Recycling Station in the North of Riyadh

Alber (البر) Charity Recycling centre

Google maps:
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Tadweer Recycling Organization Riyadh - Shaykh Fawzaan's Recommendation

In the above video in Arabic Shaykh Saalih Fawzaan حفظه الله  encourages people to recycle and endorses the work of Tadweer Recycling Organization in Riyadh.

Tadweer
Al Arid, Riyadh 13345
Tel: 9200 00220

  info@tadweer.org.sa



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Excellent Explanation

All Life Forms & Even the Environment Benefits from the Scholars

(Short clip) by Moosa Richardson hafidhahullah:

http://www.spreaker.com/user/radio1mm/all-life-forms-even-the-environment-bene

A reminder benefits the believer.

Protecting the Environment - An Islamic Perspective by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al 'Uthaymeen

Protecting the Environment - An Islamic Perspective by Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al 'Uthaymeen
Translation of the lecture Click here

البيئة والمحافظة عليها من منظور اسلامي

 http://safeyoutube.net/w/DvNb

Protecting the Environment – An Islamic Perspective

By Shaykh Muhammad Saalih al ‘Uthaymeen

Lecture delivered as part of King Saud University, KSA - ‘Environment Week’

1^st Muharram 1419/1998CE

Selected Notes taken from the video[1]

Definition of ‘Environment’

تعريف البيئة: باء يبوء من التبوء المكان [2]

‘Environment’ البيئة is an expression meaning ‘society’, whether it is different peoples, religions, languages or other than that. However, the Muslim ‘environment’ is special due to it being the remaining, lasting, divine legislation which has replaced all the previous legislations.

وَمَن يَبْتَغِ غَيْرَ الْإِسْلَامِ دِينًا فَلَن يُقْبَلَ مِنْهُ وَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ

And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers. [Aali ‘Imraan 3:85]

الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا

This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. [Al Maa’idah 5:3]

When we talk about the environment and protecting it, we are not talking about air pollution, land pollution, water scarcity or deforestation – we are talking about something above that -  protecting the environment of beliefs, morals and manners and mutual transactions.

I firmly believe that if we protect the environment with these 3 fundamentals (beliefs, morals and 

transactions) that everything else will follow on from that….

1.     

  Our beliefs focus on the six pillars of faith and we must protect them from everything that places doubts about them. We must protect the environment from people who create doubts intentionally. We must protect the Aqeedah beliefs from every saying that goes against what the Salaf as Saalih came with regarding Allaah and His Beautiful Names, the Prophet, the Qur’aan, the Rightly Guided Khalifs, the Sahabah etc. We hear a lot of deviant speech regarding Allaah.

2.     

  We must protect our morals and manners - purifying them and warning against evil manners. The satellite channels broadcast evil manners. Animals behave better than them. They are destroying good manners. These channels have a far-reaching influence over people.

3.     

  We must show good treatment to others:

a.       A man to his family

b.      A husband to his wife

c.       A seller and a buyer

d.      A person renting etc.

We come across a lot of bad treatment. A lot of this bad treatment is due to anger. The Prophet  صلى الله عليه وسلم advised us not to get angry.

We need to protect our nation from forbidden transactions such as riba (interest) and maysir (gambling). A person who deals in riba is likened to the Jews whom Allaah cursed and was angry with.

We clarify what riba is and then we open up the chapter of halal transactions which is wide.

From the ways of protecting the environment is:

1.     

  To direct people to what the sharee’ah guides to. The principle of not being extravagant is found in Suratul Furqaan:

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا أَنفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامًا

And those, who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a medium (way) between those (extremes). Al-Furqaan :2567

If we look at our nation which Allaah has blessed with plentiful wealth we find that many people are extravagant in their food, drink, clothes and vehicles etc. This is wrong. For example, a youth does not have money and he buys a sr70,000 car when there are sr30,000 cars available. He does this to boast in front of others. The issue of debts is not a light issue. A person takes on a debt only by necessity. The Prophet  صلى الله عليه وسلم did not pray the funeral prayer over someone who had not paid off his debts.

A student learns by example more than by the words of his teacher.

So to protect the environment a person should not go to excesses in food, drink, clothing and vehicles.

