The Unique Power Of Gardening in Islamic Culture
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2021
- We don’t have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of Islamic gardens - nor the wisdom they’re designed to teach us.
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Gardening and looking after my pets have been the best thing for my mental health and I’m 45 years old.
It's in our DNA to feel better when we are closer to our natural habitat.
@@fairdose I have lots of plants on my apartment balcony, and enjoy caring for them. A fresh, peaceful garden in the air.
Totally
@𝙻𝙻𝙲 Gehenna talibani
that's because you are 45 years old
Anas reported that the Prophet said,
“If a Muslim plants a tree or sows seeds, and then a bird, or a person or an animal eats from it, it is regarded as a charitable gift (sadaqah) for him.”
Indeed.
Easy to feel that way when it's only one or two.
@ITACHI UCHIHA many of us muslims believe in an inclusive society which of course includes the queer community. It's a bit of an uphill battle but our groups are out there! God made us different so that we may know one another. peace.
@@nikivesta you were going on about saying Islam doesn’t say anything about gardening and “is a stretch to compare it” and yet you ignore the facts of Islamic history and scriptural context mentioned in the video.
Some of the greatest long withstanding gardens are placed with islamic influence (by mosques) in muslim countries. It’s not by coincidence. There are various places that suggest the important role of nature for humans in the Islamic faith.
As the video and texts suggests “gardening was encouraged in Islam and reminder of what the afterlife may entail”. The hadith provides just one of the message by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Not only does it provide for food but more the fact its for planting trees and encouraging one to have a green-thumb. Trees can also give shade, food, refuge to other creature.
I'll try to remember that next time the aphids destroy my green beans.
An interesting fact: Garden, beside “hadiqua”, in some Arabic dialects is called “Junaynah” which is a diminutive of the word “Jannah” which means paradise.
Yes,everyone knows that Arabic countries are paradises indeed.
Especially for women😅
@@feikotemme8736 you should be more attentive when you read because I never mentioned countries. I just made a comment about gardens and other words used to describe them, and I would want to get into such a discussion with someone who clearly is trying to start it out of an irrelevant topic. It is useful sometimes just to stick to the subject.
@@susieta7 you are wise not to humiliate yourself by having an argument with a small minded extremist, such a low person
Can confirm
@@feikotemme8736 When a wise man points at the moon, an idiot looks at his finger.
I am a 20-years-old Muslim from the Middle East. I'm extremely interested in gardening and I find it very therapeutic. I find it very disappointing that at the moment many Muslims in the Middle East are not very educated regarding the concept of gardening and greenery in general. You can tell by how some countries in the area are competing in building high skyscrapers and towers instead of building green spaces.
In every islamic building I have been to in india , there is a garden , some of these places are even names ending in Bag (garden) .
if we build gardens around our buildings, islam won't blow them up
Please ignore the racist comment from Pon Pon and keep on gardening my brother.
@@harshityadav0 even in Hinduism I found that nature plays big role especially the vegetation and to be more precise the tulsi plant. When you pray 🙏 to God in natural environment it helps you focus and get rid of stress.
Bro what are you talking about, I’m an Arab and live in one of “those” middle eastern countries. Before oil our sheikhs especially in UAE encouraged us to plant trees, and gave us areas to farm at for free. Plus places to take care of our animals. When oil came about, the government had no sort of taxes regarding aggregation, so people started to go wiled with planting all types of trees. Now al humidlilah in every house owned you will find trees planted all over their houses. It’s a must to plant trees in a middle eastern house because not only they offer benefits, but they protect you from the heat, they cover your house from neighboring eyes. Not to add that in Saudi Arab there is a green project that will be launched where they are planing to plant many trees that fit our middle eastern environment in many public areas in order to make the middle eastern countries green again. Please educate yourself, you are being ignorant. Almost half of my family know about trees, and are considered very knowledgeable about the plants in the middle eastern region, and what seasons fit them. What plants can be used for meds, perfume etc. many middle eastern gulf countries have a green side to them, but these place don’t get shown because of miss information and stereotyping us arabs as desert hillbillies who don’t know nothing. I bet you if you seen some of the places you would think that’s in Europe not in a middle eastern countries. I’m somewhat glad not a lot of people know about them except the natives because…..well, you people tend to ruin things.
So please stop being hateful and ignorant for no reason, we know you other “Muslims” have an inferiority complex towards us advance middle eastern countries, but it’s certainly not our fault you feel this way. Go take care of your own problems in your own countries and leave us be.
