Welcome to Hawaii is my mainland. I'm Kaui Lucas and I'm super excited I know I'm always excited, but you know, I look forward to this. What can I say and for years? I have been dreaming of a an ag co-op that would have many things to make our diversified agricultural community really robust and and allow farmers to do the kind of regenerative farming that we really need here and a dear friend of mine told me about David Rose and here he is he lives on Maui But happens to be in Honolulu, so I said yes come so David Rose tell us about this amazing journey that you have taken with just one organics And the technology let's just dive right in because we only have half an hour Okay, thanks Kaui. Thanks for having me and You know, it's a it's a great story not just for me but I think for our state and for our country because we're losing farmers and We're not replacing them and we're losing farmland. We're losing soil So a long time ago about 15 years ago. I noticed that and I thought what can we do about it? so it's just been a journey of Mostly common sense and a lot of a lot of great people giving me feedback and ideas and encouragement and inspiration and ideas and Just putting things together to figure out. How can we grow more farmers and how can we grow our regenerative food system everywhere? So that's what we're doing Okay, so you told me that you Found this through fermented poy so dear to my heart as a poy baby Oh, what was that and what is this? Well, just one organics is a brand that is a story and a product and a part of a movement Which we all know about and many years ago I was asked to be part of a company that created a pudding out of fermented poy and so to Stabilize the poy we looked for ways to do that and we found a drying technology. That's very gentle on the food So we did that and so while we were working on that project I was thinking well, what can we do with other foods and the idea came You know if you want to buy a lot of food from farmers then it'll help if you can stabilize it and keep it keep the value Stable for a long time So it's just been a process of experimenting and researching and trying things out and and so we have these what we call gentle dried whole food flakes Okay, and I'm crystals. Yes. So can you just point to them and tell us what we're actually? Oh, yeah, so so these crystals are blackberry and strawberry and peach and carrot and mango and banana That's what we have here and they taste really good. I don't know if you you can taste them now or later But but the idea so the I think I think what you're asking is What's behind all of this? Yeah? And so the idea is to work with the food to work with the farmers to work with the soil and This is the result so what is different about this just one organics method of Gentle drawing from other dehydration processes. Well Imagine that if you want to create a regenerative food system Every step along the way you have to work with because that's what regeneration is So we started asking the farmers what would help you and they said buy up more food And we'll grow it and if you could give us a contract before we plant That would say what you're buying in the price that would help a lot Okay, so now we're working with the farmers then we have to figure out what we need to work with the soil So let's only do organic because when you poison the soil You're not working with the microbes and the microbes upload the nutrients into the plants without them You have dead plants that look alive, but there's no nutrition in them So then we're working with the soil and now we're working with the food and we suck What's a gentle technology that will leave the nutrition the flavor the color the fragrance and the texture? Make it attractive so people want to eat it. So that's what we've been that's our approach is to work with Okay, so texture talk about texture Well texture so a lot of foods that you have that are dry these days they turn into a powder and most people like if if I asked you if you wanted to try some mango You can try a little mango, okay? And and it's it's fun. It's a texture. It's fun to touch and play with and it Wow, is it good? Mm-hmm. Okay, so so that's organic dehydrated mango puree and that was picked Probably a little over two and a half years ago Okay, so we're just the reason that it looks that way and that it tastes good is because our technology is gentle So again, we're working with nature works with and it's really sweet I mean, and it's really mango and I'm in I'm a mango snob Yeah, okay, okay, so Wow, okay, so it's really gentle it's really a Two and a half years and counting right right because you don't actually know how long Well, what I know is I've had this food dried in this technology not these jars But other food samples that were over ten years old and they were just like this So when you take again Most technologies they're either harsh on temperature like really high temperatures Or they're harsh on the atmospheric pressure or they freeze it a lot first or they they do all kinds of other things that are harsh on the food and So even if they some of them preserve the nutrition like ours does But the flavor and the color and the texture suffers So so that we fell as important to do all of those things well So how have you I mean how long have you been doing the ongoing testing of the nutrients? Or how do you know that the nutrients are still there? I mean it's like they're still there the inventors of the technology did a lot of testing on the nutrient density of their food So we're relying on their tests right now Okay, and the manufacturers of the machines now haven't redone that testing yet. We'll do that ourselves When we open up our first center Likely on Maui to start drying lots of this food, then we'll be testing it as well Okay, well, I want to get so much excitement around this generated that you can start yours on Maui But we gotta have one on a wall too. Sure. Yeah, there are just too many farmers here.  