They also help us to understand how...

They also help us to understand how, through our control over the earth’s resources, we ought to treat other humans, and in what way we should communicate with the nature.9 In this way, religions modify the views and beliefs of the world, which motivate basic approaches and values of diverse cultures and societies.

Religious morals and ethical values form activities toward others, along with our relationship with all the surrounding living creatures like plant and animal life.10 According to Abedi-Sarvestani and Shahvali: Since environmental ethics is [are] essentially based on intrinsic value and beliefs, religions have been getting more recognized to define proper environmental ethics mainly because they try to illuminate what possessed intrinsic value and also what is the criterion for evaluating a behavior toward nature as [a] moral one.

11 Religion has received considerable attention with respect to environmental protection due to the critical examination of science and technology by Sarvestani and Shahvali.12 As with Christianity and Judaism, in Islam, taking care of the environment is an important matter of concern.13 But few believe that these religions are mainly anthropocentric and consider nature as a secondarily important thing.14 Supporters of these religions could say that the specific attributes of humans do certainly place them on a separate plane from other creatures; however, the Islamic religion requires humans to have a special concern toward the natural environment through accountability to God.

Such accountability will not overlook probable consequences to other living organisms when making decisions for the wellbeing of the environment. Before exploring the Muslim ethics that are possibly related to the problem of forest loss, it is essential to first identify the main causes that bring people to cut down trees.15 Previous…