A turn to God...

A turn to God, regardless of the sacred tradition taken by each individual, is needed for a lasting inner-peace. Humanity’s resolving of the environmental crisis depends on the resolving of its own spiritual crisis, which, for each individual, depends on his or her reconciliation with God. A study of this from an Islamic perspective may prove beneficial, given not only the Islamic sciences of the soul and the Islamic reverence for nature, but also what Islam shares with other religions.

Given its theological correspondences to Western religions and its esoteric similarities to Eastern religions, Islam has the capacity to provide a universal basis that can benefit other religions in their own approaches to the environmental crisis. The religious approach to the environmental crisis, though perhaps different in nuance, is similar across all religions.

Ultimately, all sacred traditions affirm sacred qualities to nature and all recognize humanity’s responsibility of stewardship to this part of God’s creation, the natural world. In this essay, Islamic philosophy serves as the lens through which these sacred qualities of nature are observed. Previous…