THE QUR’AN AND ATTRIBUTION THEORY IN THE DISCOURSE ON ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS

Abstract

This study aims to analyze how the Qur’an frames an ontological understanding of ecological disasters and its relation to tendencies of causal and responsibility attribution in human experience. This research employs a qualitative method based on library research, using a maud?‘? (thematic) tafs?r approach to Qur’anic verses related to disasters, destruction (fas?d), and human agency, and dialogues these findings with attribution theory in the tradition of Fritz Heider, particularly the concept of common-sense (naive) analysis of action. The findings indicate that the Qur’an positions ecological disasters as relational events arising from the interconnection between human actions and the natural order, and therefore they cannot be reduced to purely natural phenomena or individual culpability. This study further demonstrates that an ontological reading of the Qur’an constrains tendencies toward fatalism and the simplification of causal attribution in contemporary ecological disaster discourse.