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Green Islam

26/08/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Green Islam

How Muslims are trying to heed the call in the Quran to be better guardians of nature

How Muslims are trying to heed the call in the Quran to be better guardians of nature.

There are hundreds of verses in the Quran calling on Muslims to protect the environment. Islam teaches that everyone is a custodian of nature and should treat the natural environment with respect and care. Sustainability has been part of the faith from the beginning. How are ordinary Muslims around the globe responding to that call?

Reporter Zubeida Malik hears about the experiences of a local imam from Indonesia trying to persuade his community to help redress the effects of climate change and she looks at how religious leaders in Zanzibar successfully persuaded fishermen to change their age-old customs.

Zubeida also visits Europe’s first eco-Mosque in Cambridge, England, a beacon of modern Islamic environmentalism, and eavesdrops on British Muslim schoolgirls learning to interpret their faith and the natural world.

(Photo: View of the famous Cambridge Central Mosque design. Credit: Edward Crawford/Getty Images)

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