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| Hajj Fazlun Khalid, Founder of Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IFEES) |
(To Join his Signs On The Earth Environmental Masterclass, every Tuesday during Ramadan 2020 (28th April, 5th, 12th, 19th May) at 6 pm, click HERE)
Against a backdrop of multiple conspiracy theories, the Coronavirus spreads inexorably. The matter is however reasonably straightforward if we take a moment to reflect. As the Qur'an asserts -
Against a backdrop of multiple conspiracy theories, the Coronavirus spreads inexorably. The matter is however reasonably straightforward if we take a moment to reflect. As the Qur'an asserts -
Corruption has appeared in both land and sea because of what people's own hands have brought about so that they may taste something of what they have done so that hopefully they will turn back.
(Qur'an 30:41)
There cannot be much dissent as we proclaim that we are living in the midst of the "greatest civilisation ever contrived by man". However, the price of "progress" has been achieved at the cost of a ravaged planet whose fragility and sensitivity becomes ever more apparent. Our imagined mastery of the Earth is proving to be illusory. The House of Cards we have built for ourselves is wobbling and it takes a microbe to level down the rich to the experiences of the poor.