Do you need to make this so? so again back to the original quest is How can we? Localize our food systems. How can we start growing lots more organic food? People use numbers like in Hawaii. We grow 10% of what we eat some people say 14% Some friends of ours that actually did the scientific research for the whole state a few years ago said we only eat sick We only grow 6% of what we eat But if we want to increase that a lot we have to start buying a lot of food So fortunately these machines will buy each machine we set up in different places will buy up to seven tons a day of Locally grown produce seven tons a day a day 14,000 pounds a day. Okay I didn't I Didn't know this so I wasn't able to go look in my Hawaii egg statistic books to see how much we're actually growing Well, we're probably not growing any of that because what we are growing. Hopefully is already being sold, right? So so there's this chicken egg thing Lorraine shin a wonderful lady was the head of USDA Rural Development for many years in Hilo for the whole state and Way back 10 15 years ago, and I was first looking into this I went and talked to her and she was retiring and I said Lorraine What do you think and she I think at that point she brought 25 million dollars? She told me to farmers on all the major islands over about seven years in grants And I said Lorraine, what do you think you have to show for all that and she said nothing? nothing permanent in changing The the amount of resiliency and localization and food security that we have in the state so So what the problem is is a couple of chicken egg things right one is The farmers go well We're not going to grow it unless we know someone's going to buy it and a lot of the consumers the restaurants the institutions say well We can't contract to buy something that's not being grown and so you've got this thing that spins like this so again if we Elevate the value of the food commercially by drying it and then we suspend the value in time and definitely Now we can do this because we can sell it anywhere. We can ship it. It's light We can sell it wherever we have to sell it so that we can keep buying it day after day after day And then we can prove to the farmers. We're buying it. How about you start growing it? One of the other things that I'm really excited about with this is that it is a great technology for the seconds in the Imperfects or as the French call it the ugly the ugly Yeah, yeah, you know, it's like the French restaurants last year Stores are now having to use those ugliest but here in America. We're just too hung up on pretty yeah 25% on average of what we grow in this country is wasted on the farm on the farm That doesn't count in the store or in in our consumer locations. That's on the farm so we can buy most of that Because you can't tell the difference when you puree it Yeah, it just has to be good quality and nutritious and our farmers do the best job I mean, we have such awesome organic farmers here and this is really Wonderful because it seems to be usable for all kinds of crops or is there a Limiting factor as far as there are probably some crops like I'm not sure yet how to dry lemon grass Example, but like ginger we can dry Some most like some of them will cook like of course taro we have to cook first But a lot of it will and Oulu we can we will probably drive never tried to do it yet But I know enough about it where I'm confident that we can do it and we'll probably do it both ways Right the soft Oulu the fresh and then we'll probably cook the hard Oulu and then dry it like a potato We would cook a potato first Okay, and so there there is there a fat content that problem if it's in some cases Yeah, like for instance coconut cream We can't dry coconut cream unless we emulsify the oil because the oil is so intense in coconut cream So coconut meat coconut me probably it's okay. We haven't tried it yet So we'll be doing a lot of experimenting with some of those questionable ones when we have our own facility here But we have we have tried to dry things years ago And I was really doing all the kind of horizontal research and some of them will have to emulsify the oils But we're looking for actually we found them already a non-soy non-corn emulsifier That's also organic that we can use so that we can do this stuff Okay, we do have to take a one-minute break, but we'll be right back and talk more about this cool. Thanks Aloha, my name is Justine Espiritu and I am the co-host of Hawaii farmers series this is my co-host Matthew Johnson and We are live with you every Thursday at 4 p.m. at think tech Hawaii comm and our show focuses on Hawaii's local food Community we feature not only the farmers that are producing our food But we also feature the supporters and other folks involved in the community that are Trying to promote local agriculture I'm Ethan Ellen host of likeable science here on think tech Hawaii every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m You'll have a chance to come and listen and learn from scientists around the world Scientists who talk about their work in meaningful easy to understand ways And you'll come to appreciate science as a wonderful way of thinking way of knowing about the world You'll learn interesting facts interesting ideas. You'll be stimulated to think more Please come join us every Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. Here on think tech Hawaii for a likable science with me your host Ethan Allen Welcome back to Hawaii is my mainland. I'm Kauai Lucas and with me is David Rose from Maui who has been working with a technology that will extend the life at a high nutrient Retention for locally grown produce so this is is as part of that great vision I've had for years of a really ramping up our our local production here, so Tell us more. Okay, so let's see. Let's tell talk a little bit about the technology Yes, so the technology is gentle because we puree the food down to about a one and a half millimeter thick pureed it's very thin like paper and Very smooth and because of that it can lay on a belt over a bed of hot water and the heat in the water Can move into the food and remove all the water in about four minutes at a pretty low temperature So that's the gentleness of the technology. That's why it looks and tastes really good So that's important every time we land a machine We're gonna pay farmers up to four point three million dollars a year to grow more food That's really important. How did you get that number? We figured a high average per pound Times how many pounds we know we can take in a day, and that's what it came to it's actually a little bit more than that But that's a conservative number Okay, so the do you remember what about two point eight eight million pounds of food a year Okay at a dollar and a half a pound, which is a pretty good average wholesale price Some things sell for more most things sell for that or less and so that's what we can do so there's probably some prep work in Getting that sounds fairly labor-intensive, which would be a good thing because jumps are a good thing Yes, so every center that we set up we call them gentle drying centers Each one will be in a space. That's about 20,000 square feet. It's a big space and that will employ 28 full-time people and It will spin off more work for farmers that we estimate can create at least a few hundred farming jobs Out of that four point three million that we pay for that food every year So it's a pretty sizable engine for the the regenerative local farm economy and by only buying organics It's really important because you can't regenerate a food economy if you're poisoning the soil So so important. Yeah, and somehow that message hasn't taken root The way it needs to because people keep saying well, but that's too hard and You know, what are we gonna do? You know, it's too hard It's just the normal inertia is change right right change is hard in the mind Until we understand how easy it is and how much better it is to do that Like I mean I met a farmer on the North Shore here years ago And he was pulling up steak on a 600 acre farm that he had to abandon because he destroyed the soil by conventional farming And nothing would grow there. So you think about hard he had to start over on a whole new farm and Abandon all the work he put into that 600 acres because he wrecked the soil as well We are here. Well, you certainly have your share of industrial agricultural Graveyard on Maui, but we certainly have them here on a wahoo to and then I I am would like to talk about that the the community impacts of this and the Alika a day who is evidently a friend of yours Has been working as a farmer as an organic farmer and we have a little clip from the video He did for you folks that I would like to to share well several years ago. I was I was detected with cancer and That that made me wake up to see what and so with that I made a commitment of change You know a commitment to a better health and a commitment was Changing my diet and I know for a fact that by going organic and eating more more healthily That has changed my health, you know personally and then because I farm the involvement and a commitment of No chemicals, you know Because you know, yeah, I was young and I was I came from the old school of farming and conventional Farming and the use of that by have evolved away from that and now made a commitment To to my life and my future of growing food naturally and organically so so that So a week at high is also running for office And hopefully he'll win and and put things in place to support more organic farmers. Yeah, we we hope Alika wins He's running as a slate of council members council candidates We call it the aloha slate of candidates and one of their main platforms is organic regenerative farming So have you how much progress have you made in actually? Finding this spot or getting the partners or where are you in that the real It's it looks like it's happening pretty well We're friends with the farmers union likes this It's a lot of the leading nonprofits are in may I ask which farmers union other. Oh, sorry the Holly ocula farmers union Yes, okay, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, so the Hawaii Farmers Union United is friendly to this Alika and his group a lot of organic farmers are excited about it We're looking at different locations and we're talking to different partners And so we're getting pretty close so we're grateful So if somebody was was watching this and they got as excited as I am and they want to talk to you, too I haven't talked to me. Okay. They can get they can get a hold of you through the contact information at just one Organics sure or they can email me at David at unified field corporation.com. That's my mother company and Yeah, they can find me. It's pretty easy to find me The the vision for a regenerative future for this state for us. It's not just to feed ourselves It's not just even taking some of that 25% of the wasted food and because we