organization that was responsible for doing the actual digital imaging of the documents. And then we had our other technology partners, AT&T, EMC, who provided cloud hosting for the documents in the archive, and Acquia who also provides hosting and support for the Drupal site. So to give you kind of a really good visual sense of what it was that this project involved, this is the base that was kind of set up right outside the King Center Archives. These are a group of students and volunteers from Morehouse and Spellman, which are the traditionally historically African-American colleges near Atlanta and also the alma mater of Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King. And they had this entire just huge massive operation that was all centered around pulling the documents out of the archives, going through them, ensuring that they were cataloged and organized in a way that would make them findable again in the future, that the documents, the physical documents themselves were being preserved with, you know, acid-free paper and archival material, that the documents were being scanned, that the metadata was being applied. So there were actually, these documents were being reviewed by groups of King scholars, historians and other researchers who would look at these documents, kind of figure out what they were about, provide abstract as well as key words to ensure that folks would be able to know what they were and find them. So this is kind of the operation they had set up. This is an actual digital imaging station they had and this was custom created by the folks at Imaging, et cetera. And it was really informed by a lot of work that had been done with actually the Kennedy Library, which had kind of, a few years earlier, it had a lot of similar needs around this sort of preserving massive amounts of documents. So this is an imaging station, the document would be light down. Here on this table in the center, you'd have the camera above that would take the image of the photo and then it would go into various programs and other stations for processing and archiving. So overall project goals, this was to help the King Center better connect with a new generation and improve awareness of Dr. King's philosophy. The King Center is an organization that hasn't gotten a lot of attention. It's a very well-respected organization because of the involvement of Dr. King's family and it really are the bearers of his legacy, but they're not a hugely funded organization. They're a small organization and they have traditionally had very limited resources for reaching out to the wider public. Of course, to provide access to all of these documents that the public has never seen before and we'll kind of talk a little bit about what they are. And because our assignment was to launch this site on Dr. Martin Luther King Day to be able to withstand the massive amount of traffic that we were anticipating with a very highly publicized launch. So to step back a little bit and give you a little bit of the history, this was about in August of last year, late July actually. I got a call from folks at CNG Partners and they wanted to chat with me about this project. And so I took the call and when they said what it was, they said, are you interested?  And then we started talking about the timeline and realizing that this was an incredibly ambitious project that had to be put together in a very short amount of time with a lot of different players, all those different partners, a lot of different moving pieces. But we knew that this was a project that was important enough that we were gonna do what we needed to do to make it work. So this is kind of the technology stack that went into it. Obviously Drupal was used for the website. Al fresco was the system that was used to store all of the digital assets. Atmos was the cloud platform provided by AT&T and EMC that serves all of the images to the website. jQuery and SAS of course were our kind of front end technologies. So the sex part of me get a little bit technical, not terribly technical, because quite honestly, I'm a business guy. I don't fully understand how all of the technology works. But I had a few conversations with Arthur Falschenbeck White, who were two of the engineers. Arthur was actually the technical lead on this project. And so I think they've given me just enough information to be dangerous. So if I mangle anything, apologies. So the archive, the image, after we go through that whole process where all the images are scanned and digitized and all the data is applied and everything, those are managed in Al fresco. Are you guys pretty much familiar with Al fresco? Who will raise hands? Okay, so Al fresco is another open source content management platform similar to Drupal. Although while Drupal is optimized for web publishing and web application development, Al fresco is really designed around document management, asset management, that sort of use case. And so we knew because we were working with Drupal that we would be able to talk with Al fresco, we weren't responsible for the Al fresco implementation. So we did what we could to make sure that we had a really close connection with that team who was responsible. And I'll cover that in a little bit. So the archive assets, so the actual images themselves that get fed to the website are stored in the cloud using AT&T synaptic storage as a service, which is a platform built on top of EMC Atmos. The website, as I said before, is hosted on Aquias Managed Cloud using the Amazon web services platform. And we built the website in Drupal 7 using, among many other modules, we used Zen for the base theme, and on the front end, which I'll demonstrate, we had some pretty heavy needs for interactive functionalities so that involved CSS3, SAS, Compass, and jQuery. So this is kind of the overview document of how things worked. So we've got, and this is the one that makes my head spin a little bit, but I'll do my best to walk through it. So the end user here gets information that's fed to them both from the Drupal website and images that are fed to them from Atmos. So the images live in Atmos. The rest of the website lives in Drupal. Alfresco feeds images to the Drupal site, which then runs them through a queue, creates derivatives, throws them up to Atmos. We then use the migrate module to pull the non-image, the non-document data, the metadata and whatnot from Alfresco. Once again, run it through Drupal queues, throw it out to the node, then use Drupal to tie these two things together. Might be asking, why don't you have the image content living on the same server as the Drupal site? The reason for that is we had access to this fantastic Atmos Cloud. The AT&T folks were providing a tremendous amount of storage and this was for scalability. The number of documents in the archive is around a million and the number that we wanted to be able to put online totaled at a couple hundred thousand. And so based on our storage requirements, we knew that putting it in the same place as the Drupal server was not going to work. So we kept the Drupal stuff on Drupal, have the images on AT&T, EMC, Atmos, and then, but then we used Drupal to tie them together and serve them to the user. So just kind of digging in a little bit into the way that we pulled the metadata out of Alfresco. In this case, we took the migrate module and we integrated that with Alfresco's CMIS interface. CMIS is the kind of API standard that Alfresco and a few other CMSs uses. It's kind of an open standard. Drupal doesn't actually have a lot of really great support for CMIS. There is a CMIS module, but for this use case and for the very kind of limited amount of stuff that we were doing. And on the advice of the Alfresco team, we decided to kind of minimize use of that as much as possible and really lean heavily on the migrate module to pull stuff in. This was needed to be very robust because as you can see, some documents have over 200 related pages, images, lots of different fields