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...more than Arabic nicknames. He seems to have acquired the Mohammedan practice of fingering the Tasbih. The Tasbih could be called the Mohammedan Rosary. Composed of 33, 66 or 99 beads, it is used by the faithful in the repetition of the 99 names which express the attributes of Allah. These beads are generally fingered during meditation and moments of stress...
Onward hosts of Allah on the desert sand...
...Shah called in U.S. Economist ArthurChester Millspaugh to unsnarl the country's appalling financial tangle. For a time Iranian petitions began: "Oh, Allah! Oh, Shah! Oh, Dr. Millspaugh...
...caught during the 1912 uprising in Yemen, made him deafer, but that deafness has often been, and is today, his greatest asset as a statesman. He hears what he wants to hear. After failing to hear something he does not want to hear he has been known to remark: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." If he is not in perfect health otherwise, there is no sign of it in his daily routine...
...Turkey, or the zone of Turkey's security, they will face a real catastrophe. Turkey is the strong front of the Islamic East. Any attack against Turkey would provoke all Orientals and lead them to defend Turkey with their lives and their money. The fall of Turkey, which Allah forbid!-would mean the fall of the Eastern Front and a loss of prestige for Islam. The new Turkey, with her ally, Britain, forms a tremendous power in the East competent to resist any aggression...