The Essential Equality of All Humans in Islam

The Essential Equality of All Humans in Islam

The teachings of Islam are emphatic on a point that modern

societies are still trying to grapple with. This is the essential equality of all humans. All

humans are creatures of Allah and each and

everyone of them has the ability to soar to the greatest heights of

being a human by worshipping and submitting to Allah. As such,

there is no distinction between any of them as humans—it is only the

choices that humans make that will distinguish them in the sight of

Allah, the Law and other members of the community. However, race,

color or nationality have no role to play in this whatsoever.

Adam was created from clay and everyone is descended from

that one creature. The silliness of all the racism that exists can be

seen in the fact that the differences in the colors of humankind can be attributed to Adam’s

origin.

Thus, the door to be a true worshipper of Allah is open to

everyone, regardless of race, nationality and so forth. In fact, it is

only via such worship of Allah that one becomes deserving of honor

and dignity and one becomes full of virtues. This is a tenet of Islam

that has been practiced throughout its history .

On this point, the famed historian Arnold Toynbee wrote,

“The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of

the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary

world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this

Islamic virtue .

This essential equality of humans covers both males and

females—regardless of what propaganda one may hear about Islam.

As a spiritual being and one worthy of worshipping Allah, there is no difference between a

man and a woman. Both of them are equal

before God.

It is well-known that Islam gave women many rights that

women did not achieve in the West until recently, such as the right to

own property and handle their own business affairs. However, there

are actually much more important issues. Every ideology, religion or

culture values some matters above and beyond others. As is clear

from this section, the most important quality in Islam is piety and

dutifulness to Allah. Perhaps the second most valued quality in Islam is knowledge of the

religion. On both of these issues, women are

completely equal to men. Throughout the history of Islam, women

have been known and respected for t heir piety and their knowledge.

On the other hand, Islam does not say that a person’s value is

measured by how beautiful one’s face is, how sexy one’s body can be,

how fast one can run in sports, how well one can sing, dance or act.

These are ludicrous criteria of a person’s worth from the Islamic

perspective—although it seems to be much of what “modern

civilization” cares about. In sum, according to the things that have

the greatest value in this life—piety and religious knowledge—

women are exactly equal to men and this is a most important

statement of equality given the Islamic criteria .

See you in the next blog to complete the book.

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A book for calling people to Islam in English is the book .

"What is Islam?" by Jamaal Zarabozo

A piece of advice and an invitation from a well-

wisher for you .

I invite you, my dear brother, to Islam and to believe in God Almighty. He alone is worthy of worship. The purpose of our creation is to worship God alone, without any partners.