The Common Origin ofHumanity
الأصل المشتركللبشرية
[ English - إنجليزي ]
موقع دين الإسلام
2013 - 1434
“O mankind! Be conscious of your Lord, who has created you fromone soul (Adam), and out of it created its mate (Eve), and out of the twospread many men and women. And remain conscious of God, in whose name youdemand [your rights] from one another, and of these ties of kinship. Verily, God is ever watchful over you!” (Quran 4:1)
God addresses entire humanity and asks them to beconscious of Him, to be aware of His presence. God reminds people of aforgotten reality: their earthly origins. All human beings have One God,their Creator, one father – Adam – and one mother, Eve. The plight ofmodernity could begin to heal if human beings remember their origins.
Human beings did not appear on this earth by their ownwill. Rather, someone else willed that human beings inhabit earth. Someone else willed their existence and prepared the earth and sun in perfectbalance to make life possible. If people were to recall this simple fact,they would proceed in the right direction. The One who willed humanexistence has perfect knowledge of humanity and their strengths and theirweaknesses. If humans recognized this, they would obey the One they owe theirexistence to.
Just like human beings have come into existence by thewill of the One, human beings also trace back to the same parents. Ifpeople were to realize this, racism, ethnic superiority, and exploitation wouldend. Siblings would stop fighting and taking each other’s life. Siblings would realize their common Creator and be conscious of Him, and givetheir “kin” their due rights. Human beings would not divide themselvesinto casts and classes. Human beings would not let race, skin color, ornational origin determine superiority.
If human beings were to realize that another soul wascreated from the original single soul to be its mate and to spread both men andwomen throughout the world, they would respect women more. Women wouldnot have to go through centuries of oppression, and their humanity would nothave been denied for centuries. Unfortunately, when human beings tried tocorrect one wrong, they fell into another one. They forgot that a soulwas created for a soul, that a woman makes a man complete. Men and womenare not engaged in an eternal battle of genders; rather, they have been createdto complement and complete each other.
God lays out the social fabric of human society, whichlies in the family. God could have created multiple families instead ofAdam and Eve in the beginning, but He chose to create Adam and Eve, and spreadhumanity from their seed. Islamic ethics considers the family to be thenatural basis and cornerstone of a moral society. A family consists of ahuman couple and their (legal) children where both the man and woman have eachessential roles to play in keeping the family happy and intact.
In the latter portion of the verse is a reminder to beconscious of God, to do what is right and to stay away from wrongdoing in whoseName people take oaths, swear allegiances, and ask favors.
Lastly, the verse ends with a reminder that God isever watchful over everything, big or small; nothing escapes His knowledge andsight. The knowledge that God is watching helps one be conscious of Him.
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