Jurnal Lentera Insani
Jurnal Lentera Insani (JLI) - Vol. 1 No. 2 (December 2025)

Environmental Fiqh as a Framework for Social Sustainability

Amiruddin. A (Politeknik Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pengembangan Profesi Indonesia Makassar, Indonesia)
Rahmawati (Universitas Almarisah Madani, Makassar, Indonesia)
Nurhaedar (Politeknik Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pengembangan Profesi Indonesia Makassar, Indonesia)
Rahmi (Politeknik Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pengembangan Profesi Indonesia Makassar, Indonesia)
Salmah Harun (Politeknik Lembaga Pendidikan dan Pengembangan Profesi Indonesia Makassar, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
05 Dec 2025

Abstract

When ecological crises reflect the failure of modern ethics, environmental fiqh emerges as a moral challenge to the way humans build social sustainability. The purpose of this study is to formulate and construct environmental fiqh as a framework for social sustainability in Asian Muslim communities by comprehensively explaining the relationship between fiqh norms, social practices, and ecological dynamics. This study uses a qualitative approach, combining a literature review with content analysis, and a normative-sociological approach to critically examine how environmental fiqh can be positioned as a framework for social sustainability that challenges the dominance of the secular-technocratic paradigm. The results indicate that environmental fiqh, when read critically and reconstructed progressively, has the transformative power to challenge the Asian development model based on ecological exploitation and social inequality, while offering a more equitable, long-term framework for social sustainability rooted in Islamic ethical values. By integrating environmental maqāṣid, intergenerational ethics, and revitalised fiqh concepts such as amānah, maṣlaḥah, and ḥisbah, environmental fiqh need not remain a moral discourse, but can become a normative instrument that influences public policy, corrects corporate behaviour, and strengthens civil society movements.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jli

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Subject

Religion Humanities Other

Description

Jurnal Lentera Insani (JLI) is an international, double-blind, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to substantive dialogue between the social sciences and Islamic studies across Asia. The journal combines rigorous empirical investigations with innovative theoretical interventions, adopting ...