Do you love our Earth?
I do! I love our Earth because it is an endless, unlimited sources of knowledge and awesomeness!
Our holy book, Al-Quran has many verses that remind us how our Earth contains signs for people to ponder and to believe. How long have we humans been roaming the Earth? Yet, we are still far from done learning about our Earth.
One of my favorite verses from the Quran is this one,
Do you see many varieties of grapes in the picture? Mashallah, aren’t they beautiful?
The picture originated from this twitter account. These grapes are produced in Herat Province of Afghanistan. Herat has more than 100 types of grapes.
Afghanistan people also developed an awesome ancient technique to preserve grapes in a natural way. It’s called Kangina. It is an air-tight container made of two earthen bowls sealed together. Each bowl is made of clay and straw, and is sun-baked. This video of Kangina recently went viral on social media.
Do you know other ancient techniques or eco-friendly practices that are part of your culture of your people? Please share with us!
On earth day today ( and all month long!) my family and I are pulling dandelions out. We decided to maintain a clover/grass lawn to reduce watering. Alhamdulillah we never need to water it and we use an electric lawnmower to mow it ourselves so we can control how often to cut it depending on the rain. Not that we hate dandelions but as Muslims we want to respect our neighbors who all have manicured lawns MashaAllah. So we kept the clover but take out the dandelions instead of spraying chemicals. I read that traditionally, American lawns used to be clover and that this practice was overtaken when chemical sprays began to be used. https://news.wttw.com/2021/05/01/clover-lawns-went-mainstream-maligned-now-they-re-making-comeback So I’m hoping to instill in my kids a culture of willingness to do some hard work instead of being accountable for putting more chemicals in the land we have responsibility over. There’s often an easy solution, but you end up paying a price later…