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What Then Should Be Our Response
What Then Should Be Our Response
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Telah tampak kerusakan di darat dan di laut disebabkan oleh perbuatan tangan
manusia, supaya mereka merasakan kepada mereka sebagian akibat perbuatan
mereka, agar mereka kembali. (Ar Rum: 41)
Ar-Rifai, M. N., 1999. Kemudahan dari Allah Ringkasan Tafsir Ibnu Katsir. Jilid 3.
Hal 771-772. Jakarta: Gema Insani Press
What is this corruption on both earth and sea that
the hands of men have wrought? For a person reading
the Quran today, it seems like a powerful prophecy
describing our current situation. Our hands have literally
corrupted the earth and sea and now we are to
taste the consequences of our actions, and those of our
predecessors, not simply to be punished, but in order to
be alerted to the need to return to God; not in order to
become despondent, but on the contrary, more fervent in
our resolve to put right what is wrong, and return to that
natural equilibrium in which we were created. Tasting
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"e Holy Quran and the Environment
Muhammad, G., Kazemi, R. S., dan Ahmed, A., 2010. The Holy Quran and the
Environment. Book 6. Jordan: the royal aal al-bayt institute