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" And indeed who could claim to be a greater benefactor of humanity than he who rooted out the canker of religious antagonism with national jealousy and hatred, who made religion an institution common to all God's creatures, and destroyed the barriers of caste, creed, race and coun• try, birth, wealth, rank and colour, making the fear of God expressed in social conduct the sole criterion of man's position in society?
As the Qurfin says : - • H We sent an apostle to every nation and enjoined him to preach the one truth: Serve Allah and shun evil.
" After exposing the hollowness of this attitude the Quran propounds the essence of religion : "Nay, but whosoever submits himself entirely to Allah and is the doer of good, he has his reward from his Lord, and there is no fear for him nor shall he grieve" (Suratu'l Baqari.
The Quran says: "And do they seek any religion other than the reli• gion of Allah, whereas to Him submit all that are in the heavens and the earth?" ( or all are Muslims).
" Over and over again the Quran reverts to this funda• mental principle of relizion and calls upon all lovers of God to follow Muham;ad ((-L") and believe i1: all_ the Prophets and all the revelations without distinction ; it condemns the particularist attitude of the followers of various religions : " And when they are called upon to believe in all that Allah has revealed, they say : \Ve believe only in that revelation which was sent to us, .