Celebrating a Green Field Day

GIPL partner, Roswell Community Masjid, celebrated a Green Field Day on April 28th as a part of their larger Earth Day celebrations.  The event was open to the community and promoted sustainability through recycling and providing reusable water bottles. We are grateful for this reflection from RCM member Lubna Merchant:We have been taught to believe that “If a Muslim plants a tree or sow’s seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, it is regarded as a charitable gift (sadaqah) for him.” (Bukhari)As interest in the environmental preservation continues to grow, many Muslims are revisiting their faith in an effort to identify the contributions Islam can bring in promoting greater environmental awareness. Roswell Community Masjid believes that it is only through spreading the knowledge about our responsibility to the environment will we be able to develop new solutions to reversing the environmental problems our planet is facing. We would like to be a source in the Muslim community for spiritually-inspired, environmental education, reflection, and action.In addition to greening as many RCM community events as possible, our mosque received an energy audit from GIPL and a matching grant in order to fund energy efficiency projects throughout the building. We want our facilities and our people to be models of sustainability and reflect Islamic teachings of compassion and stewardship.