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They noticed that it was less noisy and finally more relaxing to use the traditional mower. Fertilizers could
also be obtained by composting leaves and branches or by letting them decompose away from the rain and
the wind.
After this conquest, we encouraged them to become insect friendly:
Little by little animals came back to our valley, and we gradually replanted most of the trees. The valley of
course was not as beautiful as it had been before, but at least Allah was pleased with us again.
New farms were built, and that was happy because we were many people to be fed. Farmers did not use
pesticides or hormones because they were well aware of the damage. They also knew Allah Ta’alah would
not be happy if they did not let insects and animals feed from one part of the crop.
“There is no Muslim who plants a tree or sows a field, and a human, bird or animal eats from it,
but it shall be reckoned as charity from him.”
“Partake of it (the land) with joy, so long as you are a benefactor, not a corruptor, a cultivator, not
a destroyer.”
Whoever was able to revive the land, this land belonged to him according to the Islamic law. So new
people were drawn to our valley and the one who owned property worked very hard for keeping what they
already possessed.
Now, every family remembers what happened to our valley, and we make sure our children learn
from us and the Qur’an, so nothing like before can happen again.
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About Recycling
What did you learn from the story?
What are the 4 principles concerning what you can do about too much trash?
Unscramble the words:
UECRDE:_______________________
UEERS: _______________________
YRCELEC: ______________________
CTA: ______________________
REDUCE
1) What can you reduce in you house that you do not really need?
Find the letters missing:
Number 1: P _ _ _ _ _ _ _G
Number 2: T _ _ _ C products.
2) What can you do to reduce number 1?
a) __________________________________________________________________
b) __________________________________________________________________
c) __________________________________________________________________
d) __________________________________________________________________
3) What are the number 2 items; cite some of them:
a) __________________________________________________________________
b) __________________________________________________________________
c) __________________________________________________________________
d) __________________________________________________________________
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