| In the Name of Allah, The Compassionate, The Merciful UNIVERSALITY IN ISLAM |
| Unlike other creeds, Islam is universal in outlook and speaks for humanity as a whole. It has no chosen race or people, nor does it give preference to anyone exept in terms of virtue and uprightness of character. "Surely the most honoured of you with Allah is the one of you who guards (against evil)." Holy Qur'an (49:13) Despite being revealed in eloquent Arabic, which none of the Arabic leterati have been able to match over the past millenium and a half, the Qur'an is free from racial, regional or lingual prejudices. It does not contain a single word or praise for Arabs or for any other ethnic group, a fact in itself testifying to its universality. It declares that no people were deprived of divine guidance, whatever the time, place or language, as can be gleaned from the following verses of the Holy Qur'an. "All human beings are a single nation....." Holy Qur'an (2:213) "And human beings are nought but a single nation.." Holy Qur'an (21:92) "And every people had a Prophet...." Holy Qur'an (10:47) "And certainly We raised in every people a Prophet" Holy Qur'an (16:36) "And there is not a people but a warner has gone among them." Holy Qur'an (35:24) "And We did not send any Prophet but with the language of the people, so that he might explain to them...." Holy Qur'an (14:4) Remarkable indeed! No scripture which we can find today, has declared this so impressively and so repeatedly, as the Holy Qur'an. |