Qatar building Quranic Garden

The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will take place from November 26 to December 7 this year.

Christened 'Quranic Botanical Garden', it is an ongoing project under the umbrella of the global Qatar Foundation Green Project.

The exotic garden coming up in the 'Education City' in Doha will serve not only as a place of meditation, but as a research centre for students, apart from educating people about the rich Islamic heritage.

The garden is first of the four components of the Green Projects programme designed to promote conservation and further understanding of the country's natural resources, Gulf Times reported.

Being first of its kind in Qatar, the Quranic Garden will comprise all the plant species mentioned in the Quran, and those in Sunnah (Deeds of the Prophet) and Hadith (sayings of the Prophet).

It will also exhibit botanical terms mentioned in the Quran, explaining to them the context of modern science.

It will be used to educate people about the importance of conservation and raise awareness about the moral importance of environmental stewardship as well.

"There are so many botanical terms in the Quran, we have to share it with the public," Fatima Saleh Al-Khulaifi, who works on

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