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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Musa Bin Ja'far Al-kazim Chapter 1 His Birth and His Childhood The unique aspect by which Islam has been distinguished from the rest of the other religions and social schools is that it has raised the slogan of equality.

It has demolished the barriers among the people, adopted that in an effective way, prepared all its powers and abilities to apply that on the arena of life, regarded that as one of the elements of its civilization and an important factor in building its social structure. According to Allah's Law, people are as equal as the teeth of a comb. No one has a distinction over another and no people have superiority over another.

They are on one level with respect to their rights and dignity; there is one distinction among them except through piety and good deeds that bring man near to his Lord, send him far from the factors of evil, the inclinations of recklessness and vainglory. Islam has brought such beliefs bringing hearts together, uniting feelings and sentiments.

On these principles the summons to Islam has been based; Islam has ordered its followers to kill with their swords those who intend to destroy such fundamentals lest there should be a gap through which their union and unity is divided. The Umayyads turned away from this Islamic basic rule and carried a pickax to demolish it because it opposed their pagan inclinations and their class interests.

So they with some mad powers tried to erase it from the Islamic life; this is clear in their going too far in dispraising and scolding those who married an Arab slave girl; they not only do that, but also they severely punished them.

One of their tyrannical governors came to know that a person belonged to Saleem's tribe married a slave girl, he ordered him to be brought, whipped a hundred times, separated from his wife, his hair, his beard, and his eye-brows to be shaved.[1] According to the Umayyads' traditions, such a person committed a crime and caused mischief in the land and was worthy of punishment. The Umayyads deprived the child of a slave girl of assuming any office in the state and undertaking any public job.

They claimed that he had no qualification for it.[2] Through this pagan thinking, the Umayyad tyrant, Hisham b. 'Abd al-Malik, advanced as an argument against Zayd b. 'Ali, the martyr of honor and refusal, saying to him: "I have been informed that you mention the caliphate and desire it.