can buy that food at a discount We can allocate a portion of the food we make to give away to food banks and homeless shelters Anna Faust at the Maui civil defense coordinator is Excited about this vision because she realizes we can start building up a food reserve in the county of Maui Turning wasted food into this food so that there's a problem for preparedness exactly So it's all of the political the social the economic issues But it's also It's also an issue of connecting with the soil and the soil is powerful. It's healing Veterans when they start working on farms, they heal their PTSD Certain people who have had issues with substance abuse. They start healing some of those issues when they get in the soil So David speaking of that I had this thought after we spoke on the phone earlier this week. I said, oh, yeah low temperature drying Have you tried it with cannabis because the medicinal view value You know you if you if it's under a certain temperature then that preserves Then it doesn't activate the THC. So you get the medicinal value. Has somebody has anybody done any experiments? Nobody's done that that I know of with this machine We haven't done it yet with this machine. We're interested in that. We get a lot of questions like that So we'll have to see okay. Well, just one more So all right, so is part of Bringing this to the ground the bricks and mortar we need what we know we need 20,000 square feet We need 28 people to be employed and do we know about dollars of to start the whole thing? Yeah. Oh, yeah It's simple. It's a three million dollar experience without the building just moving in because it's about There are 19 20 pieces of equipment depending on how we do it All together that costs around 1.8 something million and then there's hiring and training those people and having some working capital to start buying a lot of food So we we've pegged at a little bit of a Conservative high note. We pegged at three million dollars as a startup so we're talking to different partners about that and What we'd like to do is have that funding happen through nonprofits and through the community Because what we really want to do is layer the benefits of this Technology and this initiative so that we can share it with as many people as possible Well, one of the things because I have had this long goal of making Rejuvenating the poultry industry which would mean having a cheap source of chicken feed is looking at the Products what's left after after your main main Process, yeah, so I'm thinking What are your what happens to your leftovers? I bet you have a lot of leftovers Some foods. Yes, some foods. No, right? I mean you just think through the different food berries No berries not so much bananas. We've got the peels and then goes we've got skin and pits and so on and on So right now We're talking to different large-scale farmers organic farmers about composting But your idea is a great idea some of those things we could regrind up And re-dry and turn into other things that aren't for people. So that's a great idea Okay How about just because we're throwing all kinds of fun stuff out there about biofuels? Is there a way to Do that or capture the energy through anaerobic digestion I think the anaerobic digestion makes a lot of sense The biofuels I'm not so sure because I don't see maybe To talk to some people about where this would add value to that process, right? Right because it seems like it they don't need to dry that to turn that into biofuels. So but I don't know Organic matter with Carbohydrates or right so the waste could become biofuel absolutely so okay Those are I think those questions are probably For people who know a lot more about those issues than I do I'm trying to stay focused on how can we start drying a lot of food because everybody wants this stuff and we're ready Right, and you know, I have to think three million dollars. Yes, that's a lot of money but when we think about What the process that we've just been through Around the the cannabis dispensaries and the kind of money that we saw coming in people excited about it and And that I would think that that this has a broader appeal. I mean it's many crops It's not just one crops and we saw substantial efforts at at Bringing that kind of working capital together. I think we can do this I mean, I think what he really needs to do this because instead of just talking about Grow more I mean Governor Igay bless him, you know is still talking. We're gonna double our production by 2030 except that he said double our production by 2020 when he was elected so yes, we're still gonna double our The time right so this is the kind of thing that makes those numbers a reality Right, well if you take it apart and you say what's okay If you double by that time how much do you have to do each year and oh the last three years have gone by already Did we do it and if not then what are we gonna do different so that we can do it from here forward? And so we have to start buying more food. Okay, David and the last minute What else do we need what else do we need to know? I? Think I think we need to come together as a community Around the relationship we have with our farmers and our soil and If we do that all of this is gonna get a lot easier on all kinds of levels so that would be my hope Thank you so much for coming downtown to think to kawaii today fresh off the plane from Maui And I'm really excited about learning more and hopefully I'll get to work with you and work with this project to make it really happen Thank you very much. I hope so Bye have a great weekend


السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وصلاة والسلام على أشرف المرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وعلى آله وصحبي وسلم يا ربنا لك الحمد كما ينبغي لجلال وجهك وعظيم سلطانك اللهم سلم وسلم وبارك على حبيبك المستفاية الرحمن الرحيم اللهم علمنا ما ينفعنا ونفعنا بما علمتنا يا الله Today, inshallah, our hadith is talking about as-salah is talking about performing prayers and it's about standing before Allah سبحانه وتعالى and getting connected with Him عن عبادة بنصامتي رضي الله عن قاد سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول خمس صلوات نفترضهن الله على عباده فمن جاء بهن لم ينتقص منهن شيئا استخفاثا بحقهم فإن الله جاعل له يوم القيامة عهدا أي تخله الجنة ومن جاء بهن قد انتقص منهن شيئا استخفاثا بحقهم لم يكن له عند الله عهد إن شاء عذبه وإن شاء غفر له So it was narrated that عبادة بنصامتي رضي الله عنه said I heard the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم say five prayers that Allah has enjoined upon His slaves So whoever does them and does not emit anything out of negligence on the day of resurrection Allah سبحانه وتعالى will make a covenant with Him that He will admit Him to paradise but whoever does them but emits something from them out of negligence will will not have such a covenant with Allah if He wills He will punish Him and if He wills He will forgive Him So Allah سبحانه وتعالى has written five prayers for mankind So whoever has a meeting with Allah سبحانه وتعالى then He's going to meet Him in these five prayers every day so five times to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى every day Now imagine that you love someone and you love that person a love that you never have loved anyone the same way So what happens? You feel that you long to see this person one time after the other now and then any time that you can meet Him Now we say we love Allah سبحانه وتعالى and we have to thank Him for allowing us to meet Him these many times a day So five prayers every day We stand in prayer and we talk directly to Allah No mediator No one to convey our words to Him We talk to Him directly We talk to Him through His words the Holy Quran So how should we perform our prayers And again remember to perform our prayers To perform the qiyam To perform the recitation To perform the rukor To perform the sujud To perform the tashahud So this is what is called yuqimuna s'ala And Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the Holy Quran He did not say صلو He added another word He combined another word with the word s'ala Which is yuqimuna s'ala So yuqimuna s'ala is to perform the prayer It's not just movements It's being present While being in a meeting With Allah سبحانه وتعالى Now a prayer Is to show the continuity Of worshiping Allah سبحانه وتعالى And it's a risk That Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has prepared to His slaves So how would someone accept to deprive himself of this risk If someone knows that there is a treasure Under this rock Then he would go immediately To dig and take this treasure Now how would someone keep himself away from this treasure How would someone accept to be away from being connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى From meeting Allah سبحانه وتعالى From standing with Allah سبحانه وتعالى And talking to Him So a prayer is the time when someone meets Allah When someone talks to Allah It's a smaller version of the day of judgment Where all of us are going to meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى So when we are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى We are all humble in front of Him We are all humble in front of His Majesty But some people hitless They miss the point behind meeting Allah سبحانه وتعالى And they do that when they get distracted By the trivial things of this furnishing dunya Sometimes when anyone prays Then their mind will be engaged in this dunya What happened, what are we eating today Who got the kids to school Who is going to bring them back I forgot something I did this, I did that Now Where is the presence of the prayer So some people would say When they finish praying We cannot remember how many rakahs did we pray Was it two rakahs or three Was it three or four So we were not present at all while we were praying So how can we overcome this problem Of course there are so many ways to do that And these ways can be divided Into several categories Before starting the prayer While praying And after the prayer So before starting the prayer We have to get prepared We have to get our heart prepared To meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى So the first thing we need to do Before we start our prayer We say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم So we are getting the shaitan Away from our way And we are asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى With his name When we say بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم So that we want to focus On our prayers We want to be alert Of what we are talking to you يا الله We cannot do it So we ask your help بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Now with these few words We feel that Our heart is getting ready To meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى So When we say الله أكبر When we say الله أكبر Then what happens We are declaring that We are declaring that We are Leaving this dunya away We are leaving All its adornments away All its problems away And We are now in the presence Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى We are enjoying the company Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Now that we started What do we do while we are praying When we start reciting الفاتحة We know that this Surah is A conversation between And we talked about About this thoroughly