Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1932 — Page 5

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230 MILLIONS PAY HOMAGE TO CAMEL DRIVER

Mohammed, Son of Desert, Founded Great Religion With Saber and Torch

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ENGLAND might have peace in India today if it were not far the stubborn attitude of the 70.000.000 Moslems there, who are insistent that no form of self-govern-ment, be given India which does no f rontain assurance that Moslem rights will not be drowned out by the 300.000.000 members of the Hindu faith. • General John J. Pershing might have remained an obscure army officer and never commanded the A. F. F. if he had not won early fame by his crushing defeat of the fierce Moros of the Philippines, causing President Roosevelt to promote the 4fi-vear-old captain over the heads of 862 other army officers and make him a brigadier-general. And so the shadow of this camel driver who founded Mohammedanism extends through the dim centuries of the past down to today. n n • IN less than a century after Mo- . hammed's death, powerful armies imbued with the faith he had taught had carried fire and sword into many countries —soon Syria, Mesopotamia. Persia. Egypt. Tunis, Tripoli. Morocco and Algeria were converted to Islam. The movement spread across the Mediterranean and made Spain a Moslem country. It flowed through the Pyrenees and threatened France, until stopped by the great Christian victory won by Charles Martel It spread east into India and filtered into China. Arabian traders carried it to the islands of the Pacific. Converts grew by millions. For centuries. Spain had a splendid Moslem civilization, which kept alight the lamp of learning when it was almost quenched by the rest of Europe. Under the Mogul emperors, there were brilliant reigns in India.

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Today, centuries after Moham- - L UadXrlL ; WHAT A CAMEL DRIVER STARTED THIRTEEN CENTURIES med's death, an eighth of the hu- t AGO is shown by the above map. which shows how the 23C.000.000 folman race follows the faith he +> lowers of Mohammed are distributed over the eastern hemisphere totaught. There are 160,000,000 of 4* ' day, including many under the American flag in the Philippine islands them in Asia, 44.000,000 in Africa, , which “The Moslem World’’ says are 80 per cent Mohammedan. At 5.000.000 in Europe and 20,000 in &V- viftDi .VrTt.Vj the right is a sketch of the prophet, while at the left is a copy of an

Today, centuries after Mohammed's death, an eighth of the human race follows the faith he taught. There are 160,000,000 of them in Asia. 44,000,000 in Africa, 5.000.000 in Europe and 20,000 in North America. There are as many Moslems as Protestants In the world and more Moslems than Buddhists. Only the Roman Catholics, Hindus, and Ccnfucians exceed them in numbers. * * THIS man who made such a deep I impression in the pages of history could neither read nor write! It is one of the greatest human interest stories in the annals of time. He was born in a queer world. Empires rase and fell in Europe and the rest of Asia, but in his native land of Arabia time seemed to stand still. Where there were oases In Arabia, there were settlements, with Beduin Arabs bitterly defending their passessions. The trackless sands between were traversed only by camel caravans. Mecca, then as now. was the chief city. There the camel caravan paths crossed. So Mecca became a town where the merchants gathered and traded. * an Even then it was a holy city. t Vague Arabian legend had it that the great well of Zcm-Zem was the one at which Hagar of the Bible and her son Ishmael quenched their thirst. There was in Mecca a temple called the Kaaba. where were displayed more than 360 idols worshiped by different Arabian tribes. Here. too. was the famous black stone which Arabian legend connects with Abraham of the Bible. Most of the Arabian tribes were idolators and mast of them were at war with one another. But once a year a truce was called, so that all could go on pilgrimage to Mecca and worship their own gods In the shrine of the Kaaba. Though the heart of Arabia had little contact with the outside world save for the caravans, nevertheless belief in “the one and only God’’ also had crept in. There were Jewish tribes living in Arabia and there were small colonies of Christians. a a a ONE Arabian tribe had all the fat jobs in Mecca. It was the custodian of the well of Zem-Zem and of the Kaaba. And one of this

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WHAT A CAMEL DRIVER STARTED THIRTEEN CENTURIES AGO is shown by the above map. which shows how the 23C,000.000 followers of Mohammed are distributed over the eastern hemisphere today, including many under the American flag in the Philippine islands which “The Moslem World’’ says are 80 per cent Mohammedan. At the right is a sketch of the prophet, while at the left is a copy of an illuminated illustration from an ancient Persian book dealing with his life.

approaching 40. He had ceased to take any deep interest in business and the mere making of money. He used to wander outside Mecca and go to a cavern in Mount Hira, where he sat and meditated. Modern scientific men think he was an i epileptic and had fits and trances. Whatever it was, Mohammed spent much time in the cavern, brooding 1 over things. In his camel driving and his caravan leading, he had come into contact with Jews and Christians. He saw they worshiped no idols. . They proclaimed the oneness of the Almighty. The more he thought in his soli- ! tude, the more he became convinced that idol worshiping was wrong. One day he had a dream or a vision. His followers say a voice ; told him to read. But he said he could not read. ! Then the voice told him to recite after it. This was the first mesi sage. After that he had many "vi- * SiORS.” In them he claimed he received messages from the Almighty through the medium of the angel

Gabriel. These messages he remembered and repeated. Thus was born

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the Koran, the Bible of the Moslems. a a a Mohammed did not claim to compose it, as did the writers of other religious books. The records came to him from on high. Therefore not a word could be changed. He said the messages which composed the Koran were taken direct from the book engraved on precious stones in the highest heaven. Still troubled. Mohammed confided in his wife. She believed in him and his mission at once, as d’.d the whole of his immediate family as well as one of the greatest merchants of Mecca, Abu Bakr In all, the first band of believers numbered about forty-two. included among whom were several slaves. a a a ONE of these Is immortal in Moslem story because he was the gigantic black Bilal. When the first Moslem 'masque was built. Mohammed confided to Bilal the task of calling to prayer, because of his mighty voice. He was the first of the muezzins, the men who call to prayer from the mosques. He was the first to cry to the people the whole Moslem confession of faith: “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah!” In his choice of Bilal. Mohammed thus early laid down one of the most powerful atractions of his religion to pagan peoples—no distinction of color, no difference between the slaves and the free, between the rich and the poor. Next: A prophet without honor in his own country is derided, reviled, and finally banished . . . Mohammed flees to Medina, and —with

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