Why Your Doors Close? - Mufti Menk
By Mufti Menk | 2026-01-10T14:20:57.255205+00:00 | Topic: Iman
Why Your Doors Close? - Mufti Menk
Opening
We praise the Almighty Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We send blessings and salutations upon all those who were sent from the very beginning all the way to Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam to remove us from darkness, to show us the light, to show us the path of goodness and the path of contentment and happiness, to save us from the path of destruction. And we ask the Almighty to bless not only the blessed household and all the companions of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam but every one of us. We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to grant us every form of goodness and to alleviate the suffering of all those who are struggling across the globe.
Understanding Closed Doors
My brothers, my sisters, how many of you have attended a motivational evening before? Very good. I ask you, why have you come back? That's a question. Why are you participating in another motivational evening?
So the topic I've chosen to talk about today is closed doors. Closed doors - what do they stand for? When things happen to crumble in front of your eyes, everything is just not happening. How many of us have had doors closed? Something you wanted didn't happen. A job that perhaps you had, you lost it. Something that you were really searching for and you couldn't find it. How many of us? That's all of us, almost.
If it's all of us, then surely the Almighty who made us has it within the divine plan to close doors. So we learn from the very beginning that Allah is Ghafoor, Rahim, Rahman, Wadud - which means part of the qualities: He's the Most Forgiving, the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent, the Most Kind, the Most Compassionate, the Most Forgiving and so on. So why would He close our doors?
The Mercy Behind Closed Doors
Do you know when you are young and you want to do something and your mom or your dad knows that this is not good for you? You're too close to the swimming pool, what happens? "Hey, come back!" And you really like, "No!" If you're so small you start crying. When you're eating those sweets and chocolates, enjoying them and they know that there is a limit beyond which it will affect your health, your throat perhaps, it might do something to you that's negative. So they take away the sweets. Sweets are lovely, right? Chocolates are even more beautiful, right? Everyone likes these things but it's unhealthy for you. So what does your mom do? Out of love she takes it away. But you start crying and you cry so much it's such a big tantrum like the world came to an end.
Haven't you seen little kids? Some of us who do have kids, if you've witnessed kids, you will notice they start yelling at the top of their voices when you are doing something for them that is very, very beneficial for them. For example, if a child is playing with a knife, you know what are you going to do? You're going to take the knife away. And what does the child do? Waah! The child starts crying, thinking that "What are you doing? Why did you take this knife away? I was enjoying myself!" But if you didn't do that, whether the child cried or not was actually irrelevant. If you didn't do that the child would have been affected negatively and possibly very great damage would have happened, agree?
So when you take away things from your child out of love that that child really, really loves and really wants - is it because of your mercy or because you don't like the child? It's the mercy, absolutely the mercy.
Therefore in my life when Allah - I believe firmly that He is the Most Compassionate - trust me, when He blocked something and stopped it, it is even more merciful than the mercy of a mother who has taken a knife away from the child. And as a result the child cries. When we're adults and we have faith in the Almighty, we will not cry when things have not happened the way we want because we know they have happened squarely the way the Almighty wanted. That's faith. That's why the Almighty closes doors.
Examples of Divine Wisdom
I give you another example. You desperately want a job and you are trying. You apply for 1, 2, 3. They called you for an interview, they said no. They called you for an interview, they said no. Third time interview, they said no. What do you say? Usually people will start saying "I think someone's blocked my path. I need to go to a sheikh or I need to go to someone to do ruqya because I think my doors of sustenance are actually closed." And the Almighty says "Don't you dare lose faith. I did it as a mercy for you, subhanallah, because I know the 10th job that you're going to apply for will be better than all the 9 that you are blocked from." But we're too young, we don't know the future.
When your mom took away the knife, she didn't know the future but she knew what was happening there and then, right? But when Allah takes away something or blocks something, He absolutely knows the future.
The Example of Marriage
I give you one example and this is a very common example. We desperately want to get married to someone and guess what? The door doesn't open. Just doesn't. Something stops it. And you know what? It's a heartache and we suffered and we struggled. I promise you if you've tried your best and you've had faith in the Almighty, believe firmly that that wasn't for you. I've been in the same boat, wallahi I've been in the same boat and I'm not going to deny that we wanted things we didn't get. And hindsight, you start acknowledging perhaps definitely indeed the Almighty knows something we didn't know, don't know, maybe won't know.