About these conversations thoroughly In session 4 of this series What does every ayah mean What does it How we say the ayahs And what Allah سبحانه وتعالى Answers us So go back to Session 4 of this series And listen again to What it means to read الفاتحة Then after the fatah We read short Surah Or a few lines, a few pages Of a long Surah Now To focus on The prayer Try to read A different Surah Every time Try to To read A Surah That you recently memorized So that you keep Focusing on the ayahs On the words that you are reading Now We are done with reciting Surah الفاتحة And then a short Surah When we Are done with that Then we bow And then So we do the Rukor And then we follow it by the Sujood So when we do the Rukor And we follow it by the Sujood We understand the real meaning Of the majesty of Allah سبحانه وتعالى We are his slaves We are only slaves To Allah سبحانه وتعالى And when someone realize this service To Allah سبحانه وتعالى We can We understand that we can do nothing Except with Allah's permission So that knowing Knowing all of this Then we know that We can That Whatever we have Whatever we do Can all vanish in just a blink of an eye We are servants Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى We can do nothing Except what Allah سبحانه وتعالى Has permitted us to do And when we are successful Then we have to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى We have to thank him For making us successful It's not our work It's not our Our hard work That made us successful No If that was not permitted for us To be successful Then it won't have happened So we have to have this in mind We have always to remember We are slaves Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى And nothing can happen Except with his permission And this can be manifested While we are bowing To Allah سبحانه وتعالى While we are doing Sujood to Allah سبحانه وتعالى And there are a lot of eyes In the Holy Quran That talk about Performing the prayers And of course The Quran starts with Surah Al-Fatiha And we said that Surah Al-Fatiha is a summary Of the whole Quran And it is called the mother Of the Quran The mother of the book Then Surah Al-Baqarah Which is the second Surah Starts with talking about The believers The Those who have Whose hearts Whose conscious is alert So هدا للمتقين الذين يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون أولئك على هدا من ربهم وأولئك هم المفلحون So those conscious Of Allah Who believe In the unseen يؤمنون بالغيب ويقيمون الصلاة They establish the prayer They perform the prayer ومن ما رزقناهم ينفقون And they spend out Of what We have provided For them So who are those people أولئك على هدا من ربهم وأولئك هم المفلحون Those are The guided People By their Lord And It's those Who are successful And Allah To perform the prayers And He urged them To be On the prayers To hold tight To the prayers So He says In Surah Al-Baqarah Aya 238 حافظوا على الصلاة والصلاة الوسطة وقوموا لله قانيتين Maintain With care The obligatory prayers Be careful To not lose them The middle prayer الصلاة الوسطة وقوموا لله قانيتين And stand Before Allah Devoutly Obedient And the list goes on and on And on about The ayahs in the Holy Quran That talk about Performing the prayers Then الله سبحانه وتعالى Reminds us That there is a reward For every obeyed order So الله سبحانه وتعالى Ordered us to perform the prayers And There is a reward for that In Surah Al-Baqarah Aya 277 الله سبحانه وتعالى Talks about The reward For those who perform the prayers إن الذين أمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وأقاموا الصلاة وأتوا الزكات لهم لهم أجرهم عند ربهم ولا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون Indeed Those who believe And do righteous deeds And establish the prayers Perform the prayers And give zakah Will have their reward With the Lord And there will be No fear concerning them There will be no fear Nor will they grieve لا خوف عليهم ولا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون In Surah Al-Nisa الله سبحانه وتعالى Says لكن يراسخون في العلم منهم والمؤمنون يؤمنون بما أنزل إليك وما وما أنزل من قبلك والمقيمين الصلاة والمؤتون الزكات والمؤمنون والمؤمنون بالله واليوم الآخر أولئك سنؤتين أجرن عظيم but those firm in knowledge among them and the believers believe in what has been revealed to you يا محمد and what was revealed also before you and the establishers of the players those who perform the prayer and give the givers of zakah and the believers in Allah and the last day so what are those what will happen to those أولئك سنؤتين أجرن عظيم those we will give a great reward so now we might ask what is this reward so one of the rewards of the believing Muslims who perform the prayers is mentioned in Surat Al-Tawbah الله سبحانه وتعالى says والمؤمنون والمؤمنات أولياء بعض يأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المكر ويقيمون الصلاة ويؤتون ويؤتون الزكات ويطيعون الله ورسولها أولئك سيرحمهم الله إن الله عزيز يقيمون so the believing men and believing women are they are allies of one another they enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong so these are the characteristics of the believers men and women those people they establish the prayer they give the zikah and they obey الله سبحانه وتعالى and his messenger so what happens what will happen to them أولئك سيرحمهم الله those الله will have mercy upon them إن الله عزيز ويقيم indeed الله is exalted otherwise now imagine that الله سبحانه وتعالى have mercy on you over you so what will happen will be in paradise سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says لن يدخل أحدكم الجنة بعمله قال ولا أنت يا رسول الله قال ولا أنا لن يقل الله برحمته سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لا أحد will