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114 SOLUTION THE VALUES OF THE QUR'AN

This materialist approach attaches no importance to human life. In
particular, there is no obstacle to the annihilation of the weak. This lack of
appreciation of human life explains why people are killed for only an acre
of land, for personal ambitions or to acquire some natural resources.
Ascribing the quality of absoluteness to matter, people who deny the
existence of the spirit become prone to commit every sort of wrong and
foul action, and they also drive others to this cruelty. The Qur'an,
however, attaches utmost importance to human life. In the Qur'an, killing
a single person is equated with killing all mankind:
... So We decreed for the tribe of Israel that if someone kills another person
– unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the
earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind. And if anyone gives life to
another person, it is as if he had given life to all mankind. Our Messengers
came to them with Clear Signs but
even after that many of them
committed outrages in the earth.
(Surat al-Ma'ida: 32)
As stated in the verse above, in
a society where people adhere to
the Qur’an, circumstances do not
arise which cost lives and involve
the displacement of people. People

World history
abounds with
people who lost
their lives in
wars waged for
an acre of land
or an ideology.