Omar Suleiman

You know, in our faith,

Everything is about intention and there's an intentionality even behind the most seemingly most mundane actions.

A morsel of food in the mouth of your spouse, your family is looked at as a great charity.

The way that you enter into a place and exit out of a place, what foot you step in, what foot you step out with, there's an intentionality.

There's a word of remembrance that's spoken.

There is a word of praise before and after you engage in any action.

There are things that you say before you eat, before you sleep.

There is meaning even to your sleep.

One of the great companions of the Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, he said that I seek the reward for my sleep just as I seek the reward for my prayer.

because you sleep to refresh yourself so that you can once again do great things.

And the intentionality behind that allows even the sleep to be rewardable.

You eat to nourish yourself so that you can do great things.

You seek to be in a position of independence and of being sustained so that you can sustain others.

So the prophet peace be upon him says, for example, that the upper hand is better than the lower hand.

The upper hand is the giving hand, the lower hand is the receiving hand.

So to seek

a position where you can help other people.

Everything becomes intentional.

And there's no such thing as, you know, something that is meaningless and without purpose.

So every pursuit is ultimately a pursuit of God.