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Islam has paved the way for formation of a global unique society in different aspects, because:

First,–Islam appeared in a racist society, where the issue of tribe and gens constituted its infrastructure and the issue of race dominated all of its aspects. Even its cities were not a city in a real sense, because the tribes and gens were completely separate from each other.

However, Islam excluded totally the issue of race from the social issues, and devaluated it in general.

Sometimes, it fought with them with the same logic that their racial society originated from it (unity in blood, unity of original forebear of tribe), and made them understood that if you think in a higher level, the human society are all created from two spouses.

So, all should form one unit:

یا اَیُّهَا النّاسُ اِنّا خَلَقْناکُمْ مِنْ ذَکَر وَ اُنْثى).

O people, We have created you from one male and female.(1)

And thereby human brotherhood replaced tribal brotherhood and mankind's blood replaced tribe's blood.

And sometimes Islam represented them that although the issue of preserving parentage, relation and connection of individuals to tribe as well as gens and forefathers is necessary, but it is not for boasting to the descents. Rather it is for knowing each other through this special social classification.

It is certain that preserving rights of individuals in the societies necessitates that individuals shall be distinguished and recognized from each other, and there is no more natural and correct way than relation to the forefathers, ancestors, nations and tribes, but it should be only a means of knowing, not boasting:

وَ جَعَلْناکُمْ شُعُوباً وَ قَبائِلَ لِتَعارَفُوا).

And We appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another.(2)

And once Islam notified that dignity and value of individuals is for their spiritual virtues and carnal habits (virtue and piety), and this is never attainable through heritage, and in other words, if presumably heretical attributes are beautiful, they are involuntarily beautiful, and can not be a criterion for personality and dignity.

اِنَّ اَکْرَمَکُمْ عِنْدَ اللهِ اَتْقیکُمْ).

Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most God fearing of you.(3)

And in this manner, Islam has inflicted its final strike on the foundations of racism and the schisms caused by it.

Second, Islam has invalidated the cause of disunion through disregarding geographical borders, either natural or arbitrary, as well as including and expanding its invitation to all countries of world.

We can find this logic of Islam within the numerous phrases in the Holy Quran:

a- Quranic addresses, save what are specialized to believers, are so generalized that include all nations of world, like the addresses of O people, O My Servants, O Children of Adam and O man, which are mentioned in different verses of Quran.(4)

In these addresses, all of the world, from any tribe, nation, and country, are included and there is not any trace of different nations in them.

b- Quran assumed all of the earth as God's vast territory, as it says:

یا عِبادِیَ الَّذِینَ آمَنُوا اِنَّ اَرْضِی واسِعَةٌ فَاِیّایَ فَاعْبُدُونِ).

O My servants who believe, surely My earth is wide; therefore Me do you serve!(5)

and do not surrender to enemies' pressures.

And somewhere else it instructs to roam all around the earth for observing the remains of annihilated civilizations of the ancestors and taking lesson from their life associated with sin and injustice.

فَسِیرُوا فِی الاَْرْضِ فَانْظُرُوا کَیْفَ کانَ عاقِبَةُ الْمُکَذِّبِینَ).

So, journey in the land, and behold how was the end of them that cried lies!(6)

And also it invites people to correction on the earth, and avoiding corruption on it:

وَ لا تُفْسِدُوا فِی الاَْرْضِ بَعْدَ اِصْلاحِها).

Do not corruption in the land, after it has been set right.(7)

And somewhen else it calls the earth the inheritance of righteous and good doers, who finally will govern on it:

اَنَّ الاَْرْضَ یَرِثُها عِبادِیَ الصّالِحُونَ).

The earth shall be the inheritance of My righteous servants.(8)

c- Holy Quran explicitly instructs Moslems not to bind themselves to staying in a particular point in implementation of their divine obligations, and if they can not implement them in a point, they shall emigrate to the other parts of earth, and it blames and rebukes refraining emigration:

قالُوا اَلَمْ تَکُنْ اَرْضُ اللهِ واسِعَةً فَتُهاجِرُوا فِیها).

The angels will say, But was not God's earth wide, so that you might have emigrated in it?(9)

d- Quran has never emphasized on the social units being separated as different territories in such a lot of verses related to the commands, sorts of knowledge and moralities, and this is a clear reason for advocation and defending of Islam from global unique society, and so called internationalism.

Basically, an ideology based on humanistic principles and human rights should be so.

In other words, there is no geographical classification and border within the Islamic domain, and only outside the domain of Islam too, mental and belief borders separate it from the others.(10)

Third, Islam has made an extensive attempt for establishment of a mental unity point and so called ideological unity among mankind through its disciplines and ordinances.

It should be noted the mental and belief unity that Islam is its founder, in contrary with the mental and ideological relations of political parties and such like being formed in recent centuries in the world, is not specialized to a particular class, population and nation. Rather, it is concerned with human society.

And this is assumed as a great privilege for Islamic ideology, which has no regional and classic color.

But most of political parties and groups in the world and their affiliated philosophical doctrines, although have founded the basis of their activity on mental and procedural unity, but all of them are common in this great defect that either they have not had a public and global aspect from the beginning or have lost it later.

We are not going to discuss about the correctness or inaccuracy of such doctrines and parties. We only want to explain that all of them have a great common weak point as not being able to create a mental unity among all men from all races and nations.

But the mental and belief unity, which Islam has founded, does not have a private aspect, and even is not restricted to followers of Islam; rather the followers of other religions too can share it.

And so a comprehensive plan is considered in Islam for protecting the rights of religious minorities living in the Islamic territories, as well as defending their interests, which will be clarified through sufficient study in Islamic resources.


1- Chambers sura (49), verse 13
2- The same document
3- Chambers sura (49), verse 13
4- «یا اَیُّهَا النّاسُ اِنِّی رَسُولُ اللهِ اِلَیْکُمْ جَمِیعاً», O mankind, I am the Messenger Like, of God to you all, The Heights sura (7), verse 158 «یا عِبادِ فَاتَّقُونِ», My servants who believe, fear your Lord, The (39), Companies sura verse 16 «یا بَنى آدَمَ لا یَفْتِنَنَّکُمُ الشَّیْطانُ»,Children of Adam! Let not Satan tempt you!, The Heights sura (7), verse 27 «یا اَیُّهَا الاِْنْسانُ اِنَّکَ کادِحٌ اِلى رَبِّکَ کَدْحاً», O Man! Thou art labouring unto thy Lord laboriously, The Rendering sura (84), verse 6
5- The Spider sura (29), verse 56
6- The Bee sura (16), verse 36
7- The Heights sura (7), verse 56
8- The Prophets sura (21), verse 105
9- Women sura (4), verse 97
10- Refer to the book ``Javaherol Kalam'', vol. 21, beginning of ``Warfare'' book

 

 

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