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Show CARRY ON VAST PROPAGANDA islam " Fraternities" Factors '"ff Great Importance Throughout the Whole i Mohammedan World. pA spiritual; factor of great Importance Import-ance in the Mohammedan world Is the fraternities. Islam . always had its fraternities, but the two which did the most for Its religious and political revival came Into existence about- the " middle 'of the' Nineteenth century ; the Serinussiya and the DJemal-ed-Din, writes Rev. Amos L Dushaw In the Christian Herald. The founder of the Sennusslya was Seyld Mohammed SennussI, a descendant descend-ant of the prophet and a man of learning, learn-ing, piety and position. It was strictly strict-ly puritanic in character and now, eighty years old, is exerting a great spiritual Influence on Islam. This fraternity fra-ternity has lodges scattered throughout through-out the whole of Islam, but El SennussI, Sen-nussI, the present leader, has a firm hold on the whole movement and he has kept It from political alliances, Islamic and Christian. He is aiming at a spiritual revival of his people because be-cause he feels that Islam cannot regain re-gain Its complete political Independence Indepen-dence without Its old spiritual life. In a word, the SennussI fraternity Is doing do-ing preparatpry work. It Is also carrying on a tremendous missionary propaganda and converting millions of pagan negroes to Its faith. DJemal-ed-Dln, unlike SennussI, was less of a theologian and more of a political propagandist, feared and persecuted per-secuted by the English. He saw Islam's Is-lam's danger and worked hard to stir It up to action. Stoddart says, "It Is not too much to say that he Is the father of every shade of Egyptian nationalism." His Influence did not end with Egypt. DJemal-ed-Dln was no wild fanatic. He knew the forces that faced the Islam world and, like SennussI, only dealing with political matters,, he -offered advice of real value to his people. "It Is plain that the whole Moslem world must unite In a great defensive alliance to preserve pre-serve Itself from destruction; and to do this It must acquire the ieebpic of western progress and learn the secret of European power." : ' |