associated with each one. Also enabled us to be able to use Alfresco's authoritative place if we needed to take anything off the website for any reason. If we had a document that went up before it was ready or if there was some information that was wrong, that can be pushed to Drupal from Alfresco. Drupal cues, and this is where we're kind of testing the limits of my technical knowledge here, but this was essentially used for basically generating the images. So we would have the images pulled in and they would start off in their raw form, somewhere between four megabytes and 100 megabytes. They're being scanned at about, I believe, 400 DPI. So they're pretty large in size. Then we use the Drupal cues to create derivatives, both a primary and a secondary derivative. And we pushed those out to the Atmos Cloud for serving to the end user. Yeah, in preparation for launch, we actually had to have 12 virtual machines running to generate the derivatives. We launched with somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 documents in the archive. So, and that all happened in the kind of final two weeks before launch. So we just kind of threw a whole bunch of processing power at it. So the Atmos file storage, we created a custom stream wrapper that connected, again from Drupal to Atmos services. We tracked the Atmos IDs and then translated that to match the information we have already in Drupal from the information we've pulled in from Alfresco via Migrate. And we had to be very careful about how we set this up, especially during development to make sure that while we wanted our production environment to be able to remove images if necessary, we didn't want the staging and development environments to be able to do so. So I'm gonna switch gears a little bit and talk kind of about the process and collaboration, how we made this work with all these different players, all these different technologies of play. Everything was in a state of very rapid development. And as I said, we came on at the end of July. We had our kickoff meeting at the beginning of August at the King Center. We actually were not able to begin production in earnest until November. Martin Luther King Day is actually the third week of January. So we had a very, very limited amount of time to make all of this work for a very, very ambitious project. So having really good project management and coordination was absolutely vital to the success of this project. At Palantir, we use the red mine ticketing system to manage our projects and tickets. What we do with red mine is we actually have, we expose those tickets, not just internally but also to our client. So the client is able to review tickets to see the progress that's going on, is able to comment, is able to create new tickets as needed. We also shared some of those with some of the other partners working on the project. We had regular scheduled check-ins between our technical team and the different partners, particularly the folks at Micro Strategies, the Al fresco team and the folks at CNG who were doing the design. Those were kind of regularly scheduled progress updates, very kind of simple, you know, identifying what blockers were, how progress was going. For both Micro Strategies and CNG Partners, as well as the folks involved in the overall project management at JP Morgan Chase, we had kind of, as well as the folks at Acquia, closer to launch, we had kind of a back channel hotlines going. So if we're working, for example, on something related to the Al fresco CMIS integration and we're running into a blocker and we need some question answered, we were able to pick up the phone, call someone over at Micro Strategies and get an answer right away so that didn't block our effort. You know, similarly, if one of the folks from JP Morgan Chase wants to know what's going on, how we're doing, get a check in, in addition to the regular scheduled calls, they can also contact us directly. We also set up, and this is really important, I think, for anyone who's working on a project like this, where you've got these sort of challenges, we had weekly executive calls. And these were calls between me at Palantir, between our lead project manager at JP Morgan Chase and between one of the principals at CNG Partners. And this was a checking call, particularly as we got toward the kind of second half, the later stages of the project, where we would be able to deal with issues that had basically bubbled up or escalated and hadn't been dealt with through the regular check in process so that then we were able to go back to our teams and say, you know what, we really need to take care of this issue because this one is really important. And to identify the sorts of things that were necessary for launch. So my next few slides are actually some screenshots of the site, but I'm gonna do something that's a little bit dangerous and I'm actually gonna try to show you the pages on the live site, which I try to never do in a presentation, but I think it'll give you a little bit of a better experience, a better understanding of what this site was like. And if it doesn't work out for any reason, I still have my pretty slides. So let me find. Oh, there we are. Excellent. So this is the homepage of the King Center site. We've got a few sort of rotating homepage features. Talk about sort of different major key stories. I find my mouse here. There we are. I think it'd be helpful if we kind of jumped right into the archive. This is a section of the archive on intersecting movements, the way that Dr. King worked with and coordinated with a wide variety of different groups who were all kind of attacking the problems from the issues faced by the civil rights movement from different perspectives. And so you have a lot of different information on here. So the basic view in the archive, the default view is this sort of tile view. This is all kind of randomly generated. You can see when you scroll over, you get some information about each of the items in the archive. So maybe we'll just go to this one. So this is, oh yeah, if we scroll down, we actually load some more. So this is kind of an endless scroll. Very cool fact. This is all done with jQuery. I'm gonna just pull up this particular item right here. Again, this is all using jQuery. There's not a single bit of flash used on this site. That was really important. We have tried it out on an iPad. It seems to work pretty well, even though that wasn't one of the platforms that we were testing for. You can get a kind of a sense here. You can obviously view the document, move it around. Zoom in and view it up close. So I think we're kind of loading in the higher resolution version there. View the abstract for the document that just in a very brief couple sentences tells what it's about. And view, some of these have, this particular document doesn't, many of the documents have actually transcribed versions, particularly for Dr. King's handwritten speeches. And then we also have all sorts of the different genre topics and other kind of metadata associated with it so that you can find related information. What's also really cool about this, and I will talk about this a little more in relation to launch, are these social media sharing tools, enabling folks to use Twitter or Facebook or other social media to actually link to a specific document and tell their friends about it. And this was something that was really, really cool to watch on launch day. Again, kind of going back to one of our major goals, which was to increase public awareness of Dr. King's work to provide more than just that kind of very shallow, brief overview that they might have already and to really kind of dig into who this man was, what he did and what he was talking about. There are some amazing, amazing items in these archives. In addition to some of the highlights, I know we have a handwritten version of his Nobel Prize speech. We have an early draft of the March on Washington speech, the I Have a Dream speech that doesn't have I Have a Dream in it yet. We have one of my favorite, favorite things.  