 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا ونبينا وحبيب غلوبنا أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطهيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المنتجبين أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وأاتذ القربى حقه والمسكين وابنى السبيل ولا تبذر تبذيرا إن المبذرين كانوا إخوان الشياطين وكان الشيطان لربه كفورة صدق الله العلي العظيم Today's subject is about being an environmentalist Muslim A Muslim who cares about his or her environment An environmentally friendly person I mentioned last night in the first part that climate change and global warming is something really serious It's a serious threat to our existence here on earth, to our future, to our families, to our health We have to think about it seriously. We should be responsible here This is an individual responsibility as well as collective responsibility of the community, the people Especially the people who believe in God, the people of conscience, the people who have good hearts To act responsible To think how I can contribute into saving this planet earth Maybe I cannot save the entire earth I cannot lead a major reform But believe me sometimes small steps, humble steps End up having major impact and deep impact on our life And you know this climate change is a serious threat with severe impacts And we are feeling it right now here in our state, state of California If you follow the news, I don't know whether you, when you drive on the freeway You see what you read on these humble alerts That they tell you we have severe drought And this is not exaggeration, we do have severe drought It is affecting our pockets, our finance, our economy and our psyche too Yes, it leaves unfortunately an adverse effect on our psychology On our thinking because when there is a drought It means that everything has been affected and touched in a bad way by this drought So we have to respect the nature, we have to respect the ecosystem Ecological system, we have to respect the environment Allah wants us to be builders not destroyers People who come to this earth to fix it, to put it together, put it back together Not some people who live here for some years and then they leave this earth in disarray Allah wants us to be good inhabitants And I mentioned last night the verse in the Holy Quran وستعماركم فيها وستعماركم فيها استعماركم comes from building He wants you to be builders Builders, fixers of this earth So when you leave it, you leave a good legacy to those who come after you Those who come after you, they say wow May God have mercy on those who were before us Our predecessors, our forefathers See what they left for us Clean place, clean environment This is what we should do And we should always encourage our children Encourage our children to take care of this environment And to tell them that this earth is a trust Allah left this earth, this house The earth that belongs to him A trust in our hands And he is testing us To see whether we deliver this mission appropriately Or we are going to misappropriate this Or this trust I mentioned last night When you speak about Islam People think that Islam is only prayers and fasting And Hajj and Zakat and that's it And Hijab But Islam is much bigger than that Islam Is involved In all aspects of your life Islam wants you to be healthy Islam wants you to be happy Prosperous Advanced And one of the most important things That we must take care of Is the environment To take care of the environment To save it Not to exploit it and destroy it I mentioned yesterday The first area I mentioned Was about water And also today I want to mention about Conserving energy Conserving energy Has a big impact on our life My friends I'll give you an example Now how many of you know Especially the young ones Those who go to school How this energy electricity is generated Any Any person How is it produced Locally How is it produced How do we get it Call Mostly Most of the energy In the world is produced by call And Because they burn the call Because this team that gets out of that It will power these generators It's electricity So mostly Mostly in America In Europe elsewhere They depend on call And when call is burned What happened What do you think when call is burning What is happening Before the destruction Of the ozone layer What happens when the call is burning CO2 What does that mean It means It's bad Is it It's bad This is very harmful pollution And you can see it People who live in Los Angeles You can see there's always a thick layer of smoke Lingering over the city Always This is bad This is bad for the trees This is bad for your heart This is bad for your mind This is bad for everything So imagine What should we do here We should conserve Allah says إخوان الشياطين تبذير when you squander تبذير when you use something above your need You don't need it but you still use it Let's say in your house Or even here in this mosque If we need only 10 of these lights Then 15 are not good 20 are not good We have to use only 10 I always tell the children that When you are in your room And the lights are on Once you leave your room What should you do first Turn it off Even if you are leaving your room For 2 minutes Even if you are going to the bathroom And coming back Don't put it off Because it counts These are small things At the end They are going to count Not only going to pay higher electricity