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Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.

Our question for today is from brother Sajid from California.

And I'm assuming by the email that he wrote his younger brother maybe in high school

and the language is very nice and simple and beautiful and he says,

what is Islam stands on global warming?

What is Islam stands on global warming?

This is the question as it is phrased to me.

So we answer this question today by as usual dissecting the question.

Firstly, before we get to the quote-unquote traditional answer,

we need to be very, very careful about assuming Islam always says something specifically.

This is a phrasing that we need to think very carefully about.

The only time that we can definitively say Islam says something

is that if the Quran is explicit and the Ummah has agreed then we can say

Islam says Allah is the creator no problem.

Islam says the Quran is the book Allah no problem.

So a brother is asking what is Islam stands on global warming as if all of Islam has agreed on one stance.

And then as if I am the spokesperson officially designated by Islam with a capital I that whatever I say

and the reason I say this is because what happens is this is good simplistic assumption

that whatever problem I am facing there is going to be one answer, one definitive answer

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