But one day when we meet Him we may ask Him if we still recall that "You know, You blocked this door. I really wanted it. Tell me if I had gotten married to this person, show me a video of what my life would have been like." Can He do that for you? Would the Almighty do that for you if you ask Him in Jannah? Yes, He would. Yes, He definitely would. If you ask Him in Jannah for anything, He would. If you remember that in Jannah - because the thing is would we or wouldn't we remember this in Jannah? I don't want to say yes or no but I doubt it highly.
The Analogy of the Womb
You know, we've been in such Jannah. By the way, Jannah is Paradise. So when we get to Paradise we may not remember many things. I've given an example during other speeches of mine about the womb. You and I know that exactly six months prior to our birth, maybe four months prior to birth, let's say three months prior to birth, we were definitely in the wombs of our mothers. I know that I was. I know that now. But can any one of us remember what we enjoyed in that womb? Not so.
If you were to communicate with a twin of yours if you were two in that womb and you were to say "Gosh, we're loving it here, man," would you ever believe that there was life outside the womb? The answer is no, you wouldn't. You would never believe it. To you that was your world. Everything happened and you were wondering why the fluid that's coming into you was so tasty. But that was your mom eating perhaps chocolate. And you didn't know. And for you, "Wow, I love this. It's so enjoyable. It's tasty whatever must have happened."
But to be honest, as you grew older and bigger in there, you wouldn't have believed that just a membrane away is a whole real world such that when I get into it I will never ever remember where I am right now. But there was life already. The soul is blown at 120 days according to the teachings of Islam, right? So when the fetus gets to 120 days the soul is blown. Life begins in almost its entirety. The only thing left is birth and breathing, right?
Transitioning Between Worlds
But prior to 120 days according to what we are taught as Muslims, the heart is pumping definitely but it doesn't depict the life of an individual in the sense of a soul being blown in it. Just like medicine says that this person is brain dead. When they are brain dead what does that mean? The heart is pumping. They say that this person is as good as dead, gone. They even take the heart out to transplant it somewhere or they take something else out to transplant it somewhere.
The heart of an individual will keep pumping even if you've taken it out of that body and you've given it to someone else and transplanted it into another body. It will pump in that body perhaps for another 20 years. It was just taken from a person who was brain dead. Did that heart depict the life of the individual from whom it was taken away from? No.
You see what I mean? So we believe that life has definitely a heartbeat to it but on top of the heartbeat there has to be a soul. If the heartbeat is gone the soul is gone. And if the soul is gone not necessarily has the heartbeat stopped. Subhanallah.
That heartbeat at 120 days when the soul was blown - it's complete. You have life. You know what's going on. You actually start reacting to sounds into various other factors of your surroundings, right? That's why we say education begins prior to birth. What the mother listens to affects the child. You want to listen to something beautiful, soothing, you know, it will help the child. You want to listen to something or there is yelling and screaming and shouting, you know, "I don't want the child to be born" - it's a first thing, you know. May Allah forgive us. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us an understanding.
But the point I'm raising is you know that you were in the womb but you don't remember a thing and you wouldn't have dreamed - you would not have dreamed that a membrane away is a life that nobody can describe. Right now in the same way when you go into the hereafter it's just a membrane away. A membrane away, you know, birth takes the labor - the labor, they call it the labor, right? It takes or differs from person to person. May Allah make it easy for everyone. Sometimes it's a few hours, sometimes it's more than just a few hours, sometimes it's a few days, sometimes it's a few minutes, right?
Just like that there's something known as sakarat - the pangs of death. When you're leaving, your soul is removed. Sometimes it takes a few days, sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few minutes and sometimes a split second and you're gone, subhanallah.
So and in the same way that you went from one life to another life - in the womb to life in this world - in a way that you can't remember anything that happened in the womb, in the previous sort of stage, you will only remember certain things in the next stage whatever the Almighty wants you to remember. You will remember. Otherwise a lot of it it's going to become so irrelevant because Allah says when you get to the hereafter it's actually something amazing you cannot describe it to the human brain that exists on earth right now except by way of example from a distance.
The Promise of Paradise
So the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him says you go to Paradise, in it there will be that which no eye has ever seen, that which no ears have ever heard, that which has never crossed the mind of a person. You know, in the Arabic they say it didn't even cross the heart of a person. What was in your heart? So I'm waiting to get there, subhanallah. But when I get there I can ask the Almighty "You know what? If I remember at that stage," for my cat I could. But you're not going to remember your cat so don't fight with me right now. Let's get there and see, subhanallah. And I won't be able to tell you "You see, I told you you're not going to remember your cat" because that itself is remembering the cat.
