 الله سبحانه وتعالى ان القرآن سد وهو الذي جعلكم خلائفة في الارض الله سد and his statements are the truth that he had appointed you, made you into خلائف which is the plural of خليفة a vice gerent custodians in the earth and Allah سبحانه وتعالى made this appointment in front of the angelic creation and not only that but he boasted about the position of the human being in front of the angels not in the worldly plane but in paradise but today we find that the most dangerous creature on earth is the human being so how is it that we were elevated to be ahead and above the angelic creation and have transformed ourselves collectively into a position of being the most dangerous creature on earth and I'm trying to make today some connections because many of us are witnessing one third of Pakistan underwater completely flooded one third of a country if just you comprehend one third of the country being underwater and this year we have experienced temperatures that have not been seen in at least in some records 500 or 1000 years in terms of breaking all types of temperature records and all of this is an outcome of our own irresponsibility as human beings in this realm whether over consumption, lack of attention to what we are doing completely almost in a state of heedlessness now I actually found out that Pakistan has the largest numbers of glaciers that are melting now again sometimes when people you can tell them about Pakistan they immediately think it's a desert like Saudi Arabia and I love the desert and I like love the places where our province lies but even we don't have an understanding of these places Pakistan Afghanistan India the China all these are massive lush green civilization started there as well as in Mesopotamia the Nile valley and today we're seeing all these places are literally being undone in front of our eyes so I said that the human being today is the most dangerous creature on the planet because we are literally I said here's your trust again if we take the Quran to be the truth from Allah says I'm appointing you as a human being you are the one who's responsible this عمر رضي الله عن سد if a cow tripped on its way on the side of a water canal I am afraid that Allah will ask me why I did not fix the road for that cow because he understood the responsibility and the responsibility that is assigned to us as human beings now the most beneficial creature on earth is the bee that's why Allah has a whole chapter on the bee now we know again as a result of our irresponsibility we have a whole host of bee families completely collapsing like the death of the bee is a harbinger is for us to reflect upon our responsibilities now I know somebody says well it's happening over there not here I don't know the past few days you had 110 160 120 temperatures that was completely not normal we have not had rain right so we are all living in a same boat and if somebody is walking a hole at the bottom of the boat you can be on the top having a suntan and saying it's not my problem the ice cab is melting in the north and the south we barely had any snow up in the top when they had the April what you call measurement there are only 2.5 inches which usually you get about 76 to 80 sometimes 90 inches 2.5 inches that's all and for those who drive up and down how way 8 or 50 you see that there was no water so the bees which are the most important creature because without bees you can't even have any of that you culture products that you eat you can't have the apples you can't have the oranges you can't have any of this because they pollinate so basically they are the source of what we eat it's not whole food or safe way just you know we think that whole food are safe are the ones that provide us the food is the bee that makes it possible for you to actually have the fruits and in the whole areas of the bees are sometimes 90% of them are dying off so there is a relationship between our responsibilities and what is taking place collectively now some will say well brother this is the signs of the end of time let me tell you something when the Prophet ﷺ died people thought that was the end of time literally some of the companions dug their grave and waited for the end of time that's 1,444 years ago when the big fitna took place when they assassinated people thought that was the end of time because people came and ranked the cities that's it that's the end of time in 680 when the big fitna again that occurred with the Hussein people also thought that was it the end of time because the Prophet ﷺ said between me being sent and the end of time are this much time when the Mongol invasion and ransacking of Baghdad in 1258 people said that's for sure there is nothing more to be said it's the end of time and you could actually see the poetry people were writing at the time that we have reached the end of time when they are expulsion from Granada 1492 same thing people said is the end of time what I'm pointing to is that the end of time is often a scenario for us to actually sit and be observers rather than participating in making the world better and that's where the Prophet ﷺ said ﷺ if the end of time comes upon you and you're planting a seed plant the seed he didn't say take a picture of it and tweet it don't take a selfie and put it on Instagram that there is a seed at the end of time because you want to see the end of time right as the world is collapsing you want to document it it's on Instagram I want to see you right so many people actually are taking selfies while they're falling so we get the evidence of how they fell because they're taking an Instagram they want to document I want to be I want to other see rather than actually you actually going out and doing the work the Prophet ﷺ did not want us to be preoccupied with the end of time the end of time is going to come nothing in the Sunnah nothing in the Quran tells us when it's going to happen this is the affairs of our Lord the Ruh and the end of time the end of time is from Allah سبحانه وتعالى there is nothing in the Quran nothing in the Hadith where you could say well I could calculate this tomorrow get busy nothing when the Prophet ﷺ was asked about it he says what did you prepare for it ماذا عددتها right so it's part of what you call almost getting a lack of engagement of the world because you become it says the end of time is coming but lean to my laziness because again the human being one part of us is really lazy and it becomes that you're watching almost a video of the world rather than actually be a participant in improving the world the Prophet ﷺ said plan the seed one of the most hopeful Hadiths that you could