bill Not only that Not only is going to affect your pocket In a bad way But it's going to affect your health too When you have these carbon Emissions increasing It's going to destroy your health So you have to take care of that One time I said to One of my friends Christian priest I said to him Christians during Christmas They do an insult to Jesus They don't celebrate him They do an insult to him If he was alive And he would come He would not agree with all these decorations and lights Extra spending He would say rather than putting All these decorations and lights And you know Give that money to the needy To the orphans To the poor To those who don't have clean drinking water 2 billion people today 2 billion people today on earth Are hungry 2 billion people 40% of the population of earth They live below poverty level Jesus will say Use that money Don't need decorations The best decoration for me The best birthday gift for me Is to be good Christian Is to think about others And the same thing Prophet Muhammad The best gift to me Is to be a good Muslim A thoughtful Muslim A Muslim with conscious A Muslim who thinks of others Not just himself So try to save electricity Please If you have unnecessary lights Stay away from them Sometimes lights outside Outside your house You don't need them You don't need that Save You have to save You have to feel the pain That we are suffering You have to be responsible This is number one When it comes to electricity So saving energy When it comes to earth Insha'Allah The second is Saving Conserving on water Especially here in our area Now if you go to other areas They have a flood And do you know that Even with areas That they have a plenty of water Still they declare drought In their areas State of drought Do you know that They have rain Not enough water So we have to conserve The Hadith says Even if you are standing On a river On a bank of a river And water is Running Gushing forth Streaming When you do Conserve the water Conserve Even if the water looks You know in abundance Plenty of water Your responsibility is To conserve Because Allah does not like Squandering Wasting إن المبذرين كانوا إخوان الشياطين The squanderer Are the siblings Of the shaitans Satan Siblings of the Satan So you don't want to be the sibling A sibling to a shaitan You don't want to do that So stay away from Wasting Energy Or wasting water I said Last night that 50% Of the drinking water Supplied to our homes And fortunately goes Down the drain in the toilet 40% 40% While Many million At least one billion People today on earth They don't have access To clean drinking water They don't have access A survey says I was reading Something very astonishing That when you turn off the tap While you are brushing your teeth You know how much water you You conserve When you brush your teeth Some people they keep the water running Running 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes He goes and answers the phone And the water is running This is not good You know how much water You save When you turn off the tap When you are Brushing It's 5 gallons Per time When you wash Yes And I said yesterday Last night Cutting 10 minutes On your shower 2 minutes Sorry 2 minutes Very good Alhamdulillah Because the entire shower Is 10 minutes So when you cut back Only 2 minutes You save How many gallons 10 gallons 10 gallons of water When you When you cut back Only 2 minutes And I know some of the young generation They stand You know In the shower For hours Hours and hours That's not good my friends My sons My daughters That's not good You have to Review your life You have to look back At what you are doing Change The month of Ramadan Is the month of change The month of transformation And these areas We have Not just to change The way we do Quran and dua Also the way You take a shower You have to change it You have to conserve the water Especially when The governor comes And he says We are in a serious condition We are facing Serious threats We have to take him serious Yes, he's a politician But not always He lies And in this area He does not lie He's right We can see it Where is the rain Have you seen When was the last time you saw rain I don't remember I forgot So we have to take these things Serious And then it says It says So when you When you turn on that Turn off the tap When you are brushing your teeth You save five gallons And the survey says As much water as the average person In Africa Uses A whole day of A drinking A cooking A bathing And a cleaning Five gallons They use five gallons And here We waste Hundreds of gallons So we have to take care Of that Our Imam Our leader You know what he says He says You know when you drink water In a cup Sometimes This much remains So some people What would they do with it They toss it away He says This is a sloth Don't do that This is forbidden Don't toss it away Either drink it Or Put it in the In the pot Put it in the I go myself You know what I do When there is some Some action Some action You know what I do When there is some Some extra water I go to the grass And I put it there Yeah Water the The trees with it Do not waste it Don't waste Even if you drops Do not waste Imam says This is a sloth This is a sloth You are damaging the environment You are being Any grateful To Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Be grateful Try to be Grateful And then He