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Equality of Humanity

Almighty Allah has created human beings in a way that their diet, climate and origin affect them. Good and fresh diet makes the body sound and healthy while bad food destroys health and ruins strength. Likewise, different types of body have different kind of impact on the body, both outwardly and inwardly. Its outwardly impact appears in the shape, size and color of body while it affects inwardly the inner qualities such as thinking, patience, lust, anger and pleasure.

Climate has also a great effect on the body. Those people who live in hot climate and work continuously in the blazing Sun, the color of the skin gets dark. Likewise, that who lives in cool or less hot climate, the color of their skin gets fair. When they live in the same climate for centuries their color becomes so deep rooted that later on even if they move and get established in a land of different climate, the skin color Of their off springs remains the same for several generations.

Family origin has also a profound inward as well as outward impact. When a child is born he comes with a specific shape of body, feature of face, and color of hair, skin and eyes similar to that of his parents. Likewise, he bears their intellectual and professional tendencies and several other qualities and conditions. After his birth, climate, diet and society begin their influence which sometimes bring so many changes that the child becomes both outwardly as well as inwardly much different from his parents.

These varieties that are based on coincidental biological biological origin, or diet or climate cannot be everlasting phenomena. There is a continuous Interchange process among humans in these aspects. Therefore, they cannot be a criterion for superiority or inferiority. It is a great pity that many people have focused on these coincidental and changeable phenomena, and considered some races and colors superior to others. Relying on this false base they commit crimes of hatred and discrimination between one group and another, and deprive many people of their human rights.

In fact human beings share many everlasting and unchangeable qualities that make them equal. They all are creation of one Almighty God. They are all off springs of the same father, Adam. They all are children of one mother, Eve. They all are born sinless and in a pure nature. They all are endowed with the quality of vicegerency of Allah. And they all are endowed with special human qualities of knowledge, Judgment, choice and accountability. But if someone ignores his status of vicegerency, and overlooks his pure nature and acts like devils and animals, he insults and humiliates his own self.

The Prophet of Islam taught the lesson of equality He (sallallahu alaihi wassalam) preached that all human beings are creations of Allah, all are born on pure nature, and all have the responsibility of Vicegerency, and all are children of one father and mother. Therefore, there is no place for discrimination on the base of race or color, Superior are those who have God-consciousness and good character.

"0 humankind, We have created you from a male (Adam) and a female (Eve), and have made you tribes and sub-tribes so that you may recognize one another.Surely the most honored of you with Allah is The one who is most pious among you" (Quran 49:131).

In one of his sayings the Holy Prophet said that there is no superiority for any Arab over a non-Arab, nor for any non-Arab over an Arab; neither for any white over a black nor for any black over a white. A human being are children of Adam, and Adam was created from dust (Ahmad).

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