The recent environmental phenomena and climate changes have garnered increasing attention from scientists and researchers today, due to their profound impacts and risks on human life, and even the future of life on Earth. Studies indicate that the emergence of the effects of climate change globally and regionally became apparent towards the end of the 20th century, and that its impacts will intensify before the middle of the current century.

Indeed, the reality and what we witness today confirms the occurrence of the risks and impacts of these environmental phenomena in many parts of the world. However, the study of these phenomena and developments and their relationship with Islam from the perspective of the science of jurisprudence of transformations (fiqh al-taḥawwulāt) and its components, has not yet received adequate scientific study.

Therefore, this study aims to highlight the relationship between contemporary environmental phenomena and developments, through the phenomenon of climate change and fiqh Al-taḥawwulat, based on the Hadith of the Prophet “The Hour will not be established until the land of the Arabs becomes meadows…” (Bukhari). Using a descriptive-analytical methodology, the study highlighted the importance of linking these prophetic predictions conveyed through the aforementioned Hadith, and the environmental phenomena and developments through the problem of climate change.

The study reached a set of findings and recommendations, including: that climate change and its manifestations have become a scientific fact, whose indicators and impacts at the global, regional and local levels are beginning to appear in various parts of the world, and that there are specialized scientific studies that have confirmed that the land of the Arabs was once meadows, and that it can return to that state according to the indicators of climate change and its impacts in the Arab region, as confirmed by the data issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which also confirmed that these impacts (of rainfall and floods) can be more extensive and worse than what current assumptions and expectations indicate.

The study also reached a set of recommendations, the most important of which is urging researchers to link knowledge and belief to restore their cohesion in a way that serves the entrenchment of Islamic values and beliefs in their legitimacy and moderation, and to conduct studies that link fiqh Al-taḥawwulat as an emerging science, and the developments and changes facing human life that have resulted in further environmental problems threatening life on Earth.