Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the Raja already has a wife & nine children at home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house...
Judgment of God. Since May 25, when the first crescent moon of the month of Ramadan showed itself in the sky, some 300 million believers of the Moslem world had devoted themselves to their annual spiritual stocktaking. For 29 days, to commemorate the month when they believe the Prophet Mohammed received God's most sacred book, the Koran, Moslems fasted, prayed and meditated. Their uncompromising fast made similar Christian regulations seem lax by comparison. It required a rigid total abstinence from food and drink each day, between dawn and sunset, mostly in climates where the tropical sun is especially...
...stricter Moslem lands, the few public backsliders were punished by official decree, and in others they were denounced by public opinion. The state of Bahawalpur in Pakistan ordered three days' imprisonment for anyone found eating, drinking or smoking in public. When a rickety Cairo drinking place collapsed last week on its 15 patrons, pious onlookers called it the judgment...
...rigidity of such customs as the fast of Ramadan has hindered the Islamic nations in adjusting themselves to a changing modern world. But the stern faith that goes with them keeps the Moslems among the world's most spiritually secure people. As a Beirut professor explained: "Ramadan is a time of reexamination. Americans might say it is a time to 'pull up your socks' and learn to stand up to difficulty ... It is the time a Moslem faces up to himself...
...TIME has also developed a special type of story in which color pictures have played a major part-reports on areas of the world that have become important in the news. Some which you probably remember were those on the British Isles (TIME, July 2), the Moslem World (Aug. 13), Alberta (Sept. 24), the Industrial South (Dec. 10), Hawaii (Feb. 18) and French Morocco (March...