These are, these note cards. So these note cards are actually little handwritten index cards that Dr. King had. And these are just little ideas. And he would write these down and there's dozens of these. And he would just write down different ideas or thoughts or concepts that he wanted to think about and to have at his disposal. And he would use these when he was putting together speeches and writings. And these are all handwritten by him. These are just sort of amazing things for folks to have access to. And it really demonstrates the depth of his thinking, not just about civil rights, but about matters of spirituality, non-violent philosophy, non-violence philosophy, ways to bring together what he called the beloved community as well as his major principles. So jumping back to these slides here. Yeah, this is actually right. This is the draft of the Nobel Prize speech. Just one of the really great highlights you can see where he's crossed out things and changed his words. It's really, really cool. And you can kind of get lost in this. One thing I forgot to mention, you saw that tile view at the beginning. For folks who are maybe looking for a particular document, we also have really great search tools. And there's also a more standard kind of list view where you can browse content and actually see the information without hovering over it. But the idea behind the tiles is really to give folks kind of a sense of discovery as they're going through the archive. So launch. We had no idea how much traffic this site would get. What we did know was that there was a lot of publicity planned for it. And we had essentially the entire weight of J.P. Morgan Chase's marketing and PR department behind promoting this launch. So we decided to be prepared and we worked with the folks at Aqua as well as the folks at Swasta who specialize in cloud hosting. We ran pre-launch performance testing. We ran a couple different rounds of it. Tweaking every time as we go. We made a few tweaks to the site. Made a lot of tweaks to the server configuration to make sure that we could hit our numbers. And we actually ended up successfully testing 25,000 simultaneous simulated users. And so the kind of metric here is basically what if 25,000 people like all clicked at once on a page on the site. We wanted to be sure that we could handle that kind of traffic. As it turns out on launch day we were covered BBC News, USA Today. ABC News was actually mentioned on the evening news. CNN had both a broadcast story on CNN Headline News, also on their website. A whole bunch of different international media outlets talking about it. Chase.com was promoting the site on their homepage. They had a special promotion at Madison Square Garden at the Knicks games that were going on that week. It was in addition to a exhibit booth which you'll see in a minute. They also had a, on the Jumbo Tron they were also promoting it. So, you know, so everyone in theory could have tried to pull out their phones and try to access the site at once. So that was something we were looking out for. And of course on 16,000 Chase ATMs, ATMs, the cash machines or Germany, Geltautomat. And so they were promoting those on those homepage screens. So we ended up actually serving only about 175,000 unique visitors on launch day which was a few orders of magnitude below the amount of traffic that we could accommodate. So everything went very smoothly. Everyone was very happy with the launch. And because we were hosted in the cloud we were actually able to, you know, after we had done this massive scaling up to get ready for launch day we were actually able to very quickly and easily scale the servers back down so that we could handle, you know, the more kind of everyday amounts of traffic after launch was over. So yeah, this is actually the screen from my local bank back home. This is the message that was on the ATM screen. So that was launched, that was in January. We took a few weeks off, we all caught our breaths and then we started on phase two. And phase two, which is actually I believe in its final throws of development right now and should be launching very soon, is share your dream. So share your dream and this goes back to a larger part of the promotion around this effort was about getting people to engage with Dr. King's ideas and to engage with the archive and to really put themselves out there by writing down their dreams and sharing them. So share your dream will allow folks to submit and share their dreams online. We also have, as we'll see, a ton of dreams that have already been collected that are going to be shared online at launch. And this, like I said, ties into the larger initiative to encourage engagement and to help provide folks with a deeper understanding of Dr. King's philosophy. So this is an exhibit booth. This was created by the folks at Sanji Partners and a lot of the branding and design and everything really derives from the work that they did for this booth. They had one of these at Madison Square Garden in New York City before launch. They had one of these set up in Washington, D.C. for the unveiling of the dedication of the Dr. King Memorial, which went up last August. And when you go into the booth, you'll see there's this kind of dream wall in the background. And the dream wall is where they've kind of physically put up all of these notes with all of these dreams that people have written down as they've walked into the booth and shared them. And this is one of our volunteers here who's manning the booth. You can see she's got all this paper and notes where you can write down.  You can write down your dream. And then what's really cool is, so they take the dream and they actually have like a little simulated digital archiving scanning camera right there in the booth. And so they take the digital image of the booth. And so if you remember, we took a look at, that was the one that was actually located in the King Center archives themselves. This is just a kind of a little mini version of that. So it obviously is not capturing things that archival quality, but what it is is capturing them at a resolution that we can use on the web. And so these are the actual designs created by CNG partners for the Share Your Dream feature. So we have these note cards. And the idea is that we want folks to be able to take a look at dreams and explore them by keyword and by geographic region. So you can kind of see, if your dream is about love, you can click on love and you can kind of see all the different places and dreams that people have had about love and where they come from. We also have, yeah, so this is actually a close up of one of the dreams. You can see where using kind of tag clouds, where folks in this region are dreaming about the different ideas that are expressed in here from the transcription that's taken, as well as kind of the larger geographical map. So this is where folks in the United States are dreaming about happiness. And so that is, of course, it's simulated. This is all from the design comps, but when we launch, we're gonna use that information that's been taken from this booth that's been touring around, as well as allow people to add their own information online to this feature. So that's the material I have, and so if folks have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them. I also have a few links to some resources, obviously, kingcenter.org, the case study page on Palantir.net where we talk about the project. Follow Palantir on Twitter, follow me on Twitter if you want. I usually tweet about non-drupal things, but it's if you want to. And then, of course, make sure you rate the session and evaluate it. I'm actually gonna be talking about this project at a few other events this fall, and so it would really help for me to understand kind of what I hit well if I talked about some of the things you wanted to hear about, if there were things about the project that I