RULE BY VIRUS by Hajj Fazlun Khalid

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 -

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.

Reconnecting with Nature by By Klaudia Khan

The concept of responsible management and taking care of the natural environment is firmly embedded in the teachings of Islam, so Muslims shouldn’t be reminded that living eco-friendly lifestyle is part of their religion. Or do they?

Fazlun Khalid, a man synonymous with the eco-Islam movement and one of the most influential contemporary Muslims, claims that people nowadays, including Muslims, are getting more and more disconnected from nature.

It’s not only Islam that teaches respect for the natural environment, but it’s an idea rooted in every religious system in the world. Yet as the philosophy of the Post-Enlightenment Era divided the sacrum from the Profanum, industrialization and urbanization allowed people to live lives that are physically disconnected from nature, the sacrosanct link between the Creator and the creation has gone into abyss.

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TALK Reconnecting with Nature - A Faith Perspective - TUESDAY 12th NOVEMBER 5pm

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