I was not raised to faith but when I was younger I thought gardening was soooooo boring and now I find it delightful. I loved this, I find gardening even just on my balcony very comforting 💜
It's a therapeutic experience, makes sense almost every religious and philosophical school in the world has some form of gardening
I miss Alain narrating these videos. He has an insight to his tone that the other narrators have not matched.
If you listen to his voice you see things differently in reality and that shows how good the man is at explaining how things work
FACTS😳
His voice was so relaxing and calming. :(
Same!!
Ya, this sucks. (Sorry new ppl).
Unlike English gardens, which are often designed for walking, Islamic gardens are intended for rest, reflection, and contemplation. A major focus of the Islamic gardens was to provide a sensory experience, which was accomplished through the use of water and aromatic plants.
You never really see these types of channels tell such an in-depth information about Islam. And the School of Life is a very good channel of youtube. This is so great
Ypu should watch the channel 'Let's talk religion', he talks about all religions including Islam, but said he actually had a field of study in Islamic sufism. Also the channel al muqaddimah and religion for breakfast talk about islam as well.
Islam rarely has any ideas worth embracing. Their history is steeped in violence, racism and slavery to a degree no other culture as equaled to date in terms of overall human suffering. Islam is a blight on humanity and I mourn how many have suffered under their disgusting culture.
“If the Hour (the Day of Resurrection) 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.” (Prophet Muhammad [peace be upon him])
Virgin companions? That's horrifying, not tempting. Wish we'd gotten the philosophy this channel is for without the religious sexual slavery.
@Biswas Simkhada "beauty of Islam", women in Afghanistan would like a word with you 🤡
@@devilsadvocate2643 Women in Afghanistan are being suppressed by men, not Islam.
@@devilsadvocate2643 that is not islam that is fake islam every muslim knows that
@@smurfyday viginity here means that those companions are exclusively for you and had never been and won’t be with anybody else but you,not the sexual virginity your extroverted mind thinks about.
"We might think we are nurturing our garden, but it's our garden that is really nurturing it" Jenny Uglow.
A quiet moment in a garden helps clear our mind and heal our soul...
I haven't known about the hidden wisdom of Islamic gardens until this video. Thanks for sharing meaningful content 🙏
*I feel sorry for the garden*
No one is thinking about the flowers
No one is thinking about the fish
No one wants to believe
That the garden is dying
@@nathanielgarza9198 ?
In order to reach heaven is to kill people of other religion who refuse to convert.Thus the world should come under Islamic law.This is the core belief of Islam.
@@prettyme4387 it’s the opening poem from the Alamut which is about a Arabian cult that converts its followers through putting them in thriving gardens with beautiful slave women, and tricking them into thinking it’s heaven to give them the illusion they can send people to it by a slip of their finger
@@tyranitar4246 No it's not go search better
Me being honest. Since i don't hear Alain de Botton's voice i haven't enjoyed the channel the same way. This has been my favourite channel when i need strength and consolation and apparently i formed a bond with how AdB puts it out. That's my opinion
I agree.
Totally agree.
I agree with you. I think Alain evinces an insight in his tone that these new narrators have not been able to match.
Totally agree his voice has a totally different impact
Omg, yes, me too!
Bold statement there... I am in my twenties and love gardening. Even follows gardening channels on youtube...
Perhaps the reason why retired folk like gardening so much more than adolescents is because they have time and property
But even wealthy youth spurn gardening.
No. It’s because they have NO time.
Adolescents chase novelty and excitement. Seniors have collected decades of sadness and trauma, and chase spiritual calmness. Occupying the mind with methodological tasks, and bringing it closer to nature is a good vector to spiritual calmness.
when I was like 17 I try to start my own little garden
my mom made me thrown the vases away because the water would stain her perfect yard concrete or something
Exactly
Gardening is something that initially was born out of a need to create food and have plants that were useful near us. Landscaping/Gardening is a reflection of our culture and what we desire. Beauty is desired in things that are created and gardens are part of that. Some gardens are organised and ordered reflecting our need to have things in balance and other gardens desire less control and order and want their gardens to be free flowing and natural looking reflecting the beauty in nature. Water is a common theme in most gardens as it is vital for life and reminds us of that.
