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The equality of humans before God is absolute, transcending all particularities of race, ethnicity, or gender. The sole merit in the eyes of God is what the Qur’ān calls taqwā, understood as a dynamic submission to God’s commands, realized in full understanding and knowledge of faith and reason. In this sense, taqwā is a profound desire of liberty; fidelity, to free the mind from material futilities and negative passion, thus enabling it to reach infinite freedom. Before God, the best of men and women are those who know how to free themselves from their egos, and who will make the most effort to do, in this life, as many good deeds as possible for others, all others, without differentiation.
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A hadīth transmitted by the Prophet’s companion ‘Abd ar-Rahmān Ibn Sakhr (known as Abu Hurairah) and cited by Abū Tahar As-Salafy, Al-mashīkha al-baghdadiyya, vol. 23.
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Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr , commentary on verses 2 and 3 of sūrah 2: “This is the book in which there is no doubt, a guidance for the reverent, who believe in the Unseen and perform the prayer and spend from that We have provided them.”
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The sentiment of existence (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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Lamrabet, A. (2018). Moral Integrity as an Evaluation Criteria. In: Women and Men in the Qur’ān. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78741-1_7
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