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7 will remove all the heavy burdens that have been put on humanity like iceberg. He will free humans from these shackles. He will break their physical, their mental, and their psychological chains. Please note that these were the objectives of the Prophet (PBUH) as we are told in the Qur'an. But what had been traditionally passed on from before the Qur'an was that the right to rule and govern was based on race. Qur'an refuted all such beliefs which were part of all the world religions of the time. The Qur'an proclaims: “NOW, INDEED, We have conferred dignity on the children of Adam” (17:70). Every human child by virtue of being human is entitled to equal dignity as a birthright. This is because Allah has infused His divine energy of His freewill and freedom of choice to every child at his birth. No human has the right to rule over other humans Dear friends! Next was the right to rule. The entire Qur'an has this principle at its core that no human being has the right to rule over other human beings. Note that how much freedom the Qur'an has given: No human has the right to rule over other humans. But it does not mean that human beings will be left without any rules and regulations. To run the system of life, to run the society, the Book of Allah has the principles and the laws that will apply equally to everyone and will be enforced in the real world to regulate the society. In it, there is no mention of any special privilege for the head of state or rulers. All of them have to follow the Qur'an's principles and its laws. They will be just a means for implementing these laws and commandments, and they too will be equally subject to them as everyone else. The Qur'an also says that these are Allah's commandments and principles and anyone is free to accept them or to reject them. It says that if you wish you can become a heretic or an atheist as “there is no compulsion in Islam (2:256)”. If there is any compulsion then the Qur'an-granted fundamental right of freewill vanishes. Imagine what the Qur'an brought to the world and what it did! Whatever history is available from the first period of early Islam or what the Qur'an has mentioned about that period, we observe that human dignity and respect prevailed at that time. This is repeated again and again throughout the Qur'an. The Prophet (PBUH) was directed by the Qur'an to tell his people that, in it, there is mention of their own dignity and self-respect; that the Qur'an has given them freedom the freedom of choice and freewill by none other than the Creator and the Almighty. Then, who can take it away? In the spirit to uphold this human dignity, Khalifa Umar wrote a letter to Umar bin Aas (who was then the governor of Egypt) on his just one little mistake. The letter