4. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ~ 158 ~ imagining them to be superior to man, they should harness them to meet human requirements. THE CREATION OF THE NEW WORLD The religion brought by the Prophet Muhammad, may peace be upon him, was accepted throughout the length and breadth of Arabia. Later, it began spreading with astonishing rapidity, until, within the span of a century; it had conquered Asia and Africa, finally reaching Europe. Leaving aside the continent of America, all the countries and all the seas and oceans of the world came, directly or indirectly, under the influence of the followers of this religion. This process continued for a thousand years. From the Sukutu Caliphate of Nigeria to the Muslim Sultanates of Indonesia, and from the Ottoman empire of Turkey to the Mughal Empire of India, there existed one vast expanse of the globe where national and geographical boundaries, such as we have in modern times, were simply not known. Muslims, without any difficulty, could travel