Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Grounded by Nature

			But if you got a nice garden, you
		

			like to grow things.
		

			MashaAllah, one brother visited me.
		

			The other day, he lives not too far
		

			away.
		

			He's got 20 trees in his garden.
		

			He put up 20, not necessarily big trees,
		

			but 20 different fruit bearing plants.
		

			And the apricots he gave me were amazing.
		

			A lot of people, they just put either
		

			concrete over.
		

			Or what did they do?
		

			They put that fake stuff.
		

			You just completely destroy nature.
		

			It's like we don't want to do anything
		

			with the soil.
		

			We came from it, but we hate soil.
		

			The other day, we were just pulling out
		

			some weeds.
		

			And I was telling my son, this is
		

			beneficial to touch vegetation.
		

			It's actually beneficial.
		

			That's where we came from.
		

			It grounds us.
		

			One scholar, he visited me.
		

			He said, I want to sit on the
		

			floor.
		

			He said, because I've been told by experts
		

			that this helps to ground yourself rather than
		

			sitting on chairs all the time.
		

			Sitting on the ground sounds primitive for some
		

			people.
		

			I've seen places where they've gone to visit
		

			a new madrasa.
		

			Oh, they're so advanced that they actually got
		

			all of their students sitting on tables.
		

			Not sure if that's advanced.
		

			If humans sat on the ground for centuries,
		

			now they start sitting on chairs.
		

			Nothing wrong with chairs or tables.
		

			But to say to sit on the floor
		

			is primitive, that's what your forefathers, for the
		

			whole of history did that.
		

			For the whole of history did that until
		

			very recently.
		

			So let us not demean these things.
		

			Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri
		

			Surat al-Fatiha.