ISLAM’S PERSPECTIVE REGARDING HUMAN-ORIENTATION AND ITS EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Abstract

The interaction between the human beings and the nature is amongst the important challenges of their life in the contemporary era. The human lifestyles and the governments’ managerial policies have exerted undeniable and serious effects on the environment. Bioenvironmental ethics is a branch of applied ethics that seeks correcting the relationship between the human beings and the nature. Some of the thinkers are of the belief that the religion causes irresponsible behaviors in the human beings in respect to the nature by inducing its addressees with a human-oriented discretion. The human-oriented mindset provides the means of uncalculated exploitation hence destruction of the environment. The present article seeks elaborating the perspective of Islam in regard of the human-orientation as well as its relationship with the bioenvironmental ethics. Emphasizing on the idea that the human beings are the lords of creatures, Islam denies the human-orientation approach and delineates and elucidates God-orientation for the human life and interaction on the other hand.