The Islamic Review August 1942

How different from the words of the majority of the popes and bishops throughout the whole of the Middle Ages some of whom declared themselves the equal of God and a few of them even dared to order the people to worship themselves ! Nearly all the popes and bishops and priests of every rank from the fourth century A. D. until the close of the eighteenth had their hands stained with the blood o [...] It also serves as the best means to remind the Muslims of the Universal Fraternity and the Brotherhood of the Faithful or in other words the unity of all the subjects of the government. [...] It also provides an occasion for the council of the Muslims from all the provinces of the kingdom and the regions of the world ; and also for the public levee of a Muslim Caliph wherein every class of the community is best represented. [...] In fine the rich and the poor the master and the slave the Muslim and the non-Muslim all have been granted the same rights and obligations from the judicial paint of view. [...] Similarly the ever-increasing interest of the people in spiritualism ; the disgust of the West with Christianity ; the general aversion of the world from idolatry and polytheism ; the abhorrence from the caste-system and untouchability prevalent 284"THE GOVERNMEW OF THE HOLY PROPHET among the Hindus : the responsible democratic form of goverment and parliamentary consultations etc.