Social solidarity represents a refined civilizational phenomenon aimed at strengthening the bonds of connection, love, and fellowship, and providing means of care and social security. This is emphasized by the tolerant Islamic Sharia, which calls for justice, equality, maintaining connections, and offering all forms of assistance and benevolence to all social groups, so they become as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) described them: "like a solid structure" or "like a single body; if one part of it complains, the rest of the body responds with sleeplessness and fever." The practical application of social solidarity on both material and moral levels in Arab-Islamic society during the early days of Islam, and to some extent in the Umayyad era, reflects the extent to which Muslims—individuals and groups of notables, aristocrats, and the wealthy, or statesmen and influential figures—adhered to the noble human principles to which Islam called.