الوقف البيئي فكرته و مشروعيته

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This study tackles the linguistic and technical definition of "environmental endowment" and defines it as to endow money for environment and conservation of human surrounding pure, clean and free of pollution which harms human's life.

The environmental endowment is considered a revival of the endowment role in the conversation of environment.

After that, this study traces the history of Islamic endowment as well as other nation's and shows that nations, despite discrepancy in beliefs, had their own worships which demanded a temple for worshipping, hence a source of income for those temples and those who are in charged of them.

As a result of this, followers of those religions had to devote estates to afford those temples.

The study also shows the role of endowment in looking after nation's interest, providing public benefits as well as taking care of human health and the surrounding environment.

Additionally, this study presents the eligibility of environmental endowment based on Holly Qura'n, Sunnah, Islamic heritage and logic.

The study also clarifies the aggravation of pollution phenomenon and its dangers on human's life, the shortage of financial resources appropriated for the environmental endowment in Islamic countries, and the increase of expenses and financial loads of those countries.

This study recommends taking advantage of the environmental endowment and permitting establishing such ones for the sake of the conservation of human surrounding pure, clean and free of pollution.