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40 Islam<br />
and brotherli-<br />
modesty, honesty, kindness<br />
ness.<br />
When Muhammad fled from Mecca<br />
with his followers, and settled in Madina,<br />
the little<br />
community was a commonwealth,<br />
and that ideal has been retained in wonderful<br />
manner throughout the centuries and<br />
the far wanderings. There is no caste in<br />
Islam, neither the Eastern nor the Western<br />
form of that system. Each man stands in<br />
the same relation to the God Who rules<br />
him, and the consequent brotherhood is a<br />
very real thing.<br />
Poor and rich are not<br />
divided, to be poor<br />
is in itself a claim, and if<br />
a poor man comes to a rich man for aid,<br />
the rich man regards<br />
it as a favour. The<br />
laws of hospitality are most noble ;<br />
strangers are assured in any Muslim house<br />
of a welcome, a meal, a rest, and if need be,<br />
even of clothing. Hospitality<br />
is an act of<br />
worship.<br />
The aged are held in a beautiful<br />
reverence ;<br />
the poor, and especially the<br />
orphan, is cared for as a religious duty ; in