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to our sister and to our brother to make their out for his healing. May Allah

save him and comfort sister Rebecca and her family and make it easy for them.

Allah ma'amim. This is not a khutbah about recycling as the title might

suggest when we talk about waste and you might notice that waste is in

quotation marks but there is a rich body of Ahadith from the Prophet

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam 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 Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam that got me thinking about this subject and

it's an authentic Hadith from Al-Bara'a radiallahu ta'ala anhu where the

Prophet Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam said Manmanaha minhatalabana

Aw minhataw warik. Awhada zukhaqan ka'ithpid ka'ithpid nasama awrakabah

Salallahu Alaihi Wasallam 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 lends 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

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