Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta launches 1st climate-related fatwa to preserve environment

Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta has launched a fatwa charter aims to confront climate change, which is based on Islamic morals and principles, ahead of country’s preparations to host the climate summit (COP27) next month.

The charter has launched during Dar Al-Ifta’s seventh international conference with title, Fatwas and Sustainable Development Goals, as it held under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Dar Al-Ifta prohibited tasering fishing and aquariums, throwing used medical masks on the public road that hurt others by transmitting infections to them.

Moreover, it prohibited cutting or damaging plants as well as collecting, possessing, transporting or trading in fossils without permission from the authorities. It also forbidden hunting the endangered sea turtle and throwing garbage and animals in the Nile.

The charter stated that exceeding air pollutant emission limits, leakage of air pollutants from installations or buildings are religiously forbidden as same as emissions from cars, engines or machines.

“It is necessary to continue to discuss the development of Dar al-Ifta’s tools to keep pace with societal and climatic development and the evolution of people’s lives, particularly since Islamic jurisprudence is flexible,” Mostafa Zahran, researcher in religious affairs told Al-Monitor.