{"id":6717,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/japanese-gardening-bonsai\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:28","slug":"japanese-gardening-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/japanese-gardening-bonsai\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Gardening (Bonsai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I  am extremely fond of the Japanese art of gardening called Bonsai.  Kindly inform if this is perfectly acceptable in Islam to cut and crop a  huge size tree in a miniature form. <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>There  is nothing with the type of gardening you have referred to. God has  made and put trees and other creations for the service of man. Man is  allowed to use them according to his will. We cannot declare any such  use disallowed until and unless there is some moral concern which I do  not see in this case.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-24<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6717\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I  am extremely fond of the Japanese art of gardening called Bonsai.  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