I agree. We got one job when we got put here on earth, to look after it as khalifah. It’s not to get married, or to feed ourselves, or to have children, those are things we are told to do but isn’t our JOB on earth. the only thing more fundamental is worship, which is the purpose of creation.

Not to say we should stop donating to other causes, but we should view basic environmental causes as Islamically noble. Especially since, doing our human job successfully is the key to sustaining humankind’s continued prosperity on earth. Allah does not tell us to do something except that it benefits us anyway. All the things we use in our houses, all the food we eat, all the technology, all the waste we throw and excrete, is traceable back to nature. Without nature in healthy condition everything – everything – will fall apart.

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I have a comment for “Wannabe Eco Muslim”. He said that our donations should be spent on the people of Somalia rather than in environmental causes. While I somewhat agree with him, it is ironic and sad because it is for the same lack of environmental consciousness that Somalia is partially suffering today! Do your research and you will realize that the countries that contribute the most to environmental degradation and global warming, (United States and China, are just two amongst many) are actually contributing to the drought and weather/climate changes in third world nations. So due to our over consumption, we are increasing the burden on our brothers and sisters in poorer regions of the world. Watch “An Inconvenient Truth” or read any environmental science journal article and you will learn that to be environmental friendly is a prevention measure of natural disasters and consequently, human life disasters. May Allah help us and guide us to what is right. Ameen.