Maintaining Behavior for Preventing Disaster (Ecology Themed Tafsir of Perished Nation)

Abstract

Nowadays, Ecology themed interpretation becomes a popular mode of Qur’anic interpretation. This interpretation has ultimate goal to help human taking care of nature. As a reward, it is expected that nature would not cause disasters that inflict damages to human. In Qur’an, there are a lot of verses encouraging human for doing good in the earth. The approach that we used up till now for natural disasters prevention is approach relating to human efforts that directly affecting nature, such as not litter, illegal logging, etc. From the stories of perished nations in the Qur’an by terrifying disasters, this research tried to take lessons for the sake of conserving nature where we live. This research maps out that there is an indirect causality between human and nature as nature have also unknown section (ghaib) instead of material section that commonly known. This unknown section is a part of nature that obeying doing sujud and reciting tasybih to Allah. This section is related to how we behave to Allah and other human beings. If we behave properly, the nature will be good to us, and vice versa.