get into paradise according by his action and they asked him not even you he said not even me unless الله سبحانه وتعالى will get me will have his mercy upon me so now those believing men and believing women will have mercy upon them by الله سبحانه وتعالى and the list again goes on and on about those believers who perform the prayer now if we ask ourselves what's the difference between praying and performing the prayer and I mean like this what's the result of performing the prayer or praying and سيد محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم says that some people will have from their prayers just only going up and down and the movements of the prayer so they will not have the reward for the prayer because they are not actually praying they are just doing some exercise they are going up going down going down من لم تنه صراته معنى الفحشائي والمنكر فلا صلاة لها whoever his prayer did not prevent him from doing bad deeds and then the reward of his prayer is just some exercise movements because when someone prays then he is connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is receiving the light of Allah سبحانه وتعالى he is receiving the light of the prayer then that light will be in his heart and that light will help him to perform good but if someone does just doing the actions just the movements just an exercise then this will not happen to him so we have to to observe what we are doing we have to to be careful and we have always to remember that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is with us is over watching us and we have to remember that there are angels who are recording our actions so the prayer one of the merits of the prayer one of the results of performing a prayer is that a person would always remember that Allah is over watching a person would always remember would be always alert that Allah is with him Allah is with me Allah is with me Allah is looking over me Allah is شاهدي Allah is witnessing whatever I do فمن جاء بهنة لم ينطقس منه النشية so whoever does or perform the prayer and does not waste anything of the prayer any part of the prayer then what happens so he does not waste anything any part of them by making light of what is due to them so do not belittle any action of the prayer so but there will be a covenant between this person and Allah سبحانه وتعالى that Allah will admit into paradise so this is the reward for those who perform the prayer ومن جاء بهنة قد ينطقس منه النشية so whoever does not do them and there is no impact for him with Allah سبحانه وتعالى there is no impact there is no covenant إن شاء عزبه وإن شاء غفر الله if Allah wishes then he will punish that person and if he wishes he he can forgive that person so it's up to Allah سبحانه وتعالى performing the prayer is one of the types of worshipping Allah سبحانه وتعالى and there are a lot of that explains this type of worship in full details and this is a unique way to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى so performing the prayers never stops never stops even if the person is sick so if anyone whoever is unable to perform the prayer standing then he must do it sitting and whenever whoever cannot do it sitting then he should do it while he is laying down so this is a continuous unique way to worship Allah سبحانه وتعالى so when the call of the prayer is heard from Allah سبحانه وتعالى for each and every person to stand before him and be in his prayer this is why when any problem used to to face what happened he used to to perform some prayers he used to perform a few of praying to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and this is a sin when you have a calamity when you have a problem when you have any issue that you want Allah's help just make him pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and ask him whatever you want and we mentioned this over and over that the best time to ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى for anything is the time before before before before before before before talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى whatever you want so Allah سبحانه وتعالى has enjoined 5 prayers every day that if we do them we will be reported but if someone decides not to do them then the door of meeting Allah سبحانه وتعالى and be in his presence then this door is closed and it's not that this person does not want to pray no look at it from a different angle it's Allah سبحانه وتعالى does not want to hear the voice of this person I'm going to tell you a story about one of the companions at the time of Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he saw Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he started praying the night prayer so he said I will pray with Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم so he prayed with him and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم started with Surah Al-Baqara so he finished Surah Al-Fatiha and started with the next Surah Surah Al-Baqara and this person said to himself it will be a few pages and then he will make a report well these few pages were not few pages Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم kept on going after a few pages so he said okay maybe Sayyidina Muhammad will read only half a jazeb half a jazeb passed and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he is still praying he is in his first rakah by the way so he said okay I think at the end of the first jazeb he will stop and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم went on and on and on he did not stop at the end of the first jazeb so this person said this companion said okay I'm sure he will stop at the end of the second jazeb