Original Research

A religious discourse on water and environmental conservation issues: An interfaith approach

Abdul Mufid, Abd. Kadir Massoweang, Mujizatullah Mujizatullah, Abu Muslim
Verbum et Ecclesia | Vol 44, No 1 | a2822 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v44i1.2822 | © 2023 Abdul Mufid, Abd. Kadir Massoweang, Mujizatullah Mujizatullah, Abu Muslim | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 12 February 2023 | Published: 21 September 2023

About the author(s)

Abdul Mufid, Department of Hadith Studies, Faculty of Theology, Institute Agama Islam Khozinatul Ulum, Blora, Indonesia
Abd. Kadir Massoweang, Pusat Riset Khazanah Keagamaan dan Peradaban, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Mujizatullah Mujizatullah, Pusat Riset Khazanah Keagamaan dan Peradaban, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia
Abu Muslim, Pusat Riset Khazanah Keagamaan dan Peradaban, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, Jakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

This research aims to discover areas of agreement among major religious faiths regarding the interaction between humans and the environment, and to assess the impact of these shared perspectives on environmental preservation in selected countries. The religions under examination are: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. The primary viewpoints examined are: (1) Domination, where humans are considered superior in creation and utilise natural resources as required; (2) Stewardship, where humans are entrusted with authority over creation and have the responsibility of utilising natural resources; (3) Empathy, nature is affected by humans’ appalling behaviour. Furthermore, the research problem focussed on how religious approaches paid attention to water and environmental conservation issues. The research results indicated that water was public property. In addition, the Sunnah (prophetic tradition) has also included several principles that contributed to guiding people to conserve water. The Sunnah provided several legal steps in water conservation, and Islam had ordered the preservation of natural resources from the beginning.

Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This research contributes to providing insight to the readers that these approaches were not necessarily contradictory, but could be considered complementary in some cases. Their actual impacts on water conservation and the environment should be further investigated.


Keywords

eco-religious; water conservation; natural resources; ecological of prophetic tradition; interfaith approach.

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