Word: prayerfulness
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...fare for a day and donated the marginal cost of their unused board to Save the Children, all the while learning about one of the five pillars of Islam. Any sacrifice entailed by this good deed, thankfully, was ameliorated by a celebratory catered meal enjoyed upon the call to prayer that evening...
...More striking than several hundred students selflessly giving up food—fasting might be uncommon at Harvard, but charitable gestures are not—was the Muslim call to prayer, the adhan, issued through the Yard from the Widener steps...
...Islamic call to prayer entails some very confident and exclusive claims about truth and revelation. Of course, the HIS students themselves have no intention to undermine pluralism. Yet such an act of faith as a prayer call is not only public; it implies no separation between the private and public, that the ideal society is not the pluralistic one, but one which universally assents to the truth of the religion...
...Hurry to prayer...
...expect that our statements might be offensive to some, and for that reason, we believe that it wouldn’t be appropriate, in the name of spreading awareness about our beliefs, use a public address system to declare to everyone in Harvard Yard that God is imaginary, that prayer is a waste of time, or that Muhammad was not a prophet. Similarly, it is best that those who hold similar beliefs about Hinduism or Buddhism or any other religion avoid loudly declaring the falsehood of other faiths...