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.