didn't talk about that you wanted to hear about. And, of course, let me know if you have questions, raise your hand. There is how many developers who are working on the project, and how you manage that in the U.S. a notoriously difficult time between November and June holidays? Yes. So can you go to one of my things? No, well, so we actually, we close at Palantir between Christmas and New Year, and what we did is we actually timed that along with the client QA period. So while all of our folks got that break, then that was the period during which the folks on the client side were reviewing and submitting QA tickets. We came back at the beginning of January. We had basically a week and a half to address the QA. We did not, we had a team on the Palantir side. I think there were probably around half a dozen of us working on the project simultaneously. I don't have the exact figures that kind of feels like that, just based on my recollection. We definitely had folks who put in long hours on this, but we also have really, we had a really great project manager on the project, and she was really, really good about making sure as we went through. And of course, the scope of the project did change. When we got started, it was this Share Your Dream functionality was originally gonna be part of the original launch scope. And we had to cut back a few times in order to reach that kind of minimum, viable experience for launch. And so we were just really, really careful about that. We monitored our burn rates and resourcing and the scope very carefully. Again, that was that really direct coordination, particularly with the folks at JP Morgan to make sure that we were managing expectations properly and that we weren't gonna get into a position where someone was gonna get in over their head. So that's, yeah, I mean, we definitely had folks who put in long hours on it, but I think we were, by and large, able to kind of preserve people's Thanksgiving and Christmas pretty well. Other questions? Well, thank you all very much.


the path of mastery, this great constrictor of people's opinions to my potential and other people's potential. I'm not immune to it. I am better at it than I've ever been, because I work at it, I train it. But when I was young, this was a real thing for me. And when I was 15 and a half, or 16, I should say, I just got my driver's license. I saved up for a couple summers to get a car. And I remember I was driving and there was a car passing me. And this was like week one or two of having my driver's license. They were passing me going in the same direction. And I sat up, I grabbed the steering wheel with a cool kid lean, and I just wanted to look cool.  They had no interest in what was happening in my world in my car. And in that moment, as a 16-year-old kid, I thought, what am I doing? And I was embarrassed by it. There was no one else in my car, but I was embarrassed by myself, like I'm just trying to look cool. I'm like a phony. And it stuck with me. And I didn't know how to change it. I didn't know how to shift it. And it just kind of was quiet, but I knew it was underneath there. And I knew it got in the way of me potentially going pro and surfing. And I knew it got in the way of a lot of things. And then sure enough, here I am working with the best in the world. My mentor says to me there was a, we're walking, it was an MMA fight. And it was early, it was like, I don't know, MMA 43 or something like that. And the fighter asked me, he says, hey, will you be at the fight with me? I was like, yeah. He says, will you corner the fight with me? I was like, oh my, yeah, okay. That sounds cool. Let's have a game plan. So we worked out a game plan. We did a lot of work to prepare for that. And we rehearsed everything on how I was gonna support him while he was in a cage. Except we didn't rehearse where I was supposed to walk when he went into the cage. So I just followed the head coach and he didn't know where he was gonna walk either. And so we just kind of had to make our way to the spot. And so there I am kind of in front of the camera. We're all kind of in front of the camera walking on the outside of the cage as the fighters walking into the cage. My mentor calls me afterwards, the fighter did a really nice job. And my mentor called me on the way home as I was driving. And he's like, congrats. Like that looked pretty amazing. He says, why don't you stay out of the camera though, dude? And I was like, oh my God. I thought you're gonna say like, congratulations is cool. I know how much you love the MMA game, blah, blah, blah.  And he's like, stay out of the camera. That's not where you're supposed to be. And I was like, oh man, I did something. I did something wrong here. Like I was not a good custodian of this beautiful science. And I let him down. I let like other, I don't know. And it just stayed with me for better part of a decade. And I never confronted him. I was again embarrassed by it and I never, I didn't know what to do with it. Coming to find out, he didn't really, it was just kind of a little comment. It was a monster that I grew. And it was because I was afraid of what he was gonna say to me. And I was afraid of what would happen because like I liked the moment where I walked on and like it was caught that I was part of something. I liked it, but we weren't supposed to do that. We're supposed to be behind the scenes. But I liked being part of something electric and fun. And I know that I was supposed to just be behind the scenes. And I wasn't, to be clear, I wasn't trying to hog the spotlight or anything, but so it was really kind of confusing for me as an early professional in my career. And coming to find out, he really, it just wasn't a big deal to him as it was for me, but I made it a big deal. So I got scar tissue, I got stuff that I've worked through as well. And I'll tell you, it is much better on the other side of doing this work. I'm thankful that I've got people in my life that hold me to task. And I hope that everybody has that in their life. And if they don't, you can pay somebody. In some respects, that's what psychologists do.  It's okay, honey, oh, okay, it's not that. It's like, oh, is this the person you wanna be? No? All right, well, let's go to work. Yeah, for those in our audience who feel in that solitude, like they're strengthening their frame and their resolve and they're working towards mastery, those opinions on their own, especially without a supportive community who can help you unpack it and see the opinion for what it is and assess it truly to recognize. And then you had the opportunity, I'm assuming, based on that story to share with your mentor and frame to say, listen, it was just an off-the-cuff statement. I wasn't holding you to that and certainly wanting to feed that monster for you. But oftentimes, if all we do is tuck that in, we avoid community, we avoid working in the professional, we avoid actually understanding the opinion, the impact it's having on ourselves. It can steer us away from the performance that we want and it can take us off track from even finding our passion or purpose.


