The Quran is a great collocation of wonderful hymns to the glory of the natural world as a sign of creation [I Am Enjoying Being A Muslim]
We should protect nature- not because is a life support system for our own species, but because nature represent the symphony of Allah's signs, and everything in creation- according to the Quran, knows its own form of prayer and glorification which means that the other [u]nations[/u] (the Quran speaks of other species as being nations like us) have the right to be here, whether be the pangolins, the mice, the horses, or the Siberian tiger.
They have their right in this creation, and the traditional balance that obtained for 99% of human history where by human beings existed in a kind of balanced relationship with other ecosystems has been completely overthrown by consumerism, secularism, materialism, a utilitarian view of things as being there for us to make products out of.
We need to push back against materialism and circularity because that's the basis of their instrumentalizing of the natural world which for us is blasphemous.
Creation spirituality means that we look at the world not just as blobs of matter, that is something that is attributed to a Creator. Therefore, is redundant not just with messages about how we make money out of creation or how we might in utilitarian way want to protect and preserve creation, but also is something as we inhale the beauty of the aesthetic of the natural world takes us closer to Allah and reminds us of our point of origin and our point of return which is, Allah's willing, Paradise.
So to see the creation in a spiritual way is essential if we're going to move forward with the conversation of human future and human survival.
They have their right in this creation, and the traditional balance that obtained for 99% of human history where by human beings existed in a kind of balanced relationship with other ecosystems has been completely overthrown by consumerism, secularism, materialism, a utilitarian view of things as being there for us to make products out of.
We need to push back against materialism and circularity because that's the basis of their instrumentalizing of the natural world which for us is blasphemous.
Creation spirituality means that we look at the world not just as blobs of matter, that is something that is attributed to a Creator. Therefore, is redundant not just with messages about how we make money out of creation or how we might in utilitarian way want to protect and preserve creation, but also is something as we inhale the beauty of the aesthetic of the natural world takes us closer to Allah and reminds us of our point of origin and our point of return which is, Allah's willing, Paradise.
So to see the creation in a spiritual way is essential if we're going to move forward with the conversation of human future and human survival.
