Page 55 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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offend, oppress, exploit even one person, and those who support these
practices with the false evidence and theories they produced, have com-
mitted a great sin in their ignorance.
In our time there exist cultures of relatively undeveloped human
societies. These people have all human characteristics, but they lack those
criteria which, from technical and cultural aspects, generally rule the
world. For reasons of the climate they live in and natural conditions,
many communities have lived isolated from general world society and
have developed very different cultures. But in each one there exist all the
features, customs, and habits common to humanity. Those with hidden
agendas, and those who have seen advantage in racism, enthusiastically
embraced Darwin's theory and accepted these people, who were no dif-
ferent from other humans, as members of an inferior race and even ani-
mals. As a result of this view, even in our day people have emerged who
oppress and despise backward people and communities on the grounds
they have not evolved sufficiently.
Allah, however, completely forbids racism. Allah created every
human being, in different colours and speaking different tongues. This is
an indication of the art and variety of Allah's creation:
Among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and earth and the variety
of your languages and colours. There are certainly Signs in that for every
being. (Surat ar-Rum: 22)
In Allah's sight the only superiority is a person's character, his avoid-
ing all types of sin and rebellion, degeneracy and deviation, and the supe-
rior morality deriving from his piety. Apart from his piety no human can
have any superiority to any other deriving from any of his features. Allah
reveals this in a verse:
Mankind! We created you from a male and female, and made you into
peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The
noblest among you in Allah's sight is the one with the most piety (who
best performs his duty to Allah). Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Surat
al-Hujurat: 13)