“O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware” — read online, free, in the Pickthall translation.
Read in context: Surah Al-Hujurat, full text · Pickthall translation (public domain)
“We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another” — the Qur'an on human diversity.
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The verse grounds human equality and diversity in creation: nations and tribes exist so people may “know one another”, and the noblest in God's sight is the most righteous. It is the Qur'an's core text on racial and tribal equality.
This is the translation of Marmaduke Pickthall (1930), a respected public domain English rendering of the Qur'an.
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