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broken into
many sects ;
there are language
separations, and deeper racial separations ;
but the whole unwieldy system and following
bound together by the Mecca
is
pilgrimage, the least spiritual thing
in the
whole system.
Muhammad made a brave
battle for the unity and pure spirituality of
God. But it was the deepest desire of his
heart to win Mecca. He did so at the
expense of his central belief. Mussulmans
visit the idolatrous city to-day as they
did
in the long past idolatrous ages.
The
visible church of Islam is not a pure and
beautiful and worthy mosque ; it is the
old idolatrous stone of Mecca.
Every true Muslim is bound to visit
Mecca at the least once in his lifetime.
6. SOCIAL MORALITY.
The social morality of Islam is
notwith- Social
standing the marriage laws very high. Morality
and is
guided by such virtues as these :