Environmental Concerns: Showing Gratitude

ISLAM ADVOCATES an environmental outlook which is between two extremes: total disregard and protecting it in the absolute sense.

TREES: Abu Bakr (radhiallahu anh) instructed a departing army not to cut down flowering trees, nor burn any oasis. (Muwatta of Imam Malik)

ANIMALS: A narration in Abu Dawud reports the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) as commanding the return of two chicks to the mother bird which was in distress at their loss.

NATURAL RESERVE: Cutting trees of the area around the Ka’bah, the Haram, and the hunting of game is prohibited. This is the first protected reserve in humanity’s history.

WATER POLLUTION: Muslims are prohibited from relieving themselves in stagnant water. (Abu Dawud)

Christmas: In celebration of Christmas hundreds of trees are cut down. It is a senseless destruction of natural resources with no sanction in Christianity.
Muslims have always been conscious of caring for the environment because of Islamic teachings:


Not to waste / Not to destroy
ISLAM’S WORLD-VIEW IS COMPREHENSIVE AND CAN LIVE UP TO ANY CHALLENGE THAT FACES HUMANITY.

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