Omar Suleiman – Turning Your Waste Into Rewards

			Again my hope but today I wanted to mention, especially for those that are watching online and those
that have benefited from the sign language interpretation of our sister Rebecca, who of course is
not physically next to me but who hamdulillah right on the side is always translating our horrible
that her husband was afflicted and is in the hospital and we owe it inshallah Tada to our sister and
to our brother to make dua for his healing may last pentatonic cure him and comfort sister Rebecca
and her family and make it easy for them a llama. I mean, this is not a whole tubba about recycling,
as the title might suggest, when we talk about waste, and you might notice that waste is in
		

			quotation marks. But there's a rich body of a Hadith from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
that seemed to speak to a different time, and things that we often find ourselves unable to relate
to because of the nature of how the world operates. Today, I came across this beautiful Hadith from
the Prophet sallallahu wasallam. That got me thinking about the subject. And it's an authentic
hadith from Albarado the Allahu Taala and home, where the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said,
Man Malahat Minh has 11 A will hetta what it ohada zu Cochon, carrot, carrot, P NASA, O raka
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam he said that whoever lends an animal to someone so that they can benefit
		

			from its milk. Keep in mind what I'm saying because it's very specific for a reason. I want you to
think in that society if you own a goat, and you are not someone who has the means by which you can
actually donate entire animals. You can't give away your entire animal. But you have a neighbor, and
that neighbor wants to benefit from the milk of it at least and you say, You know what, I'm going to
lend you this animal of mine, so that you can benefit from its milk for however many days and then
you can give it back to me. Okay? So think of it in our times. And you'd read this hadith and say,
well, that doesn't apply. But think of it as maybe, and Allah knows best, of course. But if you lend
		

			someone a car, you don't have the means to donate a car, but you lend them a car to get around for a
few days or something of that sort write some means by which you are able to benefit yourself. Even
though I can't give you what I possess, you can benefit from what I possess for some time. So the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, men, men ahead men had 11, whoever lends an animal to
their neighbor to someone else, so that they can milk it for some time. A woman had Taiwan, or lends
them a few coins, lends them some money. Okay, and what appear could be usually the scholars
mentioned silver, so it's not even the best of currency but lends them some money, some coins so
		

			that they can benefit themselves with a small loan, so that it can get them through something in the
immediate term. Oh, how does Wilcoxon or guides someone who is lost? Okay, you can't give them a
car. You can't pick them up. You can't house them, but you can at least guide them along the way so
that they don't waste the time and energy and effort of being lost. The Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, can it be Nassima Oh raka it is as if you are freeing a slave. It is the reward of
emancipating a slave and of course, we know the great reward in Islam, for purchasing the freedom of
someone who is enslaved. So the profit slice um so that if you do any one of these three things,
		

			then you would have the edge, you would have the reward from Allah subhana wa Tada of the free of a
slave. Now, again, you read that hadith and you go, wow, first of all, it's like when you know,
people talk about back in the days here, generations, we'll talk about the differences of how we
used to interact with our neighbors. So the idea of lending someone sugar next door, or some salt or
something small, these are things that are unheard of, because then they just have you know, some
sort of Amazon Prime or just drop off your groceries within an hour, couldn't they figure something
else out? Right? These are things that become even more foreign to us as time goes on. But think
		

			about that society and relate yourself to these categories. And you'll find that there's a
connection here. And what I want to speak about today is a different reflection of the famous Hadith
lay up you know, I had to come here to you humbly Fe may have been enough see that the prophets lie.
Some said no one of you believes until he loves for his brother when he loves for himself. We
usually talk about this hadith as we should, with the greatest aspiration of ethos of selflessness,
and how to be selfless and their inner Matt have broken it down. The scholars have broken this down
this selflessness into three categories. They say that the first level is that you
		

			give away what you don't need. You give to your brother what you don't need the extra stuff. The
stuff that's laying around in your closet, the leftover food, the leftovers of your gardens, hello,
the amount of Hadith traditions about, for example, letting the water flow to your neighbor, not
cutting it off at your garden, letting it flow to your neighbor, second, irrigate their crops as
well. You don't cut off the extra from your brother or from your sister. That's the first level of
selflessness. And remember, the first group of people that Allah made an example out of in terms of
grace, were the people of the garden, who are the people of the garden that Allah spoke about in the
		

