Air Pollution according to Islam and Iranian Law

Such favors that are provided to humans as means of growth and development includes among others the air that human inhale and that is indispensable for human survival. Certainly such important element has been focus on the teachings of the God and prophets and Imams, and there divine verses regarding the benefits of keeping the air clean. Since pollution of the air harms human health and deteriorates living conditions of the human, it is an overt act of injustice that has been prohibited by Islam. Every harm is prohibited by Islam and the people who perpetrates a harm shall be bound to compensate for such harm. Given its Islamic bases, Iranian law also stresses the prohibition of the pollution of the air. Although few measures and laws have adopted in this regard, this paper tried to study Islamic, Islamic jurisprudential and legal sources to show the importance of air and necessity of keeping it clean according to the rulings of the Muslim jurists and Iranian law.