Mustafa Khattab – Plant A Tree
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Okay. My talk today is very short,
very short.
Just, 3 minutes inshallah, but this is something
to remember.
So when you remember me, remember my talk
today.
Today I will talk about the spring.
The spring. Oh, the spring? What is the
spring?
So,
how many of you like fruits and vegetables?
That's almost everyone.
Okay.
I grew up on a farm in Egypt.
I grew up on a farm. I spoke
about this in the chutba, and I said
we have many animals in the farm.
More animals than the Toronto Zoo. Remember this.
Right? Yeah. Okay.
We also had lots of fruits and vegetables
in our farm. I I still have a
farm in in Egypt. So we have our
house,
then their farm, and there's the Nile River
behind. Right?
So,
when I was young, we had all these,
fruit trees in our farm.
We had mangoes,
bananas,
guavas,
grapes,
pomegranates,
and some others.
Plus the the vegetables. Right? The peppers, tomatoes,
corn, many other things.
So, of course, we had all these things
I used to eat from them, the fruits
and vegetables,
and I came here.
And we go to the store all the
time and and buy the fruits and and
vegetables from the store. Some come from Mexico,
some come from Latin America, some come from
the US, and some comes from China.
But what I have noticed,
they don't taste the same.
Why? Because when I was in the village,
I used to eat from the fruits
of our own trees. We used to plant
them. We used to take care of them.
Right? So they tasted different They were sweeter
We know that we didn't use chemicals
only Allah knows what kind of chemicals and
stuff they put for these trees,
and all these fruits and vegetables
Some say organic, but I don't buy that,
you know.
There's nothing that is 100%
organic.
Right?
There's this all this pollution, all the chemicals,
and all that stuff. You can't trust all
that stuff.
And this is why when you go to
the store and you buy grapes, each grape
is like a watermelon,
you know something is wrong.
Grapes don't look like this normally. Right? So
if something is bigger than its normal size,
you know, they use something to make them
bigger.
Also in the materialistic
world we live in,
people like to, to make a lot of
profit in a very,
small period of time, so they don't mind
use different things, chemicals, so their fruits and
vegetables will look better, they become bigger, and
so on and so forth. And even with
the chicken, man, the chicken. Right?
On average,
a chicken takes several months
before they become mature,
and and and, you know, they become good
to eat.
But in this case, what I have read
in some studies,
it's about a month
from the time they hatch till they're on
your plate or McDonald's.
It means they do something
super
wicked,
evil to make them, like, grow fast so
they can make profit. It doesn t matter
how these chicken are treated. It doesn t
matter what they feed them, as long as
they gain weight
and meat, and so on and so forth.
And I have seen some videos,
leaked videos, where they inject them with things
and sought to make them, bigger. The point
is, the point is,
if you have a backyard,
if you have a backyard,
make sure in the month of April,
you buy some plants from the store.
Go to Walmart, they have a section in
the back. Go to Giant, to,
Canadian Tire, they have a section in the
back, they sell plants.
Tomatoes,
peppers,
cucumbers,
squash,
you name it.
Buy some plants.
So buy a tomato plant and put it
in the backyard. This is your own plant.
I remember when I was in Edmonton, we
had, alhamdulillah, backyard in our house. I I
I got like 10 tomato trees
and we got 5 cucumbers
and we got like 5 squash trees
and some others. And we planted apples and
cherries and pears in in the backyard.
It was baked alhamdulillah.
So my neighbors were Muslim, so I used
to take some of the produce because, subhanAllah,
the cucumbers over there like, subhanAllah, crazy.
You take the cucumbers today, you go next
day you see mini cucumbers there, big cucumbers.
Natural. Organic. We didn't put any chemicals. Right?
So I used to give my neighbors. We
used to eat. We used to put some
in the masjid,
and we're thinking about sending some to China
because so many
fruits and vegetables from just a few trees
in our backyard.
Right? So this is something you should do
inshallah. Consider, talk to your family, plant some
trees in your backyard. Even if you don't
have a backyard,
you live in
a
townhouse, you don't have a backyard, you still
can get a pot,
and you can get strawberry trees or peppers.
They don't take a lot of space. Put
them in your balcony
or next to the window. If if they
get some sunshine,
you'll be able to take some produce from
that
I'm gonna
conclude with a hadith from the Prophet SAWAllahu
Alaihi Wasallam He said, Ma'aakal ahamtuaman
Khayruum min Anyaqulaminamal
Yadi
No one will eat any,
fruit or produce
better than the one that you plant your
own, from the fruit of your own labor.
And the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam said Dawud
Alaihi Wasallam used to eat from the fruit
of his labor.
And the Prophet SAW Alaihi Wasallam said if
you plant a tree,
a fruit tree
I'm not so happy when people surround their
houses, backyard, front yard with, maple trees and
all that stuff. They produce nothing. Right?
Plant an apple tree,
a cherry tree, put fruits and vegetables around
you. Right? People can eat from the fruits,
the shade, the good air, and so on
and so forth.
So this is something to consider inshaAllah. And
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said even
if animals eat from your trees, you still
get the reward.
Some of you have some evil squirrels in
the backyard, they always eat your fruits. It
happens. Right?
You still get the reward insha'Allah.
So think about it. The sweetest
fruits and vegetables you can eat
are the ones that you plant yourself. These
are your own trees, and make sure inshaAllah
you plant some trees in this month This
is the month to plant most of the
trees
and take some for your family and give
some to your neighbors Muslims, non Muslims, it
doesn't really matter Be good to everyone
JazakAllah Allahu alaykum salaam alaykum see you tomorrow
Thank you