			Quran are people that of course inherited a garden from their father and their father used to leave
the crops out, let the poor come later on and pick what they could get their share of the crops. And
so what did his children do, not realizing that it may have been the buttock of the blessing of that
small act that the father used to do. And of course, I'm paraphrasing, paraphrasing the story
greatly. They said, Let's go out there early and pick everything before the poor people come and try
to take it. So what happened the whole garden was destroyed. So this level of selflessness, the
first part, which is just let the extra go, at least give to your brother, your sister, what you
		

			don't need, not even the best of what you have not even the best of your income, the best of your
food, the best of your blessings, give them the extra. That's the first level of selflessness. The
second level, now you're humble enough, see what you love for yourself. You take things into
consideration exactly as you would for yourself for your brother. So you try to give them everything
that you want for yourself in mind, you hear that a mama know your name, Allah said brother here is
not talking about your brother, Muslim, your brother in humanity. So you give to your brother in
humanity, exactly what you would give to yourself what you love for yourself. And then the third
		

			level, which is the greatest level of selflessness, is that you give to your brother, even what you
yourself would prefer Sirona. And for him, this is the level of the unsought, the level of the
people of Medina. But we will be talking about Chatelet out in great detail starting this Tuesday
night. They prefer others to themselves, they actually prefer the Mohammed in the migrants from
Mecca to their own selves, they gave them the better share of the house the better share of the
crop. And that was the greatest level of selflessness. Now here's the thing, when we talk about this
hadith, we always go to what we go to the level of the unsought as we should the most aspirational
		

			level of this hadith. However, what I'm going to argue today in sha Allah Tada, and just a few
minutes is, let's not zoom past the first category. There is a spectrum here, there's a cat 2.5% of
your wealth. And then there's a Wilbekin while the low tide on her right. And it says it's all for
Allah, I'm giving it all away, there's a whole bunch of levels in between those two, where you are
sinful because of the neglect, if you don't meet the first part, to a place a level that the
prophets lie, some would not even let the companions the other companions reach, because they did
not have the amount of faith of bubble bucket or the low tide on who there's a lot in between there.
		

			And so this first category, the food, the extra food, your leftovers, the extra wealth, your use
clothes, these things that people literally consider waste throw away. And they could actually
sustain the world as it is today. They could actually sustain the world as it is today, the things
that we waste. And so I want to speak about this from a mindset perspective, a mindset perspective,
the extra things that we have, that we've gotten so used to being destructive with, and let's forget
about saving the world right now. Right as in, you know, again, the great aspiration, let's just
talk about the way you approach what you have, the way you approach the gifts that Allah subhanaw
		

			taala has given to you. And I said this quote was not going to be about recycling. I mean, not
entirely about recycling, right. But even that, you know, maybe you're not going to reverse climate
change and everything that's happening, but at least you have a connection, you have a mindset of
thinking very deeply about the consequences of your small things, the consequences of the small
things that you have the small actions, and so it's a mindset.
		

			If you go to your closet, and you see things in your closet that you haven't worn for a year or two,
that means you don't need it, give it away, and they'll just throw it into a bag and not bother
ironing it and making it look nice and presentable. Give it away as a gift, do the best that you can
with it. You don't have to perfume it but you can iron it and get it cleaned up and present it in
the best way. Subhanallah the discrepancy when we ask people to bring blankets for those people that
literally freeze to death in Dallas in the winter outages, right. Some people threw their blankets
and you could have just cleaned them up. Some people went and bought the newest ones the way to do
		

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			Kitson, I can tell you Subhanallah the look in the eyes I'll never forget, when one of the workers
in the convention center saw a weighted blanket, he said, Well, this is a weighted blanket, he
started telling the other workers you know what this is, as if it was, you know, the most the most
precious asset in the world. And you might not even be thinking about that when you're just throwing
things right. But think about it. Those things that are in your closet, it's actually an assignment
for you to say those aren't practical go to your closet, if you haven't worn it for a year or two,
give it away, it's time to go teach your children that if it's a toy that you haven't played with, I
		

			don't care how much you love it what your game console is you haven't played for played with it for
a long time. Give it away let's package it. Let's give it away let's make something special out of
this your old phone I know that people try to keep up with the models right and you try to get your
trade in value. You don't take it to the store and you get this much in return your old iPhone could
be a new iPhone for somebody else. And it could mean something to them much more than the trade in
value that you get there do something with it your your old car mashallah we have both ignorant leaf
and maruf taking our old cars, cleaning them up getting them ready for the refugee population that's
		

			here, give it away think about it if you can, if you can afford to do so make it a mindset that
these extras for us have a lot of potential in the sight of Allah subhana wa Tada and can mean a
whole lot to somebody else. And then the last one that I mentioned, here is the memories. What about
the memories? You get sentimental, right? Your old wedding dress and I'm getting a little personal
now right old suit from your wedding. Your old Tux this old dress this thing that meant a lot this
little this this thing that was passed down?
		

