Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 47
48 flourish in physical, spiritual, intellectual, moral, social or economic terms. Beware and listen attentively that your Lord Who created you, your strength, your faculties and abilities, and finally perfected your development by passing you through evolutionary stages, is indeed One and only. Remember that your father is also one, that is, all of you are descendants of Adam. In short, your Creator is one, so is your father Adam. Had you been descendants of different fathers you would have said that you had inherited varying faculties from your respective fathers, and that your father was nobler and superior as compared to others, hence, you automatically inherited that nobler and higher status from him. But it is wrong to say thus because father is one. Similarly, if there were more than one God and Creator, one people would say that the God who created them was more powerful, more knowledgeable, more omnipotent, more affectionate and more merciful, thus, he invested them abundantly. The creator of others was less knowledgeable, less omnipotent and less merciful; so he was not as loving to his people as their lord was, therefore, they were less endowed with and consequently they were inferior. But when your Lord is one and your father is one, you must know that no Arab is superior to any non-Arab, neither any non-Arab has any excellence over any Arab. Nor, any black has any excellence over any red, nor any red is superior to any black. Another version goes, neither any red is superior to any white, nor any white has any excellence over any red. Merit of