By
Rashid Samnakay, New Age Islam
3 September
2022

Not only
floods but also other calamities such as Earth quakes, Forest fires, Droughts
and so on happening simultaneously round the world.
The Muslim
Countries Belt, stretching from Morocco’s desert in the West to Indonesia’s
tropical forest in the East, and everything in between, has its share of making
Contribution to the Climate Change in various ways and as such cannot be exempt
of blame of environmental degradation. But this write-up looks at simply from
the Why and simplistically what to do angle!
God
Almighty never accepts responsibility for any Negative impact of events and
damage that may occur to Mankind, including associated damage from that
calamity to Animal life, but takes all the Credit for the benefits that occurs
to Mankind from HIS Operation of the universe...."Then which of the
blessings of your Lord will you deny?"
The recent
calamitous event of Floods in Pakistan and many other Countries is an example
of the blessings tipping over to disaster!
Not only
floods but also other calamities such as Earth quakes, Forest fires, Droughts
and so on happening simultaneously round the world.
The Lord is
persistent in blaming Mankind for the damage caused by these calamities on
Mankind, as a result of its lack of knowledge of workings of the laws of
Nature. ...."why don't you observe how We bring Rain down from the
sky...."!
It can be
argued that Mankind's progress of acquiring knowledge of Nature’s working is
"slow" and lags well behind His timeline to avoid the disastrous
effects of such Natural phenomenon like eruption of volcanoes, Landslides and
what have you.
But could
Lord Almighty have not postponed these events so as to let Mankind catch up
with His Laws of workings, say by few million years?
It is NOT
as if Mankind is not trying and has not made any progress in scientific
knowledge, that He wants Mankind to peruse so as to avoid getting caught in
these damaging events. Has it not been to the Moon and into space, the keys of
which the Lord holds?
The Events
talked here are the ones which the scientific world today call Climate Change.
Is all the change that has taken place to date; is as result of Human failure due
to its lack of knowledge?
How on
Earth can Mankind control Earth quakes, even if it could forecast its
occurrence and intensity?
Yes it is
accepted that Mankind has and is contributing additionally to Climate Change.
Contributing,
for the aforementioned Natural events do more damage to the environment no
doubt!
Hence why
was the Lord in a hurry to create Mankind to contribute? Could not Adam and Eve
have stayed a bit longer in the Garden?
Nikalnaa
Khuld Say Adam Kaa Suntay Aaye Hain Laikin!
It was not such
a mighty sin to have been misled by the Satan was it? Besides, that, he the
Satan was assigned to that duty by the Lord, wasn't he?
There definitely
is a synchronism in the Lord's programme of time given for Mankind to acquire
all the required knowledge and His Agenda for Mankind!
The Lord
says that He has created all that is in the Universe is for Mankind's use and management.
So when the Mankind make use of these "blessings" they cause
evironmental degradation, polution and therefore contribute to the Climate
Change, it is dubbed as mis-use of those blessings!
There again
we are warned that it is our fault that we do no have the knowledge of the rate
of usage for usefulness of those blessings.
Do not be
extravagant, waste not and don't be selfish etcetra etcetra.
There we go
again!
What is few
hundred millions cars at a time on the road spewing fumes and a million or so
aeroplanes in the air at any time, compared to say an eruption of a volcano, or
a forest fire set off by lightning strike somewhere in Amazon, and unprecedented
floods in Pakistan, India and Australia and Draught in Europe?
Oh yes, it
is Mankind's doing that tipped over the balance over to catastrophe!
But then,
Oh Lord why is your Universe operating at such a propititious level that mankind
can tip it over? If it is so,
let us
redeem ourselves by accepting the Lords given "conditions":
-Do not be
wasteful.
-Be not
extravagant.
-Distribute
wealth equitably.
-treat
Humankind with Dignity.
-practice
sustainability.
-Acquire
scientific knowledge to understand workings of Nature.
-Share
knowledge.
-Keep
environment Clean.
-Dispense
justice.
-Honour
pledges made at international conferrences.
-Treat
women equitably.
-Value
Labour.
-Appreciate
that the planet Earth is a "Living thing" and of finite resource
Please add
a few more to the above, for sure there are some more, like Put your litter in
the Bin, Not in th Sea.
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A
regular contributor to New Age Islam, Rashid Samnakay is an Indian-origin
Engineer (Retd.) based in Australia for over forty years.
URL: https://newageislam.com/islamic-society/floods-earthquakes-droughts-god-blessings/d/127869
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