No Superiority on the basis of birth
Al-Risala (English), July 1987, p. 12
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
No Superiority on the basis of birth
1987 7 July 12 No Superiority on the basis of birth (117) Two women once came to Ali to ask him to give them something. One was Arab by birth, and the other was a freed slave of hers. Ali ordered that each of them be given a young camel for food and forty dirhams apiece. The freed slave took what she was given and departed. The Arab woman said: “Commander of the Faithful, how is it that you are giving me the same amount as you have given to this woman, considering that I am an Arab and she a freed slave?” Ali’s rejoinder was that he had found no mention in the Book of God of the progeny of Ishmael being superior to the progeny of Ishaq.
