{"id":54143,"date":"2017-02-26T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54143"},"modified":"2017-02-26T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:12:47","slug":"trees-and-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54143","title":{"rendered":"Trees and the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; do you suppose trees only prostrate before God,<a href=\"http:\/\/corpus.quran.com\/translation.jsp?chapter=55&#038;verse=6\"> Q 55.6<\/a>, during high winds? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>This admirable <strong>United Nations<\/strong> goal gains <strong>Taliban <\/strong>support..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-plant-more-trees.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-plant-more-trees.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Tablet-DQ-600-plant-more-trees-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Taliban, in turn, have <strong>the encouragement of the Prophet<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Prophet (pbuh) said:&#8221;If the Hour is about to be established and one of you was holding a palm shoot, let him take advantage of even one second before the Hour is established to plant it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Allah&#8217;s Messenger (pbuh) said, &#8220;There is none amongst the Muslims who plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, but is regarded as a charitable gift for him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Plant for the Planet<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plant-for-the-planet.org\/en\/treecounter\/our-target\">Billion Tree Campaign<\/a>\n<li>\n<strong>BBC<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-39094578\">Taliban leader urges Afghans to plant more trees<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><strong>Hidaya Foundation<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hidaya.org\/environment\/one-million-trees\/why-plant-trees\">Why Plant Trees<\/a>?\n<li>\n<strong>Muaz Nasir<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleafa.com\/khaleafacom\/value-of-trees-in-islam\">The Value of Trees in Islam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; do you suppose trees only prostrate before God, Q 55.6, during high winds? ] . This admirable United Nations goal gains Taliban support.. The Taliban, in turn, have the encouragement of the Prophet: The Prophet (pbuh) said:&#8221;If the Hour is about to be established and one of you was holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,801,753,676,709,1,831],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-ecology","category-islam","category-scriptures","category-taliban","category-uncategorized","category-united-nations-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54149,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54143\/revisions\/54149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}