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FRIDAY MORNING'S SERVICE IN THE MOSQUE.
"THE TRUE CALL OF THE EAST IS TO WORSHIP.”
THE MUAZZIN CALLS FROM THE MINARET.
[By HERBERT FIELD.]
description. Instead, small carpet customers in answering the cal: to mats are arranged in rows and the prayer worshippers squat upon their heels in a position far more comfortable
"Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Half-a-dozen beggars crowd the bottom steps leading to the Mosque and whine requests for alms. One of them, an elderly Chinese with to them than to we Westerners. both legs deformed," jostles a blind No women, are among the worship girl out of his way but is in turn | pers. hustled by a Russian whose tatter. ed rags are caught and held by a gaunt Indian.
The motley crowd Fal hark, how ever, as I approach but increase their whining demands as I pass through their midst.” A tall, beard ed Indian and a well-known local public man follow me as I make my way to the dressing-rooms, for one cannot attend the Juma ser- Friday vices at the Mosque on mornings wearing clothes that may have been in any way defiled by contact with the unclean.
The silence is broken only by the sensional rustle of a page of a eepy, of the Kuran being turned over, by a mufled cough, or by the soft "pad pad" of feet as late comer creeps stealthily to his prayer mat. There is no gossipping or whispering, Instead, the wor shippers are intent upon the study of their Sacred Book
Noisas of Chinatown,
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The Service.
Inside the Mosque, the "worship- pors rise to their feet and say four rakat, attended by four prosta tions in which, with some besita- ton and burgling, due to inexperi a relieved to ence, I join. observe that nobody, apparently. has noticed my callow efforts."
The mulvi then mounts the steps, of his "pulpit" und again the call to prayer (azan) is said. A long address is then delivered in Arabic by the mulei. It is doubtful whether every word that he utters ber of his congregation, although." is tully understood by every, mem.. ao doubt, they are able to follow
Junta naraz) follow the address the general trend of his words.
On Fridaye, two rakats (the
after which the congregation - my another four rakats (sunnat), Whin this ceremony is concluded, the priest asks blessings from Allah upon the congregation.
From outside the Mosque come all the noises of basy Chinatown. A sugar-cane seller calls his wares; Quite a number of devout Mus-muted drone of an acroplane pass. the rattle of a motor-'bus and the Lim wear light clothing beneathing overhead serve as remindere of their ordinary garments when going Western civilisation. The sounds to the service, so that changing is of East and West alternate. One a matter of a few seconds.
hears the staccalo rattle of a char- "Nought That Death,” coal eller and the clang of the They are very devout, these Mus-warning bell of the Sanitary De. lime, and take their worship very partment's lorry. The wheezy Quite typical of our little Bethels seriously. The Friday morning squeaking of a Chinese gramophone at Home, I thought, was the hand- prayers in the Mosque occupy, in drowned by the martial strains shake given by the priest to each their spiritual lives, the same pro-
of the back of a Sepoy regiment member of the congregation as they the minence as does the Sunday Holy swinging past the Mosque, and Ble from the building at Communion service of Christians, the soporous zote of a steamer's termination of the service...
zirea perhaps with the exception that sounds discedantly above The Mosque is so designed that while many Christians neglect to
the tang of the trombones and the congregation face toward attend their service, no Muslim will the rattle of the drums of the Mecca. intentionally stay away from his band. Despite the constant sounds Juma.
without, however, one gains a weird impression of comparative silence within.
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There is official offertory be placed in a box adjoining the taken, although voluntary gifts can
entrance. The contents of the box are devoted to charitable purposes. The majority of the Muslim com minity contribute monthly subscrip tions toward the upkeep of the Mosque.
Reflections,
And so, one sees a steady stream of people passing into the Masque and is immediately struck by the
Gradually, the noise of the streets cosmopolitan nature of the vast and harbour subside into the ordi- crowd of worshippers. Indians, nary bum of everyday noontide, Chinese, Europeans, and even two and again the rustling of turned Then a voice is gigantic negrces, add to the strange-pages is heard, ness of the scene. Here, one feels, heard with startling clarity from as in the Christian Church, racial the front row reciting passages in differences hold no sway. Indian, Arabic from the Kuron. At he In thoughtful mood I wend my Chinese, and European-each and Enishes, the discourse is taken away down the steps of the Mosque all are united in that great com- by another, and yet another, wor and into the flower-bordered gar
shipper. mon bond of worship.
dene surrounding the compound. I think me of the words of Kipling "His God is all the world's -and mine!*
think of the multitudinous ways in which, maz kind has sought to find the Holy Graille. Christian, Muslim, Jew, and idolater-each has the same end in view, I reflect, and what manner of man can say withent doubt that either are entirely wrong?
ic
Having changed our clothes, we next perform wur-the ceremony of ablution in running water-when ore cleanses one's hands and face.
Although I am not a Muslim, I follow precedent, fully cogaisant of the fact that
bought that de- fleth" is allowed to enter the inner precints of a Mosque. We join the throng of white-robed wor shippers crossing the compound and pass under the cupola which forms the entrance to the Mosque.
Severe Interior.
I glance at my wristwatch and note that it is aimast half an hour
A thin voice walk out.) after noon. side in shrill falsetto.
"Allah-ho Akbar I'
The muazzin palls the faithful to prayer from the minaret, his white than and blue robes gleaming in the sun as he walks an age-old cry facing toward Mecca.
"Allah is great !”
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"I hear witness that there is co
God but Allah,"
The cry takes a rising note.
I bear witness that Mohammed is the true prophet of Allah!! A stir is felt among the worship-
inside the Mosque.
The Westerner "is" immediately struck by the absence of nay pre tence at farnishing the interior of the Mosque. Facing the entrance, and at the far end of the building.pers is a semi-circular" recess" where the Mulri for padre) stands when lead- ing the prayer. To the right of this recess, facing the observer, is a fight of about half-a-dozen steps. This constitutes the "pulpit " from which the priest reads extracts from the Kuran,
Come to prayer! Come to
Salvation! Allah
is great; there is no God but Allah !"
The true call of the East dies at last to lingering silence.
I
"A sinner, asaint, and a common
man
Set out on a quest when the
world began.
The sinnerwent wrong, and the
saint went right
While the common man struz gled with all his might 'Gainst the host of thorns which
hemmed him in
Which the
" doubts "
called sin."
sinner called
and the, saist
Each strove and struggled a di-
ferent way
Nor heeded one word what the
ather would say:
But, whatever their path, there is
one thing sure
They will find the Grail when
their hearts are pure !"
One calls to mind sweeping sand- danez, cobalt sky, and the blister- Two panels of stone, hearing ing sun. of the Arabian desert, texte aad quotations from the urching camels with tinkling bells. Kuram, on each side of the end and palm-encircled oases. Almost wall form the only attempt at in the same second, one's thoughts décoration. The walls are severely drift across continents and through Bare and one misses the font, lec- the East into the bazaars in Kara- tera, ornate altar. and other echi, where shrewd merchants are
I had worshipped, I felt, in true furnishings met with in the Chris-even at the same momest putting spirit of reverence, the great and tian churches. One is also con aside the brilliant-hued shawls and beneficient Creator of all things. founded at first by the entire ab tawdry trinkets and ceasing their The next day, I attended Holy, sence of pews of seats of any haggling to join with their turbaned Communion at my own Church.
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