Prince Charles speech at Oxford University on Environment. What they say in Islam, humans are ashraf-ul-mahlook (sp?)
This whole Judeo-Christian concept of the place of man in the world is very much different from the Islamic concept as appears in the Qur’an and the Sunnah, **which sees the man as one of the rulers in nature. The nature has been given to man as a trust, and he has to preserve it and to live in a balanced way with it. ** Every generation has to pass a clean and preserved environment to the next one.
According to Islam, the one who damages the earth is considered as though he committed a grave sin since this is a violation of the trust over nature which was given to man by God.
That is why Prince Charles, who has been well known for his Islamic tendencies, called the people all over the world to follow Islam’s green way in order to save the environment before it will be too late.
He ended his speech by citing an old saying of the nomads that “the best of all mosques is nature herself.”