Re: Equality in Islam
The quran provides humanity with unique insight about certain points because it explains them in a unique way.
Equality is not about two things being exactly identical because that is not possible when things have differences that are based on nature.
How can a tall person become short to be equal to a short person and vice versa?
How can a thin person become fat to be equal to a fat person or vice versa.
How can two different things be same as each other?
In short the differences that are God created cannot be eliminated no matter how hard we try.
Our question has to be why God created these differences between things? For example, almost all people are very different from each other. People are different from other things etc etc.
These are fucntionality based differences. For example, imagine if all of us people were identical. Now think about it and ask yourselves could we function? No. Even parents fail to recognise their own identical twins. The problem will have been even more if all things were identical.
The natural differences were created so that things work like a clock ie different components inside it play their specific parts to make the whole what it is and make it work the way it does or is supposed to do unless something goes wrong and the clock does not function properly or goes dead completely.
Coming to mankind Allah has given people sense and guidance so that by working out things people could complement each other's efforts and thereby make human community complete.
This is why it is necessary that people treat each and every person in such a way that ensures well being of each and every individual and thereby human community or society.
This is why the quran shows a beautiful way of life for mankind but only if we could be bothered to learn things properly and do them faithfully. That is why the quran is a roadmap to a beautiful world for mankind but only if they work on that roadmap. It has beautiful explanations about things which need to be discovered by people but for that they need to educate themselves and discover them for themselves.
So people should read the quran for proper understanding of its message. After all why anyone sends any message to anyone? So that the recipient of the message get to know the message and act6s upon it to fulfil purpose for which the message is sent.
No message is send so that people keep reciting it without finding out what it means and why it is sent etc etc.
The quran is sent for people to live their lives as it says because that way of life leads mankind as a proper human community to a blissful, dignified and secure existence.
It is because ummah has ignored message of the quran for its purpose so the whole ummah is suffering the consequences. This will remain the situation till people come back to the quran and read it for the purpose it is sent for and go for fulfilling that purpose.
Re: Equality in Islam
love your posts, mughal1. please post more frequently and in more threads. :) :) :)