Analysis of Environmental Sustainability in the Holy Quran: Maqasid Framework

Azzam Abu-Rayash, E. Sabbah
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The current global challenges of climate change and sustainable development is rendering the world helpless with numerous failed attempts at addressing these critical issues. Exploring the Islamic worldview of environmental sustainability and conservation therefore is even more vital in these momentous times. This worldview features a purpose-spirited focus by exploring the higher objectives behind environmental sustainability as extrapolated from the Revelation. There are four main themes that are highlighted in the Quran in relation to the environment, including the concepts of corrupting (ifsaad) and bettering (islaah) earth, along with the key objectives of being custodians and inheritors of earth (istikhlaf/ isti’mar/ wirathah). The concept of utilization (taskheer) is coupled with the ‘communities like you (umam) that share the planet and resources with us. Derivatives of the term (fa sa da) have been mentioned 50 times in the Quran, 36 of which reference earth. Custodianship is highlighted in the Quran more than 30 times, with direct reference to earth mentioned 17 times. Facilitation includes many groups such as the sun and the moon, which was emphasized nine times, as well as stars, sea and cattle, each emphasized three times in conjunction with the facilitation theme. Stipulated values include the value of knowledge, respect, preservation, humbleness and responsibility. The collection of verses have been compiled, coupled with references from the Sunnah and Islamic jurisprudence, and analyzed in light of the maqasid methodology. Similarly, human groups can be classified further to reformers, corrupters, believers, non-believers, wrongdoers and hypocrites, while other communities such as animals, plants, mountains and other species fall under groups. Environmental sustainability from an Islamic worldview is defined in a distinctive and holistic manner which combines spiritual, social, economic, moral, honest, intellectual, and religious aspects into one core meaning. Although some creatures are facilitated for humans on Earth, they are communities like human kind which emphasizes that bettering and preserving the balance of Earth is the humans unique responsibility.
《古兰经》中的环境可持续性分析:Maqasid框架
当前气候变化和可持续发展的全球挑战使世界在解决这些关键问题方面的无数失败尝试使世界束手无策。因此,在这个重要的时刻,探索伊斯兰教关于环境可持续性和保护的世界观就显得更加重要了。这种世界观通过探索从启示录推断的环境可持续性背后的更高目标,以目的为中心。在《古兰经》中,有四个与环境有关的主题,包括腐化地球(ifsaad)和改善地球(islaah)的概念,以及成为地球的保管人和继承者(istikhlaf/ isti’mar/ wirathah)的关键目标。利用(taskheer)的概念与“像你(人类)这样与我们共享地球和资源的社区”相结合。“fa sa da”一词的衍生词在《古兰经》中被提及50次,其中36次指的是地球。《古兰经》中强调监护的次数超过30次,直接提到地球的次数有17次。其中,太阳和月亮被强调了9次,星星、海洋和牛也分别被强调了3次。规定的价值观包括知识、尊重、保护、谦逊和责任的价值观。已汇编的经文集,加上从圣训和伊斯兰法学的参考,并根据马卡西德的方法进行分析。同样,人类群体可以进一步分为改革者、腐败者、信徒、不信徒、做错事者和伪君子,而其他群体,如动物、植物、山脉和其他物种,则属于群体。从伊斯兰的世界观来看,环境可持续性是以一种独特而全面的方式定义的,它将精神、社会、经济、道德、诚实、知识和宗教等方面结合在一起,形成一个核心意义。虽然地球上有些生物是为人类服务的,但它们是像人类一样的社区,强调改善和保持地球的平衡是人类独特的责任。
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