Environmental Ethics in Islam: Principles and Perspectives

The paper is an attempt to explicate and nuance the Islamic perspective of environmental ethics which is divinely guided and recognized in essence. Today humanity is facing one of the sever problems of environmental degradation done partly by human greedy nature and partly by abandoning the religious aspect of environment. Man's pursuance of science and technology has led him to exploit the nature's bounties which in turn resulted into ecological imbalance thus disturbance in the environment. How a man is to act to his environment? And what is the relationship between man, God and nature, are some fundamental questions which I will illuminate in the paper. Apart from that, it also compares and contrasts other secular models of environmental ethics with that of the Islamic. It concludes that Islamic provides a comprehensive model of environmental ethics where at the same time man is a consumer and beneficiary as well as a guardian and trustee of the environment.