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What do the Quran and Islam say about the problem of "global warming" and the melting of the world's ice and its dangerous effects? Has anything been mentioned about it in the Quran and in scientific inimitability?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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Global warming is an environmental problem attributed to factory gases and car emissions, which raises the temperature of the Earth and oceans, threatening the melting of ice and climate change. It was mentioned in the a : "The Hour will not be established until the land of the Arabs returns to meadows and rivers" (Narrated by Muslim). Some scholars linked this to global warming and the melting of the Arctic, asserting that the return of the Arabian Peninsula to meadows and rivers is a certainty, but determining its cause is up to Allah. This was explained by the Earth undergoing climatic cycles, and that the coming period will be rainy, with the advance of ice and a decrease in temperature. Sheikh Al-Zindani also discussed this hadith with a geologist, who affirmed that the Arabian Peninsula was once meadows and rivers and will return to that state due to ice ages, which astonished him and confirmed to him that Prophet Muhammad ﷺ could not have reached this knowledge except through divine revelation.

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