On Aug 5, CMGT organized the Native Plant Crash Course at Al-Nahda Center in Oak Lawn with speaker from Sag Moraine Native Plant Community. We gained a lot of valuable knowledge and appreciation about the importance of native plants to our survival and living in balance (Mizan) with nature.
We can relate many of the important aspects of native plants to our Islamic teaching, e.g., the significant of Bees (An Nahl:68-69), birds as part of our community, (Al-Anam:38), planting native trees to benefits animals and the whole ecosystem (Hadits Bukhari), and our responsibility as protector and steward of the Earth.