THE VIZIERS OF BASSORA

                                         

                                         IBN SAWY

                             These are maxims, brother,

                          Unsuited  to our Moslem polity.

                        They savour of barbarous Europe.

           But in Islam all men are equal underneath the King.

                                         ALMUENE

                     Well, brother Turk, you are excused.

(Sri Aurobindo, ''Collected Plays and Short Stories'' -         Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Pondicherry)