Cleaning = Caring

Cleaning doesn’t just require detergent, brushes, shampoo, shower gel or bleach. Cleaning and being clean is a learned behaviour. It reflects the quality of the belief, translated into a community product.

We must stop pollution, clean the roads, drain the swamps and clean our walls. Before coming and teaching about God’s mercy, we need to ensure that our houses and the environment lack rubbish.

It is not good to go to a worshipping place and be deterred by foul smells or general uncleanliness and disrepair. It is not good to go to a community where people do best for themselves at home and forget about everything surrounding the house.

I believe that God’s goodness should bring out my goodness to be good to society, my community and the climate. Cleanliness is not just part of a humanitarian programme; it is a way of life, etiquette and also a ritual to get closer to God.

Prophets agree that cleanliness is a part of faith, and according to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH), cleanliness is half of faith.  The reformers, prophets, messengers or thinkers who believe in their mission should advocate cleanliness.

Lack of cleanliness will bring with itself bacteria, germs and viruses, which can lead to illnesses, even plague and death.  In the end, this will cause community fragmentation and destruction, with the potential to eradicate the humanity.

In my view, if we want to save the universe, we have to be clean, internally and externally.