actually read the world is collapsing and you're busy in yourself planting a tree because a person who plans the tree is expecting the tree to grow at minimum if you're planting lettuce it will take a whole season for the lettuce to come out if you're planting an olive tree it's 14 years before the olive actually gives you fruit if you're planting a palm tree for dates it'll take many tries and many attempts until it gives you the first fruits so the Prophet ﷺ says if it's coming upon you they'll plant that seed right so again this is for us to realize that our affairs call for us to be people that improve and build this world عمارة الأرض the building of earth does not mean to build the tallest building it means to actually constantly take care and improve the world so you could give it to the next generation as I think we should appreciate the indigenous communities in here that said you should not take an action until you calculate it's effect seven generations forward and then you actually go back to see whether the action you take is good or not and this is actually from عارفخ عارفخ says before you take an action you have to take to the مأالات you have to look at the conclusion of the action and then you go back to see whether it's permissible or not because we're not people just of instantaneous right we're people of long term understanding and vision and sometimes we have to do things that we might not see it's fruit ourselves we are people that need to engage in improving the world now الله سبحانه وتعالى calls upon us not to be from among المسرفين right الله says ولا تطيعو أمر المسرفين don't obey the people who have this rough and I would say if people look at our lifestyle today you are living better status than the emperor of the Roman empire or the Persian empire today our lifestyle if you just if you just look at our lifestyle the emperor will actually envy you from what you have the emperor had to actually prepare for people to take him to travel from one place to the other we have all fruits at our disposal you go to any of the grocery stores you have not only one type of apple 15 types of apples a red apple a pink apple pink ladies apple the fat apple Washington apple Chili's apple right people used to be lucky to actually see an apple even in the season we can drive anywhere you could take a flight anywhere all these we are in a better lifestyle than possibly what any of these emperors used to have and then we complain and say oh I don't have enough and as I know myself is included we throw more than possibly what could fulfill the needs of so many so there is a relationship between our status as a human being because we are not fulfilling our role as a custodian of this earth and that's why our brothers and sisters are drowning in Pakistan one third our country is underwater and again we say oh let's do دعاء دعاء is good but also action is as important as دعاء action for your own self in here but action in relation to our brothers in Afghanistan in Pakistan the second part is of my talk is that what do we need to do I feel that we have lost our innovation and step as Muslims as well as human beings I was so what you call almost shocked but positively shocked in Pakistan in Afghanistan sorry that they have developed a way to preserve grapes in a mud container that preserve it and you could actually sell it outside of season it actually says many many months from mud the grapes are there and in in closed in a mud and you actually go in the street and you buy this in closed mud and you break it and the grapes are there still fresh and juicy just to think about the ingenuity of human beings did not have to use fridges did not did not need to use frayon which actually goes into the atmosphere and collapses our ozone layer that protects they did not have to have plastics every place where not only that the plastic itself is seeping into the water is causing cancer they use the material that were present to actually create something that is today we say organic is organic healthy and sustainable because you still can use the mud again you bolt with water and you put it in there the question for us we think we're advanced and the question what is the measure of advancement if the measure of advancement is the cheapest that you could put something together and put it out that's not advancement that's just like the the sure sign of compounded ignorance simple ignorance to say I don't know compounded ignorance is to do something over over again based on the wrong assumption and think that you are doing something good so the question is where is our real innovation where are our real project so for example it's taken the hadith of the prophet peace be upon him of planting a seed how come we don't have Muslims adopting areas to actually plant trees as a project because again deforestation is taking place every day an area as large as main is being burned and slashed so we could have agriculture agribusiness being set up if people are destroying section then you if you accept the responsibility again I accept the responsibility you accept the responsibility you say you accept the responsibility if they're destroying then where is our effort to prevent this from taking place by adopting and planting so let's take talk to department of forestry in here talk to other places adopt an area where you could actually go in the whatever season it is and plant a thousand trees two thousand three three thousand I don't know if you saw yesterday the CEO of Patagonia right have transferred all his company into a trust and the trust is only to preserve the earth for me that is something that should be celebrated should be replicated it should be imitated rather than imitating the selfies or the nefs as we see it visionary knowing that we are all on the same boat so he decided to save the boat not to actually just be on the top to take the pictures and be in a suntan on top of the boat so where is our project from that hadith for our kids for us to adopt to take areas that we want to again the trees are some of the most magnificent creations on this earth they give you fruit they give you the shade they give you the oxygen that you breathe have you ever stood by the tree and realized that your oxygen is directly connected to the tree that you're standing next to it just as a moment of reflection and in the evening they also take care of you because they take the CEO out of this earth the tree is in creation right so when we contemplate Allah's creation what is it that we contemplate other than understanding that relationship and at the end of the day you're from the earth so