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The Quran calls all men to kindness and happiness, not to national and racial privileges. The Prophet (S) has repeatedly declared that human beings form a single Ummah and there is no authenticity in territorial or racial superiority. He says: “There is no superiority for Arabs over non-Arabs, or for non-Arabs over Arabs.

All are sons of Adam.” Or that the whole humanity is one unit and the only criteria are religion and chastity: “There is no superiority for one over another except by religion and chastity.

All people are sons of Adam and Adam is from earth.” Another of the traditions quoted from the Prophet (S) says: “There is no superiority for Arabs over non-Arabs, for non- Arabs over Arabs, for the white over the black and for the black over the white, except by chastity.” After the capture of Mecca, in his first public discourse which was in fact a declaration of his ideological and political posture, the Prophet (S), addressing the Qureish said: “O people, all of you are from Adam and Adam is from the earth.

There is no pride in lineage, no pride for Arabs over non- Arabs, nor for non- Arabs over Arabs. Your worth with God depends on your chastity.” Thus the Prophet (S) declared explicitly that no blood relationship can be the means of pride or superiority. The only criteria are faith, conduct and proper behavior. The Prophet (S) always emphasized human unity and negated its division into limited racial and national units.

It is reported in traditions and narrations that in his daily prayers after uttering, “Shahadatein” (there is no god but God and Muhammad is His Prophet), he repeated the sentences: “I testify that all servants of God are brothers.” Nationalism or Internationalism? According to Quranic dictates, Muslims have a universal mission, not a national one.