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44 Islam
Symbols The study of the symbols of this bond
arity"
1. Creed ing
: The
^ uniformity- -not of union is illuminat-
Creed) binding to the God of
Islam through the Apostle of that God ;
2. Prayer the daily Prayer Ritual: it has been truly
said that " each Muslim is a Church,"
it is
no less true that the Muslim world is a
Church, bound indissolubly by
this uniform
3. Quran service of devotion ;
the Quran and
4. Fast Ramadhan, the Book, and the Fast v/hich
commemorates the gift of the Book ;
and
5.
Pil- above all, the Pilgrimage
to Mecca, the
gnmage \oc^\
habitation of Islam, sublime notwithstanding
the apparent foolishness of the
ceremonial.
" Thither the tribes
go up,"
from Turkey, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan,
India, China, Egypt and other North
African lands, and Arabia herself. National
distinctions are forgotten ; slave and
master travel as brother worshippers ;
Islam feels her solidarity through the
far-seeing provision of the centralization
of her religious life, in the city