Islam & Sustainable Development
Islam is a religion that complements all aspects of life including sustainable development. It is not a new concept for Muslims as Allah and the prophet have given us the guidelines through the Quran and Sunnah which emphasize the concept of justice and equity, balance, how we interact with the environment and how to deal with it.
From the Islamic perspective, the concept of sustainable development can be defined as "the balanced and simultaneous realization of consumer welfare, economic efficiency, attainment of social justice, and ecological balance in the framework of an evolutionary knowledge-based, socially interactive model defining the shuratic process". The shuratic process is the consultation or participatory ruling principle of Islam.
we could classify it into three main points which are Islam & environmental sustainability, Islam & social sustainability and Islam & economic sustainability. First and foremost, Islam and its relation to the environment is derived from the prophetic declaration that states: "There shall be no damage and no infliction of damage". In general, we can understand from this hadith that what leads to harm and damage is not allowed and haram either oneself or others and also includes animals and plants and the environment itself. The environmental resources such as water, minerals, land, forest, fish, wildlife, soil, and any other essential resources in human life are subjected to exploitation in exceeding the needs as it will lead to corruption and wastage. Much environmental degradation is due to people's hands and wrongdoing. It is because humans are greedy and selfish without thinking about the consequences in the future People should be made to realize that the conservation of the environment is a religious duty demanded by God. Allah says in the Quran:
" And do good as Allah has been good to you. And do not seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah does not love the corrupters".
(Al-Qasas 28:77)
Continued...
Comments
Post a Comment