Islam Creator of the Modern Age
4. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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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.
