Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 104
105 rather the only reason, is that they have not heeded to, and have not adopted the teaching of the Holy Quran about global peace. As a result of rejecting these principles they are facing incessant failures. Hadrat Musleh Mau‘ u d ra has explained this point in his books saying that, contrary to the principle of signing one international treaty set out by the Holy Quran, the world, at once, signs two different kinds of treaties. One kind of treaties are related to all the nations in the world and the other are those that are signed by major nations between themselves. They fail on account of their feet being, at once, in two boats. In UNO itself one treaty was amalgamated into another one. Instead of making this treaty a purely international one they introduced veto into it, that is, some nations were granted the distinction by the UNO that certain issues would not be settled without their opinion. If law-abiding governance is aimed at, then no distinction can or should be made between the rich or poor and between the powerful or weak, in the manner of a law for individuals; similarly, it is essential not to give precedence to any nation over another in international treaties. An international law which gives precedence to one nation over the other is surely bound to fail. The teaching of the Holy Quran was that preference should not be given to one nation over the other. They considered themselves very powerful and thought they could do whatever they wanted. Veto rights were given to certain nations and some retained these rights for themselves. The major cause for UNO’s failure at this