It's going to be amazing. If I tell you what did you like in the womb of your mother? You're going to say "Yuck!" Some might, some might say "I don't remember." Nobody's going to say "Yummy, I remember, you know." May Allah grant us an understanding.
The Wisdom in Life's Difficulties
My brothers, my sisters, the Almighty is full of love. Sometimes things happen in a way that we don't realize. According to us what's right now as human beings, what's the worst thing that could happen? Can someone say it? Take a look at what's happening across the globe to not only the Muslims but a lot of Muslims, right? They're dying. There is violence. There is killing. There is bombing. We're not happy. There is torture. There is oppression. We're not happy. We're praying day and night that this stops. We would love to be vehicles of promoting peace and we'd like to see people get along with their diversity, with their differences of opinion. We'd like to see them care for each other with their differences in faith, in inclination, with their differences in belief. We'd love to see them get along.
As educated as we're becoming, we're becoming less tolerant of one another which is part of the problem. We want to impose our own understanding of culture and whatever idea of living we have on another whether it is from the West to the East or the East to the West. And that is part of the problem. So the West is not innocent nor is the East. It's mankind who's guilty of wanting to impose his own understanding upon the rest of the globe and that's causing the issue. We're not living or letting live. Subhanallah. May Allah grant us an understanding.
Death as a Mercy
What I said just now is very strong, very strong. My brothers and sisters, if I were to tell you what's the worst thing that could happen to your mom or your dad or your child, you are going to tell me if they die it's the worst thing that could happen. But I want to tell you something. Yes, from a human perspective we are meant to save lives. We love those who are obviously saving lives and we should be contributing towards saving lives and not just saving lives but improving the quality of the lives of others. That's part of our job.
But my brothers, my sisters, I can tell you that if you want Paradise - and just by show of hands who wants Paradise ultimately? May Allah grant us all Paradise. May we be united inshallah in Paradise all of us and not just us but everyone. Paradise is so broad it doesn't just fit 200 people. It will fit billions and trillions and quadrillions, pentillions and septillions and nolillions and decillions. You might be wondering how I know all these figures because I'm a Zimbabwean. You know our currency actually went so far to decillions. We learned what a decillion is.
My brothers and sisters, I tell you what. You want to go to Paradise and so do I. To get there something you don't like needs to happen. What is it? You need to die. And no one wants to die but we all want to go to Paradise. Where is Paradise? On this side or the other side? It's on the other side. The Paradise I want is right on the other side.
So I promise you my brothers, my sisters, something we look at as negative, the Almighty says "I won't allow you to have a say in when it's going to be and how it's going to be because I know on the other side I'm going to give you something way beyond your liking and I have to give it to you when I know it's right for you. And therefore I'm going to do certain things in your life that you may not understand. If you have faith and conviction, when you come on the other side you're going to see what exactly is in store for you."
Hence, guess what happens? You die suddenly but in frustration. Was that a good death or a bad death? It was a very good death. You die for example while doing a good deed. You just finished your Umrah,
The Divine Threshold of Pain
As much as it's our duty to save the life within this world, the Almighty did not want them to go beyond a certain point of suffering and that's why death is looked at by Muslims as a mercy because the Almighty says "I love you so much I will not allow you to taste pain beyond a certain threshold. If it gets to the threshold I'll just take you away."
Did you hear what I just said? If someone starts hurting you and really if someone chokes you, right? They can only block your breath for a very short time beyond which you die. Why did you die? Because the Almighty loves you more than the pain that you are about to endure. They weren't allowed to inflict pain upon you beyond a certain point. The Almighty says "I'm going to take you away." That's why as Muslims when someone dies we say "They've gone into the mercy of the Almighty." Have you heard that?
So my brothers and sisters, it is our duty - don't get me wrong - to save lives. But when something has happened beyond your control you need to realize that there is a purpose for it. There is a reason for it. I may not know. I really don't know when the Almighty closed your door, when you lost a job, when you were sick and the doctors did not know what was wrong one after the other, third. You need to do whatever is in your capacity to help yourself and at the same time rely on the Almighty. If you've done those two you've developed your relationship with the Almighty and done whatever was within your capacity to actually try to benefit the situation or come out of a negative situation. You've done your duty. The rest the Almighty will take care of.
