ENVIRONMENTALPROTECTION IN THE ECO- DYNAMICS OF ISLAMIC LAW

Abstract

The uniformity and orderliness in the creation of the universe are the clear
expression of omnipotence and omniscience
of
the
Designer
and
Fashioner of the
environment. This uniformity can be observed in the diversity of nature and is
constantly appealed to in the Quran as a sign of the Unity of the Maker.1
The Quran says:
In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and the ships
that run in the sea with that which profits men, and the water that Allah sends down from the
sky, then gives life therewith to the earth after its death and spread in it all (kinds of) animals, and
the changing of the winds and the clouds made subservient between heaven and earth, these are
surely signs for a people who understand.2
There are several cycles that are operational in the nature-system, e.g. the
water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle which maintain a balance in their quantity.
Allah in His perfect arrangement of the creation has made the maintenance of
these cycles so neat and orderly. Similarly, Allah has made the ecosystem of the environment
peaceful and serine. But man had continued to make move to distort this
arrangement.3