Twenty-Three Great Objectives of Building the House of Allah — Page 50
51 people are brilliant, nor are all dull. Brilliant, average and dull, all types are found in every nation. Islam does not promote differentiation; on the contrary, it establishes equality. For example, Islam lays great stress on acquisition of knowledge, which means, everyone should be provided with as much education as his faculties and abilities allow him. This also implies that a student with very low grades, who passes an examination only with grace marks, should not be awarded scholarship, as it will be of no use. But to waste the talent of a genius student is tantamount to being ungrateful to God and causing loss to nation. In short, Islam has established equality and fraternity between one man and another. It seeks to purify the hearts of every sort of spite and malice, and enjoins to love each other like brothers. The fundamental teaching of Islam is based on three major pillars; absolute justice, kindness and kinship. Should all those nations that enjoy international status and have international ties and relations, decide to adopt the principle of absolute justice, and going further, if they adopt kindness, and even greater than that the principle of kinship, all disputes in the world would be resolved. And nations will start benefiting from each other instead of contriving to inflict damage upon one another. Thus, by giving this fundamental command, Allah the Exalted tells us that some of you will not be able to go beyond ‘absolute justice’. They should not fall down from that spiritual station, or else they will not remain Muslim any more. Some of you will rise