Islamic gardens reflect an inward style of garden because generally they have been born out of harsh desert environments hot and dry. They are similar to other desert gardens created in these conditions. Water features are added to add coolness, reflections and sound. They are normally symmetrical and organised in layout repeating the same lines of the building makes sense in smaller closed in spaces. Organized and repeated pattern is something we like and it can show balance. We see beauty in the balance of these symmetrical organized gardens. They also do not have representations of statues of animals or people for cultural/religious belief systems preferring ornamentation to be in provided by bowls, urns etc. All gardens evolve when we evolve and this only happens when we are free to contemplate and innovate. This cannot truly occur when we are controlled by doctrines that remove our ability to question and remove freedoms from society. When we build a garden according to a set of rules laid down by a belief system we are not thinking for ourselves abut can still enjoy and admire the result even though this style of garden might not be a fit for us or our society/environment.
I am a beneficiary of a beautiful free flowing garden that has been my salvation through the gentle maintenance I undertake to keep things just under a semblance of control. I have had a complicated relationship with aesthetics so that helping to create a garden takes the beauty imperative largely out my hands, and that helps me appreciate the innate beauty of everything.
Ironic, I love plants and gardening yet I've completely given up on humanity.
Glad there's a lot of content about islamic philosophy on youtube nowadays, watched by people of all backgrounds. It's such a far cry from the world of the early 2000s. I think we are all on a brink of a new spiritual awakening.
The true meaning of Islam is to make a state of understanding and harmony. Back in Arabia "harb" or war was the usual state, tribes fighting amongst each other before the Islamic civilization united the whole area and beyond and created a more advanced society that cared about sciences and arts not just about constant war. History shows how much advancement happened to Arabia after years of war, because Islam had stopped the constant tribal wars, and now America and before it UK and France had destroyed all that advancement and sent the area back to wars and backwardness, and then they have the audacity to blame it on Islam and people are too ignorant to not believe them. That's just life.
@@yuzan3607 Let’s try moving to Afghanistan. The ultimate example of understanding and harmony
@@oliverheisenwilliams2376 Move to Afghanistan if that's what you fancy Oliver.
@@oliverheisenwilliams2376 that's a people problem, not a religion problem
This video is so random but as a muslim, I am very present and ready to watch every second of it
Where is Alain? This channel is not the same with him.
Miss Alan's voice too but have to say these new voices are equally soothing ❤️
Islamic style gardens are seen as places of refuge, often behind high walls,they are cool places in hot countries where water is highly valued as well as clean formalised design
Finally something not based in relationship and childhood trauma. They are surely needed by some people, but are far to many.
I miss the old days of this channel when i followed it like someone who just found the code on how to life as a human being. It connected to me in a whole different way than it has these last two years.
Moving on to lifelong trauma. :D
Supera, amor.
School of Life is great for bringing the knowledge of others - such as philosophical or religious wisdom - to a wider audience, but I find their own stuff (Alain de Botton's work) is a bit... Wooey quite a lot of the time. It's as you mentioned, finally a video where the crux of it isn't 'your childhood was bad'. I appreciate the Islamic knowledge shared in this video, but that take about young people being full of hope and that's why they don't garden I find to be a bit questionable. There's no source for that take, and the younger generations are increasingly wrought with anxieties and fears, plus some of them do garden. Weird ruling.
I miss Alain de Botton's narration. Also that ending always ruins the mood.
Awesome content nonetheless.
Did he leave? How come he hasn’t been narrating the videos lately?? I keep hoping it’ll be him narrating and it’s never him🥺
Mashallah thank you for this beauty for this beautiful video.
Fun fact: Pardis in Persian means paradise. Architects thought to bring pardis from the skies to their homes and that’s how it started. After the Arabian and Persian and other cultures met, after the fall of Persian Empire, the idea of Pardis was reimagined through the eyes of all the people that came in contact with the idea. And it goes on and on; being reinvented and reimagined.
The hardest barrier to break as a gardener is understanding all plants have a life span that eventually leads to death, All we can do is nurture and care in hopes it'll be strong enough to bring us continuous joy throughout it's life as it connects us to the earth. These practices comes with wisdom and patience that one doesn't have in early years. The difficulty of creating a space that brings a sense of paradise within reality is a ritual understood when you realize reality isn't what you imagined.
You should narrate these videos
Except when you have perennials that copy themselves faster than you can count.
I think my original Haworthia still lives after a decade, but now there are twenty of them. :)
hey I love gardening and I’m not old. It’s so weird, I just had a dream I was walking through a beautiful garden and woke up and this vid was at the top of my feed 😃
Please post more videos about
-Presocratic philosophers (Thales of Miletus,Empedocles,Parmenides,Anaxiamder,Anaxagoras,Heraclitus)
-Al Kindi,Al Farabi,Avicena,Averroes
Beautiful. Thank you for this video.
