Maqasid Shariah and Sustainable Development

    I've realized that Sustainable Development Goals is a western ideology that is only focused on the world and not the hereafter but Maqasid Shariah is an Islamic ideology that involves both aspects of the world and hereafter. As a Muslim in this century, I would like to implement both ideologies because the fundamental of the ideologies are quite similar and they cause no harm as their main objective is to create a more sustainable life for the well-being of the people and nature.

    The Maqasid Shariah gives importance to sustain human well-being in terms of life, religion, wealth, lineage, and intellect. I'd like to discuss and highlight to sustain human well-being in terms of life. During the week of learning about Maqasid Shariah, our lecturer told us to create a poster regarding the Maqasid Shariah and The Sustainable Development Goals. My group chose Sustainable Development Goal number three that is Good Health and Well-being and Maqasid Shariah which is the Protection of Life.

       I agreed to focus on these particular aspects which are good health and well-being and protection of life with my group because it is important to me as I have a friend who is diagnosed with bipolar and depression. There was a time where she wanted to kill herself and told us through our conversation online. Prior to the incident, she had been acting weird like posting herself on Instagram and creating a product where she mixed ingredients like hand sanitizer and perfume as a medicine to treat people. She told us she took the knife that her mother hide and wanted to kill herself. So, my friends and I immediately tried to contact her by calling her multiple times but she did not pick up. We were really worried and did not know what to do. We even tried to call the helplines like befrienders but they said that they cannot do anything unless the person itself called them. We also doubted to call the police because we were not sure of that situation. We felt so helpless but we did not give up. Luckily, we found her mother's contact number and called her. Her mom was clueless as we told her about everything that happened and she said that our friend was fine and she will check up on her. We felt relieved and the next day her mom called me. She asked me whether we all were planning to meet up with her or not because her daughter told her that we will all meet up with her somewhere but I said no because we did not plan to meet up. Her mom sounded worried because she already dropped her off at the destination that she said we were going to meet up at. A few hours later, we checked up on her through social media and found out that she had an appointment and she was getting serious help for her treatment and everything was fine. It is important that society is aware of how important it is to maintain a sustainable society with good health and well-being by protecting their lives physically and mentally. Some of our friends thought that she did it for fun, problem, or attention but little did they know she was suffering from mental disorders. I hope that people can take this issue seriously because one of the most important SDGs is SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being).