42. June 14th, 2011
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God created animals and others living things for the benefit of humanity. But, this doesn’t mean that we have been granted license to do as we placed. The Holy Quran teaches that every animal has its own communal life and its own way to worship God, and thus our dealing with them must be on that footing. We have been created with a greater intellect than animal and so have special responsibility to be fair, just, and kind to other living things.
The blessed Prophet Muhammad once says that every injustice will be paid back on the Day of Judgments, even if one goat hits another with its horns, it will be taken account of. Therefore, in our use of animals for our own survival we must do justice.
We must also balance our using of animals and plants with our primary role as caretakers on the earth. For example, we are not allowed to raise them to for no reason. If we use animals for our work, we must feed them and not overwork them. If we animals, we are supposed to slaughter t hem according to the Islamic way.
For that reasons, we have to treat animals and plants carefully like we treat other people. Because of animals, plants, and human is God’s created, so we have to love each other. There are many ways to treat them well, for example we should watering the plants, give it fertilizer. And to animals we also have to give it feed.