Word: hafiz
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...Hafiz and Bashir are missionaries for the Moslem Ahmadiyya sect,* whose 1,000,000 members have made proselytizing one of their major works. Ahmadiyya Moslems already have mosques in Paris, London, Berlin and Chicago...
Five times daily, Hafiz and Bashir spread their prayer mats and, facing toward Mecca, go solemnly through the Moslem prayer ritual. "Sometimes," says Bashir, "we get awfully homesick; then we work very hard and pray to forget...
...times, Hafiz shakes his green turban sadly at all the misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...Hafiz and Bashir denounce the doctrine of original sin. "How cruel," says Hafiz, "to think a newborn baby is a sinner." Bashir adds cheerfully: "Islam says Heaven is eternal, but that Hell is only temporary. Hell is like a hospital, a place where people get better...
...Ambassador quoted a plaintive verse from Persia's 14th-Century poet, Shams edDin Muhammad, known as "Hafiz...