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'TREES IN ISLAM'
Date:
Sunday 10th April 2005
Time: 2.15pm to 4.45pm
Venue: 4nd Floor, Muslim World League, 46 Goodge Street, London, W1T 4LU (entrance on the corner of Charlotte Street); Nearest Tube: Goodge Street (Northern Line)
Speaker: Harfiyah Haleem: IFEES (The Islamic Foundation for Ecology & Environmental Sciences)
The talk will trace the various viewpoints of the Qur'an, Hadith and books of Fiqh on trees, from adorning Paradise (and Hell), as sentient beings worshipping and submitting to Allah on earth, to issues relating to individual human property. It will include a study of the issue of cutting trees, making use of a story told by Ibn al-‘Arabi, an online fatwa, and an exploration of the cutting of the Banu Nadir's trees referred to in the Qur'an, using material from Ibn Ishaq.
About the speaker:
Harfiyah Haleem has been a Trustee of IFEES for several years. She has given numerous talks and PowerPoint presentations, the most recent being about Islam's teachings on the environment, for an Abrahamic faiths Chaplaincy meeting at Royal Holloway College, and 'The Qur'an and Climate Change' at a meeting held in University College London. Harfiyah worked for 14 years at IQRA Trust, London, and still does occasional freelance work for them. She has been writing for the Muslim World Book Review magazine (Islamic Foundation) since 1981 and has also edited a number of books including 'Islam and the Environment', a collection of essays by Muslim writers published by Ta Ha 1998.
The meeting will also provide an opportunity to hear about and discuss events including 'Sustainable Living' plays on Radio Ramadan and possible khutbas on 'Islam and the environment' at London mosques.
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