Dawud Israel explains to us the importance of preserving the environment, citing verses from the Quran that urge us to contemplate what is in the heavens and the earth:
“Had Allah not given us the world around us with its beautiful nature, would we be able to realize that it had a Creator? That is to say, that if we were the only ones here on Earth–wouldn’t we think that we were ‘gods’? But Allah has put the world around us and shown us that there is One who is much greater than us.
But there is more to consider. The above ayah mentions that we are to contemplate upon the creation of the Heavens and Earth. How exactly are we to do this?
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Now consider how people all around the world are destroying the Earth. Are we not losing wisdom and understanding? It’s one thing to lose nature by damaging the environment but to lose the wisdom that Allah teaches through it–means that we will eventually lose our understanding of ourselves and therefore a key avenue for coming closer to Allah SWT. That is why we must take a serious and hard look at preserving the environment.”
@Dawood Israel’s post is very interesting and
nicely directed, this aspect of Quran AlHakim
is seldom studied or even mentionned. Generally. Muslims or Non-Muslims only use the
references in Quran which suits them and their
ambitions.
Environmentalism, is to be checked, perhaps
instrumentalised by Marxist extremists, and the
secularist opportunists, both of them have the
tendency of sellingout their souls for ideology
and Karl Marx’s anarchy, the “trend ” existed
among political plateform is that of hidden “religious ” Fascism, we have to be very careful with these slogan bearers and party members carrying “ecolo, green , nature
etc.