WEEK 2: ISLAM AND SUTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

 

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim and Assalamualaikum everyone!

    For today topic, we will discuss about the connection of Islam and Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability in Islam refers to "consumer welfare, economic efficiency, social fairness, and ecological balance in the framework of an evolutionary knowledge-based, socially interactive paradigm that defines the Shuratic process."

In attaining the sustainable development objectives, human must preserve and maintain their relation with these 3 pillars :

• Relationship with Allah

• Relationship with human being

• Relationship with the environment

Islam and environmental sustainability

    The right to benefit from nature is inextricably tied to accountability and the preservation or protection of the resources. The legal principle established by the Prophet Muhammad is that ' the benefit of a thing is in return for the liability attached to it' .Human ignorance of God's commandments is a major contributor to environmental destruction. People should realize that protecting the environment is a religious obligation that God has commanded to us. Those misuse the utilization will be punished whether in the world or hereafter. 

Islam and social sustainability 

    Equality, justice, fairness, brotherhood, kindness, compassion, solidarity, and freedom of choice are all examples of collective morality in the Qur'an. The social sustainability should be able to secure happiness and prosperity for both individual and society. 

Islam and economic sustainability 

    Islam promotes development and both socially and economically. For the development of socio economic condition, Islam has provided endowment system(Waqf) and distribution of zakat in as an effective means to prevent poverty. It shows that Islam really emphasize the sharing and caring behavior in wealth distribution.

Therefore, it indicates that how important of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is in human life. We have to sustain, maintain and preserve the well being of the people, environment, nature, and all living things in this world. Human should wisely governs the world so that the success attained will be balanced in this world and hereafter.

That's all for today! Thank you!