An insect that lives in dirt cannot perceive dirt as dirt

 

"No nation is 'fully civilized'. Not even great men. Many great men were thieves, robbers, and rapists. They had a divine talent for hypocrisy and lying. Was America civilized? Britain? Germany? Arabia? If we look back two hundred years, all nations will seem barbaric. Five hundred years from now, those who look back on us will say that people were barbaric. But people have always walked the path of self-purification. They have not clung to barbarism. They have abolished old customs and introduced new, less harmful customs.

In all societies there have been a few people, at all times, who have stood fearlessly against their time. Under their influence, the unusual has become normal, the normal has become abnormal. Slavery, human sacrifice, cannibalism, sati, child sacrifice, these were once normal and widespread. Now they are abnormal and unthinkable. In China, the custom of shanju or foot-binding was common in every household. Girls would tie their feet tightly, as if to Shape-changing. Some people used to break their leg bones. But now they don't. Deformed legs are no longer a source of beauty for Chinese women. They walk around in sneakers, skirts, and jeans.

In India, there was a lot of trouble with thugs, who worshipped the goddess Kali. Robbery and murder were considered religious rituals. A work of reward. The British eliminated them.

In the Middle Ages, 'Trial by Order' was practiced in Europe. A very barbaric system. How is that? It is a type of trial system of religious fanatics, where it was believed that if the accused is innocent, Allah will save him. If he is guilty, He will not save him. In this process, the judge would tell the accused, you jump into the fire, jump into the river, if you don't burn or drown, then you are innocent. Is that still the case? No.

In Arabia, blood for blood and honor killing were very popular, kings and Men in palaces were kept under surveillance, even a few decades ago women were flogged in Bangladesh, the Hudud system was in place in Muslim countries, where hands were cut off as punishment for theft, but now it is almost non-existent. Women did not have the right to vote. The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution came only 100 years ago, in 1920. Voting rights would not depend on gender identity, this was the case that day. In the UK, women could not vote unless they were 30 years old and had a minimum property ownership. Now all adult women can vote. America, which passed the 'Indian Removal Act', evicted the Cherokee, Muskogee, Chickasaw, these ethnic groups from their lands, caused countless deaths, systematic cleansing, is holding them accountable. It has given them special rights.

The once widespread natural customs, preferred customs, blind laws imposed by God and the gods, which have become abnormal today, why What happened? It happened because of dissenting or anti-traditional people. I have spoken against countless social chains, religious ropes, customs, and practices, which in my eyes seem cruel, inhuman, and ugly, but in your eyes they are beautiful, natural, and necessary rituals. Because an insect that lives in dirt cannot perceive dirt as dirt."

—Mohiuddin Mohammad

Monkey's Mirror, page 35 (unpublished)