The Story of Al-Khidr and Musa
My brothers and sisters, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in Surah Al-Kahf about doors that He instructed a person to close for others by giving that person some knowledge that was not given to another, He teaches us a lot. Who knows which story that is? Al-Khidr at the time of the Prophet Moses may peace be upon him.
There was a man known as Al-Khidr. I can tell you the story very briefly. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told Moses that "We have given pockets of knowledge more than yours to someone else." And he was curious to know who. So the Almighty gave him a sign that if you do this and you get to a certain point you meet him. So ultimately they met. When he met this man he told him "Can I join you because if I join you I just want to get a taste of a little bit of the knowledge that the Almighty has given you?" He says "You cannot join me because you won't be able to bear patience regarding what I would do." He says "No I promise you I won't say a word. I just want to come. I'll join you and I just watch." Subhanallah.
So he said "Okay that condition and you can join." He joined. When he joined three things happened and all three times the Prophet Moses may peace be upon him commented naturally.
Once they were walking and suddenly this man kills a little boy. And what happened? That is brutal, right? How could you just do that? He said "I told you you won't know so just keep quiet."
And then the next time they're going past and they jump into a boat and you know what? He makes a hole in this boat. And he says "Why did you make a hole? They're giving us a lift from point A to point B to cross this water here and you've just made a hole." He says "I told you don't ask. I know something you don't know."
The third time they went and they were passing this little town and they needed to eat and these people were quite nasty to them, not hospitable at all. There was a wall about to fall and this guy decides he wants to take out the time to straighten the wall. And Musa says "Why are you straightening their wall for them? If you wanted you would have gotten some of the food and whatever else we were asking them instead of repairing the wall." He says "I told you you don't know and now it's the third time so we can separate ways. Let me explain to you what exactly happened?"
He says to the Prophet Moses may peace be upon him "As for the child, the Almighty told me that if this child is given life - he was never going to be given life because the life was taken away, that's the point - if this child was going to be given life he would have been one of the worst children for his parents, a means of burden for them. Such a big burden that they would have been in pain because of him and what he would do had he been given life. So as a mercy for him and as a mercy for them and for them to be united in Paradise sometime later, for them to have goodness, we took him away so he was no source of harm for anyone. He wasn't the source of any form of negativity. His parents loved him as he left."
Lessons from the Story
You know it happens sometimes when you have boxers and sportsmen, right? When they are at their peak we always whisper to them "You can quit now." Do you know why? "Come on, you are the king. You are right at the top. You are holding the world cup. Subhanallah. You are holding the belt. Quit now. You did it. Let others do it now." Unless you want to hold it for a while because you are not yet passed your sell by date, right?
So my brothers and sisters we tell them to quit at the point of their peak so that they don't have to witness a day when they lose. You can say "I hit the top, I was the world champ and I quit." Wow! You go down in history as a champion. If you knew that you were going to lose would you ever want to engage in another match? No matter what it was. No matter what sport it was. The answer is no, you wouldn't. You would walk out graciously to say "No, I'm not going to go." Why? You know you are going to lose.
But there's no one who knows the future in this world. The Almighty knows it. So that's why the Almighty said "We took the life of the child away because the child would have been a big, big, big source of negativity, depression, whatever else it might have been for the parents. And the parents would bear patience and as a result they would also earn the reward and they would live a life full of whatever goodness has come in that direction." That's what I mean.
Personal Application
You wanted to marry someone and you couldn't. Not because you didn't try. You tried but the Almighty closed the door and another and the third and the fourth and you just couldn't. And suddenly they married off somewhere else and you were depressed. Don't be depressed. It's a blessing of the Almighty. Maybe through that union you may have had children or grandchildren who may have been the source of something you would never be able to bear. And because the Almighty knew what would have happened two generations later He said "I'd rather block you from now and you don't even know." "But that was the love of my life." Subhanallah. It was. It was. I do know. It does mean we're only human. It hurts. It hurts a lot. Ask me. I tell you. It hurts a lot. But your faith keeps you going. It keeps you smiling.
The Many Open Doors
And you know what? When the door is closed if you are to cry over a closed door you would miss the many open doors that are all around you and you don't even know. I know people who lost jobs. Within weeks of losing the jobs they made more money than their bosses. I know personally of a guy who told me "I lost a job. I was depressed. And within a short space of time my company was bigger than the company I just left. The Almighty wanted it from you."
