Top Muslim Imam: Selfish humans pollute, hunt for pleasure

Imam Hassan Qazwini: Humans should respect environment and not hunt for pleasure

The Michigan Earth Healing Initiative promotes interfaith environment projects - and America's top Muslim Imam brought just that message to Marquette, MI
Talk by Imam Hassan Qazwini, head of the Islamic Center of America on Oct. 22, 2008 at the Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) Lothlórien House in Marquette, Michigan
Northern Michigan University (NMU) Health & Nutrition Professor Mohey Mowafy of Marquette introduced Imam Hassan Qazwini:

Imam Hassan Qazwini:
In the Quran God says
Thahara alfasadu feealbarri waalbahri bima kasabat aydee alnnasiliyutheeqahum baAAda allathee AAamiloolaAAallahum yarjiAAoona. Quran (Ar-Rum: verse 41)
Translated:
Corruption (Mischief) has appeared on land and sea because of (the meed) that the hands of men have earned, that (Allah) may give them a taste of some of their deeds: in order that they may turn back (from Evil).
Corruption has appeared on the sea and on the land due to what the man did - or what the man does.
Meaning that God created this very beautiful, splendid planet. And he gave it to us as a gift. But he asked us not to corrupt it, not to ruin it, not to destroy it. Use it for our benefit.
Did you know that in this country, we only form five percent of the worlds population, but we consume 25 percent of the worlds energy. What does this mean? This means that I am taking my own share - yet I am taking the share of five other people in this world. I am using my own share plus the share that belongs to five other people - I am consuming.

It means that I am stepping over my limits. And I am doing such injustice to the environment. Why? Simply because I am selfish. I want to enjoy myself. I dont care about the environment. I dont care about others and I want to use everything for my own benefit only.
I always remind my friend - I say many of you love hunting. How many of you hunt?
Answering the Imams question - news reporter Greg Peterson says I am growing my beard (for deer season) right now.
Imam Hassan Qazwini continues:
Hunting is a hobby that many people love to do. In Islam, my religion, two people can hunt only.
A hunter - meaning whose career is hunting, someone who makes a living out of hunting.
And the second one: A man who is wandering the desert or the woods. And he got so hungry, and he could not find anything to eat, he went and he hunted something. He ate. Thats fine.
But for someone to do it as a hobby - its prohibited (in Islam). Why?
Because God allowed me, permitted me as a human being, he gave me the right to take the life of an innocent animal only when I need it. When I need to fill my stomach. When I am hungry. Or when I need to make a living because I have to make a living.
But for me to go out and enjoy myself with the cost of killing an innocent animal - God says: Here your freedom is over. You can not take the life of an innocent animal simply because you wanted to enjoy yourself. Simply because you wanted to have some fun.
But obviously, you may tell me: I am not going to waste it. I will take it.
I know, but what was my incentive when I hunted this animal. My incentive was to enjoy myself not because I was hungry. My point that I am trying to say is this: That God want this equilibrium to be kept and to be preserved.
We Muslims refrain from eating so many kind of fish - the kind of fish that does not have scale on the skin - we cannot eat. Why?
Because we know that if we are allowed to eat everything in the ocean then the balance the equilibrium in the ocean will be upset.
Therefor - not only my well-being - the well-being of the environment will be in danger.
So the bottom line is - that Islam is one of the religions that emphasizes protecting the environment.
You can use from the environment as much as you need - not as much as you enjoy.
You can use the environment as much as you need - not as much as you enjoy.
Imam Qazwini
http://www.icofa.com/aboutus/imam.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Al-Qazwini
Quran and the environment:
http://www.blogtoplist.com/religion/blogdetails-17864-3.html
http://theislamicscience.blogspot.com/2007/04/man-and-pollution.html
Lutheran Campus Ministry Marquette, MI
http://www.nmulutherans.org/
Rev. Jon Magnuson - Non-profit Cedar Tree Institute:
http://www.cedartreeinstitute.org

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[TheRocksHassan]

محآظره حلوة من الشيخ

ياليت يزورنا مره ثانيه :)

[EarthHealingTV]

@TheRocksHassan

I tried to translate your message - and got this: Mahazerh sweet Sheikh

Ialit visit us again

Is it Correct?:)

[Sibadd]

It is a source of some delight to me that this conversation between men and woman - Christians and Muslims - took place. I have been a hunter "on a full stomach" but not for many years. I have known the simple pleasures of the prosperous and how sad it can be to eschew them. A year ago I "divorced" my car in favour of cycling, walking and rapid transit - but I still fly for my work and when I assess my family's enjoyment of the world I know we can claim no moral high ground nor right to judge.

[EarthHealingTV]

What I great comment - thank you Sibadd

[NobleFight]

great video i feel the same we where given this

earth as a gift and to take care of not to

poison and be selfish

[EarthHealingTV]

I agree - and hopefully people of all faiths will join forces to protect our beautiful earth before it is too late.

[hudfadz]

He us a Shia, so if he us so worried about consuming more then needed, then he should be concerned about Mutah

[Ebdan88]

The problem is many times jews and illuminati scums are masters of deception, they can sent you a man who looks like you, and speak the toung you understand and in the same time they are pupets of a bigger power!! wake up. Every one of you should be a Imam!! You have to know who is who. dont be sheeps!!

[7ayderi1]

@Abdullah2009 you have a problem with that?

[Abdullah2009]

shi3a?

[TheRocksHassan]

@EarthHealingTV

:) its mean "nice lecture from him i hope he come to Northern again "

[SoccerGangsta4]

didn't really like the Hassan Qazwini that much but i agreed with some of his views, the guy on the left Mohey Mowafy is a horrible professor tho, seriously.... worst porfessor at NMU easy

[stubborn4345]

Who let this idiot into the Yoop? Go back to Iraq.

[plasticbudgie]

im not religious at all, but its a basic moral, that killing inocent animals when hungry or killing to supply food or wealth for you and your faimly. is ok, but on a full stomach im against.... anyone with respect for mother nature understands this, religion is not necasary to understand this concept, anyway nice video.