In the name of Allah the most Beneficent
and Merciful
Capitalism, Environment and Sharia
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
said
"If the Final Hour comes while
you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before
the Hour comes, you should plant it." “The believer is not he who eats his
fill while his neighbor is hungry.” “There is a reward for serving any living
being.” “If a Muslim plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person
or an animal eats from it, it is regarded as a charitable gift (sadaqah) for
him.”
The above, and many more similar hadith, clearly require us to be guardians of nature, be conservators of resources, and strive towards sustainable living not just for us but for the entire earth. Unfortunately, the world we are living in is going in the opposite direction. I won’t waste your time in detailing the environmental disasters that we are all witnessing on a daily basis but will go straight to the fundamental reason for it : Capitalism.
