Allah Almighty chose the blessed month of Ramadan to surround us with His countless blessings and for us to appreciate His bounties. Ramadan allows worshippers to focus their minds on the devotion to their faith through prayers, expressing gratitude, seeking forgiveness and helping the needy. In this month we have a greater urge and desire to perform good deeds.   “Which of your Lord’s favours will you deny?” Quran...

  I had the honor and the pleasure of meeting Professor Özdemir in Bologna where he was participating to the G20 Interfaith Forum. We spent two lovely evenings together. Then he went back to Istanbul and I went back to my Italian home from where I had been missing since September 2020. But a beautiful friendship is born and now we are regularly in touch, looking forward to a future collaboration. Professor Özdemir is a very easy going...

One of the most thorough pieces of text, which focus on issues surrounding the environment recently written, is by Jeremy Rifkin, titled The Green New Deal, published in September 2019. It begins with an alarming warning: «We are facing a global emergency. Our scientists tell us that human-induced climate change brought on by the burning of fossil fuels has taken the human race and our fellow species into the sixth mass extinction event of...

Ibrahim Abdul Matin: a good networker and organiser   Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, a former sustainability policy advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Outward Bound instructor, authored Green Deen: What Islam Teaches About Protecting the Planet in 2010. Few years later he co-founded Green Squash Consulting, a management consulting firm based in New York working with people, organizations, companies, coalitions and governments...

  The world is sweet and verdant, and verily Allah has made you stewards in it, and He sees how you acquit yourselves. Hadīth from Abū  Sa’īd Al-Khudrī   The relationship between Islam and ecology is, today, crucial. For two simple reasons: 1) we are living in what Ahmed Paul Keeler, of the University of Cambridge, defines as an age of crisis, a deeply critical phase in which the environment is particularly penalized; 2)...