We are looking forward for more content on islamic psychology to deal with worldly pain.
Your sarcasm is awesome!
Feel free to check out Online Life Guide... it's based on same principles :)
@@vade248721 how is it sarcastic tho. All religions have philosophies on how to deal with pain and hardship
@@youraveragepasser-by7367 You're probably right but, most are more sympathetic to the human condition than Islam.
@@vade248721 very true, these people are ignorant to the many forms of islamo-facism
As a Muslim who's a fan of Alain and SoL, this was a pleasant surprise! :)
Wow - that one really hit home. I'm older and I treasure my garden, while when I was young, I was on the road all the time - no time for a garden
There’s an evolution to the production of the non animated videos. I appreciate this. ✨
I felt the narrative voice was an upgrade digital quality;
more specifically,
the voice has no human affection
Nor does Islam.
@@netsurfer3655 if that's how you see this religion, i feel sorry for you. You're a blind.
I want to take up gardening and beekeeping .
Early Muslims adored gardens and water fountains as a symbol of tranquility and abundance
Beautiful, thank you for creating this content!
This is the best video on Islam on the entire web. It is carefully created, perfectly scripted, and honestly addressed. Thanks.
I would be interested in seeing a video or two on Muslim philosophy, like that of Averroes and the like.
The main reason younger people don't garden is that they can't afford one.
Tending someone else's garden doesn't have the same feel.
Oooo Thanks for this! Love itt
PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON EMOTIONALLY STARVED RELATIONSHIPS X
People in Desert, garden is heaven.
Yeah, so?
@@prettyme4387 zawwad has more of a point than you do. So?
You got it right 😆 they had such a limited vision that won't last with evolution and development, nobody fancy that stupid heaven mentioned in the Qur'an anyway only fools. Rivers of honey and lots of palm trees, only food and herbs and of course VIRGINS even men now aren't into virgins, only an old perverted man from the desert would find that so appealing.
I would watch a very staid version of Beechgrove Garden weekly at 8.30 pm as a small child, trying to wait patiently for the B&W horror movies to come on at 9pm. I loved gardening by the time I was in my late teens. (But had moved on from horror movies)
Dang it, this was last week's topic in the history of landscape design course I am taking lol
What an interesting insight! Thank you.
Also, for the peeps with a lot of time. This isn't a forum for political debate. This channel, in particular, is, like the gardens mentioned above a place to find some hope, and contemplate life.
If you have something good to add, please go ahead. Otherwise, respect yourself, just a bit, and save your very important comment and political insight for your upcoming book. I'm sure it'll be a hit!
What a gorgeous animation
so peaceful and amazing
Thank you so much... 🌲🌳🌴 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
My garden is dead. It's in my head.
Poetry 101
same
beautiful!
I like gardening....
I'm not 60, I'm 33 and i very much enjoy it. I did not know young people did not care about gardens.
I've been a hardcore gardener since I was 22, but that doesn't mean the statistics are wrong. We're the exception, not the rule
@@EctoMorpheus
Yeah... I mean, I did not say that the statistic is wrong. I said that, I didn't know it was like that. I never even thought about it....
Can somebody please tell me who reads the text on this video?
Even though everyone wants to hear Alain de Botton again, this voice actor is amazing, and I want to listen another videos with him, if its possible.
Thank you!
i expected a video adressing how islam influences the gardening style
"We don’t have to be religious to appreciate the beauty of Islamic gardens- nor the wisdom they’re designed to teach us."
VERY TRUE!
Yeah, let's also not forget that Islam heavily supports pedophilia and homophobia
@@RehamTaayand also killing of people of other religion.
@@RehamTaay Let's not forget that's all just propaganda spewed by the Anti Islamic People ..
@@houdammari9809 might need to read the book again with an open mind .
@@houdammari9809 Here's looking at you, Afghanistan.
i am now 20, i really fell gardening is my passion in my life..., so i think this video was recommended by UA-cam in my feeds... UA-cam really knows me well😂
Beautiful
2:16
me at 31 wondering if i’m really over 65😳
Same. Ive been interested in gardening since I was a very small child and by 30 it had become an obession.
@@jenni4claire 🥰what are you growing
@@nacholuva_ weed
@@drwierd ok
I thought it was going to be about gardening tools.
It explicitly stated *virgin* companions.
