October 20, 2012

Gulen Movement and the Environment

Mustafa Kasim Erol *

Are We Doing Enough to Save the Environment?
An Islamic Response from the Gulen Movement

Gulen Movement and the environment
There are increasing concerns across the world for the necessity of looking after of our environment which surrounds us. The obvious reason behind the increase of that awareness has been the contribution of various organisations that have been keeping many issues relevant to the environment such as global warming, droughts, pollution etc. for our attention. People’s concerns come from various motives and causes where many of them are very obvious and there is no need to mention here. I believe that one of them is very important but not implicated in the way it should be. That is religious motives and reasons. I would like to narrow the issue to the motives of Islam for the environmental awareness in brief, then I will look into Gulen movement (aka Hizmet movement), which operates worldwide. This will include opinions of its founder and movement’s activities, which show Islamic awareness on the ecology, environment and other relevant issues surrounding that.