4. LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY

4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ~ 174 ~ Islam, for the first time in human history, uprooted the system based on polytheism, which was responsible for the mentality of discrimination between man and man. This unreal division had been at the root of much of the social injustice, which had prevailed, in ancient times. While, on the one hand, Islam changed the human mind, on the other, it brought about a practical revolution on such a vast scale that it ushered in a whole new era of human freedom and human respect. Across the centuries, this revolution went from strength to strength, ultimately bringing Europe under its benign influence. There it culminated in the modern freedom and democracy, which nowadays people tend to imagine, has existed for all time. But this democratic revolution of modem Europe is but the secular version of the Islamic revolution which was given its first impetus in seventh century Arabia by God’s final Prophet. Seen in this historical perspective, Islam, from the scientific as well as the socio-economic point of view, is the true creator of the modern age.