Abstract
Each worldview offers individuals perspectives on how to perceive the world around them and how to evaluate problems. The global climate crisis is one of the most important and urgent issues on the world's agenda in recent years. The discourses of religious worldviews against nature and naturehuman relations are extremely important for focusing on this problem. This lesson aims to discuss the İslamic worldview towards nature and the content consists of: nature in the Islamic worldview, the place of human beings in the universe, the human-nature relationship, interpretation of the human-nature relationship with the Islamic perspective. The lesson will discuss the question of ‘How does the relationship between environmental problems and human responsibility take shape from an Islamic point of view?’. During the lesson, students will work on the principles of oneness (tawhid), balance (mizan), creation (fıtrat), and responsibility (caliph).
Timescale
One lecture (approximately 90 minutes)
Key Terms
Nature, Islam and Nature, Climate Crisis, Creation, Balance
Key competences / Learning outcomes
Students should achieve:
• Discover principles in Islam towards nature.
• Analyze the Islamic foundations of the human-nature relationship.
• Discusses the relationship between environmental problems and human responsibility according to Islam.