says Those people who waste You know They are used to To wasting You know Food Water Energy Ultimately they are going to go bankrupt They are going to go bankrupt And you don't want to do that You have to be thankful To what Allah has given you I know some families Who had money They had They were well off But unfortunately They did not know the value of money They were squanderers They spend excessively On things that are not worth it At the end they lost Their properties They lost their businesses And they lost their life So try to be To appreciate What Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Has given us If it is extra for you It does not mean that It is extra for others I said last night Unfortunately We are a spoiled nation here in America We take everything for a grant But if you take a trip to India To Africa To some other places in Asia And you see how people live In severe poverty Then you are going to review your life And you are going to change yourself We have to change ourselves We have to share this earth with others Even though they are not close to us They are thousands of miles away We have to be thoughtful of them Leave some resources for them I mentioned last night We are only 5% of the population of earth The Americans they make only 5% 300 million 5% We consume 25% Of the resources of earth Here in America 25% One fourth of the resources We consume them Not because we need them Believe me we do not need them The other day I was in San Diego Down here And when you pass by Some restaurants And some supermarkets You know the fruits after two days They get outside And you see some people going there At the back of the supermarket And you know searching In these dumpsters in the trash And they get and they show you They tell you look at this fruit Has nothing it's nothing wrong with it It's not rotten it's not bad But they dispose it It's not good This is not good When you go to a restaurant You have extra food Take it with your home The following day Don't let that food goes to the trash Don't Don't allow your children Your neighbors Teach them To value the food This is a grace This is a grace This is bounties These are bounties of Allah Today we have them Maybe tomorrow we might not have them Don't take things for granted I have seen some people who were Spoiled They had an extravagant life And then after that they lost everything They became beggars And the best Insurance to keep the blessing Of God continuing Is to be thankful to Allah How to be thankful just to say Thank you that's not enough Thank you with your behavior With your deeds When you help others with what you have Share My friends in Ramadan we have to learn To share The food we eat We share it The drink we share it The clothing we share it The money we have in our pockets We share it Everything you have you have to share Imam Zayn Al-Aabideen عليه الصلاة والسلام عليه يبن الحسين Allahumma صلى الله عليه وسلم Every year He used to share it twice Twice Every six months Once every six months Twice a year Everything he had He would share it With the poor and the need And Allah will give you back Because Allah has all these bounties The reserve for you He wants you to see spending them Giving them So he will bring them He bring them So try to think of others And then we go to the Saving of papers Something that we don't We don't even think about I've seen some Scholars Great scholars When I go to their office I sit next to them I see they have a piece Of paper like this And they use Every single Space in it To the extent that sometimes You get confused You can't read the paper So I tell him Why is this He says because I want to save paper And then come here And look at our kids Look how they Spoil really Spoil Papers Unlimited Unlimited They just put one line Sometimes one letter on a paper And then they dispose it This is not good Do you know my friends Every single American family Every single American family They waste One and a half Three per year One and a half One and a half Three per year On junk mail They mail that comes Today I brought the mail Believe me All of it was junk All of it went Alhamdulillah no bill Alhamdulillah we're so happy This much You know Papers went into the recycling This is not good This is not good I know some families They go to the post office And they tell them No junk mail Don't bring me junk mail This is not good One and a half Three And these threes They protect us What does a tree do Can someone tell me Absorb what Carbon And And give us what And do we need oxygen or not Can you survive Without oxygen So you have to appreciate the tree In Islam It's haram قطع الأججاري حرام كان دانا دراحتها Haram us that Islam Do not cut trees One of the things that we do not do during Hajj When we go to Hajj In the state of Haram Even outside the state of Haram You are not allowed in Makkah And it's vicinity The haram One of the things that are forbidden Illegal is to cut trees You cannot cut the tree The tree has to be respected The tree is serving us Serving us with the most Vital most important thing That we need in this life Oxygen Why do we cut it You know in America in one year In one year look at the wastage Of papers in America Every single year in America Two million books Listen, two million books 350 million magazines And 24 billion newspapers Are thrown away in the recycle In America