Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 46
47 your attaining to the standard of the best people, your further progress in this regard and finally your attaining to the faculties to the point of perfection, and then nurturing of those faculties and capabilities to the perfection point bear ample testimony that the promise, that is, the House of Allah was raised for the benefit and welfare of the whole world, has been fulfilled. Also it is to be kept in mind that man can be of any service to the whole humankind only when he treats every person with fraternity and equality, without allowing any discrimination and inequity. Thus, all the requisites to establish human honour and respect are to be found in the Islamic shariah, the Holy Quran, the conduct of the Holy Prophet sa and his traditions. Islam has wiped out all discrimination and differences between different people and has established the honour and respect of humankind as a whole. At H ajjatul Wada‘ (farewell pilgrimage) the Holy Prophet sa said in his address: Listen! your Lord is one. He is the Being by Whose providence all the people, traversing various distances, have reached a stage that their spiritual and moral faculties and capabilities have become alike, and now they are prepared to embrace the final shariah. Your Creator is one Who has created your physical and spiritual faculties alike with no difference at all between one people and another. True that individuals vary in their spheres of development, but no such difference exists between one nation and another. It is not that one nation is inferior or degraded or their making is such that they cannot thrive or