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I've been now with al-Hil al-Sataa

Sazdala.

So after a very long break from this class,

obviously with Ramadan coming in between,

and a lot that has happened in the last couple of weeks,

we are now in the last three courses, or the last three classes on this on the subject of 40 hadits on social justice.

And if you think about the spectrum of what we've covered thus far. We've pretty much covered every

sector including the last class that we had before going into the month of Ramadan, which

was speaking of animals.

And I think that there's often a lot of, you know,

extremes when we're talking about these particular subjects, when we talk about animals,

and we talk about the environment.

Especially when you approach Islamic texts because they come off initially as overly idealistic. How do I apply these lofty expectations and these

lofty ideals of how the Prophet peace be upon him taught us to deal with animals

and deal with the environment around us when we can't even get

to the human compassion or human beings treating each other like human beings.

So how do we then transition from a very high standard already with human beings

and then move on to animals or move on to the environment? And today we're going to

talk about the environment,

and I think that it's important to point out

from the very beginning that we spoke a lot

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