alone How much does that cost us It cost a lot We have to We are happy that we live sometimes In a modern country Industrialized country Affluent country Affluent society But it has a heavy price We have to be conscious of that Therefore Try not to waste And even this Sometimes I disagree with this Believe me Let me read about it It says in America 1.5 million tons Of a plastic is used Every year To produce these things 1.5 million tons Tons of plastic You can have a filter at home On your faucet And you can use the The water from your faucet Or at least If you can't survive You think you cannot survive without these bottles At least recycle them Try to recycle them To save Our Earth And then of course Let me tell you something Another figure And this is Our mothers and our daughters And sisters Should pay attention to it And that is the amount Of oil That goes down The drainage into the ocean And it creates A lot of hazard For Creatures in the water For us And for others 2.9 million gallons Of oil Go into the north America's oceans Every year 2.9 million gallons Of oil Each year It says 5 million gallons And by tanker spills Like what happened In Santa Barbara 5 million 5 million But 24 million gallons Caused by human activities Such as Number one Cooking oil Pouring cooking oil Into the sink Where does it go Goes into the drainage And then ultimately It ends up where Into the ocean Or even sometimes We don't pay attention To these small things We think they are small But look at this Topping Topping off your gas tank Have you seen some people They keep pressing That oil That gas Goes into the drainage And goes into the Into the ocean And also Hosing down the grease From our cars Into the storm Storm drainage Also It goes into the ocean And it is very very Harmful To the creatures In the ocean To us To the environment These are small things But when people Do not care about them The whole society It leads into What we have today As what? Drought Climate change Global warming Allah wants us To build this earth To maintain it To take care of it When it comes to food You know that survey says That one fourth of all food Produced in the United States Of America is wasted One fourth One fourth of the food And this is very true Very true In this country One fourth of the food How many of you How many of us We teach children When you eat Finish your food I've seen even in some Islamic circles Islamic communities When they go and get the food They fill the plate Because man is agreed Nature is agreed Especially when he's hungry Fasting He thinks that he's going to eat The whole food And then he eats Half of it Sometimes less than half And the rest goes where? You know where it goes Wasted That's how Take what is necessary The Christian doctor Said To the Abbasid Kalef in Baghdad To the Ma'amoon He said to him يا مأمون لقد جمع علم الطب في كتابكم All the science of medicine Have been gathered In your book The Holy Quran Ma'amoon said really The Quran does not speak About medicine He said yes It does Allah says كلوا وشربوا ولا تسرفوا كلوا وشربوا ولا تسرفوا That's the secret of well-being Good health Eat Drink Moderately Without excessive Do you want to be healthy? Take care of your health You have to take care of your diet Don't overeat In Ramadan Ramadan One of that One of the objectives Not all the objectives One Ramadan has many goals Many objectives One of them is to maintain your health But unfortunately Some people they overeat in Ramadan Every single food Which is missing throughout the year They bring it on the table On Ramadan Food Sweet You know Appetizers Before food After food In the middle This Between Iftar and Suhoor And these open buffets They tell you The most dangerous place on earth Is all you can eat Believe me Avoid them Believe me They charge you 7 box But they take away your health From you Don't go there All you can eat Is not something good Is not doing your service Is doing your disservice So in the month of Ramadan We have to learn moderation In eating And drinking And that will Impact our psyche Our أخلاق Someone with a full stomach Is not going to change his أخلاق Believe me We have to follow these rules Allah سبحانه وتعالى Says وآتي ذا القربة حقه والمسكينة وابنى السبيل ولا تبذر تبدير Stay away from تبدير Everything that above the need Is تبدير Accessiveness Squander Waste Stay away from it Even when it comes to clothing If you need certain amount of clothing Shoes Get them Don't get above that It will be a liability against you It will be a burden on you Leave it for others Give it for others Our Imam used to share their Address with people He would wear it one or two days And then he give it to others Share it Try to share it Share it Try to share The recipe for happiness سعادة in this life Is when you share When you think of others ولا تبذر تبدير الله مغفر المؤمنين والمؤمنات والمسلمين والمسلمات الأحياء منهم والأموات تابع لهم بيننا وبينهم بالخيرات إنك مجيب الدعوات إنك غافر الخطيئات تقبل صلاتنا وصيامنا ودعاءنا في هذا الشهر العظيم فرج الله أمه أو الله تقبل رليف إلى الناس of يمن إلى الناس of سيريا إلى الناس of إراك to all all the مؤمنين all the مسلمين all the humans worldwide wherever there is suffering الله bring them رليف and bring them happiness and bring unity to the heart of the Muslims and let us follow your path إن شاء الله وصلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين