only the obligations of one free man towards other
free men. While previously men had suffered from
the injustices of social differences, Islam proclaimed
equality among humaa beings. Each Muslim was
distinguished from other Muslims not by reason of
birth or any other factor not connected with his per-
sonality, but only by his greater fear of God, his
good deeds. his moral and intellectual qualities."I
Islam is the universal message of Unity-the Unityof God, the unity of all religions, the unity of the
prophets of all the nations, and the unity of all man-
kind.
------------------------------------------------- Laura Veccia Vaglieri, Apologia dell Islamismo, pp. 33,34.