Muslim Woman: Saving Life of a Human Being
The Israelites were ordained that if they killed a single person unjustly, it would be taken as if they had destroyed the whole of mankind and if they saved a single person's life, it would be as if they had saved the whole of mankind. This verse is very important in chapter 5 verse 32 Of Quran. The story of the two sons of Adam which was on everybody's lips among the Israelites, in fact represented their own emotional state of being ever-ready to kill one another. That is why We ordained that if anyone slew a person, unless it be life for life in case of a murder or it be as a punishment for spreading mischief in the land, it would be as if he slew the whole of mankind; and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole mankind.