" O PEOPLE! Know that your God is only one; andall of you are the descendants of one father. No Arab has any superiority over a non Arab and vice versa; Neither a black is better than that with a redskin, except for their PIETY. Do you all fallow me?" Yes we all understood," said the audiance." Then let those who are present," continued the Messenger of God:" convey that to those who are absent."

32 ISLAM AND THE HUMAN NATURE

WE BELIEVE that Monotheism, belief in God, and the commandments of the Apostles, are all natural, and based upon the human instinct. The prophets have only watered and grown this fruitfulseed.

" So set your face steadily in devotion to the truereligion the natural pattern on which God Has made mankind.

( Let there be )No change in this natural patterncreated by Allah. That's the standard religion whichmost people do not understand.