1. Hi – I am Eli and I am from Indonesia and I am a Muslim
Eli from Indonesia
Hi – I am Eli and I am from Indonesia and I am a Muslim

2. Looking After Our Earth
Eli from Indonesia
Indonesia is in South East Asia. I actually live
in the capital of Indonesia – Jakarta.
I go to school in an area called Kemang
which is in South Jakarta. Did you know that
Barak Obama went to school in Jakarta?
Being a Muslim is very important to me and to my family. We follow the religion called Islam and our holy book is called the Qur’an.
I want to tell you about what our religion teaches us about:
Looking After Our Earth

3. Eli from Indonesia
Looking After Our Earth In the Qur’an, Muslims are instructed to look after the environment and not to damage it. The Qur’an says that Allah (God) is the Creator of the world. Human beings are on the world as trustees or stewards and they are told to look after the world for Allah and for the future. It says: ‘He is the One who constructed the earth and placed on it mountains and rivers. And from the different kinds of fruits, He made them into pairs - males and females’. So people are responsible for the world which Allah created

4. Eli from Indonesia
Looking After Our Earth We are taught and we can see that: Although human beings are seen as the most intelligent living thing on earth, they are responsible for almost all the damage done to the planet. If we imagined the earth is aged 46, all the damage done has taken place in the last 60 seconds of the earth's life.

5. Looking After Our Earth
Eli from Indonesia
Looking After Our Earth
All our Mosques have running water and basins for
washing before prayer.
Wudu is the washing which all Muslims do before
prayer because we believe that we must be clean before
we present ourselves to God.
Having clean water to wash and drink is so important

6. Looking After Our Earth
Eli from Indonesia
Looking After Our Earth
“We made from water every living thing.” (Qur’an 21:30)
Muslims believe that water is a gift from God and we must use it
wisely and try to keep it free from pollutants. But our water has
become contaminated. Rivers and streams have become spoilt by
garbage, and toxic chemicals and even the oceans are polluted.
I know that all over the world, millions of people have no clean,
fresh drinking water, and that the contaminated water spreads
diseases.
I feel so worried about this – will it keep getting worse?

7. Eli from Indonesia
‘I hope all people in the world can work together so that everyone has fresh, clean water every day’.