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أو لا تعتقدون أنهم ستكون مباشرون ليوم العظيم so العظيم اللهم سبحانه وتعالى is great described this day as العظيم يوم العظيم this day is great so the most greatest described this day as a great day ليوم العظيم what is this day he said يوم يقوم الناس للرب العالمين the day when the people they will stand for arabb العالمين the lord of the creations this that this is what اللهم سبحانه وتعالى described this day and your feet are not going to move on that day until you answer these four questions أنت تعرف أن الضوء ستأتي بأميل يقولوا أنه حديث أميل الضوء ستأتي بأميل في ذلك اليوم where the people الله سبحانه وتعالى يتكلم يقول يوم ترى الناس السكارة وماهم بالسكارة you're going to see the people as if they're drunk وماهم بالسكارة they're not really drunk ولكن عذاب الله شديد but the punishment of الله سبحانه وتعالى الشديد السفير this is the day that we're talking about your feet are not going to move until you answer these four questions that the sun is going to be that close and in the Hadith of Al-Bukhari the Prophet ﷺ describes this and he said that the people will be waiting for الله سبحانه وتعالى in that heat for الله سبحانه وتعالى to make his judgment between the creation so before the day of judgment the actual judgment starts they were going to be waiting for الله سبحانه وتعالى to come then the Prophet ﷺ will go and give his شفاع the intercession in front of Allah so الله سبحانه وتعالى can come and decide and rule between the slaves rule between us so this is something that is something big that you're not going to move until you answer these questions on that hard state where some people are going to be drowning in their sins and people are going to be burning under the sun and some people are not going to have any shade those people who don't have any shade they're not going to have any shade on that day and there is no shade on that day except for the shade that الله سبحانه وتعالى gives this is the day that we're talking about that your feet are not going to move so don't think that when we say that your feet are not going to move is something small the fact that your feet are not going to move means you're not moving from your place until you answer these questions in front of الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى says in the Qur'an we're going to ask those people who were sent to meaning us everyone they are going to be asked and not just us we're going to be asked also the messengers we're definitely going to ask these messengers as well the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and all of the messengers before him are going to be asked on that day the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is going to be asked so this is not something that is small الله says in another ayah in the Qur'an I swear by your Lord we're going to ask all of them every single one of them لنا سألناهم أجمعين all of them عما كانوا يعملون on what? what are they going to be asked? what did they used to do? these are the things that so this question and their judgment is a real responsibility that what you used to do in this life is something that you're going to be questioned about every single thing everything that you do is going to be questioned about that's why the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said that there's no going to be any one of you none none of you إلا except that he's going to have a private الله سبحانه وتعالى is going to ask him privately one on one ليس بينه وبينه ترجمان there's no going to be any translator between you and الله سبحانه وتعالى on that day and then the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم described that and he said he looks in front of them فلا يرا إلا ما قدم he looks in front of him and he doesn't see anything except for what he put forth with his own hands meaning his actions you're not going to see anything except for that so this is the the point that I'm trying to make at the beginning of this lecture is that this is a real responsibility the responsibility that is upon you is going to be asked upon the Day of Judgement just like the حديث that الشخب درحمان spoke about كلكم راعن وكلكم مسؤولنا الرعيتي every single one of you are shepherds and every single one of you are going to be asked about that this is the مسؤولية the responsibility that we need to have in our heart that you know that I'm going to be asked about one, two, three for all of these things you're going to be asked about it so the smart person is you the smart person is the one who knows before the exam comes he knows the questions so he prepares for the answers Allah gave us the questions that you're going to ask I'm going to tell you the four questions Insha'Allah Allah tells us the questions that you're going to be asked so who's going to be stupid enough to come to an exam where the questions and the answers were given to him and he still fails the exam this is where you need to understand this is the responsibility that you have on this day on that day so the first thing الله سبحانه وتعالى the Prophet ﷺ he said in the حديث that was narrated by Tillmidi and he said it's حديث ونحسن ونصحيح that the Prophet ﷺ يسد لا تزولوا قدمة العبدي يوم القيامة that the two feet of the slave on the day of judgment will not move حتى يسأل الله العربع until he's asked about four things and some say five and you're going to see why because one of the things can be counted as two so the first thing he says أن عمره فيما أفناء the first thing that you're going to be asked about is your life your life and how you spent it your life and how you spent it and the علماء when they speak about this they say that the or the Prophet ﷺ is talking about is what you've done for your whole life from the beginning to the end you're going to be asked what did you spend your life doing الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us about the reason why we were created الله says وما خلقتوا الجن والإنسى إلا ليعبدون that we did not create the jinn and the humans إلا ليعبدون except to to worship me so this is what you're going to be asked about what did you do on that day the day of judgment what did you do I mean what did you do in that in the dunya of your life that's the first thing the Prophet ﷺ speaks about the people who were in the Hellfire and he said about them he asked him a question and he says أولم نعمركم ما يتذكروا فيه من تذكر واجاءكم النذير فذوقوا فما للظالمين من نصير the people who were in the Hellfire الله سبحانه وتعالى is going to say to them did we not give you نعمركم did we not give you a long life the same word that was used in the hadith that you're going to be asked about your عمر your life الله says أولم نعمركم ما يتذكروا فيه من تذكر did we not give you a long enough life for you for the person who is able to remember meaning to get to receive the admonition from الله سبحانه وتعالى did we not give you enough life for you to receive the admonition or not أولم نعمركم ما يتذكروا فيه من تذكر واجاءكم النذير and the water also came to you the Prophet ﷺ told us what's going to happen it came to you as a water بشيرا ونذيرا as a person giving good news and also a person who is warning this is the warning that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is talking about your life what did you spend your life on that's number one number two and that was the other three إن شاء الله تعالى is a bit more detail because that one is general your whole life and the rest are specific about certain aspects of your life so know that you're going to be asked about your whole life and specifically you're going to be asked about certain aspects of that life so he said أعين عمره فيه ما أفناه وعين شبابه فيه ما أبلاه you're going to be asked about your youth أسي موصل وصير عيوث الحمد لله so this is going to be directly asked this directly for you that your youth في ما أبلاه your youth what did you you know أبلاه means is like when the Arabs when they say أبلاه أبلاه ثوب your cloth became old what did you do with your youth in terms of meaning when your cloth when your life was still new like your clothes when your life was still new what did you do with your life when you had that ability to go and pray when you had that ability to go and do things at your young age when you had that ability what did you do with that life and the reason why you're going to be asked about this is because the person who is at a young age in number one he has more desires you have more desires at a young age than you have when you're at an older age so the thing about حرامة it's easier for you to do when a person is at a young age ولي ذلك the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said about سبعة يضلهم الله في ظله يوم لا ظل إلا ظله on the day that seven will be under the shade of Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the day when there is no shade except for that his shade is what one of them شاب نشأ فيع