O mankind! We created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes that you might know one another.
يا أيها الناس إنا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا
Yâ eyyühe'n-nâsü innâ halaknâküm min zekerin ve ünsâ ve cealnâküm şuûben ve kabâile li-teârafû.
The Holy Qur'an, Al-Hujurat 49:13.
The verse does not begin by addressing the believers; it says “O mankind” and ties everyone to the same parents.
The reason for being created as separate nations and tribes is given in a single word: to know one another.
Here difference is not counted as a flaw or a ground for superiority; it is the condition for meeting.
Those who are the same as one another have little left to ask each other.
Every voice in this section speaks within this call.