Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1889 — Religious Obligations of Mohammedans. [ARTICLE]

Religious Obligations of Mohammedans.

Formerly every pious Mussulman ■was required to pray fifty times a day. Afterward forty-five prayers were struck off. Another of the daily duties of a Mussulman is to bathe. The right side had to be washed first. Followers of Mohammed are required to give in alms daily one-tenth of all they possess. McJiammedans yearly to make a pilgrimage to the four sacred spots of Islam. The pilgrim is co tented a very holy man. Ramadan is the terrible month of weary fasting and nightly feasting. The month is a lunar one, and in 1888 began May 25.