عبادة الله a youth a young man who was raised with the worship of Allah سبحانه وتعالى so look at the contrast you have a contrast of a person who wasted his youth he's going to be asked about it what did you do with your youth and on the other side the great reward for that person who takes that youth and he takes advantage of this time that he has the youth that person will be under the shade of Allah سبحانه وتعالى we just said that the sun on that day will be close will be so close to us that we need shade and there will be no shade except for those the person who Allah سبحانه وتعالى give shade and from amongst those is a youth who was raised in the worship of Allah سبحانه وتعالى you know Allah سبحانه وتعالى praises a person a lot a lot when they do when they take advantage of the youth to the point that والله الله mentions in the Quran a story of a group of youth who took advantage of the youth and they fought against their desires despite having that ability to do so much haram الله praises them and mentions them in the Quran to be recited until the day of judgment who are those youth ايه الكاف اصحاب الكاف صرفة الله اصحاب الكاف the people of the cave الله سبحانه وتعالى said انهم كأنهم فتية اامنوا بربهم وزدناهم هدى they were a group of youth who believed in their Lord so Allah increased them in their Lord and in their guidance the people the group of youth اامنوا بربهم وزدناهم هدى we increase them in their guidance and Allah mentions the story until the day of judgment يعني until the day of judgment this Quran is going to be recited and people are going to be reciting this Quran until the day of judgment and they will be reciting about these people the group of the youth who took advantage of their life and Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentions I add the signs that He gave to these people just because they fought against their desires especially at a young age so that's the second thing وعن شبابه فيما افناه your youth what did you spend it in you're going to be asked about that يعني you're able right now to stand that night to pray you're able right now to memorize very easily people who are older they can't memorize very fast so memorize Quran حديث and things like that seek knowledge people who are older they find it harder not saying that they can't it's very possible in fact they mentioned that ابن الجوزي رحمة الله تعالى او ابن عقيل sorry ابن عقيل النحوي the one who wrote the Alfiyah ابن مالك he said that on the day of his death he memorized خمسة شواهت five basically evidences for نحو يعني he mentioned he memorized on the day of his death يعني that's the important thing خمسة شواهت on the day of his death he memorized so I'm not trying to say that a person who's older can't memorize and can't seek knowledge and can't do good deeds no لكن the person who's a youth you have the advantage over the other people you have advantage and you're going to be asked about the advantage don't think that it's just like you know people الله gave it to me so I could do what I want with it no الله gave it to you for you to act by it and that act will be asked about on the day of judgment so ان شبابي فيما أبله and the third one he said وعماله من اين اكتسبه وفيما انفق you're going to be asked about your wealth the wealth that you have you're going to be asked where did you get it from and when how did you spend it and you know we need to go in a bit of detail about this because you have to understand that today we live in a world where the society is full of ربا a person if you're not paying ربا you're taking ربا if you're not taking ربا you're connected to some a lot of people I'm not saying everyone a lot of people are connected to ربا and this is something that you're going to be asked about on the day of judgment every single one of you are going to be asked about how did you get your wealth and where did you spend it in الله سبحانه وتعالى describes the person who takes ربا and he says اللذين يأكلون ربا لا يقومون إلا كما يقوموا الذي يتخبطوا الشيطان من المس the person who eats ربا and the reason why we say eat is because when you take money when you get money a lot of the money that you spend on it is for food right that person that you got that money he eats with that food with that money that he got from ربا الله says اللذين يأكلون ربا those people who eat ربا لا يقوم اللذين يأكلون ربا لا يقومون they will stand on the day of judgment ما يقوموا اللذين يتخبطوا الشيطان من المس except like the one who الشيطان possessed him a jinn possessed that person on that day of judgment that's how it's going to be look like from that hard punishment that he done from the hard sin that he done the punishment is so severe that he will be looking like a person who is possessed by a shaitan you know Allah says about the person who takes ربا فأذنوا بحرب من الله ورسوله have an announcement of a war with Allah and his messenger the person who takes ربا ولذلك the prophet sorry ابن عباس رضي الله عنهما he said that in the explanation of this ayah that on that day the angels will give this person a sword and he will say to him go in front of Allah and fight Allah and he will not be able to fight Allah obviously you can't know how to fight Allah but this is from the punishment that a person takes ربا the prophet he said إن سنة للبيه قيم لعنى الله آكل ربا وموكله وشاهديه وكاتبه the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم a cursed the one who eats ربا meaning he gives a loan or something like that and he takes it and he eats from that ربا because ربا is oppression interest when you mean by ربا sorry interest when a person you give someone money and you take money back with extra so you give someone a thousand pounds you say I want it back two thousand pounds this interest is the ربا this is the ربا put on it this severe punishment that the person on that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said لعن الله آكل ربا the one who eats ربا is cursed and the one who not just the one who eats it not the one just the one who takes it the one who also pays it you agree to a contract fee in it has ربا the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم cursed that person وشاهديه not even that also the one who witnesses to ربا so there's a contract between two people you become the witness for the contract and in this contract there's some ربا that person also cursed by the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the last one is وكاتبا the one who writes the contract the lawyer who writes the contract the lawyer who writes the contract of ربا he's also cursed all of those four people are cursed and this is something that you have to understand that you're going to be asked about all the wealth that you get did you sell alcohol in your shop some people they sell they sell haram things they sell alcohol this is again you're going to be asked about that وفيمة أمفق is how did you spend your money how did you how did you spend your money did you spend it in something that's حلال or did you spend it in something that's حرام that's number one and another way that you can also look at this is did you spend it in the things that Allah سبحانه وتعالى obliged for you to spend it in and the biggest thing that Allah سبحانه وتعالى obliged for you to spend it in and this is something that a lot of people a lot of youth especially a lot of youth they are they don't really remember it much and that is the person who has to pay زكاء زكاء is the biggest حق that Allah has upon you in your wealth the biggest حق the biggest right that Allah has upon you in your wealth is for you to pay the زكاء ولذلك the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when he was counting the pillars of Islam he said الشهاداتين الصلاة and زكاء زكاء the third pillar of الإسلام so people need to look at their money do I have the money do you have to learn about the زكاء do you have to learn about the money that you have to spend when you have to pay زكاء how to pay زكاء and all of that this is the biggest right that you're going to be