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According to the 19-month calendar followed by the worldwide religion known as Bahai, the first day of this week was the 13th of Jalal, in the year 120. It was a red-letter day in the lives of Bahai's 2,000,000 followers. In Haifa, Israel, 504 leaders of the sect gathered to elect by secret ballot nine of their members who will form a Universal House of Justice. After the results are announced to the first world congress of Bahai in London next week, the House will have infallible powers to legislate for the faithful...
...Persia's great poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), wrote of the union of the soul with God, its banishment to the world, and the impossibility of putting into words directions for finding the way back. But words were not all the great Rumi had; he taught his followers a way to dance themselves into a state of mystical union with the Divine. They became the famed sect of Mevlevi dervishes, who carried on their mystical method for seven centuries in monasteries throughout the Middle East. Known as the whirling dervishes, they are popularly confused with the Rifais...
...1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot: a scramble...
...Jalal, Public Relations Officer of the planning board of Pakistan, was one of four speakers at the fourth International Seminar of the Summer Session...
Speaking on the social and economic progress of Pakistan, Jalal pointed out that the two chief objectives of the Five-Year plan are a safe, but sufficient food supply, and a 75 percent increase in industry, to meet the demands of a population that is increasing at the rate of two a minute. Pakistan also hopes to raise its $60 per capita annual income by at least 7 percent. This compares with a $2000 to $3000 per capita income in the United States...