Islam's Response to Contemporary Issues — Page 120
120 islam’s response to contemporary issues Extravagance: 7:32; 17:27–28. Following that of which one has no knowledge: 17:37. Haughtiness: 17:38; 23:47; 31:19. Giving short measure: 83:2–4. Nicknaming: 49:12. Niggardliness: 4:38; 47:39; 57:2–5; 59:10; 64:17. Perfidy: 4:106,108; 8:28, 59. Suspicion: 49:13. Telling lies: 22:31; 25:73. Theft: 5:39. Islam invites leaders of all religions to join hands in an effort to promote and inculcate goodness and to admonish against the committing of evil deeds. Were this to happen, the world would be better for it. Rejection of Racialism Of all the curses, which infest the contemporary age, racialism is the one that holds the greatest danger to world peace. The Holy Quran reminds not only Muslims but also all mankind: O ye people! Fear your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from the two spread many men and women; and fear Allah, in Whose name you appeal to