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From: paul@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: The Qur'an about environmental issues
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.101331.23698@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 10:13:31 GMT
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> Subject: Environmental Ethic in Islam
> 
> /* Written  2:37 am  Feb 19, 1991 by igc:mstetler in gn:gen.islam */
> /* ---------- "Environmental Ethic in Islam" ---------- */
>  
> I am a new student to Islam.  I would like to know what kind of environmental
> ethic is given in teachings of the prophet.  I think of this
> in relation to the horrific affect this war is having on
> the environment of the Gulf region.  I
> would appreciate any help from people more familiar with scripture.

Conservation 6:141, 7:31
Ecology (see also conservation)
  - earth has been spread for all living things 55:10
Pollution 30:41