Islam And All Aspects Of Life

" Why does this appear in "Gardening lovers unite!"? I got that comment from a member of the gardening group when I tried to share my groups some of my writing as a way of informing them something about Islam as many do not know anything about it and others have Islam in their blacklist according to what they read or hear within the non-Muslim media. So I think I should have your approval to give some kind of help and you can go farther if you would like.

Through the Qur'an and the Hadith, Prophet Mohammed's speeches, we as Muslims have orders to obey concerning everything in life even the inanimate. For example, we are asked not to consider the shade of anything like a tree or a mountain… etc or any kind of lakes or pools as a toilet meaning to avoid having urine there as that act would hurt people who should resort to that shade or it will pollute the lakes causing different diseases.

You know that our Prophet, peace be upon him, has ordered us if I have a little plant and I feel that it is time for the hereafter, the end of the world, I should plant it. Moreover, he has some speeches concerning animals. He told us that a man would be in paradise just for giving some water to a thirsty panting dog. He took off his shoe and got down to a well to get it the water to drink. On the other hand he told us that a woman would be in hell as she locked a cat inside a room without giving it something to eat or letting it to eat anything from the ground till it died.
The dead trunk of a tree which he used as a stage where he can deliver his speeches was heard by him crying as he would leave it after they had designed him a new stage. He tried to relieve its sorrow.

There are many examples concerning every iota in life that was concerned by Islam. So I decided to try to compile some information about the relation about Islam and nature, science, sociology, …etc and these which have recently emerged as human rights, animal rights etc….

I hope that may Allah help me to try to give you a clear image about all these fields to help you understand Islam well.

I found this article which may help. This is an excerpt and you can read more from the original site using the following link:



ISLAM AND ECOLOGYby Marjorie Hope and James Young
Seyyed Hossein Nasr sees at the center of Islam a charge to protect the natural world -- a world that reflects the higher reality of the transcendent God.
MARJORIE HOPE and JAMES YOUNG are a husband-and-wife writing team who have traveled in more than eighty countries. This article forms part of a book-in-progress on the potential for an effective ecological ethic in several major religions, tentatively entitled The New Alliance: Faith and Ecology.
The Qur'an' and the Hadith are rich in proverbs and precepts that speak of the Almighty's design for creation and humanity's responsibility for preserving it. For many Muslims, citing these is enough to prove that Islam has always embraced a complete environmental ethic. Others are more critical. They readily acknowledge that the guidelines are all there in Islamic doctrine. Tawhid (unity), khilafa (trusteeship), and akhirah (accountability, or literally, the hereafter), three central concepts of Islam, are also the pillars of Islam's environmental ethic. But they add that Muslims have strayed from this nexus of values and need to return to it. ……….

http://www.crosscurrents.org/islamecology.htm

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