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1 What your class asks
This lesson asks you to understand why sustainability matters in the way people live with nature, and to name some results of using resources carefully or carelessly. The museum links one author's reading of how people should treat their environment; your class brings examples from its own area. 1
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- B1.3 demonstrate an understanding of the importance of sustainability in people’s interrelationship with their natural environment and of some of the consequences of sustainable and/or non-sustainable actions […]
2 The lesson
What happens when a resource is used up?
Think about the water, soil, plants and animals that people depend on. Say what could happen if they were used up, and what people could do to keep them.
Go deeper
Muhyi al-Din Afifi Ahmad writes about the water, air and soil that people live among. He holds that the pollution of water, air and soil threatens the safety of persons and societies, and that international conference resolutions went unimplemented 2. He presents Islam as taking care that people make good use of their natural environment and coexist with it in a way that preserves its constituents 3. These are the author's views, not the museum's. They are in the record on environmental protection in Islam.
Think about it
The author says that polluted water, air and soil threaten the safety of people. Choose the water or the soil near your school or home: how could people harm it, and why would that matter to the others who share it?
Into the museum
- Environmental protection in Islam: what this author says about the pollution of water, air and soil.
- Hima: land kept for grazing by those for whom it was reserved.
- Shirb, water rights: how the Kuwaiti encyclopaedia treats turns at shared water.
Try this
Read Environmental protection in Islam. Write down the three kinds of pollution the author names, then add one action your class could take to look after its own water or soil.
3 Check yourself
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In your own words: what does Environmental protection in Islam have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
One author on living with the environment. Muhyi al-Din Afifi Ahmad holds, the record says, that the pollution of water, air and soil threatens the safety of persons and societies. He presents Islam as asking people to make good use of their natural environment and to live with it in a way that keeps what it needs. These are the author's own views. What could happen to a village if its water or soil were used up?
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