Comparison of environmental ideas of Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli

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Professor, Faculty of earth sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

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Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli are two prominent jurists in the Shiite world who have dealt with environmental issues. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his opinions and thoughts about environment and natural resources his 57 statements with the keywords of environment, nature, natural resources, air, water, soil, tree, planetary, forest, destruction, energy, pollution, environmental culture, awareness, law and crime statistically were analyzed. The data analysis shows that tree and planting 205 cases (maximum) and environmental awareness 4 cases (minimum) occur in his statements. It is important to note that his special attention to tree and planting is similar to special attention of tree and planting in Quran. The data analysis of Quran words show that tree 27 cases and tree of Date 20 cases have been repeated. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli is another eminent jurists and philosopher in the Shiite world who have specially dealt with environmental issues. The result of this research show that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli opinions and thoughts about environment and nature have been deeply iinfluenced by Quranic literature, hadiths and narrations mentioned by the Holy Prophet of Mohammad and Imam Jafar Sadiq, Shiite jurist’s principles such as the rule of no harm, the rule of causation, the rule of loss and Islamic philosophers, especially Mulla Sadra. It clears that their view about environment, nature and natural resources is not only scientific, executively and expertise but also it is deeply moral and on the basis of environmental ethics.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 11, Issue 3
2023
Pages 175-186

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