			Your brothers and sisters Hala someone mentioned this to me once about the the weddings in Gaza.
Last pants on make it easy for our brothers and sisters. And because in Yemen, these places were
these these things that we take for granted. I mean, there's a practice of having group weddings,
because people can't afford to do weddings as individuals, right? So what do they do if 50 People
get married at a time? Right? 50 Grooms 50 brides, it's really a sight to behold. And someone was
saying, you know what if we took our old suits and our old wedding dresses,
		

			we steamed them up nice, got them clean, and we found a way to send them to one of these places.
Think about that. Maybe it's an idea that will settle in someone's heart or mind them shell and you
take it up as an initiative, the blessings of Ramadan, the leftover food, when it's packaged up
properly, and gone and delivered to the homeless every single night special, it means something to
your brothers and sisters. And I want you to think again, about your memories, those things that you
have that are laying around the potential of those things, what they mean to Allah subhanaw taala
when you give them with sincerity, and what they mean to the people that you give them to turn your
		

			occasional memory into an eternal reward with ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada take that small thing that you
look at every few years and say, Oh, this was great. Let it be something that you get to stare at
with pleasure on the Day of Judgment eternally and in Jannah because it is one of the means by which
you qualify for the Mercy of Allah subhanaw taala so and with this you know when you're trying to
trade in your car you think of trade in value, pawn shops, even that at some point will probably go
away all of these little things right what's the trade in value? What can I still get out of these
things when I've lost when I don't really care for the extras anymore? The extra leftovers the extra
		

			food the extra use clothes the extra things? Hadith from the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam,
and agreed upon narration from our shuttle the Altana. She gives the scenario the prophets lie Selim
gives the scenario to her of the family. And he says sallallahu alayhi wa sallam either uncarpeted
automata AMI BT VEDA must see the kana Lucha Lucha Raha Bhima and for Kotwali Zoji ha ADRA who be
Marchesa, well, Hosny, Mytho ALEC, the prophets lie Selim said that if a woman were to give away the
extra part of the food in her home,
		

			right, and there's no mention here that this is just like the first idea that I mentioned. This is
not the super valuable stuff. This is the extra stuff that we're talking about here. This is the
first category the extra stuff and she said that you know, I'm going to give this away and the
assumption here is that she was not the one that earned it right. She's at home and she's eating it
and the husband was the one that earned it so the profit slice and um, such she will have the
budget, this woman in this scenario would have the reward of what she gave away even though she did
not necessarily earn the income in that situation for the food that was there, but you'll have the
		

			full reward and the profit slice on him said and the one who earned it will have the full reward as
well. And even the highest
		

			The one who keeps it the one who preserves it. So think about the one who puts the food and puts it
in a box and says I'm going to be the one that delivers it. And this tastes the one who stores it
away has the full reward, the profit slice, I'm said la young Kosovar ads robot, and not a single
one of them will take from the reward of the other one person has the reward of the test the
earning, the other person has the reward of the in fact, the giving, the other person has the reward
of the transferring the, the transferring, or the preserving of that charity, and Allah counts each
of its each particle of it for each one of them fully without taking anything away from them. That's
		

			what it could mean to you what it could mean to that person another Hadith from it solo the Allahu
Tada Anna, where the prophet slicin I'm said to her, to set up a barrier between herself and
Johanna, what will be shipped the Tamra even with half a date and the Prophet space. And I'm said
for in the heart assuming that Jerry must said to her Minister chabanne, the prophets I saw him said
that it settles the hungry in the place of the full. And what that means, according to many of the
scholars is that the sweetness of that date, you know, someone who's very hungry, maybe that date is
not going to fully fill their stomach that half a day, it's not going to fully fill their stomach
		

			but the the nutrition of it, the sweetness of it would at least make it more bearable.
		

			You know, in the Syrian refugee camps, many of you mashallah donated what you donated, those toys
that you give out there and those Syrian refugee camps, the kids are not asking What color is it?
And is it the latest models, it's a toy, they will line up and they'll take the toy because that toy
to them is the same as an Xbox or whatever it is for your child over here, it means something else
to them. And so that leftover meal for them, that leftover used dress or clothing for them that
leftover blanket, that extra food, think always about the Hadith of the Prophet sighs tell them if a
person would even take an animal over to their neighbor and say benefit from its milk for a few
		

			days. And that's the reward of freeing a person from slavery in the prophets lie some sets of free
someone from slavery is to free your entire body from the fire channel. Allah writes it down. So
let's take that mindset of the profit slice of them and learn through that detachment from this
world. detachment from greed and increase in shot Lazzara in that focus on what these little things
could be. May Allah make the mountains of reward for us on the Day of Judgment? May Allah subhana wa
Tada allow our hearts to be connected to him. And towards that which benefits us a lot more I mean a
cooler quality Hado stuff Laurie rockin risotto Muslimeen festa fiddle in a hotel for rocking.
		

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