But the day you left you cried, depressed, whatever else. "No," Allah says "I love you, man. A lot of the people even from a material perspective who are at the top of the globe today, the wealthiest, they had closed doors such that they almost thought they were going to be bankrupt. But that was the Almighty opening the door. For you it looked closed. The Almighty says 'Hang on. We've just opened a massive door.' I've learned this."
Faith and Conviction
And I have faith. And I'm inviting you to draw on your own faith and conviction in the Almighty to lead a life of contentment. Have conviction that the Almighty has had mercy on you. They can deport you. They can do something. They can falsely accuse you. Maybe the Almighty wants you to meet someone in the prison. You were innocent but you spent a few days there, a few months there, whatever else there. It has happened.
I saw a story of a guy released 36 years later. Did you see the story recently in the news? And he was innocent of the murder he was accused of. But new evidence came about 36 years later that resulted in him being found innocent. 36 years later surely the Almighty had a massive plan for this guy. He must have been an asset. I wish I had the time to study his life in the prison and see what he did.
Transformation. The Almighty never gives up. It's man who gives up. When you gave up, the door closed. But the Almighty's doors were always open. It's you who gave up. Don't give up. Never. You don't give up. Keep going.
The Dodging Cars Analogy
I love to call it the dodging cars. Have you ever played dodging cars? You know what it is? When I was a kid, I used to love it. In fact, to be very honest, I still wouldn't mind jumping in some. And what happens? As soon as you bump somewhere else, as soon as it touches, it reverses and goes elsewhere. That's what life is all about.
You go, a door closes. Don't waste time. Just move. Then another door, the third door, until you get to the end. Wow, subhanallah. You get right to the end. "Oh, I made it. But I bumped 25 doors." Right? All bumped. As soon as you bump, boom, you move. You don't bump and keep on going, keep on going. Some of the guys who don't know the dodging cars, that's what they do. The kids, and they keep, they don't, and you try to tell them "Just spin the steering." But they don't know that you just gotta spin the steering a little bit. They just move themselves. It's not gonna help you. No. Same thing happens in life.
You hit the door, move. You can try it, try opening it. If not in your capacity, don't drain yourself. Don't. Things happen. You're not the first person whose doors were closed. That's why I asked you by show of hands. All of us put up our hands. Something's gone in our lives, not in a way that we wanted it to go. Right? Thank Allah for that. It's beautiful. It's amazing.
Being on Earth to Be Tested
My brothers and sisters, people who are sick and ill sometimes, they just don't get the right medication. Sometimes they do, and then they suffer another illness a little bit later. And the third one. What does the Almighty have in that? I mean, why doesn't He just give me a beautiful life? Why doesn't... You know why? You're on earth to be tested.
I always say that one of the simplest explanations of proof of the fact that we're on earth to be tested is that none of us have chosen to be here. I didn't choose to come on earth, to this earth. I didn't choose it. I didn't choose my race, my nationality, my a lot of things, not even my name. My name later on, okay, my folks had a bit of a say and perhaps if I didn't like it later on, I could have changed it. But I didn't have a say in where I would land, which hospital I was born in or wherever else we were born. Some people perhaps not in hospitals, at homes or clinics or wherever else. I didn't have a say.
That proves you're here on a mission. Someone put you here. You didn't have a say. And so many other things, the color of your eyes, your nose, your ears, your capacity, your brains or whatever else. You know what? Someone gave it to you. "Whatever I've given you, I want you to use it. Two things, you need to actually develop a relationship with your maker. Whoever made you, say, 'Oh You who made me. You know what? I owe myself to You alone. I'm going to come back to You.' And while you're on earth, live your life in a way that all the capacities and faculties and organs or whatever else you have been bestowed with shall be used to its extent to achieve what we believe is beneficial for us in a permissible way."
Prophetic Guidance on Effort
"Work hard towards achieving what you believe is beneficial for you." I need a job, work hard towards it. Use the capacity your Almighty has given you to achieve it. You're not well, go to the doctor. Go and do something about it. You want to get married? Start meeting people. Get up and do something. Talk to this one, that one. Try things. Don't just sit and say, "I believe in the Almighty Allah. You know what? He's predestined everything. If it's meant to be, it will come to me in my lounge." Whoa! In that case, it was not meant to be because you were foolish.
