Baton, Nylon, Hormone

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is saying,

“جُعِلَتْ لِيَ الْأَرْضُ مَسْجِدًا وَطَهُورًا”

“The earth has been made for me a place of worship and a means of purification.”

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla created earth and it is clean for us. For Ummat Sayyidina Muhammad ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, the whole earth is clean. You can pray anywhere that’s clean. Normally it is clean but if human beings made someplace dirty, you cannot pray wherever is dirty. When in a clean place, you can pray. It is allowed to pray anywhere; in the Mosque or outside the mosque.

Before [Islām], it must be in a place like a mosque or so for them to pray. Why? Because it [earth] was not made clean for others. Before Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, prayer was in a certain place. But for the sake of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, Allāh ﷻ made the whole world clean and we can pray anywhere.

But now we are seeing, they’ve made everywhere dirty. Allāh ﷻ is saying, “ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ”, “Žahara l-Fasādu Fī l-Barri Wa l-Baĥri Bimā Kasabat ‘Aydī n-Nāsi”, “Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned.” (Qur’ān 30:41).

Now earth, land, water and sea are spoiled. They’ve become not good. How? From human beings. Human beings made it like this because of their envy. Thay are only thinking of themselves, not thinking of others so they made it not good anymore.

Mawlānā Shaykh was every time saying, “باطون، نايلون، هرمون”, “Baton, Nylon, Hormone.” Baton means concrete. Nylon is plastic. Hormone, you know hormone. It looks like mankind cannot do without all this now. Why? Because they are used to doing this. Before, they were not doing this. There were many things instead of it. But now, of course, you cannot do anything about baton.

For our personal life, you cannot find anything without baton. Maybe a very few, maybe it’s five percent or two percent where you can find something like this. But most of them, of course, with concrete; using concrete. Of course, in some places you can use [non-concrete]; it is obligatory to use it. But not where you are living, where you are going. Baton in summer gives heat and in winter gives cold, going through your body. We cannot do anything anymore. Unfortunately, we cannot do anything.

With hormone also, they put hormone in everything. You cannot see what they’ve put. To avoid this is impossible now. The third thing is nylon, plastic. This, we can avoid. Even if we can avoid only the third, it is also a big thing for us. Allāh ﷻ made these materials to be used again. Muslim are bringing them and throwing them everywhere.

AlhamduliLlah, for Allāh ﷻ to make us more healthy, He ﷻ gave inspiration to these people to put everywhere a place to throw this dirty thing. It is more dirty than – sorry to say – what you do in the toilet. It is plastic; it is more dirty.

So when you have something like this, it is obligatory for you not to throw this, in order not to make the world more dirty and not make isrāf (extravagance) also. You must collect it and put in this designated place, so it will be sadaqah for you because you are cleaning.

In everything, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, if you take dirt from street, it is sadaqah for you. Because many of the ṣaḥābah, when Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam said that we must give sadaqah for each part of our body which is 360 parts, the ṣaḥābah didn’t have anything. Most of them were hungry; not finding anything. They said, “O our Prophet, we don’t have anything. How can we do this?”

He ﷺ said, everything you do from good deeds is sadaqah; to take dirt off the streets is sadaqah, to take a stone off the street is sadaqah, to smile to your brother is sadaqah. And also there’s“Salātu d-Duhā”, which is enough for all of them. What’s important here is to make more sadaqah as much as you can. Especially, for the mosque. When you take care of the mosque making it clean, for each small thing, Allāh ﷻ rewards you in Jannah like a brick of gold.

So this is very important. Cleanliness is a main thing in Islām. “النَّظَافَةُ مِنْ الْإِيمَانِ”, “An-nadhāfatu mina l-īmān”, “Cleanliness is from īmān.” [Hadith]. Īmān is higher than Islām. So there becomes an opening for your heart and for yourself. So, in shā’a Llāh, this is for the whole world.

Now we hear that people are not looking at all after this. You see the Islamic countries are dirtier than other countries. They don’t have this. May Allāh ﷻ help us. It is important. As we said, you at least save a third of your health with this, in shā’a Llāh.

May Allāh ﷻ keep us safe and to be clean, and to be beloved ones for Allāh ﷻ and Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

•⁠ ⁠Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbaniق

25 January 2026/ 06 Sha’ban 1447

Fajr Prayer – Sheikh Nazim Dergah; London, UK

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