Eighteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The sustainable movement is often presented and understood in a highly secularized manner. As in many other fields, following the secularization theory, religion is regarded as an unnecessary or irrelevant factor. As such, religious voices are often not heard in the discourse on sustainability. This is a great loss, since the way in which we view the world and position ourselves in it inevitably influences the way in which we treat the world. In this research several insights on climate justice will be shared from an Islamic perspective. These insights relate both to justice with regards to nature (the rights of nature in Islam) and justice with regards to human beings, relating for example to the negative consequences of climate change on global inequality (human rights in Islam). Concepts such as the upholding and restoring of the natural balance (mizan) as established for example in surat ar-Rahman, are explored and elaborated upon.