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...Bahai is progressive revelation: just as God once spoke to the world through Jesus and Mohammed, so he revealed himself to modern man through Bab and Baha'u'llah, whose teachings surpass those of older prophets. Bahai believers, who have no ministry, read impartially from the Koran, the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita at their simple worship services. "Bahai expounds the truth," explains Mrs. Rabbani, "and no religion has a monopoly on the truth...
Looking back on it, Napoleon remembered the Egyptian campaign as "the most beautiful time in my life." He pictured himself, he wrote, "founding a religion, marching into Asia, riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs. I was full of dreams...
...Pill. Nasser's council, founded four years ago, is the pep pill responsible for much of the awakening. Its high-powered radio station, the Voice of Islam, broadcasts the message of the Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries...
...council's most impressive productions is a complete recording of the Koran on 44 disks, by the dean of Islam's Koran readers, Sheik Mahmoud el Hosaris. To make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...
...Egyptian army major more familiar with infantry tactics than theology. Says rifle-spined Mohammed Eweida: "I consider myself a soldier carrying out orders." Son of a Nile delta landowner, Eweida was a pious child who fasted twice a week throughout the year, always carried a copy of the Koran in his pocket at prep school. Despite his religious leanings, Eweida entered Egypt's military academy rather than Cairo's ulama-run al-Azhar University, graduated at the top of his class and rose from subaltern to major in four years. Nasser chose Eweida to organize Egypt...