The Future of our Planet
Earlier
this week, on 22 April 2019 there was the International Mother Earth
Day which commemorates the Earth and all the riches it has brought us
through the sheer grace of God Almighty. It comes as a reminder that
the Earth is in danger that we all humans have the absolute duty to
protect it, each at our level!
Indeed,
nature is a gift of God given to mankind to enable each and every
individual lead a joyful, prosperous and peaceful life. However, the
greed of people and/ or nations to accumulate wealth by all means,
coupled by superfluous consumption has prevented them to make a
judicious use of the free natural resources at their disposal and has
put humanity in the situation it is in today.
Never
before has the human race found him to be so uncomfortable, so
insecure and so uncertain about the future. Calamities like flood,
drought, tsunami, earthquake, tornado, fire, smoke....(Like on Monday 15 April 2019 in Paris where part of one of the largest cathedrals of France and the world, Notre Dame de Paris burned in a fire. France and the Christian world in general have witnessed the destruction of one of their biggest symbols - gone up in smoke!...)
And also intense heat and cold in every nook and corner of the world
and occurring even in odd seasons and in unexpected places, are
taking everyone by surprise. Disaster of such dimension never
occurred before. Many experts say that such changes (i.e. climate
change), brought by the hands of man itself have destroyed the ozone
layer protecting our Earth, thus causing global warming and bringing
in its wake many other calamities. Such natural calamities as they
are termed by man have transformed into divine reminders for them to
change their evil ways and to embrace a righteous way of life.
God
Almighty says in the Holy Quran: “Calamities
have appeared on land and sea because of what the hands of the people
have earned, so that He (Allah) makes them taste some of what they
did, in order that they may return (to the right way).” (Ar-Rum 30: 42).