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Qur'anic factors that keep society whole

العوامل الحافظة للمجتمع في القرآن

Arjun names three factors by which God keeps human society from breaking apart: kinship brotherhood rooted in one origin, the affection and mercy God set between spouses as the base of the first family, and mutual acquaintance (ta'aruf) among human groups. When society turns from brotherhood and affection, selfishness takes hold and the decline begins 1.

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'Arjun sets out three factors by which God preserves human society from fragmentation: the blood-brotherhood of shared origin and kind 2; the affection and mercy God made the foundation of the first family and then of society 3; and mutual acquaintance among mankind's branches, drawing close what lineage and habitat set apart 4. When a society strays from brotherhood and affection, selfishness and atomization seize it, and the stages of decline begin.

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  1. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 33-35
  2. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 33
  3. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 34
  4. Sunan Allah in Society through the Qur'an — Muhammad al-Sadiq Arjun , p. 35
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