Abstract: Islam is a perpetual endeavour towards an equitable order, premised on submission to One God of all-encompassing benevolence who has gifted the human person t power to perceive and reason so as to discern the Truth. The believers are said by the Holy Quran to be ‘…in a bond of God, and a bond of the people … bidding honour and forbidding dishonour, vying one with the other in good works…’ They are asked to be securers of justice, not to be swayed towards inequity by hatred for a people, or love for the family or slavish deference to power and wealth. Humankind, says the Quran, has been created from a single soul, whatever its outward differences, for the purpose of striving together for goodness.