The Almighty says, "We gave you the capacity. We gave you the technology. We gave you the ability. We facilitated so many things. If only you stepped out and spoke to two or three people, your prince would be waiting or princess." Subhanallah.
The Almighty has written for us things but obviously, He expects us to play our role. He's given that capacity to us. That's why the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam says, "Use your capacity. Use your brain. Use whatever we gave you and do your best."
Then he says it's the same hadith. He says, "If something happens to you that was negative, not exactly as you wanted, after you tried your best," He says, "Don't say that if I did this, perhaps that would have happened and if you already did it, close your eyes and carry on. And now that it's stopped, do something else. Don't blame yourself and don't go backward. Go forward."
Forgiveness and Moving Forward
We all make mistakes. We will make mistakes. We are human. We are prone to error. When you make mistakes, learn to apologize. Learn to make amends. And learn to progress. Learn to move forward. Not backwards. When you keep on looking back and thinking, "Oh! I made a big mistake. I don't know." The Almighty will forgive you, number one. Always. There is no exception to it. Always. You will be forgiven.
Some of you might say, "What if I have associated partners with the Almighty?" I promise you, He will forgive that too. If you seek the forgiveness. The only time He won't forgive, perhaps, if a person dies without seeking forgiveness, it's up to Him. It's His mercy. He can do what He wants. Right? But the warnings are connected to after you've died, if you lead a life that was filled of negativity, sin, etc. Then
the Almighty says, "You know what? You have yourself to blame." Obviously, He's most merciful. He has said that if I want, I will forgive you even then, subhanallah.
Building Relationships with Creation
But I tell you, there is no point in going back and looking at a door that was closed and crying about it. Move! Life is too short, too short to close yourself. If I had the time to ask each one of you, I would definitely hear some amazing stories, amazing stories of motivation. How a closed door led to a bigger door being opened. But you just need to open your eyes.
Sometimes we will struggle. We may have health matters, health problems. Allah knows, bear patience. Even if ultimately you end up not making it, okay? You know, some people are diagnosed sometimes cancer, may Allah grant cure to all those who are struggling with any illness whatsoever. People are struggling and I go and I tell them sometimes, "Look, inshallah you be cured."
Don't get me wrong. Our duty is to save life, to try to be cured even ourselves. But if ultimately we succumb to the sickness or the weakness, the illness, don't be too depressed. You're going to a better place, man. You're going to a Lord who is merciful, forgiving, kind, loving, the Most Compassionate. I mean, what do you want? Subhanallah.
The Importance of Character
Now I want to end off by telling you, do you know what? Developing a relationship with the Almighty is very very closely connected to how you treat creatures made by the same Almighty. If I love Allah, I love my Maker. To show that love to my Maker and to prove it, I need to make sure that I've proven that I love everything else about Him and what He's made.
You see my point? We're all sitting here. Why do I love you so much? Can I tell you? Because I'm trying to impress the One who made me and He made you. So what He would love is for me to show that I care for everything He made.
Do you follow what I'm saying? So no matter who you are and what you look like and where you come from and what's your background and how's your thinking? Hey, I care for you. Do you know why? Because I'm creature of the same Maker I'm trying to impress. That's my life.
And you know what? The dogs and the cats and the pigs are all the creatures of the Almighty. Even though I may not consume a pig. Do you understand? Does it mean I need to be unkind to a pig? No.
Do you follow what I'm saying? The Hadith says, "Every animal and everything living that breathes, right? If you were to take care of it in any way, there is a reward." So much so that there are other narrations that show us that the entire ecosystem that was made by the Almighty is not to be destroyed. No way.
You look after everything. We're talking about global warming. We're talking about whatever else they made. You should be concerned. You should be concerned. Do you know why? It's the creation of the Almighty. Don't spoil it. Don't contaminate it. Don't mess it. Don't destroy it unnecessarily. Thank the
Almighty for it. Use wherever you need. Yes, within the need and think about replenishing it. You want to chop a tree because you need something? Plant another ten, subhanallah. So by the time your children come about, they will have seen, "Oh, dad used a tree. You know what? He's planted another ten."
Closing Dua
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala grant us peace.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala open our doors. May He grant us ease. May He grant us barakah and blessings in everything that we do. Whatever you're going through in your lives right now, may the Almighty be with you, create ease for you, alleviate your suffering, grant you cure, help you in every way and the same for entire humanity.