4. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ~ 156 ~ encouraged the son to take his whip to him. But then the Copt said, “No, I have whipped the person who whipped me, and I wish no more than that.” Then the Caliph, addressing the governor, said, “O ‘Amr, since when have you enslaved people who were born free?” The revolution brought about by the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him, and his companions caused the barriers of discrimination to be swept away, all over the world. It saw the birth of a new age of human equality, which ultimately developed into modern democracy. The states of former times were founded upon polytheistic beliefs. The people worshipped the sun and the moon, and the rulers convinced the people that they were the offspring of these gods. People called the Suraj bansi (the sun’s offspring) and the Chandar bansi (the moon’s offspring) still survive in India. The rulers naturally wanted the people to continue to adhere to such superstitious beliefs, even to the point of believing that the sun and moon went into eclipse when the king died, for, so long as they firmly cherished such beliefs, the kings