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Islamic Principles of Environmental Care and Responsibility

2024, Islamic Principles of Environmental Care and Responsibility

I seek to elaborate on the timeline of Quranic revelations, hadiths, and the ethics in Islam, as well as to explore the effect of contemporary challenges on some Islamic theologians who consider studying and teaching eco-theology and eco-philosophy in the biological field. The ecologists, some of whom belong to Islamic societies, began to develop an interest in integrating ecological content with religious beliefs. The purpose of this writing is to look at how the Islamic principles of Tauhid and Khilafah could help us find practical guides on how to manage ecological issues. The focus will be to uncover the integrated worldview of Muslims and Islamic ethical values as a practical guide towards the balanced use of the environment by man. Amid the beginning of a new era in human history, especially in the Islamic world, there emerged a realization of the urgent need for a new moral and ethical framework as a universal human framework to meet the noble aspiration, which is to safeguard and maintain the integrity of all creation, especially the universal creation of Allah. Islam, as a religion that is guided by revelation, the Qur'an, and the prophetic tradition, provides many principles and guidance for correcting this problem. Thus, this essay will provide a historical and theological introduction to Islamic ecological ethics, drawing on the rich corpus of Islamic tradition, and will also discuss in an exploratory manner recent contributions to Muslim eco-theology. The essay will conclude with four contemporary Islamic principles that we can glean from the heritage of the Qur'an, prophetic tradition, and Islamic law, with a view to undergirding the sustainability imperatives that international initiatives are now seeking to realize.

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