Word: ilaha
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...last week, some 50 men took off their shoes, stepped reverently on to white sheets and prostrated themselves toward Mecca (compass bearing from Toledo: 100° true), chanting, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" (God the Almighty). Blackrobed imams read from the Koran and repeated with the faithful, "La Ilaha Illal-Lah" (There is no God but God). The second annual convention of the International Moslem Society, with some 500 Moslems gathered from 45 states and five Canadian provinces, was under...
...Moslem's day begins when he hears the muezzin (prayer-time announcer) calling to prayers just before sunrise: 'La ilaha, ilia Allah, Mohamed rasul Allah!' (There is but one God, and Mohamed is his prophet!). The Moslem washes himself-his whole body 'if he has been with his wife'-stands barefoot on a carpet and, facing Mecca, begins to pray in the manner of a man doing mild setting-up exercises. First he stands at attention and says: 'I am beginning to pray.' Then, putting his hands to his ears, he says...
...Western thought has been kept out, Western technology has not. In many large cities, the muezzin no longer troubles to climb his tower to announce prayers. Instead, loudspeakers have been set up in the minarets, and at prayer time the muezzin rasps his La ilaha, ilia Allah over a public-address system...
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