and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم did not stop at the end of the second jazeb he kept on and on he finished Surah Al-Baqara then he started Surah Al-Aramran and then he finished Surah Al-Aramran and the person saying okay I'm sure he is going to make Surah Al-Aramran now but Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم went with Surah Al-Nisa and he finished Surah Al-Nisa until that person said to himself okay I'm going to do Salam and then I will pray two short rakahs and that's it so what happened to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم he was enjoying the meeting between him and Allah سبحانه وتعالى he did not notice that he read so many jazeb he did not notice that he went over 100 pages he did not notice anything he is in the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and one of the things that Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم wanted us to do was an answer to one of the questions that one of his companions has asked him he came to Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and he said أي أعمال أفضل يا رسول الله and Sayyidina Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم أجاب الصلاة وعلى وقتها so the best action to do or the best thing to do is to perform the prayer immediately after adhan calls for it now someone might say okay I just heard the adhan call the call for the prayer and I am working I cannot stop I cannot take a break so he is a doctor performing a procedure he is a pilot driving the plane he is a major major work well for this person we say how about if you are doing this this job of yours that you think you cannot leave how about if you want to use the restroom would you or would you not so a few minutes a few time would not be impossible to perform a prayer so sometimes people who are not Muslims they would admire you when they would look at you and see that you are performing your prayers and so many people got into Islam just for watching people how they are performing their prayers so when you pray at your work then you are calling people to Islam without saying it الله سبحانه وتعالى when you want to do to perform your prayer الله will facilitate it and when we do these 5 prayers a day then as we mentioned we are getting connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so we are getting closer and closer الله سبحانه وتعالى سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم used to say يا بلال أريحنا بالصلاة أو بلال make us at ease by praying by calling for the prayer we would not pray so سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم missed the few hours between the salah and the next without meeting الله سبحانه وتعالى and he asked بلال رضي الله وعن to call for the prayer he wants to be talking he wants to talk to Allah سبحانه وتعالى in one of the narrations he said so so is made coolness of an item so he feels that he is enjoying his time with Allah سبحانه وتعالى and that what makes the soul get tranquility and we know that all previous messages ordered ordered the people to pray we we need to say that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has ordered people to pray so the order for the prayer came back with سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم when he descended to earth after so that was when Allah سبحانه وتعالى enjoying the prayers on the Muslims so all Muslims have to pray 5 times 5 times a day but is that all no we just mentioned that it's a way to connect to Allah سبحانه وتعالى when we can do all the sinan all the Nawafil we can pray way more than only 5 rakas 5 times every day every prayer every day so Allah سبحانه وتعالى wanted us to pray and when he said حافظو على الصلاوات maintained the prayers and do not waste them do not waste them so getting connected with Allah سبحانه وتعالى through performing the prayer is something is a blessing from Allah سبحانه وتعالى in محمد الرسول الله والذين معه أشداء على الكفار رحماء بينهم تراهم ركع سجدا يبتغون فضلا من الله ورضوانا سماهم في وجوههم من أثر السجود so Allah سبحانه وتعالى في أية 29 of سورة الفتح which is the last aya he is talking about سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم and his companions so he said محمد is the messenger of Allah and those with him are forceful the nonbelievers but they are at the same time merciful among themselves and you can see them bowing and prostrating prostrating in prayer seeking bounty from Allah سبحانه وتعالى and his pleasure so their mark is on their faces there are marks on their faces from the trace of frustration so الله سبحانه وتعالى is talking to us and he is talking about the characteristics of those people the light the light of the prayer is on their faces their marks on their faces from the trace of the prostration and one of them increases your sight to him from Allah looking at one of them would get you closer to Allah and that's why it is said دول لك على الله ما قالوا so be in the presence of people whom if you look at them you will remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى and if they speak then their words will get into your heart and if these words will get you to remember Allah سبحانه وتعالى and will get you to be elevated to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so you will be happy when you see the people whom you love but you will be really happy when you meet Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you are with Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you perform the prayers that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has ordered us to perform and until we meet next week I send my salawat and your salawat سيدنا محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته