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Title: What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton), 1829-1902 Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
Subjects: Religions
Publisher: New York, Gay Brothers & company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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eabode of the impious and of the devils, where these shall,with all sorts of cruelty and rage, incessantly torture those:and lest the sense of their pain should cause them to relent,a new skin shall continually succeed in the stead of thatwhich has been burnt or mortified. THE MOHAMMEDAN LITURGY. The religion of the Islamites contains six chief principles:— The first is the confession of the true God, and consists inbelieving that there is but one true and eternal God, and thatMohammed is his apostle. The second is the regular practice of ablution and purifica-tion. The third is a regular observation of the prayers, as pre-scribed. The fourth is giving alms. The fifth is the fast of the month of Ramadan. The sixth is the pilgrimage to Mecca, from which no Mus-sulman can be dispensed, if able to perform it. As to the purifications which are prescribed, seven differ-ent sorts of water maybe used in them : viz., rain-water, sea,river, well, spring, snow, and hail-water. There are three
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TURKIbii MObgUfc RULES CONCERNING PRAYERS. 205 sorts of ablutions and ramifications. The first, which is cal 11 < iGasl, is a kind of immersion. The second, named Wodhu,concerns particularly the hands and feet. The third is madewith earth or gravel, instead of water. Three rules are to beobserved in this ablution of the body:—First, those who doit must resolve to please God. Secondly, all the dirt of thebody must be washed off. Thirdly, the water must touchthe whole skin, and all the hair of the body.. Thirteen rules are prescribed concerning prayers :—1. Theintention. 2. The greatness of the names of (tod. 3. Theform of the unity of God, God is great, etc. 4. The right, orstraight position of the body ; which is, the feet are cl< tse to-gether, the hands raised up to the head, or joined and laidupon the breast, or each apart upon the knees, bending thebody. The adoration is made with the fare to the ground,sitting with their hands upon their thighs; they say, Lord,accept of

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