Thank you for this ❤
Thanks
“Intellect and love are made of two different materials. Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, “Beware too much ecstasy,” whereas Love says, “Oh never mind. Take the plunge!” Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden amongst ruins. A broken heart hides treasure. ”
From The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.
uh, yeah sure, no young person has ever done or enjoyed gardening ????? that was a reach of a statement
*As a Muslim that live in Southern england at Devon i am really happy you post this video because its shade brighter side yet unknown side of islam*
*hey we been picture bad by western media alot haha*
Thank you for sharing this 💗 AlhamduAllah
We want Alan!! we want Alan!!
Jk great job as usually it’s just going to take some getting used to different voices
Yes!!
I love the self help stuff, but I also felt the channel was leaving a lot of the history and philosophy aspect by the side.
A little bit more on the important ideas of history and the people who developed them would be great!
I always loved gardening, I know many people who planted vegetables as kids and it founded a love of botany or life and growth as a whole, so I found some of these blanket statements ignorant , but enjoyed hearing a different view than I usually hear nonetheless
I also resent that they basically says gardens are good for when you're relationship likely fails, not very optimistic... but I still like the pro garden advice, I just prefer something more natural
Thanks for the vidèo
Where is Alain? :(
He Was Replaced By allah
@@TheSteppenwolf77 💀💀💀
Insightful
I subscribed
@@hebaali5053 thanks 👍🏽
hello, if anyone has recomendable bibliography or articles about this subject, please leave it down bellow, as i will be working on this for my graduation project!
thank you very much in advance!
This feels like the words I could not string together.
I ask allah to bless you School of life team for choosing such subject with complete objectivity with no hate without the least subliminal message
Islaaaaammm
Villa styles they made in spain like old amazigh homes in morocco but with way more rich flavors and invention just like some gardens we read about from babel
Beautiful video
Can there be more emotion fromthe narrator pls? I dont want a computer narrating :(
Most places i see in Britain i don't see them having gardens in fact from my experience they seem to brick over front gardens.
That's true and I lament that.
Narrator sounds like the guy that did a few if the Extra Credits videos on history
This is beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Wow this is amazing! I love that my religion is actually a self care religion ❤️
At 40, I'm back in business with gardening but this time I'm facing a mortal enemy: the relentless and elusive mole...
Lol
In Australia it’s the possum! They destroy everything that you nurture!
Get a gun license and blast that mole back to his creator
I saw that Islam really had Gardening heritage in Europe, especially Andalus.....
I want to read Sufi heritage....
more about Islamic philosophy please! This was a really cool video.
what about Ancient Zoroastrianism? before Islam, Arabs were making gardens!!!
I didn’t know I need to know this :3
One must cultivate one’s own garden.
Great video
please with professor 's voice🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
School of life: Makes a video about Islamic Gardens and the art style involved in making them.
Karens: PrOpOGaNDa
Idiots: I dOnT lIkE qUeStIoNiNg AuThOrItY
@@usernameluis305 if u think liking gardens somehow is related to my ability to question authority then ur the real idiot.
@@willienilliemcnamara1236 trust me, he’s the idiot.
Yeah true.
@@willienilliemcnamara1236 not about liking gardens but about following a fascist idealogy. Lul ignoramus
“ of equal age” my eyebrows perk up?!
Why has Mr. de Botton given up doing the voiceovers?
Prophet Muhammad ( Peace be upon him) has forbid us to cause harm to the environment . In one narration he even said not pick a leaf from a tree without reason.
Loved it❤️😍
We (Muslims) should also learn from different cultures/religions as well and reflect the beauties of other faiths through their eyes that way we can build bridges
@@theguyver4934 ??? do you comment this on videos of other religions too.
@@theguyver4934 sure
@@alshimasalah1813 - Thank you
@@prettyme4387 you dont have to.
😍😍😍great video
Don Vito Corleone did this too after retiring!
ngl I laughed when he said virgin companions of the same age. I'm pretty sure most religious men want to get married to teens or younger.
Unfortunately true, I wonder where in quran it says that?
@@istiklalcaddesi it doesn't
@@astroboirap it is in the Quran. It is also in a hadith
Why wouldn't you? Women over 24 are ran through and expired.
@@flameify8285 prove that it is in the Quran; and most of the hadiths have been discarded with the revolution
The way he pronounced the Arabic words is so painful😭
exactly! lol!
we appreciate the effort
It is fine. It is not like we can speak any language fluently
It's not like you could speak a foreign language with perfection. It's sad that people see even good things with the intent of criticism.
Well he is not arabic, be tolerant
I had no idea that in Islam you're rewarded with virgins in the afterlife, that's simply amazing!
Nice watch 😌