ABSTRACT
The development of an active "environmentalist" tradition within Islam was necessitated further by the fact that water, vegetation, and fertile lands have always been scarce resources in Arabia. Hence, the Islamic tradition offers much that is relevant to today's world concerned with maintaining a sustainable global environment. The foundation of the whole Islamic tradition and its worldview is the overarching doctrine that God is One, Omnipresent, and ever engaged in every detail of nature. The Islamic worldview is the foundation of Islamic values for universal good and what we might call the environmental ethics and laws of Islam. All the normative practices of Islam are supposed to be performed with love and devotion to God. But the world can and often does distract us from maintaining that inner attitude even when people go through the religious routines of daily prayers, the Ramadan fasting.
