Assalamualaikum and hey everyone. How are you guys doing these days? Welcome to my blog channel again. So, for this week I am going to share with you guys the contents that i just learnt in my previous class. It was a very interesting lesson as i got to discover lots and lots of new things. I guess you guys are going to be excited to know about this topic. The topic that i learnt in last week class is Islam & Sustainable Development. Probably, when we look at the topic itself, it would make us wonder if there is really a relation between these term right? So, lets dig in to this fascinating topic. Let's get started!!
First thing first, how does Islam relate with Sustainable Development? To be truth, sustainable development is not a new thing or concept in Islam. As Muslims, we are already taught in Al-Quran and Hadith to always take a good care of our spiritual and physical welfare. In Islamic perspective itself, it said that every single thing on this earth are created by Allah for humanity and the award to people. In fact, Islam do allow human to consume and use the natural environment in a right way, meaning that they are not allowed to consume more than they should and not misuse the resources only for their own sake. Indeed, Allah has instructed us humans as the trustee to take a good care of the resources that has been given to us in this earth. So, what can i say is that human being and environment are interconnected to each other.
In the view of Islam, sustainability in economic means that maintaining our wealth by giving out zakat and sadaqah to the needy people out there in order to make us more grateful for all nikmah that Allah has granted to us. Not only that, when we are giving zakat or sadaqah, we would prevent ourselves from being stingy as we did not own the wealth but Allah. This will really helps lots of poor people as they could have some money to buy foods and clothes and therefore would somehow reduce the poverty problem around the world.
Basically, in sustaining the development we only focus on the economic,social and environment right? But, in Islam, we also emphasize on sustaining our Amal meaning that there will be three amal that we do in this world will sustain for a very long time even after we died which is sadaqah jariah (the donation keep on being benefited by others), knowledge from which continued to be reaped and the prayers of a good son to his father.
Now, have you ever heard of the concept of 'Rahmatan Lil Alamin' before this? So, if u never heard of this term, lets have a deep discussion on this term. In my previous class, my lecturer did tell me that one of the elements contained in the Rahmatan Lil Alamin is Hablum Minal Alam. It means that we are not only required to take a good care of our relationship with Allah and humans, but we also acquired to take a good care of our relationship with the nature in order to create a sustainable development. Moreover, we are as the khalifah of this earth are entrusted by Allah to preserve the nature without doing any damages because all kinds of damages done by humans will be questioned by Allah in the hereafter.
Last but not least, I am going to share with you guys on the Maqasid Al-Shariah. Maybe some of you has never heard of this word, so let me explain it briefly. Maqasid Al-Shariah basically realizing the human well-being of the benefit (Maslahah) and preventing harm (Mafsadah). In other words, this Shariah is created to promote and protect the well-being of the humans that depends on these five fundamentals objectives:-
- Hifz Al-Din (Protection of Religion)
👉Islam encourages humans to have interfaith dialogue in order to create understanding and search for the similarities for the humans.
- Hifz Al-Nafs (Protection of Life)
👉 Islam itself is the religion of peace meaning that all people in this world are desire to live in peace
- Hifz Al--Aql (Protection of Intellect)
👉 Having intellect is what makes us difference with other creatures. Allah has blessed us by giving us 'Aql in order to help us to differentiate between what is wrong and what is right.
- Hifz Al-Nasb (Protection of Lineage)
👉 We as humans need to protect, preserve and sustain this world in order to make this world is safe to live for future generations
- Hifz Al-Mal (Protection of Wealth)
👉In Islam, we are entrusted by Allah to use our wealth to attain prosperity which will guide us to the good way of life in this world and hereafter.
So, how about my sharing on this topic this week? Is it interesting? If you do think so, do leave a comment 😇 I hope through my blog today, you will learn lots of new things in regards of Sustainable Development. See u in my next blog, then.
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