Quran 5:32
Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.}
This idea is found in the tractate Sanhedrin 37a of the Talmud, where it states:
“Therefore was a single man created first, to teach you that if anyone destroys a single soul from the children of man, Scripture considers it as if he had destroyed an entire world; and if anyone preserves a single soul from the children of man, Scripture considers it as if he had preserved an entire world.”
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