Tenets of Islamic Beliefs; Adl/6

Why God Created Humans with Differences?

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The fingers of a hand are different but this is not unjust because each of them have special capabilities. Bone cells are different from eye cells and this is not unjust, rather it is justice indeed. That is the case with human beings as well. The differences in their creation is not unjust by any means.

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Date: 03 January 2023 - 12:16

There are many questions raised when it comes to the question of God’s justice. One of them is about so many differences in creation of beings, especially human beings.

God is Adil (has justice), that is to say He would not trample on any being’s rights. God gives every being His favors based on a wise system. Injustice means violating rights and justice and injustice come to play when there is a right. The question is whether God is indebted to anyone. Had beings had any rights before they were created so that we can talk about whether their right has been violated? So there are differences in the world. One is a human, another is a plant, and another is an animal. But none of them had had any rights before they were created and thus we cannot say their right has been violated.

If a large carpet is torn apart, one can argue that it used to be big and now it has lost is bigness but a small carpet cannot say why it is small, because it did not exist before and had no bigness to say it has been taken away from it and injustice has been to it.

So it would not be injustice if God gives one thing to someone and something else to someone else. Of course the one who receives more has more responsibilities as well.

God has created all beings with wise differences and established proper ways for every being to move toward perfection and based on it, determined responsibilities, rewards and punishments. In God’s creation there are differences but there are no discriminations.

The fingers of a hand are different but this is not unjust because each of them have special capabilities. Bone cells are different from eye cells and this is not unjust, rather it is justice indeed. That is the case with human beings as well. The differences in their creation is not unjust by any means.

Discrimination is injustice because it means making distinctions between people in equal conditions but when there are different conditions, having differences is not unjust. For example, if all students in a class have learned the lesson well but the teacher scores them differently, that would be unjust. But it would be ok if there are difference scores for students with different levels of learning the lesson.