The current coronavirus pandemic has spread rapidly across the globe, completely changing people’s lives. This also includes the Muslim community, who have been affected in a variety of ways.
In writing this booklet, we aspire to bring hope to the community by the will of Allah and impart practical tips that are grounded in sound Islamic principles and knowledge.
The aims of this booklet are to:
Strengthen our imaan and spiritual connection with Allah during this time.
Ensure we are best prepared to deal with all eventualities for ourselves and loved ones.
This article examines the engagement of Indonesian Islamic civil society organisations in the international arena by paying particular attention to the role of the Islamic modernist movement, Muhammadiyah. Beyond its vibrant religious and social activism in the domestic context of Indonesia, Muhammadiyah has, in the past thirty years, engaged in various international affairs such as peacekeeping operations, humanitarian activities, and politics. This engagement indicates that Muhammadiyah has attempted to strengthen its international exposure and contribute to the global community. By examining Muhammadiyah’s vision and activism, both discursively and practically, this article seeks to know why it is so essential for Indonesian Islamic civil society organisations, such as Muhammadiyah, to be involved in the international arena, and what Muhammadiyah engagement means for the global picture of Islam in the Muslim world.
Dealing with climate change is vital for Islamic Relief to fulfil its mission of addressing the root causes of poverty. Climate change is a threat to us all but it is already having a devastating impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, those who are least responsible for global warming.
This review describes Islamic Relief’s most recent interventions and highlights how communities are working with us to adapt to climate change and build resilience, including efforts to reduce the risk from future shocks. It also captures why Islamic Relief is vocal on climate change and climate justice issues, and how we are campaigning to reduce emissions, promote sustainable living and protect the most vulnerable.
We use the term ‘climate change’ throughout this report, but recognise that what we are witnessing is something entirely different from what occurred throughout the earth’s history. This is climate breakdown, where the actions of humans are causing changes within decades that have previously taken millennia. To deal with this means questioning not only current environmental and economic policies, but entire political and economic systems.
This publication sets out Islamic Relief’s policy on climate change. It builds on the foundation of Islamic perspectives and scientific evidence described in the Islamic Relief Climate Change Policy of December 2014. Outlining policy messages for Islamic Relief programmes, partners and external audiences, the policy takes account of new events and adds Islamic Relief’s recent experience in adaptation, resilience, human development and poverty reduction.
The policy aims to:
support Islamic Relief in delivering its global strategy goals, and to inform strategy implementation.
inform political forums and external audiences, and to provide a basis for much-needed advocacy and influence.
JAKARTA, INDONESIA, March 5 2014. The Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) has issued a fatwa, or edict, requiring the country’s 200 million Muslims to take an active role in protecting threatened species including tigers, rhinos, elephants and orangutans.
The fatwa, which has been widely acclaimed in the world’s media this week, is one of the first of its kind in the world and it will be accompanied by an education programme to help communities put it into practice.
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More Educational Resources – Indonesian Fatwas on Biodiversity and Forest Protection
Alliance of Religions and Conservation and The Centre for Islamic Studies, National University (UNAS) in Jakarta
An Islam and conservation guidebook “Pelestarian Satwa Langka untuk Keseimbangan Ekosistem” (The Conservation of Endangered Species for the Ecosystem Balance). This reference book is designed as a complete guide to the fatwa for clerics. It explains basic conservation concepts and issues and relevant laws and regulations, and includes sustainable resource use guidelines and wildlife lists, with pictures of tigers, rhinos and other key threatened species. It describes the theological basis in Islam for conservation, and explains why MUI issued the fatwa
Jum’ah (Friday) Prayer Text for Conservation Preachers (Dai Konservasi), entitled “Khutbah Jum’at Pelestarian Satwa Langka untuk Keseimbangan Ekosistem” (Friday Sermon: The Conservation of Endangered Species for the Ecosystem Balance). This tool supports clerics to design sermons, ceremonies and festivals that highlight conservation messages in ways that embody the key tenets of Islam, and which can be easily communicated to local rural communities. At almost 100 pages it includes sermon guidance on 12 themes, including Islamic ethics concerning animals, and Islamic perspectives on wildlife conservation and the prohibition of illegal wildlife trade and hunting
This publication sets out Islamic Relief’s policy on climate change. It builds on the foundation of Islamic perspectives and scientific evidence described in the Islamic Relief Climate Change Policy of December 2014. Outlining policy messages for Islamic Relief programmes, partners and external audiences, the policy takes account of new events and adds Islamic Relief’s recent experience in adaptation, resilience, human development and poverty reduction.
The policy aims to:
• support Islamic Relief in delivering its global strategy goals, and to inform strategy implementation.
• inform political forums and external audiences, and to provide a basis for much-needed advocacy and influence.
This report results from a year-long study researching and analyzing gender based violence within Muslim Canadian Communities.
Specifically, it looks at how the concept of honour and shame can have both negative and positive consequences with regard to either encouraging or potentially helping to end GBV.
Importantly, the report also discredits – using scriptural evidence and Islamic tradition – the false notion that some Islamic texts supposedly allow for wife beating and other forms of GBV.
The study draws upon existing research as well as extensive interviews to describe services available to Canadian Muslim women, while providing recommendations to policy makers, service providers and religious leaders on their role in changing practices and perceptions.
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a global issue that affects women and girls from different backgrounds, faiths, and races. In recent, years, there has been an increased focus on Muslims and the Muslim faith. Reyhana Patel’s research has found that some mainstream Muslim interpretations of Quranic verses and prophetic sayings are misunderstood and misconstrued to justify violence against women and girls. This manual attempts to explore and re-evaluate these religious justifications for the Muslim community and beyond.
In studies of disasters, cases of religious communities providing support to victims at times of disaster have been reported. Such support can be understood as a function of social capital within religious communities. This paper considers the case studies of disaster relief activities provided by a Muslim community and a Soka Gakkai Buddhist community in Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and the Kumamoto Earthquake in 2016. It also analyzes how each religious community functioned from the viewpoints of three kinds of social capital: “bonding,” “bridging,” and “linking” and identify challenges faced by religious communities at times of disaster.