2.       Another issue is protecting water. 

·         We find that many people waste water extensively. For example, a person can wash a coffee cup with a quarter of the water that people actually do. He opens the tap fully when he is able to wash the cup with much less water than he does.

·         We also find that people water trees that are of no value or benefit and on top of that they do not actually need watering very much. A person may continuously water them day and night.

·         Another example is a person washing his car every day or even twice a day when in fact it only needs a wash every two or three days. This is wrong.

Save water! As it is the most precious commodity when it is scarce and the cheapest commodity when it is plentiful.

3.       Another issue pertaining to protecting the environment is what comes in the Sharee’ah legislation of not placing anything in the markets and gathering places that harm the Muslims.

·         Relieving oneself on the path ways. Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: “Safeguard yourselves from the two matters which cause accursing that befalls the one who relieves himself on people’s path-ways and under the shades.” [Reported by Muslim].

·         Removing harm from the path is an act of charity. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Iman has over seventy branches - or over sixty branches - the uppermost of which is the declaration: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah'; and the least of which is the removal of harmful object from the road, and modesty is a branch of Iman."   

·         Removing a thorny branch leads to Allaah’s forgiveness. Abu Hurayrah narrates: “A person while walking along the path saw the branches of a tree lying there. He said: By Allah, I shall remove these from this so that these may not do harm to the Muslims, and he was admitted to Paradise.”

Removing a physical harm from the path of the Muslims is something required by the Shar’ law.

Removing a figurative religious harm from the path of Muslims is something more important and greater. If we remove the harm from the path of beliefs, manners and transactions then it will lead to greater good:

وَلَوْ أَنَّ أَهْلَ الْقُرَىٰ آمَنُوا وَاتَّقَوْا لَفَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَرَكَاتٍ مِّنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبُوا فَأَخَذْنَاهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ

And if the people of the towns had believed and had the Taqwa (piety), certainly, We should have opened for them blessings from the heaven and the earth, but they belied (the Messengers). So We took them (with punishment) for what they used to earn (polytheism and crimes, etc.).  

Al-A'raaf - Verse 96

Rain from the sky and plants from the earth.

It is absolutely obligatory upon us to strive in removing the figurative religious harm even more so than removing the physical harm.

I encourage you with advising the people. The religion is sincere advice to Allaah, His Books, His Prophets, the Leaders and the common folk. Advise people and enjoin the good and forbid the evil.

Questions and Answers (36 minutes onwards)

1.     

  Collecting truffles in a preserved environment sanctuary – against the law.

2.     

  Airplanes, cars and trains etc cause a lot of pollution to the environment – what shall we do? Also the pollution of water. Transport is a necessity and we cannot say ‘do not use it’. As for water then we can say do not waste or pollute it.

3.     

  Hunting birds is permissible but if the leader sees that it should be banned for a reason then you must obey the leader. Obeying the leader is obeying Allaah.

4.     

  Uprooting plants and trees is a ‘mafsadah’ harm. This type of tree may die out. Allaah does not like the ‘mufsideen’ the corrupter or harmers. The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم forbade cutting down trees in plains because they are shade for the passers by.

5.     

  Do not go to extremes even in giving charity.

6.     

  Students smoking on campus – give them the treatise by Shaykh Sa’dee. Economic, social, health issues related to negative aspects of smoking. All doctors agree today that smoking is harmful.

7.     

  Population control and global warming with climate change and melting icebergs. The predictions cannot be believed or rejected because it is something of the future – it is knowledge of the future and only Allaah knows. Allaah creates and provides. Allaah can change the climate to suit the needs at any time. Allaah made the fire cool for Prophet Ibraaheem. He caused springs to come out of the ground to quench the thirst of Moosa and the 12 tribes. He turned the sea into dry paths for Moosa and his people.

Islaam encourages having children. Allaah will send the plants to grow and provide for all of them. Their rizq is written.

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[1] Translated by Umm ‘Abdir Rahmaan Tara Hashim, Riyadh KSA, Muharram 1439.

