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...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: 'Allah is almighty, exalted be Allah.' Standing at attention again, he then recites two suras (chapters) of the Koran. Then, after a forward waist-bend and a deep-knee bend ending with his forehead touching the ground, he repeats: 'God is almighty...
Prayer-Time Rasp. Essentially an unbending faith, Islam resists modernist intrusions with a stubborn orthodoxy. Liberal, rationalist reformers such as Mohamed Abduh and Iqbal on the one hand, and force-loving Mahdists like Mohamed Ahmed on the other, have failed to capture it. Nearly all Moslems still hold the Koran so infallible that all translations are considered heresies. Says Oxford's Islamic Scholar H. A. R. Gibb, in his new book, Modern Trends in Islam: "Liberalism . . . has struck no profound roots in the Moslem mind...
Perhaps the most discouraging sign in India was the fact that factional intolerance had invaded Gandhi's own prayer meetings. Some of his followers no longer allowed him to read the Koran along with the Hindu Bhagavadgita...
...luring game turned into a deadly risk for him when human beings caught on to the musk smell. As the deer's fame grew, rajahs and ranees, kings and their concubines, seducers and seductresses learned to use musk as a perfume. The Prophet Mohamed wrote in the Koran: "The Seal of Musk. For this let those pant who pant for bliss." The Empress Josephine, to rouse Napoleon's baser nature, used so much musk that the walls of her rooms, for years afterward, were still fragrant with...
...Egyptian man may offer an Egyptian girl his arm, but can she take it and remain respectable? Among the Egyptian judiciary this question caused as much head-scratching last week as a recondite Koran text...