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on trust and, when you judge between people, to judge with justice.
How excellent is what Allah exhorts you to do! Allah is All-Hearing,
All-Seeing. (Surat an-Nisa’: 58)

Allah’s recommended sense of justice requires treating everybody
as equal, compassionately, and as peacefully as humanly possible with-
out discriminating against one or the other. Our Prophet Muhammad
(may Allah bless him and grant him peace) stated that: “All people are
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from Adam (pbuh) and Adam (pbuh) is from dust” , hence we are all equal,
as the human race. People’s color, race, ethnic origin or language do not

define supremacy or inferiority.
For a Muslim and in Islam, someone’s social status in terms of
wealth or poverty or his categorization into upper or lower class is of no
relevance. Allah’s decree in this regard is clear:
“... Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for Allah alone, even
against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are
rich or poor, Allah is well able to look after them. Do not follow your
own desires Allah…” (Surat an-Nisa’: 135)
According to this commandment of Allah’s, a faithful believer who

sincerely and respectfully fears Allah must be just to everyone, irrespec-
tive of wealth or poverty, and cannot discriminate or treat someone dif-
ferently because of his financial or social status. He knows that wealth
and poverty are temporary circumstances of this world, created by Allah
in order to test people. When death comes, people’s worldly wealth and
property lose all their value and the only thing that matters then is his
fear of Allah, Who values only truthfulness, justice, honesty and decen-
cy. One of Allah’s verses on justice is the following:

You who have faith! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for
Allah alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives.
(Surat an-Nisa’: 135)

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