They soften the emotions and enliven the feelings.

They soften the emotions and enliven the feelings. The Hajj gatherings also serve the purpose of a national conference on a world level and contribute to Muslim homogeneity, both political and economic. They serve as a unifying force and a common bond among the Muslims belonging to diverse social segments, and provide them an opportunity to meet together and exchange ideas. A study of all acts of worship and devotion in Islam will show that every one of them has both moral and social aspects.

This confirms what we said earlier that the benefit of all our acts of worship goes to ourselves. Man's Relation with Other Men This part of Islamic teachings includes all social questions. Islam with its distinctive system teaches its adherents what they should be, how they should live and how they should discharge their duties to society. The rights which a Muslim is enjoined upon to respect are very wide and varied.

They extend from the rights of the teachers, of parents, of friends and neighbors, of brothers in religion, of fellow human beings, to the rights of the animals etc. From the Islamic point of view man, being an organ of the social body, has so much importance that nothing can be equal to his life and blood.

The Holy Qur’an says: "He who killed any person, unless it be a person guilty of man slaughter or of spreading chaos in the land, should be looked upon as though he had slain all mankind, and he who saved the life of any person, should be regarded as though he had given life to all mankind." There is no doubt that in view of the homogeneity of all the organs of the body of a human society, the loss of one individual effects the whole society and thus in a way, the individual and the society become identical.

The Holy Prophet has said that all the faithful are the organs of one body. If one organ suffers pain all other organs feel uneasy. The celebrated poet, Saadi Shirazi, was inspired by this very Prophetic saying when he said in. his well-known couplet that all human beings are the organs of one another. As we know, in Islam there is no problem of race, color or geographical region.

It is possible that all human societies on the basis of adherence to a common ideology (Faith in Allah and the prophets and adherence to good deeds) set up a world government with one law and one policy in which all racial and geographical units may be submerged.