Page 17 - Justice and Compassion in the Qur'an

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races and nations is not conflict and war but cultural richness.
Such variation is a bounty of Allah‘s creation. The fact that
someone is taller than someone else or that his skin is yellow
or white neither makes him superior to others nor is
something to feel ashamed of. Every trait a person has is a
result of Allah‘s purposeful creation, but in the sight of Allah,

these variations have no ultimate importance. A believer
knows that someone attains superiority only by fearing Allah
and in the strength of his faith in Allah. This fact is related in
the following 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 taqwa.Allah is All-Knowing,
All-Aware. (Surat al-Hujurat, 13)
As Allah informs us in that verse, the justice ordained by
Him calls for equal, understanding and peaceable treatment of
everyone, with no discrimination.
In his time, the Prophet Muhammad (saas) treated people
of different races and places with the utmost justice. He

severely criticized subjecting people to different treatment
because of their race, and attributed such acts to the "morality
of the ignorant."
The Prophet Muhammad (saas) reminded his people that
people in ignorant societies may harbour enmity towards
other people because of their color or race, and warned all
Muslims against such an attitude, which is described as "ugly"
in the Qur'an.
1,400 years ago, all these primitive ideas were abolished
through the Qur'an, which was sent to mankind as a mercy,