asked upon when it comes to how did you spend your money الله سبحانه وتعالى tells us about in the Quran about the person who does not give the زكاء and he says says in the Quran يوم يحمع عليها في ناري جهنم فتقوا بها جباههم وجنوبهم وظهورهم هذا ما كنزتم لأنفسكم فذوقوا ما كنتم تكنيزون he said on that day يوم يحمع عليها they'll be strangled on that the Day of Judgement في ناري جهنم and on Hellfire فتقوا بهجباههم وجنوبهم وظهورهم the whole body the front the front and the side and the back is going to be squeezed by bias the hadith the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم described it as a snake a snake that is squeezed in this person in the grave and you say ذوقوا ما كنتم تكنيزون those people who do not spend the money the money in the zikah فهي ستكون قدرهم على هذا الحدث تحرروا ما يستطيعون تتواجدونه ويقاتلونه لا أستطيع أن أعيبه في ذكاء هذا يوجد أكبر رائع لك يوجد المقاومة على you That's the right of Allah Сبحانه وتعالى That money of the zakah is not your money You don't own that money If you have that money in there you are taking money that you have taken from Allah Sبحانه وتعالى That money is the right of Allah A.S And it's a right to the poor people so you have no right to that money and you have no right to keep that money ولذلك أبو بكر الصديق رضي الله عنه when the Arabs after the Prophet ﷺ died a lot of the Arabs they refused to give zakah so what did Abu Bakr do? he fought against them he sent armies against these people to take the zakah and he said if they don't give me a rope that they used to give to the Prophet ﷺ I will fight them for that rope because they used to give that money in zakah and I will fight them until they give the zakah when the Prophet ﷺ died and I died of fighting people until they said الله إلا الله وأنني رسول الله ويقيم الصلاح ويوت الزكة I have been commanded to fight the people until they bear witness that there is nothing worthy of worship by Allah and I am the messenger of Allah and they pray the Salat and they give the zakah again a big right that you have in zakah below that right which is still important is the rights that the people have upon you you know your wife أنها يوجد حقاً على أن تجدك أن تستمع المال علىها أن المال التي تجدها أن تستمع المال علىها و لذلك when the wife of Abu Sufian came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and she said that Abu Sufian is a stingy man يجب أن يدعيه المال على أعاونها the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم و دريسي خذي ما يكفيك أنت و ابنتك بالمعروف take what is enough for you without asking him take what is enough for you and for your douta بالمعروف as according to the customs so this right that your wife and your children have on the day of judgment that you spend your money on those people who have rights upon you, your wife and your children and also after that you are a qarib your close family members those poor family members that you have they are the people who have the most right for you to give the money to you so how much is that so far? عن عموريه the first one is what? your life فيما أفنى what did you spend your life on? the second one is and شبابه is youth your youth و فيما أبلا what did you spend your youth in and the third one is your money what about it? where did you get it from and how did you spend it these are four things again when are we going to be asked about this on the day of judgment and your feet are not going to move on that day until you ask about these questions so prepare for that question and the last one is و عن علمه فيما عمله your knowledge and these are two parts إن شاء الله your knowledge and how you acted by it your knowledge and how you acted by it your knowledge and how you acted by it and we don't but when we say this we don't mean that you shouldn't learn يعني okay I'm going to be asked about my knowledge therefore I shouldn't learn so I'm not going to be asked right someone might think that لكن the reality is that and this is something that ابن حاج you mentioned his مدخل المالكي he mentioned his مدخل ابن قي محم الله تعالى also mentioned this he says that it is obligatory upon every single person to learn the knowledge that is obligatory upon him to act by it so if you now you say I don't want to learn how to pray صلاة a person doesn't want doesn't want to learn how to pray صلاة and he is ignorant about صلاة and he is able to learn about it is he excused for this ignorance of course not because he had to learn about it he had to pray therefore he had to learn about it that's the first part حج for example a lot of people when they come to مكة they ask weird questions and you think why didn't you learn before you come you know الله and our person he said to me I came from ريالد is 1,000 something kilometers away from مكة and he said where do I do محرام from is in مكة where do I do محرام from I mean where do I get محرام you have to do way before you come to مكة and he is really in مكة يعني this person is he excused for the ignorance of course not he was able to go to a sheikh and ask him how do I do حج how do I do عمرام when do I do this and that this is something that you are going to be asked about your knowledge did you learn it in the first place number one you are going to be asked about that so don't just think that you are going to be asked about the knowledge that you really have no you are going to be asked about the knowledge did you learn it in the first place because it was obligatory upon you to learn الله says فسألوا أهل الذكري إن كنتم لا تعلمون ask the people of knowledge if you don't know therefore it was obligatory and then also the person who knows okay now you know فيما عميلة به what did you act by this knowledge you know today maybe today you learned something you learned that the cow was obligatory upon you did you act by it you learnt إمام أحمد رحمه الله تعالى he said I never heard a hadith except that I acted by it حتى until the point that I heard that the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم أدن حجامة and he gave the person who is doing the حجامة فوهي مدينة so I done حجامة and I gave the person who done حجامة فوهي مدينة as well act by this knowledge and سبحان الله يجد الله رباركات when it comes to acting by knowledge in the قرآن الله says in the قرآن والذين والذين جاهدوا فينا لنا هديناهم سبولنا those people who try strive hard in our way we're going to guide them to our paths ابن عبداس رضي الله عنهما he mentioned he said about this تفسير of this and I think ابن كثير mentioned this and I think ابن جريا طبري also mentioned this he said يعملون بما علموا فيهديهم الله لما لا يعلم or لما لم يعلموا they acted by what they knew so الله gave them the knowledge of what they did not know أبو سليمان الداراني he was one of the from the early generations he heard this someone said that to him one of his students said this to him and he said سبحان الله it's not befitting for a person to act by something that was in their heart until they hear it so when they hear it they act by it so he started saying الحمد لله that I already thought this he used to see this in himself he used to say meaning what the meaning of this is that he used to see in himself that I used to learn something and then I used to act by that same thing and Allah will give me more knowledge and I never knew how until this the تفسير of ابن عبداس and he said الحمد لله so he started saying الحمد لله because he learned this knowledge that when you act by knowledge more knowledge comes to you سبحان الله that's something that was known amongst the salaf that whenever you act by knowledge more knowledge will be given to you from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this is from the barakah of acting by your knowledge so you're going to be asked عن علمه your knowledge فيما عمي لبه how did you act by your knowledge there was a hadith that was narrated by الطبري in his تفسير and also I think it tell me it narrates it and it's authentic hadith that was authentic بشخل الباني رحمه الله that there was a man he came to مدينة المشد النبوي in مدينة and he saw a man and