an interpretive judicial study of nature and relevant quranic teachings based on alravandi and ghortabi

such elements as water, earth, creatures like plants and animals, and balanced biological relations among them comprise the natural order. such a rich resource is a grand divine bounty bestowed upon living creatures, so that while all creatures enjoy and use these resources, human beings would be able to develop land and earth, and provide all with a suitable habitat. thus the right to use such divine bounties and resources is among basic human rights. the current study would both identify the key elements and component parts of nature and environment in the holy quran, then the obtained data would be interpreted by the analytic methods of imami and sunni fiqh drawing on rawandi’s book, fiqh al-koran, and al-qortobi’s, al-jami’. the main focus here is on the deep relations existing between human actions and nature. the main objective is to point out the islamic framework for identifying and dealing with the act of abusing nature according to such criteria as moral, civil, and punitive liability.