Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 159
— Part I 158 A careful study of the Quran will show that its teachings are not accidental, nor are they disjointed. Rather they conform to a great and noble plan of things; which is the establishment of justice. All people are treated equally, regardless of wherever and whenever they were born. The basic rights of all are one and the same. The racial and generational distinctions that exist between man and man are based on justice. The ties that bind together the East and the West, the Black and the White, the Arab and the non- Arab, are all based on the universal principle of justice. It is claimed by some that this great, noble, perfect and wondrous teaching was the creation of an unlettered Arab herdsman, who then chose to attribute it to God. Nothing could be farther from the truth. No scholar of any age has ever been able to concoct a religion which is even fractionally as well-balanced and well-poised as is the teaching of Islam. In fact, all the scriptures believed to be of Divine origin put together cannot boast such balance and poise as is displayed by Islam. How is it possible that, according to them, an unlettered man should have been the source of this fountain of profound and perfect wisdom? It is towards these miraculous qualities of the Quran that our attention is repeatedly drawn: