PLANTS

36. Plants ~ 110 ~ According to the Qur’an, from various aspects, farming and gardening are means of human existence; these provide both spiritual as well as physical food for man. The Prophet of Islam observed: when a person plants a tree and the tree grows and yields fruit, then human beings and birds eat its fruit, this will be an act of charity on the part of the planter of the tree. In a similar vein there is another hadith. The Prophet once observed: “If you have a plant in your hand and you can see the Doomsday approaching, even then, without any further delay, you should put the plant in the earth. Such traditions show how great importance is attached to vegetation in Islam. In this way Islam produces the spirit in man that he should make earth a green, verdant to the extent that even if there is fear that after his plantation an earthquake was to come and the earth was going to be destroyed in its wake. This is the education of plantation for the sake of plantation.