[2] TN: The root word of environment comes in the Qur’aan: Yunus - Verse 93  وَلَقَدْ بَوَّأْنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مُبَوَّأَ صِدْقٍ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ فَمَا اخْتَلَفُوا حَتَّىٰ جَاءَهُمُ الْعِلْمُ

Al-Hajj - Verse 26  وَإِذْ بَوَّأْنَا لِإِبْرَاهِيمَ مَكَانَ الْبَيْتِ أَن لَّا تُشْرِكْ بِي شَيْئًا وَطَهِّرْ بَيْتِيَ لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْقَائِمِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ

Aayaat and Hadeeth

There are many aayaat and hadeeth regarding the environment.

I will gradually upload them when I have time inshaa Allaah.

To read the Conference Paper  entitled 'The Environment an Islamic Perspective' by Professor Abdus Salaam Al Abaadee from Jordan submitted in Arabic in Sharjah 2009  Click here. (64 pages).

He lists various aayaat and hadeeth from page 11 onwards.

What can WE do for the environment?

Small actions on the part of many people can lead to major differences in saving the resources of our small planet.

Reduce environmental impact and minimise operating costs

Here are just a few tips and reminders for us all to implement in our daily lives:

1. Turn off all lights when not using them
2. Use energy saving light bulbs
3. Do not waste water, gas, electricity
4. Reduce waste, recycle paper, plastic, glass etc.
5. Lower vehicle emissions, carbon footprint, share transport, walk, public transport
6. Switch off equipment not in use; do not leave on equipment on standby (house: radio, microwave, kettle, computer, printers etc)
7. Switch to renewable energy sources (solar panels, wind turbines etc.)
8. Energy efficient equipment
9. Use technology: save on paper and trees by sending emails and instant messages, have teleconferences instead of commuting and increasing carbon emissions for meetings, reduce carbon footprint, saves time
10. Reduce heat and light; use natural light or lighting, reduce heating even by 2 degrees, saves a lot of money and co2
11. Insulate walls and floors
12. Use economode when printing materials, saves ink

The list goes on, but at least the above gives you something to think about and hopefully put into practice. Even if a person tries to practise one suggestion regularly it will be worth it.

The Meaning of Wasting - Shaykh Fawzaan

Shaykh Fawzaan Explains Extravagance and Wasting[1]

http://alfawzan.af.org.sa/ar/node/16078 (source in Arabic with audio)

 

الجواب: الإسراف هو الإنفاق الزائد عن الحاجة، (وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا أَنفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ) أي بين الإسراف والتقتير (قَوَاماً) أي عيشًا مستقيمًا وكافيًا، فعند ذلك يسلم العبد من مسؤولية التبذير، التي قال اللهُ - جَلَّ وَعَلاَ- (وَلا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيراً* إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُوراً)، فكلما زاد عن الحاجة من الإنفاق وبذل المال، ما زاد عن الحاجة فإنه تبذير يُسئل عنه العبد يوم القيامة ومن جملة ما يُسئل العبد يوم القيامة؛ يُسئل عن أربع، منها أنه يسئل عن ماله، من أين أكتسبه وفيما أنفقه

Question: What is the criteria for Extravagance and Wasting?

Answer: Extravagance is spending more than your needs.

وَالَّذِينَ إِذَا أَنفَقُوا لَمْ يُسْرِفُوا وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُوا وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامًا

And those, who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a medium (way) between those (extremes). Al-Furqaan :2567

‘hold a medium way’ meaning between extravagance and niggardliness. ‘qawaamaa’ meaning - living upright and with what is sufficient

With that a servant is saved from the responsibility of being a spendthrift.

وَلا تُبَذِّرْ تَبْذِيراً* إِنَّ الْمُبَذِّرِينَ كَانُوا إِخْوَانَ الشَّيَاطِينِ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِرَبِّهِ كَفُوراً

But spend not wastefully (your wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift . 27. Verily, spendthrifts are brothers of the Shayatin (devils), and the Shaitan (Devil - Satan) is ever ungrateful to his Lord.

[Israa 17:25-26]

Every time a person spends over his needs it is extravagance and he will be asked about it on The Day of Resurrection when he will be asked about four matters and one of them is his wealth - how he earned it and how he spent it.

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[1] Translated by Umm ‘AbdirRahmaan Tara Hashim Muharram 1439/ 2017