the people were gathering around this man they were gathering around this man and he was giving out knowledge he was teaching the people so he said I came so close to him until I was right in front of him so I sent him and he was Abu Huraira teaching in the masjid of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said to him يا أبه Huraira أو أبه Huraira teach me something that you had from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم وعقلته and you understood it from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so Abu Huraira he took a deep breath took a deep breath and he fainted then he got up after a bay and so the man said again I asked the question again until there was hardly any people around everyone left and he said أبه Huraira تاومي با أحديث that you heard from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم that you heard from him سمعته من رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وعقلته and you understood it so Abu Huraira he took a breath again and he fainted again then he got up Abu Huraira got up and he said I'm going to tell you a hadith that I heard from the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and in this very masjid the Masjid of the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and I understood it قال الله سبحانه وتعالى أنه ستأتي في يوم الجدد و ستأخذ الناس ستأخذ الناس في يوم الجدد ثلاثة الناس أول شخص يكون قارئ شخص يكون قارئ قارئ يستخدمون القارئ لأنه يستخدم القرآن ولكن في السلف يقومون برسائل للأحد يستخدم القرآن و يفقه القدر يفهم الهلية لذا الله سبحانه وتعالى و يقومون برسائل للقارئ ما فعلتك في هذا الدنيا؟ لذا القارئ ستقول لقد أعلم عن your sake لقد أعلم عن your sake و أخذت الناس عن your sake لذا الله سبحانه وتعالى يقومون برسائل للقارئ كذبتا you light و الهلية ستقول كذبتا you have light و الله سبحانه وتعالى rather you said you became a qari and you learned this knowledge so people can say about you this person was a qari and this person was a alem و قد قيل and he was said about you this and then the الله سبحانه وتعالى will say take this person on his head first to the whole file then the second person الله سبحانه وتعالى will come within the day of judgment is a person who was جواد he was very generous he had a lot of money and he would spend it in the sake of Allah he would spend it then الله سبحانه وتعالى said what did you do in this world he said I made a lot of money and I spent it in your way الله سبحانه وتعالى will say كذبتا you have light and the angels will say كذبتا you have light rather you had this money and you spent it for people to say that you were someone who was generous و قد قيل and he was said that you were generous take him away then the third person will be a مجاهد a person who went out for jihad peace be with Allah to fight against the enemies of Allah and he was said الله will say to him what did you do he would say I fought until I died for your sake so Allah said كذبتا you have light and the angels will say كذبتا you have light and he will be said to him take him to the Hellfire the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he said يا أبا هريرا و أبو هريرا these are the first three people with whom the Hellfire will be ignited with so think about this you're going to be asked about that knowledge that you gained why did you gain about why did you gain how did you what did you do with that knowledge that you gained these are the first three people who will be held accountable on the Day of Judgement and عالم a person who used to see giving talks giving you lectures a person who was seeking the knowledge but the reason why he was seeking the knowledge was so the people could say to him you're عالم and you're قارئ you're someone you're a person of knowledge this person is going to be the first person who's going to be thrown into the Hellfire أول أمان تسعير of him and now the first people that the Hellfire will be ignited with so this is the fourth thing the knowledge that you have did you actually learn the knowledge in the first place and in the poet الإمام ابن رسلان الشافع he mentioned in this كتاب صفوة الزبت he said وعالم يعلمه لم يعملن معذب من قبل عباد الوثن the knowledge the scholar who did not act by his knowledge he's going to be punished in the Hellfire before the people who worship idols because the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم what did he say these three people are the first people who will be thrown into the Hellfire أول أمان تسعير of him and now the first people who will be thrown into the Hellfire say أخوان have this sense of responsibility that you're going to be asked about your life and what did you do with your life this life was not given to you for free أي حساب الإنسان and أي حساب الإنسان and in your تركة سودة you think that the human being الله says did the human being think that he's going to be left سودة يعني سودة meaning لا ينهى ولا يؤمر he's not going to be commanded he's not going to be prohibited from anything he's going to be there for no reason عبثن for no reason الله created you لا والله الله created for a reason so you're going to be asked about that reason عن عمره your life how did you spend your life وعن شبابه فيما أبله and your youth how did you spend your youth وعن ماله your wealth where did you get it from and when did you spend how did you spend it and your knowledge did you act by that knowledge and don't think that I don't have that knowledge لا الله you have to learn that knowledge and every single person is going to be asked فلنا سألنا الذين أرسل إليهم الله says والله دلام فلا دلام is لام القصب فلنا سألنا this is swear is saying والله and we're going to ask لنا سألنا and the noon is noon with توكيد we're definitely going to ask فلنا سألنا الذين أرسل إليهم those ones who were sent to and ولنا سألنا المرسلين we're going to ask those people to who were sent the messengers will also be asked نوح إليه صلى الله عليه وسلم and the prophets they're going to be brought in front of them on the day of judgment and this is from the تفسيل of the آية وكذلك جعلناكم أمة موسطة اللي تكونوا شهداء على الناس we have made you a middle nation for you to be witnesses in front of people you're going to be witnesses on other people meaning اللي سبحانه وتعالى is going to call this أمة the Ummah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم to witness against other people other nations and in the تفسيل of this آية they mentioned that the prophets nations نوح and إبراهيم and all of these prophets the nations are going to be brought in front of Allah on the day of judgment and they will say they will be asked did the messengers come to you and they will say no, no messengers come to me نوح didn't come to us they were lying اللي سبحانه وتعالى will ask نوح and the other prophets did you send did you give them the messengers I gave you نوح will say yes the prophets will say yes they will say so Allah will ask them who are your witnesses how was your proof for this to ask the people ask the Ummah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ask our Ummah so we will be called in front of Allah سبحانه وتعالى to witness against other nations and this is what it means we're going to ask the messengers as well not just us نوح إبراهيم all of these prophets are going to be asked not just us so this day of questioning the day of حساب one of the days of judgment is يوم الحساب the day of الحساب of questioning this is the responsibility everyone needs to have in their heart realize this intense sense of responsibility when a brother you know when some people they are head of a family you're the father of a family you're full head of a responsibility a big responsibility of that family you have some people to look after Allah you're going to be asked in the day of judgment about yourself what did you do that responsibility is big in the responsibility of the family so have that constantly in your mind I remember this حديث that you're going to be asked about these four things هذا وصلى الله وسلم وبارك على عبده ورسوله نبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه يجمعين