https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/world/asia/green-islam-indonesia.html
"The faithful gathered in an imposing modernist building, thousands of men in
skullcaps and women in veils sitting shoulder to shoulder. Their leader took to
his perch and delivered a stark warning.
“Our fatal shortcomings as human beings have been that we treat the earth as
just an object,” Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar said. “The greedier we are toward
nature, the sooner doomsday will arrive.”
Then he prescribed the cure as laid out by their faith, which guides almost a
quarter of humanity. Like fasting during Ramadan, it is every Muslim’s Fard
al-Ayn, or obligation, to be a guardian of the earth. Like giving alms, his
congregants should give waqf, a kind of religious donation, to renewable
energy. Like daily prayers, planting trees should be a habit.
The environment is a central theme in the sermons of Mr. Nasaruddin, the
influential head of the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, who has tried to
lead by example. Dismayed by the trash sullying the river that the mosque sits
on, he ordered a cleanup. Shocked by astronomical utility bills, he retrofitted
Southeast Asia’s largest mosque with solar panels, slow-flow faucets and a
water recycling system — changes that helped make it the first place of worship
to win a green building accolade from the World Bank.
The Grand Imam says he is simply following the Prophet Muhammad’s instructions
that Muslims should care about nature."
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