sarogini naidu, the famous poetess of india says about islam: "it was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the call for prayer is sounded and worshippers are gathered together, the democracy of islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and king kneel side by side and proclaim: 'god alone is great'… i have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of islam that makes man instinctively a brother."