there is this what you call metaphysical understanding of the relationship of the human being as a Khalifa and it's coming from the earth so where are these projects so the tree is a project for those who are in science for those who are experimenting how come we can't find a replacement for the disaster that's called plastic again I am not a scientist myself I'm in historian but where is our replacement anyone that could find a replacement to this calamity really would be the genius of not the century but the age yesterday there was a whole beach area in south America that the whole beach and the front was covered with plastic coming from the ocean there's areas in the ocean that are dead zones because of plastic and every one of us that drinking water we're drinking water that has plastic because the plastic is seeping to our drinking water if a mother is suckling her baby her baby is being suckled with the byproducts of plastic today what more calamities that gets us to energize ourselves to be creative innovative to find weight I believe that God has put us in this earth to do actually find things that will address our human needs why? because God would not have appointed us in this earth without always providing for us but we have to use our mind on our creativity if we lean to the world and we lean too easy then definitely we're leading to the destruction so for those who are looking for projects for science to explore this is where we need to be you know ahead of ourselves as Muslims if you believe that you are خليفة الله في الأرض then get up and take your خلافة seriously I know that people think of خلافة as a sword and they think it's just like going around the head they're just like completely rudimentary misunderstanding of the خلافة and today we're just seeing the world is just being at the seam in front of our eyes to the level that our water is polluted that we drink our air is polluted our food is polluted and it's a calamity that we need to address it so this is where where the solution where the replacement because it's not enough to say well Masha'Allah we had Ibn Sina الحمد الله we had Ibn Sina they had their time oh we have الفرابي Masha'Allah الخوارزم he started what you call the algorithm Masha'Allah الحمد لله we have we have we have it becomes what you call we're drunken on history but we're going in to do for the future the person who is really as a Muslim's plan as if they're living forever right knowing that they're you're going to die but you plan and you work as if you're living forever it becomes that we look back as a way for us to stop thinking about today and the future that's a person who is what you call drunken in their mind of having the glory passed but forgetting the destruction that is unfolding in front of us so get up let's do the work let's let's make our own transformation and changes that are needed because time is not on our side the seas need to be planted the changes need to be to be had innovations is there right and that's our responsibility to be when we think of facade we always think only in rudimentary human beings do engage in facade on a personal level but that's what we need is water is the collective facade the collective facade is destroying the the progeny and the agricultural production that is real facade and then the result again is one third of a country is completely underwater and God knows which other countries are just because as we see that the rate of destruction is accelerating because we are in an accelerated rate some of these ice caps that are melting is going to increase sea level by about 30 to 32 centimeters that is you just can't imagine an addition of 30 all the coastal areas Fiji Island Malaysia some parts of the coastal areas in the Philippines some of the coastal areas here in California you take Highway 1 if you go just down Pacifica it's already the coastal area is collapsing there's a whole section Pacifica just down the street you don't need to go far it's already locked closed because the houses have fell down as a result of this complete transformation so if you're then you need to take your responsibility seriously it's not a matter of just what you call recite in the Quran and just go on back and say well you know we had a razi that's not sufficient the person that you're waiting for is you you need just to put your mind into it and it is within our capacity إنهو بالهودة ودين الحق وضهيره وعلى الدين كله ولو كاره المشركون The Prophet SAW said that the human beings are partners in food in drink and in energy and these are at the core of our collective survival food water and energy and therefore it's our obligation collectively to make sure that we protect, preserve access to water and ways for people to have water pure clean water to have food because increasingly with the food table is going to be under duress for a variety of reasons again the collapse of the beehives are a harbinger of what might be confrontness and also to find ways for energy which also includes alternative energy so my advice for you to me and to you is that the end of time is coming is as certain as it is but it's not your business to try to figure out when as far as we concerned it happened at the moment that we came to earth what Allah asks you is to be a person of planting developing and improving that which you are a custodian we are custodians of this earth and if your neighbor is digging doesn't mean that you sit down and you take selfies of it it means that you need to go and fix your side and you are not actually co-participant in whatever calamity that is befallen at least to give Allah says يعني I have excuse that I did my part and if we collectively do our part I do believe that we could make a better world until Allah سبحانه وتعالى decides that this is the end of the world أقول قولي هذا أستغفر الله لي ولكم أستغفروا إن الله ملاك يصلون على النبي يا يولدين آمن وصلوا عليه وسلي موت السليمة وسلي على سيدنا محمد وعلى آل سيدنا محمد كما صليت على سيدنا أبراهيم وعلى آل سيدنا أبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد المجيد اللهم إني داعن فأمنوا اللهم اهدنا في من هديت وعافنا في من عافيت وتولنا في من توليت وبارك لنا فيما أطيت وقنا وصرف عننا بالخير شر ما قضيت فإنك تقدي بالخير ولا يقدع عليك وإنه لا يذل من وليت تبارك تربنا وتعاليت ربنا ردنا الإسلام ردنا جميلة ربنا ردنا الإسلام ردنا جميلة اللهم يمقلب القلوب تبت قلوبنا على طاعتك اللهم أرنى الحق وزقت اتباع وأرنى الباطلة باطلا وزقت الشناب يا رب العالمين اللهم رحم المسلمين اللهم خفف عنهم اللهم خفف عنهم يا رب العالمين اللهم إنا مغلوبون فانصرنا وأخرد عوانا الحمد لله رب العالمين وأقم الصلاة إن الصلاة تتنهى عن الفحشاء والمنكرة البغي يعذكم لعلكم تذكرون